| 单词 | threadbare |
| 例句 | When his reveries ended, he was still in a filthy, threadbare, lice- infested uniform in a miserable camp crowded with starving and dying prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z And you yelled, ‘This age thinks better of a gilded fool, than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school!’ Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting like a starved and threadbare buddha, staring into the coals. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The way her skirts and scarf billowed around her as she sank onto the threadbare carpet was utterly splendid, and Ophie had to swallow a sigh. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It was almost threadbare in some places, but it still brought me warmth. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Why are you doing all this?” mumbled the owner of the shack, a grey-haired old man in a threadbare coat, with deformed legs and a bent back. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Though of excellent quality, his garments had seen much wear, and his cloak was purposely draped to hide his threadbare attire. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z We teenagers are given extra camp money to spend in the store on makeup and clean, if threadbare, dresses. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A dangerously underweight corporal in threadbare fatigues comes for Werner on foot. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He could see where it was threadbare, the fabric stretched thin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Sharp, sudden gusts carried away some of their stores the moment they were set down and ripped one of the threadbare tents to shreds. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I pull his threadbare pajama shirt over his head. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Then he spoke, staring down at the threadbare carpet. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I could see a patch there all right, and a few threadbare spots, but no whiteness was showing through. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s easy to envision them, two brown bodies curled against each other under a threadbare blanket, both worn out from a hard day’s work in the harvesting fields. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A pair of shorts, two pairs of threadbare jeans. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It looked like the handyman had been on vacation for the past couple centuries, and the threadbare, watery pink carpet leading to the office was barely hanging on. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They came running and jumping, across the threadbare carpet, to the linoleum, squealing, “I want a ride!” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z There’s an antique child’s rocking horse in the window, a threadbare quilt, a wooden-headed doll with a battered face. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The old carpet was threadbare against her back, my knees were scraping the rope webbing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Once inside, the captain removed his cloak and hung it from a peg, so as not to leave puddles on the threadbare Myrish carpet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z On the topmost shelf, above a rail of threadbare clothes, a small cardboard box was shaking and rattling as though there were several frantic mice trapped inside it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They were taller, older versions of the boys I had seen the last time; their hole-ridden shorts were just as worn and their faded shirts just as threadbare. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z There were no sheets, but the blanket they lay on was threadbare and smooth, and the size and springiness of the bed astonished both of them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He was wearing a white button-down shirt, faded Levi’s with threadbare knees, pliable gold-framed spectacles that wrapped around his ears. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But if you looked closely, you could see even the colorful clothes were old and threadbare. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z His clothing was too big for him, threadbare, and he wore oversize, scuffed boots. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z She knew it was him by the sheepskin slippers, by the shape of his trousers, by the oversize threadbare sweater. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The moss under my scuffed boots glitters with dew, and there is a threadbare carpet of golden leaves beneath the sycamore tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The tapes I wore threadbare on my Walkman during cross-country practices. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z What if her girlfriends pawed through her threadbare socks, Nancy Drew mysteries, and frayed hair ribbons, casting them aside and choosing none? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Mama’s in an old shalwar kameez and the threadbare pink leopard hijab that she keeps in her purse for emergencies—the one she wears when she needs to run out for an errand without warning. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z A stranger in a threadbare coat, and he doesn’t say hello or ask a question. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The couch was a threadbare blue stripey thing, with cushions flattened from long use. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z My cloak was threadbare, and even wearing my best clothes I was a short step from shabby. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the fall he burned brush piles and raked leaves for Virginia Gatewood, a stick figure at twilight in cloth gloves and a threadbare mackinaw coat ragged at the elbows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Immediately below it were row upon row of threadbare clothes dangling from sagging ropes suspended across the ceiling like a gigantic spiderweb. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A badminton net drooped over the threadbare lawn, that was it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z His threadbare clothes were filthy and shredded to the point that I couldn’t tell what his T-shirt used to say. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I had been in town, trying to trade some threadbare old baby clothes of Prim's in the public market, but there were no takers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z An organ with yellow ivory keys and threadbare pedals leaned back in the shadows beside a black leather chair whose horsehair stuffing cantered out from every crack. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He wipes his face with the threadbare motel towel and pulls on a pair of faded jeans and an army-green T-shirt. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Then I thought of the bride I’d make, in a threadbare, sooty gown that stank of cooking fat and yesterday’s dinner. