Sentences with phrase «story of the muddled»

Fellaini's continued presence in United's squad tells a story of the muddled post-Ferguson years, and a squad that has been built and rebuilt by several men who didn't really know what they were trying to do.

«It is a story of muddle - headed government initiatives, skewed police incentives, racism, drug wars and the old, old habit of treating white people more leniently than everyone else.»

Not exact matches

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.

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 antecedent physical objects... and scientific objects... which occasion the duration to be what it is are another story, and the persistent habit of muddling the two sets of entities in philosophy... is the origin of much confusion.

That there have been ten (plus caretakers) in the twenty eight years since, though, tells another story as the clubs make - do - and - mend muddle through strategy has failed to adapt to the cash rich era of modern football.

But no election - year incumbent wants a story line muddled by angry bands of roving protesters.

«The story is still a bit of a muddle.»

Also, the story here is really incoherent, muddled, and doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

There's even a touch of Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar to Laura's story, as Glazer asks the audience to look through the eyes of a mostly silent misfit, muddling her way through Scotland.

Efforts are muddled and the story incomplete, making the feature limp along, in search of something substantial and focused to lean against.

Dexter's fourth season tries too hard for the story's sake, resulting in muddled character development and a number of irritating appearances by the titular character's father.

There's a lot to chew on here, and if Burden is ultimately buried by its muddled central character, it's as much a testament to the filmmaker's refusal to sugarcoat this story as it is a criticism of the final product.

Muddled on the issues, but it earned its Oscar as a dramatic, involving story, full of tough and appealing characters.

Whether this was Coppola's intention is debatable but it still doesn't forgive the muddled unravelling of the story.

The new feature American Made similarly fits into the genre but rather than finding its own unique identity, this drama feels like a muddled version of a familiar story.

There are moments to enjoy here, but the muddled nature of the story and execution prevent it from fulfilling the promise of Jolie as one of popular fiction's most memorable villains.

Using the visual and aural framework of the 1980s (with a transportative collection of upbeat, synch - heavy late - 80s jams), the underdog story keeps true to Eddie's unorthodox ascent to being a certifiable Olympian, though muddles some details along the way, prettying it up to make the film more family - friendly and easily digestible.

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).

If it has a political point to make, it's pretty muddled, and elsewhere the fine - grained sexism — this isn't a world where women are allowed to both talk and have their clothes on — seriously scuppers any sense of the story as thoughtful or progressive.

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.

Brad Bird, the Academy Award - winning director of such animated classics as «Ratatouille» and «The Incredibles,» has fashioned with Tomorrowland, a clever, but muddled story of a scrappy teen, Casey Newton (Britt Robertson, «The Longest Ride») and a cockeyed former boy genius, Frank Walker (George Clooney, «The Monuments Men») who join forces in an attempt to save the world from itself.

And indeed, this prequel / sequel hybrid doesn't quite make sense, muddling its premise by straining to keep Snow White herself out of the story (she's always just off screen) while spinning a tale that feels so derivative that we feel like we've seen it all before.

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

The simple thrust of the story gets muddled by aimless meetings with the deceased's acquaintances.

Yes, the story was muddled and inconsistent, but the visual style produced some memorable sequences that made the end result greater than a sum of its parts.

While the overall story arch gets muddled with too many ingredients, and sometimes the script and secondary actors prove to be less than impressive, the action is thrilling and the whole thing is rather fun, if you are into this sort of thing.

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.

There are nifty special effects, elegantly executed that enhance the story, and a nice evocation of Tris» own muddled state of mind about which reality she is experiencing that adds a tart sleight - of - hand to the story.

Unfortunately their story never quite takes off, their friendly exchanges building to an intentionally excruciating dinner date whilst never really offering a convincing portrait of the muddled beginnings of a late in life relationship.

Brad Bird, the Academy Award - winning director of such animated classics as «Ratatouille» and «The Incredibles,» has fashioned with Tomorrowland, a clever, but muddled story of a scrappy teen, Casey Newton (Britt Robertson, «The Longest Ride») and a cockeyed former boy genius, Frank Walker (George Clooney, «The Monuments Men») who join forces in an attempt to...

The dragging, muddled revelation of truth threatens to put a damper on the whole story.

New this time are pop - up book animations of characters and locations which set up each story and reinforce the sometimes muddled moral of the short.

It clearly lays out how the characters of the «lovers» are linked throughout the story to make it clear what is happening for any children who have, understandably, become a bit muddled in Shakespeare's comedy.

The sole known published reference to the «nanny dog» notion, before the rise of opposition to breed - specific laws in recent decades, came in a 1922 work of fiction, Pep: The Story of A Brave Dog, by Clarence Hawkes, a blind man who wrote by dictating his stories and, though able to spin a gripping yarn, routinely muddled his facts.

Despite this, though, the main story doesn't bring a lot of Batman's rogue's gallery into the mix, which is really a good thing as Arkham City sometimes got a little too muddled with super villains.

When the story does begin to arrive it quickly becomes a muddled mess, with piles of utter bullshit thrown in every now and then and a few story arcs that are picked up and then dropped without ever being finished.

The story mode holds your hand a fair bit, guiding you through building up the three different colonies with objectives that frequently get muddled thanks to a lack of clear explanation, such as saying that you can get Copper on Ceres via the mining facility, when in reality you get it from Ganymede using extractors.

Burly Men at Sea tells a branching story of the unlikely adventures of the Brothers Beard as they muddle their way through encounters with creatures from Scandinavian folklore.

Although the story gets somewhat muddled and the acting isn't as good as it could be, The Evil Within is a worthy romp through a mindscape of insanity.

we are in the middle of moving from our 150 yr home in the country, back to our home in the city — long story, very heart wrenching, but trying to muddle through all of this.