Its murky past, coupled with strong accusations of KGB government presence and a bustling illegal arms trade, doesn't give Transnistria a lot to be proud of.
Making matters murkier, some couples in the family who contributed more than $9,000 to Mr. McCain also gave the maximum in December to either Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton or Rudolph W. Giuliani, or both, totaling in the case of at least one family more than $18,000.
Although it does not appear intended deliberately to shock, the very vigor of its reportorial candor compels that it must do so.On the surface, it is a story of a couple of murky days in the lives of two erratic young lovers in Paris, their temporary home.
Like Alice in a scary Wonderland, you continue through a dining room where the table is heaped with trash and packages of Sudafed and then upstairs to a claustrophobic warren of rooms where shelves are stocked with old jars of murky liquid, and where a couple of stuffed dogs are sleeping.
This is coupled with some murky, even unsavory, facts about the one, identifiable cheerleader of the Trump cause in the group, Michael the Black Man.
Sorting out right from wrong in all this has been a challenge even for veteran judges, in part because the circumstances of the couples' encounters are sometimes murky.
And if you're curious about where this bizarre trope comes from, the origins are a bit murky, but may date back to a couple of 19th century poems.
People started saying, 'In some states [same-sex couples] can get married, it's very murky, so why don't we [cover] opposite sex couples?'".
O'Neill leaves this answer troublingly open, as the couple are pulled down into a murky, isolated pit.
But the divers returned within a couple of hours, reporting that the black murky water made it hard to reach the workers' platforms.
He travels to Tokyo for a couple of months, for reasons that are murky, and the alienating setting isn't right for the narrative.
