Sentence examples for only a mess from inspiring English sources

But the public in America, and the wider watching world, saw only a mess.

A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is".

Those historical comparisons should be a wake-up call to President Obama, underscoring how our military strategy is not only a mess — as the recent leaked documents from Afghanistan suggested — but also more broadly reflects a gross misallocation of resources.

By midday on Friday, the Intercontinental was not only a mess of people and equipment, it had become a holding pen: Swiss police marched in and out of the lobby with dogs; machine-gun-toting officers in sunglasses patrolled the driveway in the rain; and camera crews were relegated to a barricaded area outside.

We looked in through the windows and saw only a mess.

Hate having supplies strewn across the room, creating not only a mess but also an opportunity for paint cans to be knocked over?

But if I left, he would not only make a mess of the kitchen but the whole house, and would probably not be able to get out.

He sent a letter to his colleagues in April warning them against taking any action in the current legislative session because, in his view, government can only make a mess of privacy.

Even this mini-game, however, as frustrating and unreliable as tossing softballs at carnival milk bottles stacks, still requires more strategy than Gym battles, which seem to only require a mess of frantic screen-tapping.

And the more I think about it – and I've been thinking about it a lot recently – the more I see that it's only as a mess of competing and overlapping micro-cold wars that the 80s can be understood.

Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com gave it a mixed review, noting that it was "only half a mess", and that Ratner "could have stuck a bit more closely to the 'Dark Phoenix' narrative than he did".