Gelf's holy symbol is a black anvil that is splt in two, set against a murky purple background.

The men are all dimly lighted, hirsute and wearing top hats (the bearded and top-hatted Lautrec himself is identifiable in the murky background).

The former is an abstraction suggesting a nighttime scene of flames and barred doors; the latter depicts a lone slatted seat against a murky, menacing background.

The show will look at five areas of the case, from the mechanics of the shooting itself to Oswald's movements that day in Dallas, to his murky background.

In the murky background is the Severn Bridge.

The dreamlike figures, with their soft edges and smudgy luminescence, glow against the murky background of the child's bedroom.

It has checks from donors with murky backgrounds.

Just her small, white face and delicate hands stood out against the murky background, and the gossamer lace at her throat and wrists.

The figure has the anchored weight of an alabaster statue, while a menacing, black-gloved guard hovers in the murky background, as wispy as a shadow.

She has a murky background involving Soviet espionage and links to South American organized crime.