Sentences with phrase «hoary old chestnuts»

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.

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.

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I thought the indie community had hashed this all out years ago, but here it is again: the old «If you're fast, you can't be good» chestnut, raising its hoary head once again in the form of a clickbait article on HuffPo.