He and his kind will be carried away, cast out, "into nothingness, until no speck or smudge" remains.
Besides, Europe is about deal-making, about fudge and smudge, about warm exhortations meaning nothing precise.
Every 33 years it is visible through telescopes as a faint smudge, as its orbit carries it past the sun and solar heat vaporises some of the frozen gases of which it is partly composed.
Every few minutes, a black smudge, smattered with muddy puddles, denotes a coalmine.
All I can tell you is he is not describing Illinois and Chicago politics".It may have been impossible for Mr Obama to rise from the muck of Illinois without a smudge on his navy suit.
The statue stands outside the church; heavy rains have now rendered the "tears" a mere smudge on the left side of the face, but this has not stopped the devout from bringing flowers, praying, and taking photographs.
This year, if those who study the comet have done their sums correctly, people living in East Asia, Australia and North America could be treated to just such a show: a meteor storm.Every time the comet passes the sun, the evaporation that releases the gases which produce the smudge also liberates zillions of dust particles.
The three nationalist parties, one representing each of the main communities, are almost states unto themselves: they still win most of the elections, control most of the media and dole out most of the patronage.Whereas Dayton depends on the precise apportionment of power and responsibility, the essence of these parties is to smudge distinctions.
But the company that operates the orbiting camera, Malin Space Science Systems of San Diego, California, says that the white smudge looks like the craft's parachute.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected]'s Jewish lobbySIR – Lexington's article on the Jewish lobby (April 6th) commits the error most likely to smudge any clarity in the war on terror: confusing one group of terrorists with another.
The white smudge is also several hundred metres from a disturbed bit of ground that looks as though it has been singed by a rocket.
