Sentences with phrase «of a muddle at»

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The outpouring of almost comically muddled explanations of and forecasts for the Chinese growth miracle has been an especially egregious example of the way well - intentioned economic analysis has led to, or at least encouraged, worse outcomes.

They would dearly love not to address the issues at all, to muddle through as best they can, and to stay clear of all talk of division and schism.

Everyone needs help at times; many of us muddle through without it but we'd do a lot better if we had it.

At best I have stumbled across the Isaiah account where Jesus was a man of «muddled» appearance (in short «Non-descript»).

See, that's what I mean by muddled... you humans took a little story, mixed it with some myths from earlier religions and decided I was this all powerful god with an all powerful father (that supposedly turns hair on the head as well as beards white if you look at him) that cared about each and everyone of you.

It's been all at once, overwhelming and ugly and beautiful and filled to the brim with mediocre miracles, which is the story of faith in a nutshell: Not a compilation of transcendent mountaintop experiences, but a muddling along through the desert with manna here and there to keep you going.

The critical passage in Darwin's letter to Asa Gray is the following: «I can not think that the world... is the result of chance; and yet I can not look at each separate thing as the result of Design... I am, and shall ever remain, in a hopeless muddle» (Darwin F. 1888 Vol.

This year, the wonderful birth of a new granddaughter has muddled this, so Dad and I will be having a community Thanksgiving dinner with my son's Army comrades at Ft. Bragg, NC.

Well inside this figure you can go progging for lobsters at Silver Seas, a place that puts on floor shows complete with donkeys, chickens, goats and an impresario named Lord Composer who votes under the cognomen of Roy Muddle.

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.

The Spaniard, aiming to bounce back after a muddled spell with Middlesbrough, offloaded a swathe of players and made 10 new signings after an underwhelming defeat by Preston North End at the start of his tenure.

I am far more interested in providing women with the assistance they need to meet their own feeding hopes and goals than to muddle over whether or not a women who did not breastfeed long enough (or at all) fits into some neat little category of the 3 - 5 %.

All we can expect, I'm afraid, from the N.F.L. and its players are, at best, the same mixed, muddled and contradictory «Do as I say, not as I do» messages that Morey tried to sell us this week along with a subtle and often not - so - subtle reinforcement of exactly the kind of play through pain, take it like a man, macho culture that is such an integral part of the N.F.L.'s culture and, frankly, for its mass appeal.

Breastfeeding and pacifiers: for breastfeeding families, the decisions how, when or if to use a pacifier can be a bit muddled by cultural mores that are often at odds with the nursing habits of human infants and the physiology of establishing and maintaining a milk supply.

You can even add some lemon zest or muddled strawberry at the bottom of your glass if you'd like to.

Such instruments of deliberative democracy may be distinctly «foreign» and at odds with the elitist British political tradition, with the culture and rituals of a traditional power - hoarding democracy and with the predilection for «muddling through» that defined British politics in the twentieth century.

Even Jessica Asato's glancing reference to producer capture is at least useful both as metaphor for New Labour's corruption of earlier party structures (see above) and as a partial description of how economic reality has altered, assisted by New Labour, over the past 12 years, though she goes on to muddle the point.

I'm amazed that Hague gets even a positive rating, never mind being rated number one - ok, he's been involved in the ConTreaty referendum (but giving a rather muddled line on whether or not there'd be any attempt to amend it post-ratification) but as Head of the Northern Board he's quiet at best and, speaking as a Loiner now living in Bradford, as «Shadow Minister» for Leeds and Bradford he's been utterly anonymous since his appointment.

To avoid that muddle, Steve Brown and Xue - Zhong Liu, molecular biologists at the Medical Research Council's Mouse Genome Center in Harwell, England, sought families in remote areas of the world, where the families» deafness is more likely to be caused by a single mutated gene.

It was rocket science, literally, but the poor sap muddled through, eventually dispatching a three - man crew from a space center in Florida riding a rocket made of newly discovered aluminum at a speed of 12,000 yards per second.

