Sentences with phrase «as hoary»

Sophia is a hairy - tailed bat, known as a hoary bat for her silver - tipped brown fur.

Martin Freeman makes a welcome appearance in the third tale, as a man whose house is invaded by a poltergeist at the same time that his wife is at the hospital giving birth (minus his presence or support), but he ultimately functions more as a hoary plot device than as a terrified witness to vengeful spirits.

The Inspirational Speech before the Big Game is a movie tradition as hoary as the sports movie itself.

Wrote Morris: «The movie could be about grace and vengeance, but they're presented as hoary lessons and hokey contrivances... There's no reckoning with anything, no introspection, just escalating mayhem.»

Migrating bats such as the hoary bat, which can travel from as far as northern Canada to Argentina and Chile, make up most of those fatalities because they often navigate through areas dotted with wind farms.

The real content of many so - called modern difficulties are as old as the eternal hills, as old as human pride, as hoary as the «non serviam» which was uttered by the first man and has been re-echoed since down the centuries.

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If you love the city as much as Binelli does, you have no choice but to embrace that hoary cliché, and trust that once you've hit rock bottom, the only direction to go is up.

This by now hoary bit of academic jargon marks Institutions of Modernism as the offspring of «cultural studies,» that popular pseudo-discipline that resulted from crossing Marxist animus with deconstructionist verbiage.

Our knowledge of derived principles such as «Rise up before the hoary head» may be weakened by neglect and erased by culture, but our knowledge of the core principles is ineffaceable.

But no, the hoary old liberal standard - bearer mawkishly burbled, «Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical confirms him as a man of humour, warmth, humility and compassion, eager to share the love that God «lavishes» on humanity and display it as the answer to the world's deepest needs... This is a document that presents the most attractive face of the Catholic faith and could be put without hesitation into the hands of any inquirer.»

In addition, when exposed to such hoary doctrines of some classical Eastern religions and philosophies as that of the fundamental unreality or illusory character of the entire material world and that of the all - encompassing reality of God, the average Westerner can only respond with astonishment and incredulity.

As Paul Blair caught Lou Johnson's fly ball to complete Dave McNally's 1 - 0 shutout and the Orioles» four - game sweep, Memorial Stadium erupted, hoary south - of - the - Mason - Dixon - Line racial codes were abandoned as blacks and whites hugged and hollered, and I experienced a moment of unalloyed joy — a prolepsis of the Kingdom, if I may saAs Paul Blair caught Lou Johnson's fly ball to complete Dave McNally's 1 - 0 shutout and the Orioles» four - game sweep, Memorial Stadium erupted, hoary south - of - the - Mason - Dixon - Line racial codes were abandoned as blacks and whites hugged and hollered, and I experienced a moment of unalloyed joy — a prolepsis of the Kingdom, if I may saas blacks and whites hugged and hollered, and I experienced a moment of unalloyed joy — a prolepsis of the Kingdom, if I may say.

As for the hoary old story about the financing of the stadium, that was not the only way of «responsibly» financing a football club's development.

Forty - six - year - old Shigeo Akaji of Kauai earns a living as a payroll clerk and a sportswriter, and between jobs he fishes for o'io, the bonefish, on his island's south coast, in the lee of Mt. Kahili and the weathering remnants of the Hoary Head Range.

At first, the area was known as London Mountain since the place was cloaked in fog that reminded the Brits of home... but thanks to a little local chap called the hoary marmot, the area took on the name of Whistler, since the little critters were always making their distinctive call in among the peaks.

The only slight interest to be derived from this grindingly predictable umpteenth retelling of the old legend — rather thinly disguised, in superhero - style franchise - speak, as the heretofore unknown «origin» of our bow - wielding hero — is how rigorously Scott works against hitting the familiar pleasure centers that these hoary old tales can still stimulate.

The baggy 137 - minute story drowns out Mr. Feng's assorted sharp moments with hoary family drama and clumsy plotting, and Li Yifeng is generic as Mr. Six's son.

