Sentences with phrase «hoary old maxim»

That hoary old maxim «write what you know» is brilliantly picked apart in the Coens» first golden - age Hollywood adventure.

Not exact matches

It's left to a refreshingly diverse international cast of consummate professionals — led, once more, by an increasingly disconsolate - looking Tom Hanks — to breathe what conviction they can into this hoary material, but the result still gives the lie to the old industry maxim that great cinema can spring from trash literature.