But given its uncertain origins, it can hardly be considered reliable in representing Shostakovich's own thoughts.
The mixed and uncertain origins of "Louie Louie" (even "El Loco Cha Cha" was based, in turn, on another Cuban tune) have helped to make the song infinitely renewable.
The Republican races got a little crazy in the last days before the primary on Sept 12. Len Munsil, the movement conservative battling for the nomination for governor on the strength of his stand on family-values issues, found himself accused, in a "push poll" of uncertain origins, of having fathered an illegitimate child.
During this last phase of Byzantine secular law, momentous changes in law and legal culture were underway: the patronage of the elite was reflected in the legal system, theological terms from Orthodox Christianity entered the vocabulary of Byzantine jurisprudence, and private legal collections of uncertain origins began to circulate in manuscripts alongside official redactions of Justinianic law.
But in Istanbul, as elsewhere, people ate street food of uncertain origins not just because they were short of time, money, or options but also, in my view, in order to escape that "peace of mind," to leave behind Islamic tradition — in which ideas about food are embedded in ideas about mothers, and women in general, and sacred privacy — and to embrace modern life and become city-dwellers.
A recent excerpt/summary of the book in the New York Times paints a picture of uncertain origins, founder bickering and jostling for footing and control.
The other, Anāhiti, is a separate goddess of uncertain origin whose cult seems to have been popular originally in northeastern Iran.
The name Rhode Island is of uncertain origin.
The term rorqual is a Scandinavian word of uncertain origin.
A ragged hole and blotchy stains of uncertain origin form the only discernible pattern.
Then there are those words of uncertain origin but perfect aptness.
