Again the ship moved mushily, until it was halfway through the swing.

They were sinking mushily into the mud as I stopped then carefully began to back out.

"Can't be over too soon," the prisoner declared mushily.

The Planck pulled loose from the rock around it, rose several feet, and settled, mushily.

The Dwarf took away his hand and the column of inert mortality sank mushily to the ground.

I don't have it,' he said mushily.

Maharg forked a slice of meat into his mouth and said mushily, "Aw, it don't matter.

"Yes, Corporal," he said mushily as he headed for the stream with Josh, who'd waited to see what happened.

"Wanna go home," Frank said mushily.

The strings slogged mushily through the skittering scales of the Sinfonia and settled everywhere for rough generalities.

The APC slowed mushily.

Two dishes that earned lower scores than the others were grilled salmon (which barely escaped incineration) and a pasta special in which the linguine was mushily overcooked.

It says nothing, for example, about disarming marauding gangs but instead refers mushily "to facilitating the process of a political settlement under the auspices of the U.N." Good luck.

The prologue and first act are predominantly contemplative, except for a more animated, if claustrophobically staged and mushily enunciated, scene of everyday life with the Klinghoffers' friends in New Jersey.

"These days he is rather mushily talking about 'the question of deregulating natural gas,' and about a 'delicate balancing of interest,' and about protecting 'both consumers and producers,' " Mr. Bush said.

Mr. Harper's quicksilver adroitness keeps Theodorus's search for love quizzical; his demonstrativeness prevents the proceedings from becoming too sticky, though being forced to deliver lines like "Even a soul-touching love could not last" are mushily soulful.

Appearing to Charlene in a dream, Dolly Parton, in a slinky sequined gown and signature wig, grows mushily silly about the baby that is due, rattling on about how the child will be "the best friend you ever had."