He was standing with his hands raised, palms upward, as if to say, "What, I do something wrong?" For the next year or so this gesture became for me a useful if inane joke as I muddled through the days leading up to deciding with my girlfriend if we were going to try to have a child.
And Mr. Bush's message, that the United States is defending freedom and liberty, was muddled in recent days by allegations that his administration did not discourage the overthrow of the elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, and was too quick to applaud his ouster.
Some Irish voters were indeed muddled on referendum day.
Donald Trump's campaign manager scrambled Tuesday to reassure supporters that he is sticking to his immigration plan after days of muddled messages from the Republican presidential nominee.
Our sense of time had become so muddled by the hours and days spent watching road go by that "what day is it?" replaced "good morning" for us thousands of miles ago in some distant Canadian province.
The Lakers and Boston Celtics have a lot in common, two teams muddling through downtrodden days after meeting in the NBA Finals just 4½ years ago.
LUCIE, Fla .— The Mets' bullpen represents one of the team's weakest areas, and at first glance, visions of how it might be constructed for opening day can appear muddled.
Last week a friend who had her first child called from her car …a muddled rant of rushing to day care, traffic on the bridge and missing her networking event.
If the national election picture looks muddled for the Democrats on the day after Super Tuesday, the picture here in California looks murkier still.
Days later, Pravda savaged the work as muddled, decadent and bourgeois.
