Sentence examples for slightly messy from inspiring English sources

Palau responded by twirling the models' hair into vertiginous up-dos, while McGrath gave them expressive ballerina eyes with "slightly messy" black shadow and liner.

For the most part he was very impressive in a 6-3 6-3 7-5 win over Denis Istomin, although it was a slightly messy finish.

It was compelling to see the slightly messy verve of the City Ballet ensemble next to the restrained elegance of the Opera's dancers.

"She taught people that it was O.K. to be slightly messy," said Marian McEvoy, a former editor in chief of Elle Décor and House Beautiful.

It was a slightly messy affair – no one intended it to be like that – and we've got to move on, and play better cricket".

Earlier this year, at Vera Wang's fall ready-to-wear show, Mr. Paul's slightly messy beehive with tousled locks at the nape captured an ingenious blend of prim and seductive.

The squeegee was slightly messier (I used rags to catch the drips), but exponentially faster.

It's the handwriting that betrays hints of life changes, morphing from a luxurious script to the slightly messier print of someone pressed for time.

They have wanted to point out that there is an easy passage, an uninterrupted flow, between the majestic, timelessly repetitious, and occasionally venerable activities of the gods, and the slightly messier, more encumbered and time-harried world of the present.

In the end, Mr Cameron neither blocked the compact (25 of the 27 member-states signed a slightly messier version of it outside the EU treaties) nor got his safeguards for the City of London.All sides have since tried to make up.

For a slightly less messy experience, try Suquet de L'Almirall (Passeig de Joan de Borbó 65, +34 93 221 6233, suquetdelalmirall.com) back on the main drag.