These elements make for a murky stew, with the jerky wandering of the conversation often occasioning startled laughter.
The lost-at-sea survival tale that ensues, headed up by strapping first mate Chris Hemsworth, is a smidge more gripping than Melville's research notes, but Howard injects no propulsive sense of derring-do into proceedings – even the effects-saturated sequences of catastrophic attack make for some pretty murky spectacle, the camera lens slicked in algae throughout.
The swamp of inclusion has been drained to make room for murky waters of a new swamp.
"It makes for a murky, sandy, luminous surface," he said.
The two districts — which previously passed and failed the same compactness tests, making for a murky debate — can now be subjected to the same holistic test.
But tacking it on to this allegory about race makes for a murky message.
PAGES A10, A12, A13 THE TV WATCH -- Confusion over the Vatican smokestack's signal to the world made for riveting television, if murky commentary.
During much of his concert, they were deployed like the brass and horns, often making for a sound that was murky, cluttered and expressively undefined.
But that is no excuse for frightening everybody, nor for making an already murky subject much murkier.
Bill Pascrell, Jr., a New Jersey congressman, called for legislation to restrict ticket scalping, and make the murky world of ticket selling more transparent.
