Sentence examples for amount of muddle from inspiring English sources
(A recurring interpretative problem in Ives is discovering the ideal amount of muddle).
The filmmakers, chronicling the Dalai Lama's somewhat muddled attempts to respond to the protesters' calls while not antagonizing China, do a fair amount of muddling themselves.
"We do these things in the middle of the night when it's quiet," said Dr. Pratt, a geophysicist with the Geological Survey, to reduce the amount of extraneous noise that could muddle their results.
As a strategy, this amounts to muddling through the rest of the Bush Presidency, without being forced to admit defeat, until January of 2009, when the war will become a new President's problem.
A voice of muddle, muzzled Flooding back?
We may well be out of muddle room.
Simply put the recommended amount of fruit and herbs in the bottom of your cocktail shaker and muddle with a muddler or the end of a wooden spoon.
Soak a sugar cube in bitters, muddle it with perhaps a splash of water, pour a healthy amount of whiskey (or rum or tequila or whatever -- this is a versatile cocktail), add ice and voila.
A muddle-through option could involve the ECB [European central bank] announcing a "shock and awe" amount of QE [quantitative easing] to hoover up a significant part of government issuance.
