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I saw Lakshmi as a little foreshock tremor to the great earthquake of muddleheadedness to come.

From Slate • May 22, 2012

Theme of the 0'Casey version of the play is the tragic muddleheadedness of the revolutionists, the Irish romanticism that made their rebellion fizzle off in ranting, saloon fights and ill-timed heroics.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was not blind to his faults, accused himself of "immature violence, rhythmic monotony, muddleheadedness, overweighted imagery."

From Time Magazine Archive

For instance, he finds the patriarch of modern sociology, Talcott Parsons, guilty of "monumental muddleheadedness" and of making "the simplest truth appear unfathomably obscure."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mercilessness and muddleheadedness are met together; unrighteousness and unreasonableness have kissed each other; and the tempter and the tempted are agreed.

From The Crimes of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)