Bolaño fills his canvas with messy Lawrencian emotions but places them within a coolly cerebral frame.

In "On Grief and Grieving," she insisted that the stages were "never meant to help tuck messy emotions into neat packages."

Love is the most powerful, messy, delightful and dangerous emotion... Willow's in love.

She had learned long ago how to box up all those messy emotions.

It's hard to legislate messy emotions.

Michael Frayn's characters are obsessed by order and control, dismayed by change, confusion and messy emotion.

You, of course, won't be able to fall afoul of any emotion so sheerly messy.

He set out the works with a firm structural logic unclouded by messy emotion, and drew playing from the orchestra that was astonishingly secure and polished.

It was the way she'd always coped with the messy emotions of those around her, by retreating into her scientist's role.