Tolstoy did, after all, have ten children and War and Peace was probably a treatise written for his sanity -- but he is a token of all that murky, treacherous material you must wade through to get from war... to peace, two words that cannot be so simply defined by "bad" and "good".
Murky, mesmerising stuff.
Plankton make sea water look murky and this biological material is rather romantically known as "marine snow".
Mr. Bauder was born in the former West Germany, but his girlfriend, Dörte Franke, a co-writer of the script, is originally from the East, and the film deals with a problem that is one of the consequences of German reunification: former East German intelligence officers who use their knowledge of the recent and very murky past for their own material advantage.
While you may be well within your rights to use a portion of copyrighted material in a parody — the law is murky on how much material and in what fashion constitutes fair use — your parody might get squashed.
This week, Professor Turow and others will meet at a conference to debate how multimedia materials fit into the concept of "fair use" -- a murky safe harbor in copyright law that allows scholars and researchers limited use of protected materials.
But all of this is part of its impromptu appeal, and the performers, given strong material and thrown together in the warm space of a murky bar, rise to surprisingly urgent and, at times, moving heights.
Though the role of healthy huntingtin proteins remains murky, they're thought to be involved in basic cell functions such transporting materials and chemical signaling.
Inmates have alleged that the criteria for entering and exiting the SHU are murky -- including speculative and seemingly arbitrary evidence of gang affiliation, like tattoos and reading materials.
Ms. Monley's early life was movie material in its own right, though her lifelong reticence in talking about it left the details murky, Mr. Nightingale said.
