I sign in with rysmiel in this one: I don't think the word itself is *always* a symptom of fuzzy thinking on the writer's part. Sometimes, it is a useful indication of a character's failure to understand what just happened.
"Somehow, he found himself on his ass at the bottom of the stairs."
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Date: 2006-06-07 04:55 pm (UTC)"Somehow, he found himself on his ass at the bottom of the stairs."
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