As Pakistan demonstrates, messy reality is something else.

It's no easy matter to come to grips with the messy realities of social life.

She added that a "huge chasm" continued to separate "abstract principles from the messy reality of patient care."

Will a kind of messy reality invade the perfect glass vitrines of his music?

He had seen beyond the war's messy realities to the golden future.

Value the effort it requires and the messy human realities that in fact make it possible.

Maybe singleness is the wrong criterion for the complex, messy reality of nonfiction.

The messy and more interesting reality is that "facts" themselves tend to depend on the theories of the fact finders.

Out of such messy reality, the novella implies, do myths and propaganda grow.

The messy reality will probably result in some difficult balance among the groups competing for power.