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z By now my two pairs of pants were threadbare and my three sweaters were frayed. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Plastic bags line the insides of their threadbare clothes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There were things that had belonged to Lina’s parents, her grandparents, and even their grandparents—old, broken, cracked, threadbare things that had been patched and repaired dozens or hundreds of times. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Just outside the window was a simpler verandah for the servants, with some threadbare charpais and stools stacked against a wall. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She saw that she was inadequately dressed against the raw November day in a threadbare cotton dress, ragged little sweater and thin cotton stockings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or they’re trying to teach you,” Tao suggests, pinching a hole in his threadbare tunic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Nearby, the three Mondragon kids were stretched out on the threadbare carpet, intent on the tube. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Today as we labor in the cold sunshine, Therese pulls her threadbare cloak tight about her thin body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z On the rare occasions when he took off his gray felt fedora, you had to look hard at his threadbare head to tell where his gray hair ended and his gray skin began. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We had threadbare furniture, busted old sofas with holes worn through the fabric. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She was dressed in a threadbare bathrobe and wore fuzzy bunny slippers on her feet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Mama Oji swiftly raised her blouse and tucked the soap into her threadbare bra. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In Mercerism, an absolute evil plucked at the threadbare cloak of the tottering, ascending old man, but it was never clear who or what this evil presence was. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Her blue flannel shirt was threadbare and old, and her silky blond hair was up in a topknot. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Helene hands me a threadbare blanket, and I pull it over the girl, knowing how futile it is. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She ran in wearing a threadbare pink towel under her armpits, dripping, vaguely panicked. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Men in threadbare suits putting hands to the tops of their heads to take off hats that are no longer there. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the distance, the sky was dark, furious clouds stampeding across the sky, and the wind tore at the threadbare dress Ophie wore. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She would go to thrift stores and buy old stuffed animals—faded teddy bears, ratty plush dogs, threadbare rabbits—the cheaper the better. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The priest was sewing a button on his threadbare cassock when they arrived with the news of Ferula’s death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t believe that the sweater, brown with bands of pale red and green highlights, cost half as much as the sleeping bag, which was threadbare and patched. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In the nearest cupboard, I found a threadbare teddy bear and a G.I. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The armchairs and the lumpy sofa were upholstered in dusty brocades, threadbare at the arms: rose patterns on tan, acorns and oak leaves on mossy green. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She knew it was him by the sheepskin slippers, by the shape of his trousers, by the oversize threadbare sweater. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Saints, I hate this thing,” she said, kicking the kefta away and pulling a threadbare dressing gown from a drawer. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “They might have been kidnapped at Mbare Musika. It’s an excellent place for it,” said Arm, draping his long limbs over the threadbare sofa. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He was even thinner than usual and hardly made a lump under the threadbare sheet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Finally I arrived at a big lounge with shabby furniture and a threadbare rug. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z That old image of myself as a hero, as a man of conscience and courage, all that was just a threadbare pipe dream. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A wooden crate stands between two upholstered chairs, soiled with dirt, stuffing coming out of split seams, and a threadbare gold sofa. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I had never seen him in anything but the threadbare wrappers that were wound around his body when we visited him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Each night, Flores gets up from her threadbare sofa and heads to the tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A pillar of ash tumbled from his cigarette onto the threadbare hall carpet. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Hundreds of prisoners in threadbare clothing hurried from one work detail to another, threatened by gun-wielding German and Ukrainian guards. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The threadbare knees of last year’s overalls opened up, and his bare knees scraped the soil. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Parked a few feet away is an old truck, the back covered in shredded, threadbare canvas. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The walls near the window and the threadbare curtains had turned black-gray from the kerosene smoke. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They reached into their own threadbare purses when the schoolroom kitty fell short. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In the window itself, there were vases and candlesticks, surrounded by little gondolas and glass insects, laid out on threadbare velvet drapes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I put my hand in my pocket and felt the crackle of thick paper seventy years old, and the new key weighing heavy in the seam of the threadbare woven wool. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Olanna looked at the threadbare cotton boubou plastered with His Excellency’s glowering face and realized that this unsolicited lesson was an apology. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For months, I've worn that threadbare dress, and part of me is glad to be rid of it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His father wiped the sweat from his brow with a threadbare rag. