| She didn't know how to deal with all these mixed-up emotions and confusions. |
| He is a very mixed-up man, very contradictory in what he says and how he says it. |
| Somewhere between the gaudy lowlands of kitsch and the earnest highlands of world music sits the mythic, mixed-up realm of exotica. |
| The actions of the major players in this drama have been mixed-up and incoherent, and have tended to widen, not narrow, the crisis. |
| How many mailboxes did just one mixed-up teenager blow up before he was caught? |
| Perhaps it was his equivalent of the mark where a mixed-up teenager might have cut himself. |
