After the boat was capsized, the passengers had to slog through the morass to get to the road near the swamp. From LearnThat.org.
Maybe the best way out of the morass is to think of constructions like "better than her" as forgivable lapses — like "It's me.". From Wordnik.com. [Word Court] Reference
One of the suggestions being made as a way out of this Florida/Michigan morass is simply to seat the delegates based on the actual vote. From Wordnik.com. [Who Didn’t Vote in the Florida and Michigan Democratic Primaries? - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
In a deep hole near the edge of the morass was a huge Hereford bull. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies] Reference
It is surrounded by a morass, which is thickly covered with canes and papyrus reeds, which are impenetrable. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
I think of the first few days of whatever we're calling this, the morass, which is an opportunity to learn things. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: How is the Press Covering the Endless Florida Recount? - November 18, 2000] Reference
So, I'll compromise in this wheeze on the subject by cowardly retreating into the technical acronym morass - henceforth tagging. From Wordnik.com. [HDTV Magazine] Reference
A while back Glaser said not all device makers are adopting Real’s Helix architecture and that, “A balkanization morass is growing”. From Wordnik.com. [RealNetworks university deals] Reference
Commonly called morass, wetlands in Jamaica account for less than 2 per cent of the country's total area, and occur mostly along the coast. From Wordnik.com. [Jamaica Information Service] Reference
There is a kind of morass from which no man can be extricated. From Wordnik.com. [The Lovels of Arden] Reference
Accountants expect 'morass' of conflicting rules with stimulus. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Business News - Local Kansas City News | Kansas City Business Journal] Reference
"Afghanistan, added Galbraith, was a 'morass' with no clear solution.". From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
In the kind of morass the economies are presently in, we are indeed looking for a consolation. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But that pretension only dragged him into the morass. From Wordnik.com. [David Frey: So Much for 'Landslide McInnis'] Reference
He says, "We all bear some burden for the current morass.". From Wordnik.com. [Always Look on the Bright Side of Life] Reference
"And it didn't serve the bankers from the subprime morass either.". From Wordnik.com. [Michael Martin: Goodbye Gordon Gekko] Reference
Neither Julie nor Neal navigated the application morass on their own. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happened To ... two promising students] Reference
Claim forms create a paperwork morass; marketing expenses add to the burden. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Unhealthy Choices] Reference
But once they arrive, they have been facing a morass of problematic options. From Wordnik.com. [Julian Baird Gewirtz: China's Migrant Workers and Illegal Immigration] Reference
More isn't always better, of course -- last spring was a morass of mediocrity. From Wordnik.com. [What's Up This Fall: Theater] Reference
Like the debate on our Mideast morass, there will be no agreement on the answer. From Wordnik.com. [MEXICANS? BRING 'EM ON!] Reference
In or out of court, it will take years to sort out the complex morass of liability issues. From Wordnik.com. [Processing A $25 Billion Claim] Reference
However gleefully Rush Limbaugh courts controversy, he could do without his current morass. From Wordnik.com. [Rush's World Of Pain] Reference
The Italians wonder if they can climb out of their economic morass by following Spanish recipes. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Anglo-Social Model'] Reference
Paul Krugman, say the Fed isn't being aggressive enough to lift the U.S. economy from its morass. From Wordnik.com. [Fed's Got It Wrong? Not According to Markets] Reference
The lesson is simple: The current controversies are ultimately byproducts of our economic morass. From Wordnik.com. [Anchor babies, the Ground Zero mosque and other scapegoats] Reference
And he says she deliberately created her own legal morass 'by deceiving everyone about the father. From Wordnik.com. [She's Not Baby Jessica Anymore] Reference
When, in the moral morass of the 1920s, they needed to express their outrage, they returned to it. From Wordnik.com. ['Glitter and Doom': Art to Make You Wince] Reference
Afghan officials, for their part, say they are tackling their institutional morass, albeit slowly. From Wordnik.com. [Raising the Stakes for Afghanistan] Reference
Just what evidence the United States will counter with once they've translated the morass is unclear. From Wordnik.com. [West Wing Story: Decoding Bush's Agenda] Reference
His once formidable ability to sense the public mood deserted him somewhere in the health-care morass. From Wordnik.com. [An Awful Year] Reference
The intent was to give name and "teeth" to a longstanding problem, but the results are a legal morass. From Wordnik.com. [Stalked To Death?] Reference
At the same time, it creates precisely the sort of regulatory morass that conservatives have long bemoaned. From Wordnik.com. [Muddying The Waters] Reference
Canada, the single largest U.S. trading partner, can't escape the morass in which it has been mired since 1990. From Wordnik.com. [Looking For A Locomotive] Reference
The old analogies (as usual) don't work: neither Munich nor Vietnam, the two favorites, instructs us in this morass. From Wordnik.com. ['Where's The Rest Of Them'] Reference
Southern Command (under which Gitmo falls), and said U.S. policy on the treatment of prisoners was still a "morass.". From Wordnik.com. [PERISCOPE] Reference
As long as it is seen as the only Great Power involved in the morass, the United States will remain both a target and a scapegoat. From Wordnik.com. [The New Face Of America] Reference
Yes, at its best this morass of expensive activity does or at least can protect the innocent; but I think it can also protect the guilty. From Wordnik.com. [Palm Beach Runaround] Reference
But after the wise men -- or at least, their younger siblings -- led America into the morass of Vietnam the old ways had to be jettisoned. From Wordnik.com. [Cheers And Jeers] Reference
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