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In front of the dusty storefronts where the peddlers would spread their secondhand wares on Sunday mornings, the threadbare awnings had been unrolled to shade carts and tables overladen with food and drinks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The big oval rug in the entryway looked a little threadbare. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z At one end of the hall at which he found himself, heedless justice in threadbare robes were biting their fingernails or closing their eyelids, at the other end was a ragged rabble. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Sacks and barrels were heaped by the potbelly stove, near a cot with a threadbare blue blanket. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He grinned at Nately sarcastically as he sat between both naked girls in smug and threadbare splendor, with a sovereign hand on each. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She was so tired she felt...threadbare, like the soles of old slippers, but she didn’t dare close her eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The same threadbare jeans and a tight gray T-shirt with the sleeves cut out. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Within the tent, they found camp stools and a trestle table, a rack of spears and halberds, a floor covered with threadbare carpets in half a dozen clashing colors, and three officers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Robb wants me safe, I cannot fault him for that, but his pretext is growing threadbare. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then he opened another drawer and fumbled through its contents with one hand while the other scratched at his armpit through his threadbare knitted shirt. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was embarrassed by my threadbare clothing and crossed to the other side hoping she would not recognize me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character" leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Dressed in faded, threadbare GoreTex, a couple of months shy of his sixty-ninth birthday, Pete was a gangly, slightly stooped man who had returned to the high reaches of the Himalaya after a long absence. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Ophie hustled across the threadbare rug that did nothing to keep the chill out of the wood and climbed in next to Aunt Rose. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Olanna sat opposite three little children in threadbare clothes and slippers who giggled intermittently while their father gave them severe looks. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In his arms, he carries a very old Torah scroll, the simple fabric of its cover threadbare and torn. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z They all looked alike, in ill-fitting blouses, threadbare wrappers, and scarves tied around their heads. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He crouched down, pulled back the threadbare carpet. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z They showed her the “apartment,” gave her some threadbare sheets for the bed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A middle-aged man in a threadbare T-shirt peeked in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The chairs with their threadbare cushions and wicker backs. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He was shirtless, a pair of threadbare pants his only attire. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She never laughed at him for wearing the same threadbare clothes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The satin lapels of the tuxedo were threadbare but who would look at that when the suit fitted him so beautifully and the crease in his trousers was so perfect? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It's so threadbare the pan's heat seeps through, but I manage to drop the loaf on the stovetop before it hurts too much. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He was bit threadbare and scrawny, and not as good-looking as I am, to be honest. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z I also observed that his name, backward, was the French verb for wearing one’s clothes threadbare, so I told him that as well, with no offense intended as his clothes were fine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The little man shrugged and tugged at his threadbare collar. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Since she happened to be there anyway, Jinny decided to swap her own pants for a fresh pair, as they’d been getting threadbare. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I led her to a threadbare couch, ignoring and ignored by the other patients. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Which meant that he never went anywhere without Lolly and her missing eye and that one ear Nunu had chewed on until it was practically gone, worn down to a hard, spit-dark, threadbare nub. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z They see him walking to Harvard Yard in a pair of threadbare trousers, a fringed suede jacket, and rubber flip-flops. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The staff all used Underwood manual typewriters with threadbare ribbons and yellowed keys. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She wore a threadbare tunic, one sleeve hanging off her too-sharp shoulder, and the skin of her legs and feet was visibly dry and cracked. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Esteban pulled back the threadbare damask quilt and saw his mother’s legs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When they finished their noodles, the young man said his family’s apartment was just around the corner, but that he was embarrassed to greet his parents wearing threadbare clothes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the garish stadium light, the box was revealed as worn and threadbare, a small wooden container that might have been a discarded jewelry box. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Winnie remembered then that he worked sometimes as a blacksmith, and indeed his shoulders, under his threadbare shirt, were broad and muscled. