At the height of controversy the Lady dies on her bench: conflict neatly resolved, heartstrings tugged, curtain.

A means of getting rid of Freeberg had been neatly resolved by the law.

'So they're trapped,' Alfred said as though the whole problem was neatly resolved and the battle as good as won.

In most respects, the format is standard stuff, with one manufactured problem a week neatly resolved before the final credits.

None of these issues can be neatly resolved.

Yet there's one aspect of the Armey incident that's not so neatly resolved.

Not all the dramas are neatly resolved in a few paragraphs.

Crises were not neatly resolved when the President sent in the Marines ... never.

Their marriage is tested a bit by the strike and Ruby's newfound independence, but matters are neatly resolved.

The issues are not neatly resolved.