Sentences with phrase «for hoary»

Unfortunately, it seems that no one inside the profession, and certainly not the students to whom we have neglectfully devolved all responsibility in the matter, has the will or the experience to question the rationale for the hoary rules of legal citation.

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.

Not exact matches

At only $ 20, there's no reason that the Brooks Brothers tartan pocket square shouldn't be the one you reach for when the clouds roll out and Old Man Winter rears his hoary head.

Think of the hoary old discredited memes, like the Warren Report, that the spirit of the place keeps aflame for some reason.

The venerable, hoary «back link strategy» for search engine optimization is wheezing like a dying animal.

Think of the hoary old discredited memes, like the Warren Report, that the spirit of the place keeps flame for some reason.

It's not about money and resources, Leicester have disproven that hoary old excuse long used by Arsene the dope to cover up for his repeated mistakes.

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.

Anti-reformers have trotted out the hoariest bugbear in New York politics — the evil of Wall Street — and constructed a hilarious lie: that the education reform movement is actually camouflage for a hostile takeover of the city's public schools.

Given the state government's congenital distaste for anything resembling open government, the chances of the states now - hoary 1974 open meetings laws being meaningfully improved this year are slim.

True, most solar system and astronomical phenomena are still calculated with Newton's hoary theory of gravitation, but we would be nowhere without our GPS gadgets, which work only once corrected for the effects of general relativity.

To collect their data, the research team used bits of wing tissue and DNA sequencing and analytical tools to estimate the time and place of origin for the Hawaiin hoary bat.

Yes, Deadpool 2 eagerly puts many of the hoariest superhero tropes on blast — so many that this ceaseless mockery quickly supersedes the film's actual plot (which has to do with Deadpool befriending a troubled young mutant played by Hunt for the Wilderpeople's excellent Julian Dennison) to protect him from Brolin's time - traveling cyborg).

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).

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

Previews for the new kids» film Real Steel, which have been running in theatres for the better part of a year, forewarned a mash - up of the vintage game Rock»em Sock»em Robots with the hoary father - son drama The Champ (1931, 1979), about a washed - up boxer and his plucky kid.

[Note: By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, the following story contains major spoilers for the upcoming Doctor Strange movie.

Though it's hard to deny the effectiveness of Anna Faris» energetically go - for - broke performance, The House Bunny's reliance on some of the most eye - rollingly hoary cliches within the romantic - comedy genre proves instrumental in cementing its ultimate downfall.

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.

It makes for an unexpectedly welcome form of dramatic escape: the character study breaking free from a hoary old movie genre.

After watching these movies, the «fruit» of their hoary «tree», there's no room in my mind for the thought that these two idiots are anything but those hyena - laughing frat boys you used to see in college who might devote an entire weekend to chuckling over a well - timed fart.

Unable for 30 years to write new material, he tours the country, cranking out a hoary old tune (Hey Baby Doll) his boomer female fans still can't get enough of.

Not least because these hoary old institutions, long accustomed to sitting in the comfortable groves of their own routine page turning, are the easiest targets for disruption.

With the quiet closure of both Entitle and Oyster in 2015, the consumer could be excused for thinking the hoary «Netflix for textbooks» was an idealistic, albeit doomed premise.

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«Death - of - the - book» hype may be a hoary tradition in the high - tech world, but today's publishing industry does have a desperate need for some new thinking.

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

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.»

Fluidity, which D&D 3 attempts to add to it's hoary franchise with multi-classing (and a preference for humans - only they can multi-class with impunity).

One of the hoariest causes for pessimism about the fate of humanity is the worry that food will run out.

One of the many regular maintenance processes every website faces is the hoary chore of disavowing bad links — links from paid, irrelevant or otherwise spammy networks, for example.