Sentences with phrase «muddle of»

Open your average Millennial's kitchen cupboard and you're likely to see a muddle of plates, cups and bowls — some inherited from mum or gran, others picked up from the local charity shop or flea market.

Its latest redrawing of the diminishing UK legal landscape sees a muddle of UK and hybrid UK - US firms in a series of five interlocking rings, with four apparent outliers The Lawyer just can't seem to squeeze into any of the «pure» circles or their four interstices.

The «direct» tax proposals under consideration — taxing emissions at the source, a gas tax, etc. — have a certain logic and efficiency to them and avoid the muddle of derivatives (the dangers of which we can all now see only too well).

But in this internal psychological muddle of needs, the world will not end directly because of a failure to meet a need for convincing science... the world will end because such a failure will leave Nurse's felt need to save it unmet.

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.

The whole composition comes together as a self - portrait, with recognizable facial features within the swirling muddle of colours.

In Conceal, Reveal (2010), clean, sweeping strokes of cerulean blue frame a muddle of ochre and gray, bringing life and breath to colors that previously hung stale and stagnant.

In the first, Christopher Wool's stylishly smeared black - and - white abstraction pales by comparison with the paintings around it: a nice oil on linen by Albert Oehlen, a messy muddle of black blobs by Guston and a second - rate portrait that Pablo Picasso painted in 1969.

It is as though a colourful muddle of crude materials — cement, polystyrene, wood, cardboard, fabric — has just been washed up by a vast wave, leaving seven wonderfully wobbly looking monoliths, each as stonkingly absurd as the next.

In ambient light, And I Can't Run appears to show a muddle of onlookers; the scene they observe is too faint to make out.

At times that clumsiness might reach a deeper level, perhaps, as one mission blends with the next in a muddle of places to go, bosses to fight, but I'm always willing to let that slide, as I am the terrible stealth sections, and the occasional struggle with the motion - control implementation that sees you aiming, in mid-air, with both thumbsticks and the accelerometer inside the Dualshock 4.

As you run around the online battlefield there's plenty of icons, but the vast majority of them are busy telling you where your team - mates are, a muddle of colored helmets floating around the edge of the screen, making it awkward to quickly locate the red crosshairs which indicates where the General reckons you should be heading next.

the judge asked, irritated, lifting his nose from a muddle of pawns in the center of the chessboard.

In the muddle of clapping hands, whoops and singing, the dark lines of water shifted into splashes, the wooden frames of the windows rattled to the tap of swaying beaks, and chairs and tables groaned like weary beasts as they were nudged across the floor toward the boisterous mural.

She stared down at a muddle of D's and F's on his eighth - grade report card and threatened to kick him out.

The result is a muddle of state academic standards and testing requirements.

Here's some good news for those who received the muddle of a port that Batman: Arkham Knight was with their GeForce GTX graphics card bundle.

The bulk of the action takes place in Wicklow, where the group, a muddle of unstable Americans and sardonic Continentals, are to assemble an album.

He transforms into the winged rodents and takes out the thousand soldiers approaching his castle in a shaky, quickly cut, and incomprehensible muddle of a battle scene.

Such a chess - heavy story could have easily ended up a muddle of «chess as a metaphor for life» platitudes.

Once the muddle of exposition settles, Tintin meets Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), whose forebear was the great captain of the ship upon which Tintin's model was based and who joins the journalist on his adventure.

The animal motif gives way to a muddle of ideas about love and loneliness, betrayal, sex, family.

The action is a horrible muddle of skating, blood, fighting and stupid bike stunts all crammed within this tiny arena, at the same time you have other players skating down from higher levels or platforms for no apparent reason other than to look cool in the film.

The Roth - directed drama is an almost unwatchable muddle of horror tropes and painfully creaky dialogue.

There are so many ideas rattling around in Backstabbing for Beginners that are never resolved, and so many duplicitous characters that are never satisfactorily explained, that the end result is a muddle of confusion and violence that could end the future of tourism in Baghdad forever.

