But I want to be able to make them not messy.

Tom, with whom I am sharing a room, is messy.

Layla had messy short hair.

The Messy Politics of Economic Divergence

Lumping the continent as one messy area.

It s important that we love babies, and that we not be put off by, say, messy diapers.

Democratic politics is messy and divisive, and riddled with compromises. Monnet hated all that.

Democracy is intrinsically messy, but it won t jeopardize Pakistan s partnership in the war on terror.

Asians don t like the messy contentiousness of parliamentary democracy.

In that case, surely an orderly divorce now is preferable to a messy split down the line.

Indeed, occupying a divided nation is messy, and it is bound to produce episodes like Abu Ghraib and Haditha, which undercut America s attractiveness not just in Iraq, but around the world.

In short, there is no regulatory system that I trust more than the current messy world of conflicting interests.

By refusing a planned and orderly restructuring, the eurozone is exposing itself to the risk of a messy default.

Despite a messy default, this fresh start has generated a remarkable turnaround.

The prospect of a messy change of government, which is the first in the history of Malaysia, is making investors very nervous.

Again, reporting such a messy story is a challenge most Western news editors have preferred to highlight Iraq and Afghanistan.

We find that the media not only fail to weed out bad ideas, but that they often favor bad ideas, especially when the truth is too messy to be packaged neatly.

But wise leaders are necessarily pragmatic, because messy reality demands compromise and accommodation.

Further, diagrams may be messy or impossible to draw when the number of objects or morphisms is large (or even infinite).

You see, even if the idea of the election is perfect, running a countrywide election is a big project, and big projects are messy.

Obama inherited messy and expensive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and an economy in meltdown.

This initiative would allow Obama to escape from a messy political and foreign policy predicament.

At the same time, complex models can be useful for illustrating special cases and reminding us that the world is a messy place.

Iraq is showing some positive signs of political and institutional recovery, but the omens for the future remain, in Obama s own words, messy.

Immigration in Europe has been messy, and those who complained were too quickly dismissed as racists.

The costs of default depend on how messy things become when payments stop. What are the legal difficulties?

As she went through a messy divorce triggered by an unfaithful husband, millions of women shared her pain.

The Middle East was supposed to be messy and unpredictable, unlike the new and modern Russia of Putin.

And I'm more of the, life's messy, clean it up, organize it and put it into a bento box.

Like his predecessors, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Obama wants to avoid messy entanglements in Africa s internal politics.

But if Greece is not solvent, either the EU must assume its debts or the risk will hang over it like a sword of Damocles. By refusing a planned and orderly restructuring, the eurozone is exposing itself to the risk of a messy default.

So, one of the criticisms of this kind of approach to organization is that, you know, Okay, well my real desk is really messy. I don't want that mess on my computer.

What is certain is that the individual talent exhibited in such abundance here, needs to turn its attention to that collaborative, messy, frustrating, contentious and impossible world of politics and public policy.

Taiwan's democratic experiences are messy, but no messier than the vote that brought President Bush to power four years ago.

I know too that wars are messy, and if Molhem hadn t been taking pictures, he may well have taken up arms.

They spent the 1990s working the messy scene between globalized parts of the world What I call the core and the gap.

Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain's supercomputing powers in silicon because the messy, redundant processes inside our heads actually make for a small, light, superfast computer.

So what lessons should we draw from the inevitably messy nature of electoral processes in countries where there is either no middle class or only a rudimentary one, and where a democratic culture is at best in its infancy?

Second, global decision making now involves four times as many countries as it did in the immediate post war era, not to mention a plethora of non governmental organizations and civil society groups, making for a messy and often unproductive process.

The outcome will be messy. But the economics profession will also become more diverse and dynamic and our children s economics will be healthier as a result.

But, despite the rivalries and all the chatter, it is clear that Asians are coming closer together. And, while Asian regionalism is messy and rife with tensions and flash points, the US has been the stabilizing power in the region.

Multi year re alignments are messy and complex, especially when they occur simultaneously at the national and global levels, and when multi speed growth, inflation, and credit dynamics are at work, as is the case today.

How many problems of life can be solved actually by tinkering with perception, rather than that tedious, hardworking and messy business of actually trying to change reality?

This change of ruling houses was a messy and prolonged affair, and the Qing took almost twenty years to extend their control over the whole of China.

I want to show you the rest of this photograph, because this photograph is analogous to what we do to the word compassion in our culture we clean it up and we diminish its depths and its grounding in life, which is messy.