It's clear almost immediately that Creevy isn't looking to reinvent the wheel here, as Welcome to the Punch, for the most part, comes off as an excessively familiar, almost generic actioner that's been suffused with decidedly hoary elements (eg the weary cop, the exasperated superior, the skeptical partner, etc, etc).

Even the most hoary of running gags — the breaking of the maestro's glasses — revels in its banality, just as the famous lines about Jew - Nazis uttered by Godard at his most contemptible are with deftness shown to be the ramblings of a farcical character.

As unoriginal as its title, David Hayter's «Wolves» is yet another hoary, hairy transformation narrative featuring lycanthropy as a metaphor for coming of agAs unoriginal as its title, David Hayter's «Wolves» is yet another hoary, hairy transformation narrative featuring lycanthropy as a metaphor for coming of agas its title, David Hayter's «Wolves» is yet another hoary, hairy transformation narrative featuring lycanthropy as a metaphor for coming of agas a metaphor for coming of age.

There was a lot of talk of those hoary Hollywood truisms: movies as empathy, movies as dreams, movies as magic.

Not so much radical as wry, It's Garry Shandling's Show reaffirmed the power that hoary show - business forms have to bring order to the chaos of modern life.

Hoary as the training montages with Blunt are, there's something uniquely perverse about watching Cruise learn basic survival skills in his new skin, given his typical projection of obnoxious cool.

When they're vanity projects built on such hoary devices as talking to off - stage characters or writing letters and reading them aloud, they can make theater feel like a dried - up old fossil.

Built around the hoariest of plot devices (a Dubliner stalked by his evil doppelganger), with hammy acting to match, this attempt to highlight the social cost of Ireland's economic revival suffers from the same identity crisis as its tormented hero.

There are few beats within April Blair and Kelly Bowe's screenplay that one can't see coming from miles away, as the pair place a consistent emphasis on hoary cliches and stale jokes (ie while attempting to navigate a perilous obstacle course, Megan exclaims, «somebody call my stunt double!»)

The plot device of using illicit drugs — in this case, MDMA, a.k.a. Ecstasy, a.k.a. the «hug drug» — as a transformative elixir of sorts has become somewhat of a hoary old chestnut in recent cinema.

Jenny Berlin and Scottish actor Ken Stott kvetch their way through their roles as Bobby's observant New York Jewish parents, letting Woody wallow through hoary stereotypes spouting the Wisdom of God's Chosen folk.

Filmmaker Adrián García Bogliano offers up a slow - moving opening half hour that admittedly does hold some promise, as the appreciatively hoary setup is heightened by tantalizing glimpses of the horror that's clearly occurring within the aforementioned house.

Untraceable's been infused with a by - the - numbers sensibility that's evident virtually from the word go, as screenwriters Robert Fyvolent, Mark Brinker, and Allison Burnett place an almost relentless emphasis on some of the hoariest elements that the genre has to offer (ie the plucky partner that inevitably winds up in the killer's clutches).

gif ball named «BIT» in Tron) and the addled old geezer who's a genius and also the father of the beautiful young love interest — hoary old chestnuts that provide as good an explanation as any for the extent to which Disney has fallen behind animé and even its Pixar affiliates in the realm of animated entertainment.

But the temporarily pluralized title made some sense: As in last year's Prisoners, which similarly treated hoary genre material with poker - faced seriousness, there's a sense that all of the characters are trapped — by their guilt, by their grief, by their obsessions.

This collaboration has helped jump - start this work across the state and shed light on the many significant challenges associated with overhauling the hoary systems in place, such as measuring student achievement in «untested» grades and subjects, ensuring inter-rater agreement and accuracy of teacher practice observations, and ending the long - standing culture of «The Widget Effect.»

It's as if the developers took their ideas from the first pages of First - Person Shooters For Dummies but missed the chapter where it warns, «Avoid hoary clichés at all costs.»

As someone who's interested in the complicated question of fitting augmented reality into everyday life, rather than repetitions of hoary futurist talking points, the overall feeling I'm getting from Magic Leap is contempt.