In the murky picture, a helmet and hoses could be seen.

Dark, murky pictures with excessive image noise or "grain" will result.

Yet a closer look at the ballooning leverage market shows a murkier picture.

It has also come with seeming contradictions - mixed messages that tend to confuse an already murky economic picture.

Another senior official said, "We're watching a very murky picture."

The results left a mixed and murky picture.

But others who follow the matter carefully saw a much murkier picture.

This uncertainty further clouds an already murky economic picture, with just as many indicators pointing down as up.

A far murkier picture turns up in the comments of military and diplomatic experts throughout the region.

But the events of the last two days paint a murkier picture.