Eoin Morgan was already on the wane in 2012 but still had that air of unclouded, short-form brio.
But there are certain points to which it is essential that we should all now commit ourselves as publicly as we can, while our visions are still unclouded.
Love of country is not so different.The ardent and unclouded quality of love that Mr Giuliani and Mr Williamson find missing in Mr Obama is largely the privilege of those oblivious of and immune to America's history of injustice and abuse.
Unfortunately, however, for those experts who think their judgment unclouded by the Cremonese instruments' reputations, Claudia Fritz of the University of Paris VI and Joseph Curtin, an American violin-maker, have just applied the rigorous standards of science to the matter.
THE often contentious debate about whether it is one's genes or one's environment that is the more potent shaper of one's human essence was, until recently, unclouded by many facts.
Unclouded by politics (none of the candidates was recognised) the scorers showed a surprising amount of cross-cultural consensus although the French were as usual notably harsh judges.Did good looks really go together with electoral success?
It is, curiously, the state that most Americans naturally associate with luxurious good times and unclouded skies: Hawaii.The Hawaiian economy has been stagnant for most of the decade.
More importantly, security over the religion question left the stakes of the Cold War unclouded by matters of faith.
Partisan identities, however, generally fail to reflect this complexity, which may be one reason complex issues are so often mismanaged in democracies like ours.What I would like from a survey of the mama-grizzly phenomenon is an analysis of its cultural and thus political significance unclouded by the mistaken expectation that policy should have much of anything to do with it.
"A face unclouded by thought," was playwright Lillian Hellman's assessment of Shearer's screen presence, while the writer Anita Loos remarked, "It is to Irving's credit that, by expert showmanship and a judicious choice of camera angles, he made a beauty and a star out of Mrs. Thalberg".
It is that the need for retrospective justice, underpinned by explicit TV evidence and unclouded by any dreamy, time-expired notion that the authority of a referee found to be in error cannot be compromised, has never been required more urgently.