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The father clings to the lowest rung at the local factory, his self-esteem as threadbare as his kids’ clothing, and so at home he handles their complaints with the back of his hand. Review | A teenager meets the family she didn’t know existed in ‘A Girl Returned’ 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z He never told Laurie about that and not because this is — please, no — a thriller of the threadbare Terrible Secret variety. Books of The Times: ?Defending Jacob,? by William Landay 2012-02-12T23:38:56Z He’s a jumpy Dostoyevskian rebel who boasts of his crimes and cruelly threatens to rend the family’s threadbare bonds. Movies 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z We’re in historically masculine genre territory, of course, but this movie’s collection of mothers, wives and mistresses is especially threadbare. Review: In ‘Black Mass,’ Johnny Depp Is the Dead-Eyed Killer Whitey Bulger 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Without Fitzgerald's poetry, without the editorial consciousness of Fitzgerald's narrator Nick Carraway, the story can seem threadbare and melodramatic. Why Gatsby is so great 2012-06-09T23:05:21Z From the early ’90s on, Mr. Joisel was a full-time origami maker, his art so labor intensive that despite the prices it commanded he led a markedly threadbare existence. Eric Joisel, French Sculptor of Origami, Dies at 53 2010-10-20T04:06:00Z Clad in a threadbare flannel shirt, he stopped in to help me clip the bones. Modern Love: A Lost Child, but Not Mine 2011-07-28T22:12:45Z Wearing a frayed newsboy cap and threadbare brown corduroy jacket, Jonathan Ames stopped and pondered the maroon-colored shirt for a moment. Up Close: Same Old, Same Old 2010-10-20T20:59:00Z In the years before, they bring up two rather unhappy children while sharing a threadbare existence in Europe. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Himself and Nora,’ at Hamilton Stage 2013-05-03T23:55:01Z When they are on the screen together here, there is enough physical charm and emotional warmth to distract from the threadbare setting and the paper-thin plot. Movie Review: ?The Vow,? With Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum 2012-02-09T22:50:56Z The rhetoric of unity and healing was shopworn, the old references to Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. were threadbare. Perspective | As Trump slips out of town, Biden repurposes old symbols for new life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z By spring, it will be so threadbare that McCartney is unlikely to want it back. Can Joaquin Phoenix save the planet by wearing one tuxedo for the whole awards season? 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z You can see how threadbare the place was in one of the film’s most famous scenes, when a security guard has answers Harold wants. First the gangsters, then the bankers: how The Long Good Friday foretold the future 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The gallery walls are low, the office carpeting threadbare, the lobby lacking any sense of grandeur. Studio Museum in Harlem Unveils Design for Expansion 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z “This is our Jackson Pollock workroom,” Mr. Thomas said, a reference to the dried paint splatters on the threadbare carpet. Inside The World of Interiors, Condé Nast’s Secret Weapon 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The whole series felt like a threadbare film idea meaninglessly stretched to total breaking point. From Top Gear to The X-Files: the six worst TV shows of 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Sadly, “White Lies” is often problematic: full of liberal pieties, patriotic credulity and threadbare similes. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z These solo sections were rather threadbare, but the theatrical tanglings that ensued when the performers encountered one another were marvelously scheming and manic. Dance Review: Stage Presence Aplenty, the Better to Have Fun 2011-04-15T21:25:22Z “My Name Is Hmmm ...” has its magical moments, but they are sabotaged by the director’s showy, ham-handed technique applied to a frustratingly threadbare screenplay that leaves you wanting more. ‘My Name Is Hmmm ,’ a French Road Movie 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z First, there’s the costume: two unkempt silver wigs and a succession of thrift-shop outfits that have gotten increasingly eclectic and threadbare over the years. The freshest comedy act today: Two old New Yorkers pranking people with tuna sandwiches 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Sylvie Gallant, the accordion player, pumped out polka tunes, her hands clad in baby blue gloves with threadbare fingertips. In Quebec, a Winter Celebration on Skis 2013-01-25T18:23:12Z By 1991, the hotel, worn and threadbare, was put up for auction. In New Hampshire, Can Bretton Woods Get Gnarly? 2011-02-18T19:55:00Z Modest prices and fast service will have you overlooking the threadbare decor. Go For the Food: Food that shines in Times Square 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Sandoval's wasted wingman, his vault of toxic secrets, is at last aging out of the threadbare boyish charm years and emerging, finally, as the stealth villain of the show's entire run. The heart of Schwartzness: The roots of the "Vanderpump Rules" Scandoval implosion run deep 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z These children usually wear threadbare hand-me-downs already passed through several rounds of siblings. I could’ve been a Duggar wife: I grew up in the same church, and the abuse scandal doesn’t shock me 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z This kind of thing makes Rosin come off like a mirror version of David Brooks, drawing improbable conclusions from pretend or crazily narrow, twisted bits of evidence or the most threadbare, throwback caricatures. Men aren’t ending 2012-09-11T17:56:00Z Even the wonderful vocal music is getting a little threadbare from overexposure. Perspective | Too much Bernstein leaves a critic fed up with his music 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The annals of documentary film are packed with movies that are formally rudimentary or even threadbare, but contain stories so compelling that they command a regard beyond what the film’s presentation accords them. ‘That Way Madness Lies …’ Review: A Terrifying True Story, Ordinarily Told 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Franco Zeffirelli does threadbare in lavish style in his grandiose staging of “La Bohème,” which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Friday evening. Music Review: ?La Boh?me? at the Met: Life in Zeffirelli Style - Review 2011-11-20T22:51:46Z Lilting bright guitar with a Brazilian slant and Michael Owens' threadbare falsetto lead the way on a song about a mother's faraway son, while the mournful brass underscores the lyrical sentiment. November's best music from across the MAP 2012-11-15T09:00:00Z These days she is a mother-to-be, and draped in another set of threadbare attributions. Royal bodies 2013-02-19T11:34:00Z The threadbare flag and littered lawn don’t measure up to the story Americans told about themselves and their heritage. Robert Frank Revealed the Truth of Postwar America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z It molds to my body like a second skin, the way a favorite threadbare T-shirt might. In my 40th year, I finally made pita bread 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z To the show’s dubious credit, there is no conscious camp in such moments, which were threadbare back in the days