Sentences with phrase «often muddle»

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.

Unfortunately, because of the many definitions of the modern term «church,» the meaning of the word when we read it in the New Testament is often muddled.

Even so, the twenty - seven speeches collected in We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama, edited by E. J. Dionne Jr. and Joy - Ann Reid, are neither better nor worse, for the most part, than any other American politician's speeches: often muddled, consistently unmemorable, and boring.

With food fads and gimmicks blurring our food - intuition, the meaning of «good nutrition» is often muddled.

There's a soft allure at play here, but it's largely overshadowed by a well - worn dialogue, and an often muddled plot.

From its opening image (wherein a tried - and - true «Based on actual events» crawl is slowly blacked out to reveal the film's title), Redacted revels in a mixed, often muddled sense o...

In earlier efforts to promote standards, he notes, the message was often muddled and the standards left open to interpretation.

In prior recessions, districts often muddled through by imposing a combination of tax increases and expenditure cuts that avoided involuntary personnel reductions.

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By contrast, its strategic choices often seem a little muddled.

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.

More often than not, when you get involved in the lives of people, you will find that your paper theology begins to get a bit muddled.

Muller is a genuine contender for the most intelligent and versatile football in the competition, as his displays in Joachim Low's often slightly muddled Germany system will attest.

The relationship between the English Championship and the Scottish Premier League is an ambiguous one and the natural order of things in terms of the flow of players between England and Scotland can often appear muddled.

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.

For better or worse, Great Britain has often preferred to «muddle through» quite remarkable changes in its governing structure without the full - scale reconsideration of some of its own foundational presuppositions, the most important one of which, of course, is the sovereignty of the singular Westminster Parliament and the ability to maintain the proposition that the United Kingdom has no need for a canonical written constitution.

You will look long and hard for as complete a résumé of what has been done, even if the conclusion seems sometimes overimpressed by both the commitment and achievement of a government which is often curiously timid in its approach and conspicuously muddled in its conclusions.

As a left - hander encountering an unsuitable implement, your choices are usually to muddle through, swap to your weaker hand, modify your technique (often with uncomfortable and painful consequences) or to locate a rare and expensive left - handed version.

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.

There are times when Infinity War feels more like a patchwork quilt of moments to tickle the nerd bone than it does a coherent feature, particularly in a first half that is a muddled selection of vignettes and episodes, barely connected by narrative sinews that are doing an awful lot of heavy lifting and often crack under the exertion.

It's worth seeing the film to watch Chan deliver a powerful and unique performance, truly doing an excellent job channeling that darkness he has so often eschewed in other movies, but «The Foreigner» never realizes that this role is its greatest strength and emotional core, and in doing so, ends up becoming a muddled affair that isn't as engaging as it should be.

Here are a few tips that can lend clarity to the often - muddled set of tasks for which school leaders are responsible:

Students often only see us as fixtures in the school, devoid of personal lives and the day - to - day drama that they must muddle through.

There is no consistency in their user interface and often get muddling and confusing.

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.

I tend to think Ireland will ultimately muddle through the current crisis... First, people often extrapolate current facts, figures & trends in a rather absurd manner.

If there is but one problem is that there's just a shade of hollowness in the mids which can muddle dialogue the tiniest fraction, but this has often been a problem with 2.1 setups and is where I tend to miss having a middle speaker.

What's all the worse is that even the 2D sections with the avatar get muddled with how small your character often ends up on the screen.

He often casts himself in his work, stages his scenes himself and explores various filmic and optical effects that muddle the lines between documentation and fiction, art and science.

Scraps of bright fabric patterns and hues are mixed and muddled, as their layers often expose the wall behind.

His artworks often depict characters of muddled lines with figurative elements.

But with 100 often significant works by 59 other relentlessly predictable artists — including Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman and Jeff Koons — it is largely a shapeless, enthusiastic muddle.

But this topic so often gets muddled.

It's quite easy these days to find yourself muddled over China's energy policy: it often seems to amount to tackling domestic pollution and climate change, but chasing lucrative contracts abroad, despite the environmental impact.

When clients come seeking legal advice, what they are often looking for is strategic advice, and a muddled answer can drive clients crazy.

In the golden age of streamable content — with more options for viewing than ever before — information often gets muddled.

While they usually mean well, more often than not their comments do nothing more than muddle your thoughts and make you feel like you can't think for yourself.

To get it, we're accessing a muddled Internet, where information, including real estate know - how, can come from any, and often conflicting, sources.

I often think of things to try, to muddle through, and wonder if anyone else has figured out a better way.