The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on vital issues of the day.
The authors studied master loci that control transposable element proliferation in Drosophila but were molecularly uncharacterized for many years because of the apparent lack of functional sequences at the loci, other than a jumble of transposable element insertions.
Schickler is a writer of brisk and quirky sentences, and the weird jumble of elements he puts into play sometimes adds up to something memorable.
But it is also a jumble of contradictions.
(Its airport code seems a jumble of leftover letters, YTZ).
Or a jumble of broken glass.
I approach 30 with a jumble of feelings.
Ophelia's grave is a jumble of garments.
"He was elated and experiencing a jumble of emotions".
It is a jumble of differing interpretations and conflicting consequences.