of “Valley of the Dolls.” Theater Review: ‘Chaplin: The Musical’ at the Ethel Barrymore Theater 2012-09-11T02:00:17Z She can make a big joke – though the humour of "I hate men" when sung as a termagant roaring is pretty threadbare – but she is not habitually light. Birthday; Kiss Me Kate; Get Stuff Break Free – review 2012-06-30T23:05:59Z Autumn is knocking on the door, an optimal time for certain annual tasks in the garden — reseeding a threadbare lawn, planting trees and shrubs and dividing tired perennials. Americans love mulch — and many of us are misusing it 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The clothes were simpler, riffing on Raf shapes of the past: tunics and big coats, threadbare sweaters, abbreviated pullover vests. Raf Simons Salutes Robert Mapplethorpe, a Fellow Provocateur 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z In a spontaneous move, I took the exit and followed signs through a maze of Eldon’s threadbare streets, until finally, tucked back in a parklike setting on a sprawling grass lawn, there it was. Masterpiece Rental: My Life in the ‘American Gothic’ House 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z All but glued before the set to his favorite threadbare chair, Hetchman looks to be the living, rasping definition of sedentary. Theater Review: ‘The Hatmaker’s Wife,’ a Comedy by Lauren Yee 2013-09-06T21:03:59Z The governments’ ideologies, which once held out the promise of dignity and advancement, have become threadbare covers for corruption and repression; the spectre of their own dissolution is one of their main mobilizing tactics. The Novel After the Arab Spring 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z Along the side walls of the memorial, placards describe other threadbare justifications: A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Although there was a whiff of vintage in caftans, palazzo pants and patchwork dresses, as well as the models' floppy tams, the pieces were too refined for such a threadbare category. On the Runway Blog: Chanel: Giving Some Soul 2012-07-03T21:43:43Z If this sounds familiar, it's probably because the same argument, or its threadbare variants, featured so often during the Leveson inquiry, as the excuse for invasions of privacy. Sharon Olds's silence is golden in an era of endless media exposure 2013-01-20T00:06:48Z But what holds this patchwork of naughtiness together is some pretty threadbare cloth. Review: ‘The Happytime Murders’ Has Puppets as Nasty as the Rest of Us 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z With the scowl of an old-time preacher at the pulpit, Mr. Waters noted that Ms. Kawakubo’s clothes often look so bizarre and threadbare that “the fashion-impaired public feels sorry for us.” On the Runway Blog: Fashion Awards, on Speed Dial 2012-06-05T03:25:02Z The modern analog is the “chick flick,” a demeaning name applied mostly to cynical and threadbare rom-coms trotted out with dreary regularity every spring. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z Carol is the sister who couldn’t quite escape the pitfalls of poor, urban life, that threadbare line where self-medication and addiction intersect. Empire recap: season two, episode nine – Sinned Against 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z We learn about a life of poverty and crime in postwar austerity Britain, where clothes are threadbare but the rare successful "job" allows a few months of living like kings. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner – running blog book club 2013-05-15T10:15:17Z I think they were among the ones that I went back to again and again until the paperbacks were sort of threadbare. "Judy herself is furious": "Judy Blume Forever" directors on today's book banning and moral panic 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The traditional praise for "courage" in these circumstances seems threadbare and even a little condescending. Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet – review 2012-11-15T21:50:01Z Obliqueness is presented as a matter of course, as in “A New Pack,” four pairs of white cotton briefs spread with obsessive precision across a threadbare rug. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z It is also where his insights become noticeably threadbare. Is There Any Way to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z With any story that is told so many times it can either get threadbare or exaggerated. The Chilling Truths Behind Patricia McCormick’s YA Novels 2012-07-06T14:00:51Z More important, when will directors cease trusting a well-known star to salvage a threadbare film? 'The Samaritan': Cons of this grim caper outweigh the pros 2012-05-31T20:15:06Z Both dancers have grown hugely since the ballet’s premiere, and their skill exposes the threadbare quality of the choreography. Review: Original Leads Return in City Ballet’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’ 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Their home in Colorado bears testament to hard times; everything in it is threadbare or stained with age. In Sharr White's 'Stupid Kid,' a family grapples with the past, the audience with disappointment 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Michael, his former roommate and best friend since childhood, has tapped out of the threadbare artist lifestyle, opting instead for a plush career in advertising and a glittering high-rise apartment. In ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!,’ Robin de Jesús Knew He Could Do It 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Debuting in 1969, the show told the tale of a race of knitted aliens eking out a threadbare existence on a cold blue planet, not far from Earth. Clangers to make TV return 2013-10-14T23:58:52Z My next night was spent in a chestnut-colored couchette — mildewy, threadbare, vaporous — from Belgrade to Sofia. Personal Journeys: All Aboard the Orient Local 2014-04-23T21:47:59Z Ceilings leak; carpets are torn; mattresses are threadbare; plaster and paint are peeling. Photography: Rare Glimpses of Iran’s Lost Underworld 2014-03-20T14:32:28Z The camera lingers on expensive cars, but club scenes appear threadbare. Review: The Crime Drama ‘True to the Game’ Lacks Finesse 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Though the character’s war prophesies and “Gotham-is-my-home” rhetoric are getting threadbare, I continue to be charmed by Robin Lord Taylor’s souffle of geeky vulnerability and lethal nastiness. 