Sentence examples for ruinous mess from inspiring English sources

A critic of the plays he staged at Charenton, cast with the certified insane and attended by an elegant invited audience, wrote him off: "This actor is very large, very fat, very stiff, very clumsy; he's a huge mass, a short fellow and ugly, whose face offers a ruinous mess".

This is potentially more ruinous than the current mess.

Just what does ruinous mean?

(State-owned banks control three- quarters of Egypt's liquid capital, which they allocate with ruinous ineptitude).Luckily, Egypt's economy has already started to recover, despite the mess elsewhere in the region.

It's ruinous for the rest of the world and has been a contributing factor to the economic mess we're all in nowadays.

Ruinous friends?

"And financially ruinous".

The war proved ruinous.