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So far the region's attempts at democratic transition have mostly proved halting and messy.
Indeed, it is considered politer, today, to be seen to be guiding unfortunates to the light, rather than denouncing their "corruptions of ignorance".But descriptivists academic linguists and others who prefer to study language as it exists in the messy world, mostly without value judgments recruit Johnson to their arguments too.
(By a similar token, in Britain, messy and mostly unresolved political debates have taken place over what to do about the country's Islamist hate preachers and British jihadis returning from places like Syria and Libya, as the Manchester bomber, Salman Abedi, did, apparently without hindrance from British authorities).
At its core, Mark Morris's new dance-opera, "Acis and Galatea," which premières Aug. 7-9 athehe David H. Koch Theatre during the Mostly Mozart Festival, is a messy romance.
These days the search mostly resolves itself into a messy utilitarianism as competing lobbies argue over the greatest happiness of the greatest number, and governments do what they like claiming majority interest.
Deeply caring for its mostly working-class characters, this messy but unforgettable epic is a sustained cry from the heart that builds its interwoven dramas to shattering conclusions (Holden).
A crowd that looked mostly Parisian — shrimpy boys with messy hair in Vilbrequin board shorts; chain-smoking girls in denim short-shorts and platform espadrilles — danced on the sand à la Run DMC (lots of arm-crossing gestures) and politely discussed the musical goings-on of the night before: the strong sets by the French electro king Sébastien Tellier and the New York group the Rapture.
Yet rather than dealing with messy realities people well, mostly politicians prefer to understand success as more effort than circumstance.
THE DAWN -- After a hyperbolic night when so many fidgety people did their cork popping at home, New York stepped into the new year a little sleepier, a little messier, but otherwise mostly normal.
