By then, high unemployment, soaring food prices and sporadic clashes between the security forces and armed Islamist groups had smudged off much of Nahda's gloss.Now Nahda is appealing to other parties to unite behind a "consensus candidate" for president.
The images were easily smudged and the colours were weird.
The Greens' virtuous image has been smudged by Mr Ozdemir's fall and by the revelation that another leading Green flew to Bangkok with his free miles.
Ink rubbed off the surface and smudged the portrait of Malietoa Tanumafili II, the revered o le ao o le malo, or head of state, in whose honour the notes had been issued.In their early days, plastic banknotes shed ink, jammed in note-counting machines and often refused to be folded.
A clutch of roughnecks, smudged with dirt and tattoos, are coring the earth, bringing up a little slice from the shale formation below.
The main characteristic of charcoal as a medium is that, unless it is fixed by the application of some form of gum or resin, it is impermanent, easily erased or smudged.
While they were laughing at each other, and before they could look into a mirror, a neighbouring passenger suggested that although no one of the three knew whether he himself was smudged, there was a way of finding out without using a mirror.
How did that man know that his forehead was smudged?
He suggested: "Each of the three of you look at the other two; if you see at least one whose forehead is smudged, raise your hand".
"Now," said the neighbour, "as soon as one of you knows for sure whether his own forehead is smudged or not, he should drop his hand, but not before".
"Moustaches bring you love!" I turn around and am embraced by a trio of muddy girls with voices like blackboard scraping, hay hanging from every nook, and lipstick smudged all over their faces.
