Sentences with phrase «most hoary»

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.

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.

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But these hiccups can't detract from what is easily the most significant upgrade the hoary old software standby has seen in years.

Women tend to be more neurotic than men, but contrary to hoary old stereotypes of moody women, it's actually openness to new experiences that most dents the productivity of female workers.

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.»

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.

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.

When the freedom of the press is most directly addressed, largely in the climactic scenes, the film's rocketing momentum slows to a crawl and gives way to hoary declamation.

That decision is amongst the most inspired of Spielberg's career — ditch the biopic's hoary formula and encounter the man at the furnace door of crisis.

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).

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.

by Walter Chaw Sex without foreplay, Marc Forster's limp dick of a James Bond flick Quantum of Solace takes the kinetic, angry ugliness of Casino Royale and, together with Paul Haggis's Dances with Wolves screenplay of affected naivety and wide - eyed, late - blooming outrage, fashions a most - unwelcome return to the hoary Bond franchise of old.

But it's an endearing, even haunting film from one of cinema's most inventive artists, one who manages to bend even the hoariest B - movie tropes to his idiosyncratic, deeply humanistic imagination.

The hoary literary category is something most of us attend to only in school.