Sentences with phrase «such old chestnuts»

The movie by Foster, even weaves into the dialogue, such old chestnuts like Alan Pakula's «follow the money».

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.

Not exact matches

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.