'Gotham' Recap: Land Deals and Flutes of Death 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z So while West of Memphis retells the story of the case, it also becomes part of it – the legal work Jackson financed unpicking the threadbare convictions. Peter Jackson's West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men 2012-12-21T08:30:03Z What’s so uniquely winning about “Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History,” and what makes me grateful to have picked it up, are the old-fashioned and now threadbare virtues it evokes and relentlessly champions. Books of The Times: ‘Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History,’ by Michael L. Gillette 2013-01-08T15:00:00Z The record is short — clocking it in at just 20 minutes — but feels extremely threadbare. XXXTentacion Left Splinters Amid the Wreckage on ‘Skins’ 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z On the day we met, he wore a threadbare red T-shirt and hiking pants and had hiking sticks, a mask and snorkel in the trunk of his Chevrolet Volt. Richard Powers Speaks For the Trees 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z “Community is a very threadbare word right now, but the connection is real.” Imagine Spider-Woman With a Crochet Hook 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z “When they are on the screen together here,” Scott wrote, “there is enough physical charm and emotional warmth to distract from the threadbare setting and the paper-thin plot.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Atlanta’ and the Academy Awards 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Some airlines will give you a threadbare blanket to “warm” yourself if it gets really cold, but I’ve never regretted bringing a hoodie or pullover. Five Things to Bring on Every Long Flight 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z An occasional porter, left over from another era, creaked through, with a nod and a tug at the cuffs of a threadbare uniform. Marine Court: Hymn to the Sun 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Two bicycles, one missing the front wheel, lean against threadbare front steps; stacks of two-by-fours, rakes, and bicycle tires piled up on a desk surround the front door. Is it normal to hoard? 2014-03-16T00:00:00Z As family fortunes rose and fell, the parlor might get a Victorian face-lift, or the threadbare attic bedroom might be rented to lodgers. Cultured Traveler: In London, Private Homes on Display 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z His songs were tales of a world I recognised; a world of cheap cigarettes, threadbare sofas, "crumbling concrete bus shelters", and boys who didn't always get the girl. My hero: Jarvis Cocker by Jon McGregor 2012-02-10T22:55:15Z While Murdoch is now as vulnerable as any emperor whose threadbare appearance has suddenly been widely noticed, he retains the capacity to bring a great deal down with him. TV highlights 25/07/2011: How Murdoch Ran Britain: Dispatches 2011-07-24T22:00:01Z In threadbare sandals they took tables for us to eat on and chairs for us to sit on. In Transit Blog: Hidden Lives: Porters of Machu Picchu 2013-09-11T21:23:39Z Described by Millard as "a small, thin man in a threadbare suit," Guiteau faked at being a lawyer, snared a few clients and lost their cases. 'Destiny of the Republic': The death of James A. Garfield 2011-11-17T00:26:04Z School in town was a shock to his self-esteem–everything about him, from his threadbare clothes to his hick dialect, was a source of mockery. Brunello Cucinelli: Life By Design 2013-03-28T14:25:42Z Weathering the economic downturn has been tricky, but dance is accustomed to threadbare survival. Chicago's dance renaissance 2011-01-08T06:00:00Z The Bolshoi toured, of course, but some of its excursions became threadbare affairs, its programming at times chained to ideological themes. Oligarchs, as U.S. Arts Patrons, Present a Softer Image of Russia 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z We were invited into the monastery, asked to sit on a threadbare rug and listen. Chasing sunrises — and mountains — in Nepal 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The industry's falling revenues have induced suffocating caution and cynicism as more and more eggs are stuffed into a few threadbare baskets. Pop music is in a sickly state – but could 2013 bring a great revival? 2013-01-01T07:00:42Z These patchworks of salvaged remnants of worn work clothes and faded denim, feed sacks and threadbare fabric “are an explosion of radiance and color and inventive expression,” Ms. Kosinski said. Art Created 100 Years Apart, Linked by Trauma, Offers Solace 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z In the novel, she gives herself a tattered, dissolute glamour — she’s wearing a rakish rose-brown man’s fedora and one of her mother’s threadbare silk dresses. Marguerite Duras’s ‘The Lover,’ and Notebooks That Enrich It 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Some are making clothes that are so irresistible customers will want to wear them forever, or at least until they become threadbare. Perspective | Fashion commits many sins. It’s trying to redeem itself. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The clean lines and supple cuts were punctuated by threadbare, frayed hats and other accessories. Kim Jones takes Dior to dreamy wasteland where past, future coexist 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z “Two pilgrims, one with muddy feet and the other with a dirty, threadbare cap,” is how Caravaggio’s nemesis, Giovanni Baglione, described the painted pilgrims. Postcards: Caravaggio Still Beckons the Masses 2012-06-13T21:27:01Z When all three characters are engaged by a threadbare circus, the Fool mocks Zampano and encourages Gelsomina to join his act. Film Forum Is Reopening With a Classic: Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z The series suffers most from threadbare world building. Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Ever since the city's house of blue jeans, , opened in 2009, the style scene has been anything but threadbare. is the go-to spot for men of the bow-tie persuasion. Nashville's New Flavor 2012-11-15T22:20:04.597Z If your one set of guest sheets looks a bit threadbare or faded, invest in a new set of white percale sheets, to provide guests with a cool, crisp hotel feeling. Company’s coming: Is your house hospitality-ready? Meanwhile, short of money, Mrs. Poore attempts to turn her threadbare home into a bed-and-breakfast. Trick or Treat: It’s Mom and Dad! 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z “Powers” shows occasional, fitful signs of that kind of life, though in the long run it may be just too threadbare to get there. Review: In ‘Powers,’ Bad Guys With Superhero Status 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Most of the areas we walked past were closed, from the stark basketball court, to the threadbare library, to the small fenced-in area designed for Native American spiritual practices. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z It was that the alternative was too grim to consider: that this threadbare feeling wasn’t seasonal, tied to longer, warmer days – but our new basal temperature. Mid-year burnout: does it exist or are we all just permanently tired? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Overwrought effects include Ivania Stack’s aggressively threadbare peasant costumes, and the show’s awkwardness hits its peak when actors strip down to faux-nude leotards with arteries and veins stitched to the fabric. