Sentence examples for perfect mess from inspiring English sources

An abundance of fast-paced brashness is not quite addressed by the more measured A Perfect Mess.

Mr. Freedman, the author of "Wrong," is a science and business journalist whose previous books include "A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder — How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place".

Ms. Ronson, who was born in London and raised in the more privileged downtown corridors of Manhattan by her mother, Ann Dexter-Jones, and a stepfather, Mick Jones, of the rock band Foreigner, has an aesthetic of studied nonchalance (her Sephora collection includes a hair spray called A Perfect Mess, intended to help achieve beachy, tousled locks) and a demeanor to match.

PD Smith A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder, by Eric Abrahamson & David H Freedman (Phoenix £6.99) "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?" This memorable comment from Einstein should be on the wall of every office in the land.

It's always nice to see one's pet theories confirmed by rigorous analysis, and a subject close to this writer's heart is encapsulated in the title of A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder, by Eric Abramson and David H Freedman (Weidenfeld, January).

You can also use a preview function, which lets you read the first line or two of a message and immediately delete what you don't need, said Eric Abrahamson, a professor at Columbia Business School who teaches organizational management and is the author of "A Perfect Mess".

These kinds of decisions involve love, money and well-intentioned legislation - the perfect recipe for a complete mess.

"When you're doing something so perfect, why mess with it?" he said.

"If something is perfect, why mess with it?" Several hundred lipstick shades are discontinued each year to make way for newly fashionable colors, according to beauty manufacturers.

In many ways because the first year was just too perfect to mess with.

We set the machine up that very afternoon a perfect little mess of stiff wires, chrome analog switch boxes, polystyrene casing, and fiddly ports.