Sentences with phrase «in a muddle about»

: «Don't let's be in a muddle about who calls the shots about football at Arsenal.

He (Sir Keswick) said, «Don't let's be in a muddle about who calls the shots about football at Arsenal.

Not exact matches

In addition to the muddled response from the corporation itself, the resignation of the CEO, and a customer service website that didn't seem to work properly, there has been confusion about how best to address this issue.

I fear that many churches and Christians do not realize the horrible, muddled theology we teach to people in our neighborhoods, at our jobs, and even in our families because deep down inside, we do not really care about the people themselves.

The protagonist of Humboldt's Gift, Charlie Citrine, is a successful playwright and biographer who returns to the Chicago of his boyhood; muddles about in the urban scene while trying to straighten out a marital problem; leaves for Spain with a large friend, Renata; is deserted by her; returns to America to bury his old friend Von Humboldt Fleisher; and receives his bequest.

But the very point is that we will be even more in a muddle without some such categories with which to talk about these complexities.

DE: The muddles of a thinker aware of the problems of Relativity on the one hand, and of being realistic about what we perceive in nature, and on the other hand the enormous gap between them.

Mother Mary McKillop founded schools for settler families in 19th century Australia and New Zealand... it wasn't just the heat and hardships in rural New South Wales, it was problems with the Bishop, muddles over funding, complications about the status of her Order...

Muddle a handful of blueberries (about 1/4 cup or depending on size of serving glass) and a few sprigs of thyme in a serving glass.

- about 1 - 1.5 T simple syrup - small orange slice or large orange peel - bitters (right now I have whisky barrel aged bitters which are divine)- drip of water - muddle - top with ice - stir as pour in low - mid tier bourbon (Jim Beam > Bulleit > Makers, nothing above that though)- garnish with cherry

It's a question of personal versus public health, in many instances, and it is hard to muddle through all the information and rumors about vaccinations.

I can never quite decide if it enables us to see things more clearly, cutting through the inconsequential details that muddle our in - the - moment experience, or if it creates an inaccurately rosy depiction of the past so that we can complain about our present.

«There are times when we have been in town together, there are times when he's a day ahead of me; there's nothing planned together, and I plan to run my campaign and do my events... I have no plans of doing anything with anybody... I don't want people getting confused or having a muddle about what my campaign is about.»

His failure to mention it in his 2014 party conference speech was just one sign of a rather muddled approach to the problem; after the 2010 election, the party's initial strategy was to talk about the necessity of cuts in general while opposing some of the most high - profile cuts introduced by the coalition, particularly when it came to welfare.

Syracuse, N.Y. - Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, who is thinking about challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year, said during a stop in Syracuse Wednesday his focus would be on jobs and not the social issues he says Democrats use to muddle the message.

As I soon discover, only a tight - knit circle of paleontologists seem to be in on the secret, and even they seem a bit muddled about the matter.

I would wager they play about 20 - 30 % in impact (seen in diabetes AGEs and glucosepane formation; again this where this is very touching on the DNA damage role and seperating from the epigenetic role of aging; they can be uncoupled making these DNA damage elements muddled and less important than previously thought (I'm only talking about healthy aging, not pathological aging (as in the diabetes, Diabetes will greatly improve by GlycoSENS.

Writer - director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) was brought in to salvage the runaway production (with the cost adjusted for inflation, it may still qualify for the title of Most Expensive Movie Ever Made); though his name stands alone on the credits, a lot of other hands contributed to the general muddle.

Too earnest to ironically indulge in the narrative's familiar pulpy beats and too uncertain about the strength of this material to play it straight, Fleischer aims for a muddled middle, jazzing up Beall's faux - hardboiled dialogue with slow - motion shootouts and shaky HD - cam pursuits that only remind us of how much better Public Enemies turned out.

The audience is treated to a repeated expository monologue about the Death Queen known as Himiko, whose meagerly implied history suggests a more interesting kernel of storytelling than anything regarding Croft and her muddled family history (relayed through convenient montages reserved for audience members who might have lost interest in what's being presented).

