Loose hair can fall in front of your face while you run or play sports, impeding your vision and acting as a minor annoyance (not to mention giving you a messy, untidy look).
He cut her hair by putting a bowl on her head and shearing off anything that wasn't covered up, afterwards plastering what remained with soap to give it a "spiky, untidy look", then "flicked talc into her face to give it the pallor of a kabuki performer".
"Tall, somewhat gaunt, aristocratic, very dignified: a strong, yet sensitive face, crowned by untidy locks of white hair … He leaned slightly forward, resting both hands on the chair in front of him … How long I looked I do not know, but … all the time he just stood motionless and gazed".
Journalist John Reed attended the trial, and wrote of his impressions of Landis: Small on the huge bench sits a wasted man with untidy white hair, an emaciated face in which two burning eyes are set like jewels, parchment-like skin split by a crack for a mouth; the face of Andrew Jackson three years dead ... Upon this man has devolved the historic role of trying the Social Revolution.
Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee more than 25 years after hearings for his first confirmation as secretary of defense, Mr. Rumsfeld said the United States today faced "a dangerous and untidy world" that included threats not thought of in the cold war, like cyberattacks and ballistic missiles from emerging nuclear powers.
This will look really untidy so avoid it.
Baldinucci further remarks that "Rembrandt associated with people below his station; the artist's ugly and plebeian face was accompanied by dirty and untidy clothes because it was his habit to wipe his brushes on himself while he worked and to do other things of a similar nature".
This was an untidy affair for Eddie Howe's side.
The "ugly and plebeian face by which he was ill-favored, was accompanied by untidy and dirty clothes, since it was his custom, when working, to wipe his brushes on himself, and to do other things of a similar nature" (1 ), wrote Tuscan biographer Filippo Baldinucci about Rembrandt van Rijn.
Lets face it, most of the real men are kind of untidy and not always that clean.
