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Yet, among top-flight evolutionary biologists, Gould is considered a pest--not just a lightweight, but an actively muddled man who has warped the public's understanding of Darwinism.
It's the critics who are in love: Gwyneth Paltrow is gorgeous, Joseph Fiennes is dashing, and the movie is "smart and giddily entertaining" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Fiennes' young Will Shakespeare has an affair with Paltrow's character that becomes the basis for Romeo and Juliet . Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman's screenplay is full of amusing references to Shakespeare plays, but is not so erudite that it won't please crowds, and the dialogue "percolates with bubbly finesse" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's David Denby puts a slight damper on the general festivities: He says the film starts out muddled, though it livens up by the end.
Even when syntax is not sinful, meaning may be muddled.
According to some scholars, the universally known and applied designation for magic, hocus pocus , may ultimately derive from the Latin Eucharist formula and represent a muddled version of Christ's words in the Vulgate New Testament [I Cor.
Either we have a very muddled view of what jurors can accomplish, or the system has been devised to serve the interests of judges and lawyers who thrive on confusion.