This rule gets a bit muddled up when you start dealing with DNA sequences, and the like, and both the patent office and the courts are having a lot of problems with this at the moment.

Leaving school at 14, lumbered with what the British mathematician and man of letters Jacob Bronowski once told him were «muddled mathematical linkages», he soon discovered that he was blessed with a visual imagination more than powerful enough to compensate.

What starts out as an intriguing look at the modern - day immigrant experience gradually deteriorates into a meandering muddle that tries to redeem itself with a 21st Century rendition of «Taxi Driver.»

It's often a platformer and a third - person shooter, but it sometimes feels like a shoot»em up or a character action game, and it's all underpinned by RPG systems... Because of this muddled personality, it never fully delivers on anything, leaving us with an enjoyable experience, albeit one with a few issues at its core.

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.

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.

You may notice we're focusing on the dazzling sights, and hardly at all on the muddled portrait of the City of Light as a «mothers, lock up your daughters» cesspool of boho intelligentsia.

With such a farfetched plot already in place, this is the sort of film that could have easily degenerated into a muddled farce with a one - note stand - up comic as the lead, but with a good comedic and dramatic actor like Kline at the forefront, he is able to keep the tone of the comedy and drama appropriate to each scene.

The distinctly fractured narrative - coupled with an exceedingly deliberate pace - does ensure that one's initial impression of the film is that of an art - house mess, yet there reaches a point at which Egoyan's muddled modus operandi comes into focus and one is subsequently drawn into the proceedings.

In the original many of the bigger showdowns occurred at night which, coupled with some messily choreographed action, meant that they were often a muddle, but DeKnight has wisely shifted the action to daytime and, as a result, it's easier to engage with the mayhem.

These jokes further confuse a film already at odds with its cast and concept, thereby weakening the viewer's engagement, and making Jumanji a muddled piece of cinema.

Despite the return of some of Nolan's previous pitfalls — a muddled dialogue track, bare bones emotional insight — this film finds the maestro at his most responsive to his own limitations.

But Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad didn't just fail due to a lack of comedy smarts; they failed due to muddled storytelling and spectacularly clumsy attempts at world - building.

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.

Though the film's attempts at character - driven diversions feel a bit muddled, director Matt Wolf overall does an effective job of showing the similarities of teens through the years.

Many chose to lay the blame at the feet of the screenwriter and well - known geek punching bag Damon Lindelof for producing a muddled, unfocused story, but the end result was another promising project from Ridley Scott that failed to live up to expectations.

MIAMI This tale of estranged sisters gets a bit muddled at times, but it kept my interest throughout.

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.

If you think you'll clear up some of the confusion in a somewhat muddled plot by reading «The Bourne Legacy» (available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble for $ 9.99), forget it.

At the core, there's ostensibly a muddled message about the burdens of seeing the future and what to do with that information.

The story itself is truly an exercise in overcoming — or at least muddling through — the combative, bumpy nature of love that comes with marriage and family, and the subsequent loss (in a variety of forms) of loved ones.

Though the message is muddled at times, the movie really has a lot to say about the sexual politics at the time, the cult of celebrity, and, well, plain «ol cultism.

In the end, Spillane writes, implementation resembled the children's game of Telephone, in which the standards were whispered from the state capitol to classrooms, only to create a muddled message at the end of the line.

The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.

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

In the QX30, the Bose unit is nearly flawless, with clear fidelity, and only becoming muddled at the very edges of eardrum injury.

Minnie's progress is never a straight line; rather, it's a series of circuitous fits and starts as she muddles her way through and tries anything that sticks to give her a sense of empowerment after facing traumatic dysfunction at home.

I suppose now, with the importance of Amazon as a book retailer, the middle has become more muddled as different techniques and different goals are at play.

Authors of Our Towns: A 100,000 - mile Journey Into the Heart of America Interview starts at 9:43 and ends at 39:14 «James Fallows: «Through my reportorial lifetime I've seen a number crises for the American system, which the U.S. has so far managed to muddle its way through.

If we muddle along at the average rate of growth over the last two years, the FOMC may very well sit on its hands and not tighten as quickly as presently expected.