Word: murk
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...newly unveiled in Rome, are spectacular: the familiar dirty greens of the sky have given way to a deep, dazzling blue; the dead areas of tone sparkle with lost nuances of color; and the modeling of flesh has acquired a high, suave fullness that had been submerged in the murk. What stood revealed, said Redig de Campos, was "a Raphael who, in his last work, had dared to show himself comparable to the greatest colorists of the time, that is to say, the Venetians. We have been given back a new Raphael, a transfigured Transfiguration...
...treat their predicament with the contempt it deserves. While describing the weather to Mercier, who cannot bear to look, Camier insults it in the careful cadences of French primer prose: "A pale raw blotch has appeared in the east, the sun presumably. Happily it is intermittent, thanks to a murk of tattered wrack driving from the west before its face...
When Haig learned of the last transcript, he knew Nixon was finished. He believes Nixon knew it too. Some others in the White House did not. Haig moved through the murk. The question that concerned him most was whether the country was ready for the events ahead, and Haig moved skillfully to get the tapes out and bring the country abreast of them...
...thick murk of confusion, conjecture and reticence has obscured the full dimensions and exact nature of the Reno-La Salette financial disaster. According to the National Catholic Reporter, the progressive lay weekly that broke the story last week, the Reno diocese and the La Salette fathers both faced bankruptcy after losing as much as $15 million - the exact amount is not known - in a $25 million investment operation called the St. Joseph Trust Fund. Other investors, including an unidentified Canadian diocese and a Canadian women's religious order, may have lost another $6 million or more...
...poet snores through the months of dormancy, then for a moment slips free of neurosis, professional chores, friends, money problems, sexual despair, family clatter and habits of sloth, and writes six lines. Four of these are bad, and as he sinks back into the murk at the bottom of his mind, he scratches them out. In a working lifetime he may only slip free for a very few days of these moments, and may accumulate enough good lines to fill at best a few hundred pages...