The mooted Stooges - Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, Benicio del Toro - dodged a bullet judging by this muddle of creaky slapstick and laugh - free plotting.

Whilst watching I also found the plot to be a tad confusing really, or at least it didn't make much sense because it was all a muddle of grey.

For a pulpy cocktail, muddle each of the roasted fruit + herb combos in a separate cocktail glass (you may want to add some more herbs during this step, depending on how strong you want the herb flavor to be).

Despite dolphins» obvious intelligence and social aptitude, anatomical studies of their gray matter revealed an indistinct muddle of neurons, nothing like the specialized, refined structures found in human brains.

But during a heart attack, the electrical excitation spreads randomly through the heart, shown in the lower image as a splotchy muddle of relaxed (red) and excited cells.

If you trawl a fine mesh net through any of the globe's five subtropical gyres — giant ocean vortexes where currents converge and swirl unhurriedly — you will haul on deck a muddle of brown planktonic goop, the occasional fish, squid or Portuguese man - of - war — and, almost certainly, a generous sprinkling of colourful plastic particles, each no larger than your fingernail.

If something of this magnitude is not offered I think the conference season will end with the replacement of three party leaders who are unable to address the ongoing muddle of national policies viewed as social and constitutional experiments with no obvious net benefit.

The next weeks and months were a muddle of relatives and tears and wakes and a funeral.

One look at the article and its clear to see that in all seriousness, it is nothing more than just a messy muddle of words.

English football's relationship with the ball - playing central defender is an interesting one: it (if we may for a moment reduce such a complex muddle of thought and action to a singular entity) loves them in theory, it sanctifies them when they're Bobby Moore, but it doesn't entirely trust them, and it certainly doesn't have time for them in the early formative years, when all that ball playing seems to detract from the serious business of stopping goals.

I spend the next few years studying the history of Christianity itself, especially the early church, and that not only «re-connected» me to the faith, it also allowed me to survive amidst all the muddle of the current climate.

The ongoing corporate life of the local church is not a muddle of atomic incidents connected merely by the regularities of church worship and organization.

Conservatives mock radical college professors and celebrities who pop off about politics, but those (sometimes ridiculous) lefties are actually making an effort to reach that vast muddle of Americans who don't already have firm political commitments.

After all, Christians worshiped Jesus for several centuries before any of them thought to argue that God created the world out of nothing, and Augustine found the «books of the Platonists» so convincing mainly because the Manichaeans made such a muddle of their version of materialism.

In either case my message gets lost, whether through pedantic communication or through a muddle of empty verbiage.

With these straightforward, if still painful, solutions closed off it may take a muddle of austerity, higher taxes, debt writedowns and perhaps guarantees from Washington to help fix the mess.

Fortune's Erika Fry has spent months untangling the complicated story, which reads like a drive through the streets of Mumbai, with miscues, misinformation, and the muddle of Indian politics.

Defeat, on the other hand, would extend the muddle of the GOP's internal squabbling and diminish its presidential hopes in 2016 and beyond.

While mom - and - pop brewers generally earn their reputations as laidback types — often starting businesses in their basement, with the help and advice of other brewers — they've taken great umbrage recently over the muddling of the craft beer market.

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.

But the muddles he gets into are the muddles of an exact thinker who has confused different things.

I take as my main task to shed light on how the heart can have «reasons that the reason knows not of» while avoiding the arrogance of empiricism and the muddles of existentialism (cf. my The Possibility of Religious Knowledge [Eerdmans, 1971] and «Saying and Showing,» Religious Studies, fall 1974).

The deep muddling of basil gives it a refreshing and herbaceous flavor that is sure to satisfy on a warm spring or summer day.

NOTE: Proper muddling of your mint is the key to a flavorful minty drink or one that tastes like grass.

With a clearly written text and appealing acrylic paintings, this unusual picture book shows how the muddling of fact, memory, and legend can result in popular history.