Many details surrounding the case were murky tonight.
Some look like astronomical observations of the moon on a murky night, others, a fastidious watercolourist's palette.
Her best horse had been beaten again, and a wild, murky afternoon in the flatlands must have blended fairly seamlessly with her own emotional landscape.
It is a misty, murky afternoon on the Somerset-Wiltshire border but, inside Bath's stately home headquarters in Farleigh Hungerford, the clarity of Todd Blackadder's Christmas message is unmistakable.
The picture of the fighting remained murky tonight, largely because the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is officially closed under the policy of the president of Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who has aligned his country with the United States in the war in Afghanistan.
For several hours, however, their unwillingness to take the initiative left spectators lamenting the absence of the injured Andy Schleck and the suspended Alberto Contador, who fought a classic hand-to-hand battle over the slopes of the Tourmalet on a murky afternoon two years ago.
But the legal landscape grew a little more murky this morning when the Obama administration announced an emergency motion seeking to stay the judge's decision, in effect keeping DADT alive.
As night thickens around Marina Boulevard on a murky San Francisco evening, one thing is crystal-clear: the future is not what it used to be.
But now, even on a murky November afternoon, it is an enticing green haven, complete with colourful borders and raised beds bursting with cabbages, leeks and onions.
Several other reporters said that details of the agreement remained murky Wednesday morning, and that the deal could fall apart.
