Sentences with phrase «ugly mess»

«It was such an ugly, ugly mess,» he says — and a great lesson in the importance of vetting foreign suppliers.

By striking a conciliatory tone and offering an olive branch (accompanied by equity), Khosrowshahi managed to persuade Alphabet's leadership to put this ugly mess behind them and look to a brighter future — one that includes potential collaboration.

It's all an ugly mess.»

He will stop that ugly mess!»

God is not responsible for the ugly mess mankind is in... no more than loving parents are responsible for bad choices their wreckless kids may take.

Digging into the ugly mess of council tax debt doesn't win headlines and doesn't buy votes.

This is an ugly mess of a world, but it's hard to look away.

It's there doing its job, even if it's an ugly mess.

However, a lack of scenic verisimilitude is the least of the problems on display with this bleak and ugly mess.

The Lovely Bones is an ugly mess: overwrought and amateurish, it tries too hard at the wrong things and eventually, pathetically becomes a suspense yarn with no tension to speak of.

Tron: Legacy was a boring, ugly mess.

And on the craft level, it's an ugly mess.

Which is all to say, this experiment is a failure, and a bloody, ugly mess that'd have been better left on that dusty shelf.

Your job is to save animals, and if you get lazy or sloppy and end up getting sued or prosecuted or audited, you will not only be kicking yourself, but you will be tangled in an ugly mess that will make it a lot harder for you to fulfill your rescue's mission.

It's no secret that co-op over Xbox Live in Fable II was an ugly mess.

Animations, lighting and scenes were obviously spruced up for a stage demo before being returned to the ugly mess for the actual game committed to disc.

«A guilty pleasure to those who play it and an ugly mess to those who don't, the Earth Defense Force series started life as a throwaway budget title for the Japanese PlayStation 2 and... well, I was going to say grew into something much better, but not really.

biofuel powered trimaran which recently launched a world record attempt to circumnavigate the globe in less than 74 days has run into an ugly mess.

The existing legal patchwork stitches up wonky scraps of various vintages into an ugly mess: «It's time, in a consistent way, to look at environmental law,» and make some clear - eyed decisions.

It makes an ugly mess and destroys the whole overarching scheme.

The whole situation with AdUps, the Chinese company that provides affordable firmware update software to countless budget Android phones, has somewhat turned into an ugly mess.

Many other times, when the file does open, the content is a jumbled mess of unreadable characters or the design concepts used are too customized to the individual computer and what may have originally been an attractive document is just an ugly mess because it is incompatible with my system.

If you keep it plain and simple, your children will remember that you put your best face forward for them and your family as you experienced an upheaval that could've become an ugly mess.