In which case, if «I Do... Until I Don't» is a movie about entrenched behaviors and breaking those cycles to make new discoveries about one's relationship and one's partner, let's hope the muddled result is not a pattern that Lake Bell settles into as a filmmaker.

The result is a bloated film that seems incapable of deciding exactly what it's supposed to be (the continuing story line about the fate of Peter's parents and the involvement of Norman Osborne is continued on top of all of this, but also muddled), besides marking time for the next film and the introduction of the character's anti-Avengers, the Sinister Six (who are teased endlessly in the second half).

Not containing the wit to be smart, thrilling sci - fi nor the chutzpah to embrace a fun, B - movie shlock vibe, it unfortunately feels like an uninspired TV pilot that any other network would've permanently locked in a vault... At first, it has the feeling of being dropped into a season finale with characters we should know more about, then after the bland exposition, muddled motivations, and nonsensical developments, one realizes they'd never want to watch what came before anyways.

The plot is a jam - packed muddle, but the basic strokes are that, in the war - torn California of 2029, human resistance leader John Connor (Jason Clarke) is about to stamp out the evil artificial intelligence system Skynet, but before he can, Skynet sends an assassin robot called a T - 800 (Brett Azar's body with Arnold Schwarzenegger's younger face CGI'd on) back in time to 1984.

I liked Drive, a vigorous 2011 take on Hollywood car - chase movies with noirish undertones starring Ryan Gosling, but its 2013 successor, Only God Forgives, a muddled romp (also starring Gosling) about a mama's boy adrift in the Bangkok underworld at the mercy of a gangster who performed musical numbers between bloodbaths, was parboiled by critics and avoided by audiences like an airborne virus.

The message about shaping your own future becomes muddled by contrivances in this modest crowd - pleaser.

In this story — about a Pulitzer - nominated author who turns to Twitter for promotion, then finds romance — Medeiros «demonstrates the ways in which courting via computer can expedite seduction — but also trick the heart and muddle the mind.&raquIn this story — about a Pulitzer - nominated author who turns to Twitter for promotion, then finds romance — Medeiros «demonstrates the ways in which courting via computer can expedite seduction — but also trick the heart and muddle the mind.&raquin which courting via computer can expedite seduction — but also trick the heart and muddle the mind.»

Now, I'm no expert in contracts, but when I see a written agreement that includes no advance payment to the author, a 50/50 split of royalties AFTER a muddled clause about subtracting fees for costs that may or may not include promotion, marketing, set - up fees, and even printing fees, with lifetime ownership of the copyright, I think SCAM.

«Mrs. Rummage's Muddle - Up Shop,» a longer poem, tells about a girl who wants a lollipop in a crazy shop belonging to a very mixed - up lady.

Defining a genre often leads to muddled ramblings about what that genre should or shouldn't be, and normally ends up leaving something important out in the process.

There's several sites about this (how to value a practice, what to do, industry trends and statistics, financial ratios, salary surveys, etc.); but there's no actual list you can get to without paying, becoming a «member» of something, logging in (which is just a way to get you to give up your e-mail address so it can be sold to spammers), or having to muddle through several annoying barriers.

In addition to monitoring for negative comments about breeds and adoption costs, shelter workers must also contend with ones that do nothing more than lengthen and muddle comment threads.

That's the muddled message coming out of Randy Tibbits's complaint about what he sees as a too - low presence of Houston (or, depending on which paragraphs you're reading, Texas) art in Houston museums:

And if you want to learn more about the events of 90 years ago, watch Peter Finch as General Nobili and Sean Connery as Amundsen in a crazy muddle of a movie, the Red Tent.

I'm not about to suggest any solutions here, but I will note that if we ask «is it warming» then effectively, as Judith points out, we are muddling a prediction together with an observation: are we in the middle of a continued warming?

I have also written about how legislation on domestic relations that fails to restrict the range of likely outcomes encourages a single - serving approach to justice that, in serving the individual well, creates uncertainty and a muddled body of case law for everyone else.

If these aren't properly ordered it's easy to get in a muddle and end up missing deadlines, losing information, or even completely forgetting about jobs.

About Blog Mr. Muddle is Adam, a cocktail hobbyist living, eating, and drinking in and around Boston while parenting two little ones.