The melodies of each of these songs are immediately recognizable, yet their specific origins remain murkily unknown. |
Nor are state authorities keen to take on responsibility for something as murkily intractable as urban government. Because it became notorious, East St Louis in the end demanded the state's attention. |
Like many others in their generation, their characters are coming to terms with a past whose message is crystal clear and a present that is murkily ambiguous. |
Enrico Maria Gonzaga stands on the bank of the great river looking at the waters that flow murkily by, without knowing where they come from or where they go. |
The soberest hope is that the businesslike Mr Kasyanov may try to nudge his government away from the worst habits of the past. What else will he manage in the Russia murkily emerging under President Putin? |
In both l'Edouard Manet's The Absinthe Drinker and Edgar Degas's L'Absinthe the pale greenish glass adds a sick glow to the murkily degraded metropolitan modernity. |