Sentence examples for messy terrain from inspiring English sources
As the space's mistress of ceremonies, she explores its messy terrain — twisting her body around the cords, flicking on a lamp or kicking a bucket — with a gawky grace that never loses a sense of purpose.
Michael Wolk South Huntington, N.Y., Dec. 5, 2010 To the Editor: The saddest part about your article is the feeling of isolation that parents feel as they try to help their children navigate the messy terrain of online life.
In 2010, the author Rana Dasgupta proclaimed the end of the "sari and mango" novel, saying Indian literature was branching out into "darker, messier terrain".
It's a messy subject and a new terrain, one filled with lots of clear questions and unclear answers.
Feifer flicks at the topic, but the grim answers he offers have already been absorbed: don't shoot up wedding parties, never underestimate fanatics who know the terrain, and remember that all politics in Afghanistan are messy.
"Project Nim" glances briefly at the scientific controversy that shaped Nim's fate, but Mr. Marsh is less interested in comparatively dry matters of linguistics or neurobiology than in a humid, messy domain of identity and emotion that has, in the past, been the terrain of psychoanalysis.
Nature repossesses the terrain.
