This area could be called the dangerous or murky middle: neither the high end, nor the low end.

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Along the way, he makes judicious use of political events, large and small, to show what happens to men who get close to the centre of power, be they senators, murky intelligence agents or small-time hoods.

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Every few seconds, the creature's head or dorsal fin would poke through the murky waters, creating ripples and drawing murmurs from onlookers, who stood in the cold with cameras.

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He captured the English industrial scene at its murky climax, before it was lost or sanitised.

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Cases that reach the appellate level are sometimes murky, involving possible mental illness, substance abuse or other complex issues.

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CDO, however, and in a credit squeeze they fall together, by virtue of being in the same murky structure, as investors rush for the exit or seek to hedge their risks.

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In some cases, the transmission operator is not the same entity that builds or maintains the infrastructure, so investing in transmission was a murky proposition because it was unclear how an investor might earn a return on investment.

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Only now is a murky story emerging of how far (about 1, 400km, or 870 miles) Israel was prepared to go.

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The moral motion of the film is fairly simple the return, and redemption, of a prodigal son but Gray steeps his tale in murky complication, and the staging of every scene, be it downbeat or frantic, is so assured that you barely notice the implausibilities. (Bobby and Joseph, for instance, hardly look like brothers.) The rain-drenched car chase, halfway through, is reason enough to see the film.

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