Sentence examples for a mire of from inspiring English sources

On the contrary, public service is a mire of indolence and corruption.

But Ford seems bogged down in a mire of its own.

The new millennium seems dark and vengeful, sunk in a mire of militant theology and fundamentalist agitprop.

He was in the middle of managing his father's decline, in and out of hospitals, moments of lucidity rising in a mire of confusion.

Their connections, overt and hidden, are revealed in a mire of alcohol, drugs, recriminations, and the resentment of rockers conceding the spotlight to the next generation.

Flailing about in a mire of counter-factuals, unknowable what-ifs and mutual dislike, the debate is doomed never to end, but to remain locked in exhausted rancour.

Such an existence eludes Eddie Morra Bradley Cooperr), whom we join — once he has flashed back from what looks like the brink of suicide through a breathless title sequence — in a bohemian mire of failure.

Ferrante's 1950s Naples is a chaotic mire of sweat and stymied ambition – a place her characters all struggle to escape.

A dusty half-hour tramp out of town, down a pitted mire of cow dung, mud and vegetable ends, I am cheered on by a personal army of souvenir sellers and aspirant guides.

"The city has become a stinking mire of corruption and evildoing.

It began sedately; it threatened to take off and then disintegrated in a hapless mire of mid-innings self-destruction.