Doing messy tasks, you know, in places where it's dangerous to go.

Weaving the seat was a difficult and messy task, for the materials had to be damp to keep them pliable.

Before the invention of the light bulb, illuminating the world after the sun went down was a messy, arduous, hazardous task.

Increasingly, people are finding that the distance of e-mail simplifies one of the potentially messier tasks in a relationship: the breakup.

That now must seem a distant, simpler time compared with the messy, open-ended tasks facing today's UN.

Cooking is a messy task, but it is easily controlled with quick daily cleanups to prevent grease from building up.

It's going to be a time-consuming and, I fear, extremely messy task.

God in his wisdom had put Andrew Johnson in place for the messy task of enacting justice.

In any event, 1993 is the time to switch from the surgical neatness of theoretical argument to the messy task of stitching together legislation.

Winding down Andersen's business is a tremendously messy and complicated task.