The anti-communist forces were thus leaderless, and also divided and deeply mired in corruption.

His genius seemed deeply mired beneath layers of bureaucratic malaise.

Saved you again.: With the sinking feeling that he was getting deeply mired in something he was never going to escape from, he sought a graceful out.

But the street-level economy where most Mexicans live and work remains deeply mired in one of the worst recessions this century.

The looming deadline comes as New York confronts a welfare population that is perhaps the most deeply mired in dependency the state has ever had.

This is, after all, a winter in which the city's entertainment industry finds itself still mired deeply in a recession, even though economists tell us the nation is on the rebound.

In their pursuit, they were slowed down by the sandy terrain; the guns they were dragging with them became deeply mired.

To be sure, some measures suggest that the New York area market remains deeply mired in the slump.

The police, the judiciary and the government administration remain deeply mired in habits of institutionalized corruption.

Whatever his connection to reality, in this outing Mr. Kellison is deeply and fatally mired in the ordinary.