Sentences with phrase «too muddled»

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.

And it's sort of worked: «The Winter Soldier» is probably in the upper tier of Marvel pictures in terms of quality, but ultimately proves too muddled and frantic to match the heights of «The Avengers.»

This is what we wanted to see, but it gets too muddled in the sea of divergent plot and focal points that ultimately keep the film from being a great portrayal of one of the all - time great directors.

The concept behind the monster becomes a little too muddled, attempting to turn it into a metaphor without bothering to do the work to get there.

Sid Meier's Starships» battles held my attention for a handful of games, after which point the tactical AI's behavior became exploitable and the strategic layer became too muddled and unpredictable.

Her performance was subtly shaded but too muddled.

The tone of this 1980 feature is too muddled for it to be really memorable, but it's impressively slick, with intimations of the adult decadence themes that informed Roger Corman's Poe films of the 60s.

And yet, while «In the Fade» is ultimately too muddled, it does contain a number of elements that are worthy of consideration.

Or are my test results too muddled now?

Not exact matches

If not, make one person responsible for the calendar — letting too many people edit the calendar will only muddle things up.

If that's insane I'll be that too, as best I can in my own broken muddling way.

There are too many lengthy quotations from popular hymns, and an irritating misquotation of a rather good little verse beginning «Lord of all pots and pans and needs...» which in its original form rhymes and scans and is quite clever but here is muddled and loses all its charm.

For too long we have been told that our ancestors, with their assumptions about God and man's unique destiny, were ignorant and muddled, and that now we must shake off the nonsense passed on to us.

Muddling along is too.

But if anyone were to ask me if I would care to simplify my muddle by walking away from it, then I would repeat the words that Simon Peter spoke when he too was given the chance to skip out.

This lecture seems to have been devoted in large part to criticisms of Alexander, specifically that his notion of «emergence» is too vague and muddled to give any useful account of «cognitive experience» in particular, or of the more general observations of the novel and creative features of determinate actualities of whatever sort.

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So wonderful... I was worried because I, too, had to use the canned chipotles in adobo, but thanks to the intrepid reviewers before me, I was able to muddle through!

She bristles, too, at the IOC's stance toward Afghanistan, a stance that she sees as muddled and spineless.

Relationships get muddled, too.

I love high school football and welcome more high - caliber games played up and down the state to expose every region to the excitement of CIF State Bowl games, but I don't want to be confused with a muddled mess of too many state champs.

Claudio Ranieri's champions have made a muddled start to the season, and while it's clearly far too early to read anything into their Premier League position of 16th, what's been really noticeable about the team is the sudden lack of security.

It was a muddled mess and there was too much pressure to bed in so many players and still be competing.

You work, you settle down at an age when you're not too shriveled up and old to even have kids, you save, you stick with your partner and you muddle through, being grateful.

«The easiest thing for politicians is to put a decision off because it is too difficult and to muddle on.

Labour spent the first six months since the election on the leadership election (i.e. doing nothing politically useful); and has spent the last six months providing a too - subtle — that is, a bit muddled — message on cuts and the economy, on which it has so far lost the argument (let's hope that it's genuinely still possible to win it, long shot though that may seem).

In our typically British way we have muddled through for far too long, neglecting important links in our educational and cultural heritage — a heritage that receives much lip service but little actual commitment from the paymasters, especially at the local or county level.

Too long, too much jargon, entire paragraphs that don't move the topic forward, and worst of all - the important stuff (the «lead») is so buried and muddled that it was just confusiToo long, too much jargon, entire paragraphs that don't move the topic forward, and worst of all - the important stuff (the «lead») is so buried and muddled that it was just confusitoo much jargon, entire paragraphs that don't move the topic forward, and worst of all - the important stuff (the «lead») is so buried and muddled that it was just confusing.

And I actually thought the same thing - it would work really well just muddled too!

This summer has been a bit of a muddle for the Boo Roo and Tigger Too household, with a mixture of renovation plans that haven't really gone to plan (more on that in a different... View Post

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.

Critics Consensus: A muddled sex - comedy that feels oddly sexless, The Oh in Ohio packs in too many ideas without establishing a clear identity or objective.

But it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle.

Christopher Reeve can't play a believable courter to save his life, the screenplay muddles everything from romance to time travel, and the result is an absurd film that takes itself far too seriously.

Red is a main character who is hard to gravitate to because he's too mean spirited especially for a kid's film and his backstory is muddled.

I've seen too many action scenes were the camera work and editing is far too fast and muddled leaving you with a jerky feeling.

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 oToo 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 otoo 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.

Like the documentary Ben Stiller's character Josh is making, Noah Baumbach's newest film tries to be too many things at once with a muddled ending.

Go easy on the muddle; too much crushing can make the berries overly tart.

But aside from the muddled character motivations, the film is just too slow to ever be enjoyable; director Kathryn Bigelow (who is famous for crafting fast - paced action flicks like Near Dark and Blue Steel) seems to be trying something new here, but it doesn't work.

The best of these, like the «Paddington» movies, successfully meld nostalgia with modern and exciting filmmaking, while the more questionable ones, like the recent «Ferdinand» adaptation, manage to muddle the source material with too many pop songs and dirty jokes.

Unfortunately, this muddled and murky film is all too happy to follow his lead.

That's also something that everyone else in the film does, too, but once the official government intelligence services get involved, their tunnel - vision expertise succeeds only in making everything even more muddled.

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.

It's too bad it's gotten so muddled, and so political.

And while the overall numbers are somewhat muddled in the data, state officials still reported increasingly white charter schools this year, so much so that the state's Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, a GOP champion of school choice, asked to pull a demographics report from the State Board of Education's agenda in January because it was too negative.

Malcolm Trobe, interim leader of the ASCL head teachers» union, said: «It was too narrow a way of assessing the ability of young children and having different assessment methods in different schools was muddled.»

It still felt muddled at times, though, like there was too much plot development going on for future books; the viewpoint switches from Wren seemed unnecessary, too.

I started to teach upcoming writers, too, and discovered that one of their biggest problems was transforming a muddled pudding of ideas into a publishable book.

or (2) Do you hunker down and hope to muddle through with government loans, writing down the assets inch by inch without eroding your equity position too much...?