The muddying of clear water is a sign of very recent movement which can be picked out by the most untrained eye.

On some color monitors the problem manifests itself as "brown-out," a muddying of the color.

Instead of a clear message prohibiting torture, our top commanders gave us a deliberate muddying of the waters.

Mr. Feeney notes there are retaliation killings of innocent Protestants, too, in a further muddying of the moralistic rhetoric.

By scheduling barge trips to coincide with high tides, he said, there would be no muddying of the water and no effect on fish and wildlife.

Graham criticised what he called "irresponsible muddying of the well-springs of history" by some writers on the Vatican during the Second World War.

The Electric Kool-Aid Test was a significant literary contribution of its time because it led to the muddying of historically significant movements from only years before.

Intellectual movements like Black Power and the New Left were formed during this time, but popular portrayals and lack of adherence to history lead to the muddying of these significant contributions.

The result has been a muddying of objectives that helps to explain how allied officials can exclaim one week that a solution is in sight, then despair the next week about looming disaster.

"And don't overlook the muddying of streams, the destruction of valuable timber for camp fires, and-" "I've covered all that sort of thing under a miscellaneous heading," Retief said.

After all, this muddying of the waters was the very modus operandi of the top brass, as they used their auxilliary death squads to conduct much business, that the whole dirty war could not be seen nor understood.

There was slight muddying of some tones, and the bass end could be made so heavy that it wiped out the rest of the mix, but with some careful EQ'ing during mixdown I ended up with a result which would be more than acceptable as a demo tape.

A wall of muddy water was coming toward the house.

George looked at me with eyes the color of muddy water.

No point in both of them getting their feet muddy.

He looked around to make sure no one on the muddy street was close enough to hear.

Both were muddy, but no one had seen a car go over either of them.

And, you never know what you're going to get in muddy water.

It was a bit muddy, but looked still in working order.

At that time, she was also given very little food and muddy water.

The second part, after the main road, is always muddy.

Only muddy thinking's not the trouble and you know it, he thought.

Though she stood on muddy ground they looked white and clean.

The officers were young for the most part and very muddy.

On the other side of the large island, see that brown muddy water?

They would lie down and work themselves into the muddy water up to their eyes.

The water seemed to be no more than three or four feet deep, with a muddy bottom.

But all they found was muddy water and a button.

Which of these tasks would you least like to get muddy at?

Was it his wife going into the increasingly muddy ground?

I did so, picking my way over the muddy ground.

They were muddy brown, and the eyes of an evil child.

They opened and dropped to the muddy ground behind him.

These play well in the west and muddy the waters.

This makes the water appear muddy, though it is not.

A muddy world, in which he did not quite care to involve himself.

Then I went on down the muddy street toward the east gate of the city.

What would they think to see their name muddied in the press?

The way back had now been muddied for his father's spirit.

The meaning of the word has been muddied ever since.

The book - and the name of the author - had muddied up his thinking again.

"And in the process, he muddied his vision of how to make the new economy work for these families."

Add too many at once, however, and you run the risk of muddying the taste.

I would have had him then but that they muddied the waters.

Paul got there too late in the day; the well of truth had already been muddied.

But for the men who would be her competition, the path is a bit more muddied.

Yet it was not muddied as were those others which crawled about us.

But Republicans view the proposal as muddying an important issue.

The government, rather than clearing the air, is muddying it.

That should be a simple issue, but the waters are always muddied when money is involved.

It is what the regulations went on to say that muddied the matter.

The apartment only muddied the waters and had nothing to do with my job.

But the season also muddied the broader issue of violence on television.

"This whole thing was on track until you muddied the waters."

His face was muddied almost beyond recognition, but the dark eyes were bright and certain.

"I am surprised they are muddying the issue," he said.

The earth was heavy, and damp; they were both quickly muddied.

Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say.

The calculation is always muddied by the question of where to draw the line.

He didn't want the decision process muddied by her opinion.

By saying 1000 years you are deliberately muddying the waters.

"The whole idea behind this was to create clear channels, and what you're doing right now is really muddying the situation," she said.