Sentences with phrase «on hoary»

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.

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!»)

The main sticking point with Ghostbusters 2 is the ending, a conspicuous failure of imagination that operates on that hoary sequel principle that you want the same thing you liked the first time, but more.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.»

Forty - six - year - old Shigeo Akaji of Kauai earns a living as a payroll clerk and a sportswriter, and between jobs he fishes for o'io, the bonefish, on his island's south coast, in the lee of Mt. Kahili and the weathering remnants of the Hoary Head Range.

He proposed a left - right split, and offered a watery vision of what latter - day «modernisers» should be all about: a «renewed sense of moral purpose», reducible to the hoary New Labour emphasis on social mobility, and a politics that would «be seen to be grappling seriously with the big questions of the day: migration, globalisation, terrorism, the environment, welfare, housing, our place in the world».

At first, the area was known as London Mountain since the place was cloaked in fog that reminded the Brits of home... but thanks to a little local chap called the hoary marmot, the area took on the name of Whistler, since the little critters were always making their distinctive call in among the peaks.

An unsurprising entry in that hoary micro-genre of romantic comedies to feature a fresh - from - the - corpse disembodied spirit who just can't seem to get a move - on.

Yes, Deadpool 2 eagerly puts many of the hoariest superhero tropes on blast — so many that this ceaseless mockery quickly supersedes the film's actual plot (which has to do with Deadpool befriending a troubled young mutant played by Hunt for the Wilderpeople's excellent Julian Dennison) to protect him from Brolin's time - traveling cyborg).

Unfunny, overly hoary, and easily foreseeable, Last Vegas is like being stuck on that road trip with your grandparents that lasts way too long and features them having discussions about what brand of denture cream they bought last.

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.

When they're vanity projects built on such hoary devices as talking to off - stage characters or writing letters and reading them aloud, they can make theater feel like a dried - up old fossil.

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.

Untraceable's been infused with a by - the - numbers sensibility that's evident virtually from the word go, as screenwriters Robert Fyvolent, Mark Brinker, and Allison Burnett place an almost relentless emphasis on some of the hoariest elements that the genre has to offer (ie the plucky partner that inevitably winds up in the killer's clutches).

The Buzz: Howard is great — maybe even great enough to transcend all the hoary old cliches that sports movies can't help but lean on.

This collaboration has helped jump - start this work across the state and shed light on the many significant challenges associated with overhauling the hoary systems in place, such as measuring student achievement in «untested» grades and subjects, ensuring inter-rater agreement and accuracy of teacher practice observations, and ending the long - standing culture of «The Widget Effect.»

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.

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 was on Xbox 360 that Gears of War made cover shooters the signature genre of the era (and, in Horde Mode, added a new standard to multiplayer gaming, alongside hoary stalwarts like Team Deathmatch).

That hoary old one, which should probably be called «Old Shep» about «warmists» wanting «to preserve existing arrangements of economic advantage of developed nations by keeping people of developing nations poor and without access to low cost energy» has been repeatedly euthanased by those of your side who insist that mitigation is a plot driven by guilt - ridden first - world liberals who want to transfer industry and thus wealth from the first world to the third and who accordingly want to give China, India and Brazil a free pass on emissions targets.

This whole hoary incident is called Fakegate and is documented on this site.