Sentences with word «hoary»

I don't know: maybe there will be a time when the announcement of the Turner Prize nominees won't be greeted with a tiresome trotting - out of hoary old journalistic cliches (yes, I know, that's a cliche too), but not this year.

Researchers with the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station have documented the rare hibernation habits of hoary bats.

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.

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

Doesn't the chairman realize that bypassing the young squirt for hoary old Nicklaus will cause mass frustration in the country's kindergartens?

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!»)

But to see this particular wife betrayed not just by her husband but by hoary stereotype and default cattiness is to be reminded just how far we are from true gender equality.

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.

The study, led by Amy Russell, associate professor of biology at Grand Valley, reveals that the Hawaiian hoary bat migrated to the islands from the Pacific coast of North America in two separate waves more than 9,000 years apart.

On the way down, we watched a family of hoary marmots (large bushy squirrels) frolic in the rock boulders and lie out in the sun.

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.»

Though I wish they'd not chosen to deal in a few particularly hoary Hollywood clichés.

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).

Irony rules, and the art world, that hoary institution, looks more settled, elegant, and downright trendy than ever.

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.

Apparently the selection of a few lead authors who are not hoary old farts who have gone emeritus, disqualifies the IPCC from saying anything useful....

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.

This lavishly executed production threatens to slip into hoary melodrama with a magnificent backdrop but for Chaney's performance.

'' Chemical Ali, why has Greenland's hoary beard turned white with icy rage?»»

«Discovery of extinct bat doubles diversity of native Hawaiian land mammals: Newly named Hawaiian bat lived alongside hoary bat for thousands of years before humans arrived.»

Shifting allegiances and unpredictable motives are what keeps this sometimes hoary show compelling.

DEA agent and ex-Ranger Tom Hardy (John Travolta) is that hoary action - movie standby: the alcoholic detective with a sordid past called in to solve one last case by the last man on the force who has any faith in him.

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.

Third, they probably did not learn how to write elegantly in law school because the writing professor was necessarily preoccupied with purging comma splices, the passive voice, and hoary legal jargon from a small mountain of papers.

11 world a new and terrifying place, one in which hoary concepts like the rule of law no longer apply the way they once did?

It is hoary journalistic custom to certify American antiquity by citing the President in office at the subject's moment of birth.

The study, «Two Tickets to Paradise: Multiple Dispersal Events in the Founding of Hoary Bat Populations in Hawai'i,» was recently published in PLOS ONE.

Since one of the oft - repeated derisive phrases about the CrossCab is, «It looks like a concept car that should've stayed a concept,» and one of the most hoary plaudits given the Evoque is that it resembles a concept car made production - car flesh, it stands to reason that Land Rover design director Gerry McGovern might consider an Evoque décapotable to be a potentially desirable line extension if he felt that he could nail the execution.

The film was at once hoary and contrived, an inflated melodrama of schemes and betrayals and motorcycle races that never conveyed the impersonal urgency of its subtitle: Money Never Sleeps.

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.»

Relying on hoary setups and speeches that might have seemed fresh decades ago — before audiences had glimpsed the slimy realities of our political process in everything from The War Room to The West Wing — the film feels more tired than topical.

Such tectonic shifts bring new uncertainties and imply that many hoary public education practices are no longer the only imaginable way to do things.

If hoary giant Suncor can green yesteryear's tailings ponds, though, change on a grand scale is possible — perhaps sooner than we think.

Fairies paint the panes with feathers, Frost the frames with hoary whiteness, Limn the pines and posts with snowflakes, Weave the world the gown of Winter, Fragile lace, its frills and flutters Fixed, all frozen water falling.

Both carry on hoary practices from the dim past but each has so industrialized the process with advanced technologies that the fundamental activity is transmuted into something new that raises questions beyond standard discussions of right and wrong on battlefields or in the marketplace.

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 say.

What it all means I'm not yet sure, but I now find it less easy to dismiss the preposterous evangelical claims about a God of amazing grace who, despite our bumbling and nonsense and hoary theological schemes, saves us from ourselves.»

The truth about marriage, accessible to all and ennobled by revelation, is being systematically dismantled and dismissed as hoary prejudice.

The big questions before Louisiana State and Texas A & M kicked off their seasons in College Station, Texas, Saturday night were these: How smoothly would the youngest major - college coach, LSU's 34 - year - old Mike Archer, replace the theretofore hoariest, 60 - year - old Bill Arnsparger?

Whether any of them is legitimately entitled to the honor seems lost in the murk of old and often hoary records.

These misinterpretations then spread because they seemingly confirm hoary social notions that reflect a society's perceptions or beliefs.

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.