Sentences with phrase «stale as»

Commenters explained that third - party payoff information may become stale as a result of closing delays.

In that sense, it was a liberating experience for the staff to go beyond just phones, which, to be honest, were becoming a bit stale as a category.

They're usually the same: the not - so - subtle posturing, the atmosphere as stale as the snacks proffered, the indifferent crowds outside smoking cigarettes and drinking cheap wine.

I fell for them, but the message has grown as shallow and stale as the subject he once tore apart.

It works pretty well and doesn't get stale as easily as other games of the same genre.

As a result, the action grows stale as the planets struggle to feel anything other than familiar throughout.

Another Star is shaping up to have a more ambitious scope than its predecessor, even if it's not planned to be that much longer in playtime, and I fear the old battle system will feel out - of - place and grow stale as the game goes on.

The ongoing tug of war between players and their opponents for territory keeps the game from getting stale as players zip from area to area demolishing enemies and using flashy moves, but it does get a bit boring after hacking and slashing against the same enemy types countless of times.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy games like MW3 and Battlefield 3, but the genre has become a little stale as the big guns compete to be the best at an identical focus.

As stale as the industry is getting, there are still some gems to behold (The Last Guardian, L.A. Noire (not really new, but still freakin» amazing and unique by today's standards) and Gravity Rush, to name only a few).

Both Heather and I have the Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards credit card which was a great deal when we opened them as we got the bonus 50k pts each but now I am thinking it's starting to go a little stale as we have taken advantage of the companion pass in 2014 but after this year we may need to look at other alternatives out there.

My biggest fear in life is growing stale as a person.

You say a form factor that's feeling pretty stale as opposed to the hundreds of glass slabs from the other manufacturers (Apple + all the Android manufacturers).

Who's - my - daddy drama aside, the Scirocco's shape was becoming stale as the second - generation car neared its fifth birthday.

It is a performance of a piece with Stewart's previous work in films like Panic Room and Adventureland, but it has yet to get stale as long as she has good material to back her up.

There are a couple of amusing lines, but for the most part the script is as stale as the blocky character renderings.

Further — and just as detrimental — «I Feel Pretty» is stale as a comedy, with long stretches of the film going entirely laugh - free.

And this gives Beyond the kick it needs to stop it from feeling as stale as second sequels often are.

The filmmakers know the origin story sub-genre is as stale as a three - week open bag of cheddar - and - sour - cream Ruffles, so they use the fourth wall breaking nature of Deadpool to subvert expectations and tell the story out of order.

Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba are good enough but «Molly's Game» as a whole feels as stale as a pretzel sitting in a bowl by the poker chips.

Whether it's tweaking controls, putting in new graphics and camera angles, or entirely new game modes to try and shake things up, EA changes the formula each year to try and avoid going stale as some sports series often do.

Resident Evil has been a mainstay of the horror genre for decades now, and by most accounts had grown a bit stale as it ventured further and further into action game territory and started collapsing under the weight of its own convoluted lore.

While the bosses provide an excellent challenge at first, they quickly become stale as well.

Paul's quick review: The previous movies were starting to feel a little stale as the same pattern seemed to be used in each one, even down to the ending with Bond floating away in a raft with the girl.

The trick soon becomes so stale as to be boring, which also fits as a description of the film itself — comparatively short at only 88 minutes it nonetheless feels far longer than it is, meaning many may be wishing that the ending (such as it is) will hasten and allow the to credits roll.

Stale as week - old bread and every bit as bland, the movie saddles a strong cast with a groaningly ineffectual script (courtesy of Michael LeSieur, who wrote 2006's You, Me and Dupree) and wastes the director's gift for bringing lived - in charm and feeling to broad comic premises.

And that my jokes have become «as stale as a bitter taste of an argument.»

Boots over jeans is getting almost as stale as boot - cut jeans were 6 years ago, so it's time for a change but I'm stuck in a rut.

The addition of potatoes helps keep them moist so they won't go stale as fast as other homemade rolls.

The sad reality is that Clegg's future reshuffles, whether in government or out, are likely to be just as male, pale and stale as this one.

We are going absolutely stale as a club something has to change!

Just be sure to cool the sugar mixture for at least 10 minutes or until no longer hot to the touch before pouring it into the cereal, or the cereal will taste stale as the cookies cool.

Not exact matches

Even as real estate development — the bread and butter of the human directional business — went stale, AArrow continued to grow.

While many epics from this period now look dated and feel stale, «Lawrence of Arabia» is still as fresh and stunning today as it was when it was first released.

With its somewhat stale fourth - wall breaking, «Deadpool» isn't quite as edgy as it thinks it is, but it's more than fun enough.

He now started imagining the pizza as stale and sitting out for a while.

«IBM has also added tiering and storage virtualization capabilities to move stale, infrequently accessed data to less expensive storage mediums such as tape.»

After that, Gamgort went on to Pinnacle Foods, doubling in value what many saw as a «too - boring» company with stale brands, Cramer said.

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The first reaction is typically one of perplexity, confusion and bewilderment all mixed into one as they try to imagine how jumping out of planes and blowing things up gets stale, but it does.

Businesses like to do business with people they know and trust, and something as simple as well - done profiles of your people helps the people who visit your site to get to know you beyond the stale bios your prospects are used to seeing.

That a passing bird dropping stale bread can neutralize a multi-billion dollar scientific facility comes as no surprise to anyone who has experienced delay on the Toronto subway — where flakes of snow can shut down the system for months — but two scientists have come up with a novel alternative theory for the disruption: time traveling terrorists.

Familiar issues such as say - on - pay and board diversity will grow more complex this year, and guidelines on overboarding will further put the pressure on boards that have gone stale.

This material is based on public information as of the specified date, and may be stale thereafter.

In this case, value has changed, but NAV has not, and as a result, NAV is «stale,» and differences between the ETF's trading price and its NAV can appear.

RSK carefully chosen parameters and new theoretical protocols (such as DECOR+GHOST) allow creating blocks at 10 seconds average interval, with low stale block rate, and no additional centralization incentives.

EUR: The single currency unit received little support from the German CPI report and continued to trade poorly as stale USD positions continue to get flushed

And the FSM heII is the same as the heaven except that the beer is stale and the strip.pers have VD.

Perhaps the rhetoric and tactics of the Christian right had grown stale, as happens with all social and political movements.

They forsake the safe harbor of stale political pieties, entering instead those open, uncertain seas where, as Stanley Hoffman proposes, we acknowledge the stark realities of the struggle for power, while working nonetheless toward a more cooperative world order.