Sentences with phrase «old chestnuts as»

Bing is completely at ease revisiting such old chestnuts as «Alabammy Bound,» «On the Alamo,» and «When I Take my Sugar to Tea.»

In fact, he seems to have cribbed most of his book from such old chestnuts as John Henry De Groot's The Shakespeares and «The Old Faith» (1946) and H. Mutschmann and K. Wentersdorf's Shakespeare and Catholicism (1952), both of which he duly cites more than fifty times in a very lightly documented work.

I wonder if Joe Konrath is going to expose this old chestnut as a Zombie Meme.

Not exact matches

«Thomistic essentialism» - that old chestnut - as opposed to a «dynamic» vision of life, the universe and everything.

It was a joyous moment for John Veitch last Saturday as he strode across the Gulfstream Park track toward the winner's circle and Proud Truth, the handsome 3 - year - old chestnut colt he trains for Darby Dan Farm.

Your «old chestnut,» go to excuses for doubting are just as drab as the ones for believing.

It has been pointed out that in sharp contrast with what has come to be known as Fergie Time, the last vital minutes of a game when under Ferguson United at Old Trafford would pull their chestnuts out of the fire, it has been five times this season that United, playing at home, have conceded in these closing minutes.

In the Rockland County village of Chestnut Ridge, an 80 - year - old woman was killed when a tree fell on top of her vehicle as she was driving on Red Schoolhouse Road Tuesday, Ramapo police said.

Clegg doesn't deny it, he just uses the old political chestnut of saying «I have no recollection of being woken up by Louis Theroux ``, one of Mr Theroux's stated duties as Mr Clegg «s fag.

As the old chestnut goes «Absence makes the heart grow fonder», so every now and again give your partner some space and revel in a fruitful and satisfying time together.

As the old chestnut goes «Absence makes the heart grow fonder», so every now and again give your other half some breathing space and experience a successful and satisfying time as a couplAs the old chestnut goes «Absence makes the heart grow fonder», so every now and again give your other half some breathing space and experience a successful and satisfying time as a couplas a couple.

For years, a sequel to the film that starred Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Terrance Howard, and Morris Chestnut as a group of old friends that reunite for a wedding, has been on the minds and mouths of fans of that first film.

The minute It Happened One Night is brought up, a handful of old chestnuts gets inevitably evoked: its classic status as the ultimate romantic comedy, it...

Much like how revivals / revamps of old Saturday morning chestnuts such as Scooby - Doo and Tom and Jerry fail to recapture the magic and charm of the originals, these songs are forgettable at best.

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.

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.

Nominally a romance about two lesbian lepidopterists with a taste for BDSM role play (ah, that old chestnut, straight out of screenwriting 101), Strickland uses that foundation as a jumping off point for an exploration into personal identity, from the perspective of what lovers will do to keep each other happy and fulfill the needs of a partner, both carnally and intellectually, even if those actions run counter to what they may personally enjoy.

It's a chestnut that's practically as old as stories (cf. Lancelot and Guinevere).

He only dresses up as a female nurse in order to work undercover and infiltrate Doctor Nefarious's space station — yeah, that old chestnut.

Wasteland can also be set into a more abstract context, and render the old chestnut of Los Angeles today as a cultural wasteland, or perhaps it could be used to describe the geography of the city and the authentic, dry landscape of Southern California.

I share this old chestnut with you, as I often muse about why some aspiring salespeople are always so busy that they don't have the time or the will to increase their skill sets.