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Past the main salon lies a small dining room where Napoleon and his threadbare court attended formal dinners served on fine Sèvres porcelain by butlers in livery, as elegant silverware glittered in the candlelight. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z On the streets, the look of grunge, with its threadbare flannels, rock-chick leather jackets, flowered dolly frocks and drainpipe jeans, was having a moment. Grunge Endures as Tribute to a Creative Golden Age 2013-05-01T22:37:42Z Without that kind of control and pictorial fluency, the story loses its sensuality, and all that’s left is a fairly threadbare, clichéd melodrama. Review: Taking Another Spooky Hike Up ‘Hanging Rock’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z When the film moves to Vietnam, its less expert filmmaking and threadbare, inauthentic settings get harder to forgive. Review: O'Dowd charms in 'The Sapphires' 2013-03-21T00:20:17Z The early 20th-century world of “Downton Abbey” is appealingly lavish, but it looks positively threadbare compared to the splendor of 18th-century Britain, as presented in this show in upstate New York. Spring Shows to Keep Art Lovers Busy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z The dark forest of the tale is a farm in rural Indiana, where a little family in a humble dwelling leads a joyless, threadbare life. What if the Thief Who Steals Your Identity Is Your Mom? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z “My favorite writing costumes are threadbare old cashmere nightgowns, so comfy to write in. ‘Dressed up’ would be an old sweatshirt and jeans. Danielle Steel: ‘I Know an Idea Is Right for Me When It Just Clicks’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Here’s hoping that Reid’s next novel transports readers to a future where this scenario seems like a threadbare relic from a bygone era. Everything Old Is New Again and Other Best-Selling Wisdom 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The fabric of reality suddenly looks less threadbare. Higgs boson: the human urge to visualise the particle is irresistible 2012-07-06T13:00:02Z Grandpa is extremely active on Ring Neighbors, the social network that the company calls “the New Neighborhood Watch,” and which is tearing at the already threadbare social fabric of his suburb. The Catastrophist’s 2019 Tech Gift Guide 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z About a third of “A Carnival of Losses” is threadbare and meandering, memories of dead relatives and journeys abroad and anthologies past. A Poet Laureate Sends News From the End of Life 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The production also features two expertly carved studies in eccentricity from George Morfogen, as a threadbare, misanthropic count, and Roberta Maxwell, as a penny-pinching money lender. Theater Review: ‘Ivanov,’ With Ethan Hawke, From Classic Stage Company 2012-11-12T03:00:00Z That she has forsaken a luxuriously upholstered life for such a seemingly threadbare one, teaching students at the bottom of the social ladder, baffles and annoys him. Review: ‘Skylight,’ With Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, Opens on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z "Look, Mom," I said, leaning down, rubbing my hand on the threadbare area, which she'd mistaken for a stain. My father, the Rorschach test 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Four years into Islamist Hamas rule, cultural censors are fraying the already threadbare local movie industry. Gaza film-makers decry Hamas censorship 2011-07-28T08:46:56Z An unholy trinity of words — shocking, stunning, devastating — are reused like old shopping bags until they’re so threadbare they can’t hold any meaning at all. Review | Attention, Tom Hanks: Dan Brown’s new novel, ‘Origin,’ is ready for you 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Abrams skillfully threaded that very needle with “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” nicely teeing up that threadbare franchise for the brilliant director Rian Johnson to send it into genuinely novel and reinvigorating territory. ‘Batman v Superman’ broke records at the box office. But that doesn’t justify its existence. 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z But Orton doesn't rework the threadbare dichotomy of sane mad people and demented doctors. ArtsBeat: 'Sunshine Boys' in London: Anatomically Improbable 2012-06-25T15:40:09Z The threadbare plot flows from tragedy to creation, and from innocence to experience. Your guide to Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" 2011-07-02T16:54:00Z Through thick, ragged curtains, which hang from the gallery's high ceilings, the film's viewing space is dotted with threadbare sofas, folding chairs and an instant coffee dispenser. James Franco brings River Phoenix back to life 2011-03-07T14:34:43Z I was always planning to reupholster or slipcover it, but I put off the project until the arms of the chair were threadbare and the bottom cushion flat as a pancake. Reupholster or replace? It’s not an easy answer. 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z It reminded him of his own threadbare, insurgent campaigns. Nigel Farage on the Story Behind His Friendship with Trump 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Everything about these enemies is designed to call to mind the “dangerous hillbilly” stereotype, from their threadbare overalls to their broken shouts of “There you is!” when they spot the player character roaming their lands. “Fallout” video game series’ post-apocalyptic vision of West Virginia might not be worth th... 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Underpowered throughout, her tone was threadbare, and there was no dynamic shading to speak of. Prom 5: BBC Philharmonic/Mena – review 2012-07-18T10:36:22Z The antihero drama genre has become so threadbare of late that new angles are hard to come by. The one with the other TV show: ranking the Friends cast's next steps 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z But the threadbare nature of the production, filmed entirely on location and often sans permits, also bred camaraderie among the young cast. When ‘Valley Girl’ (and Nicolas Cage) Shook Up Hollywood 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z And “Lodge 49,” about the collection of beautiful losers in a threadbare fraternal society in Long Beach, Calif., is bursting with reasons to care. Review: ‘Lodge 49,’ Where Beautiful Losers Join the Club 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Norman Wisden was born in London on Feb. 4, 1915, into a life more threadbare than any he portrayed on screen. Norman Wisdom, Funnyman, Dies at 95 2010-10-06T05:14:00Z She vacillates between near catatonia and a bubbly, unrealistic optimism, and the movie has several florid but threadbare Broadway fantasy sequences. Movie Review: ‘Coming Up Roses,’ Starring Bernadette Peters 2012-11-09T01:36:08Z “Future World” is a miserable, idiotic sci-fi trifle, threadbare in both the imaginative and production value categories. Review: ‘Future World,’ With James Franco, Is Present-Tense Wretchedness 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Her own black dress is so threadbare that it leaves little to the imagination. Apocalypse then, now, always: the truth about violence in Leer, South Sudan 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z In "The Dresser" — airing Monday in the U.S. on Starz — the 78-year-old Welsh actor plays Sir, a cranky, creaky old thespian mounting a threadbare wartime production of "King Lear" and battling the infirmities of age. Anthony Hopkins overcomes his stage fright in 'The Dresser' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z “So Dostoevsky writing about Raskolnikov living in a threadbare garret is condescending to that guy, ipso facto? I don’t buy that.” Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z About a third of “A Carnival of Losses” is “threadbare and meandering, memories of dead relatives and journeys abroad and anthologies past,” Garner writes. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Dramaturgy is, at best, threadbare; old-fashioned exoticism and sexism are par for the course. Paris Cabarets: Can We Ask for More Than the Cancan? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z But in this version, at least, you become newly aware of the singular psychological uses that Mr. Sondheim can make of seemingly threadbare song forms. | 'Follies': Broadway Babies? Glory Days 2011-05-23T02:01:05Z Tate Modern's current show Exposed, on surveillance photography, feels intellectually threadbare and aesthetically benumbing. Nothing to see here - beyond the blockbuster exhibitions 2010-07-09T20:31:00Z Five enormous mice, in white dressing gowns and buck teeth, prance around languidly until pursued by a very small, cross, threadbare orange cat on wheels who zips around the stage electronically controlled. My Fair Lady; The Dance of Death; Midnight's Pumpkin – review 2012-12-23T00:09:26Z People of all classes seem to have come together; some are in jeans or threadbare shirts, while the wealthy Pierre wears shined leather shoes, a Barbour coat, and a wool sweater and hat. Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Yet here she is, racing across a threadbare rope bridge, above a dizzying drop. Review | A Brecht saga from Constellation and a historical play from GALA 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z He had scrounged up supplies for them, including flowered fabric that they turned into dresses as replacements for their threadbare prisoner uniforms. Magnificent Obsessions: Pursuits of a Lifetime 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The effectiveness of Malik's own colossal commercial depends wholly on the majestic orchestration of disquietingly threadbare glamour. The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z Except for the dozens of eye-popping outfits Mr. Mackie gorgeously recreates for the occasion, it’s all gesture, no craft: dramatically threadbare and surprisingly unrevealing. Review: In ‘The Cher Show,’ I Got You, Babe. And You. And You. 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z These days, she is a mother-to-be, and draped in another set of threadbare attributions. Kate, the 'plastic princess': Hilary Mantel's damning take on duchess 2013-02-19T08:48:03Z Circuit Judge Elizabeth Metzger rejected Herman’s attempt to quash the nondisclosure agreement later in May, calling her allegations “vague and threadbare.” Ex-girlfriend drops lawsuits against Tiger Woods, says she never claimed sexual harassment 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Johnson’s “Christian values” also include giving even more money to the very richest Americans and corporations and destroying the country’s already threadbare social safety net. Mike Johnson's "biblical” economics: Using Christian nationalism to "enhance plutocratic wealth" 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z The judge said Puska's legal team had a really difficult job and everyone was entitled to put forward a defence even one as threadbare as this. Ashling Murphy: Jozef Puska guilty of murdering teacher jogging by canal 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z But even so, her recent flailings suggest her act is getting a little threadbare. Nancy Mace learns the lesson of Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene: MAGA is not for ladies 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z In 2016, Trump, thinking he had little chance of winning Iowa, kept his operation in the state threadbare. Trump mines data trove in Iowa to avoid mistakes of 2016 loss 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Republican dysfunction did not end with a collective sigh of relief and the election of a House speaker whose credentials are threadbare or nonexistent. GOP finally picks a speaker: But the hellish chaos of D.C. won't end anytime soon 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Friedman’s season-long acceptance of a threadbare rotation haunted them with the worst first three postseason starts — 4 2/3 innings total — in major league history. Plaschke: What can Dodgers do differently? Andrew Friedman has plenty of remorse but no decent answer 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Rugna’s taken demonic possession, that increasingly threadbare horror trope, and twisted it around until he found his own angle of attack. Review: 'When Evil Lurks' calls back to the times when possession movies kept you guessing 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z When he was 12 years old, Naidorf got a part-time job at a bookstore, where he spent his first two paychecks on architecture books, absorbing them until they were threadbare. The architect of L.A.'s iconic Capitol Records building sets the record straight — again — on that needle 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Only by craning your neck can you see that the canopy is still threadbare. A haunted Australia stares down bushfire disaster again 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Eight years later, it is an unfinished shell, and every night he must climb 20 flights of stairs to sleep in a threadbare room without water, heating or electricity. Broken dreams, shattered families in China's unfinished apartments 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Beleaguered in the wake of the pandemic, downtown Seattle seemed to be suffering from long COVID, the city’s heart weakened, its social fabric worn threadbare. Review: Revered Seattle restaurant reopens with less-than-majestic results 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z It has been described as a "dystopian Fawlty Towers" and a "powder keg" waiting to explode, with inmates packed in cramped cells, watched over by a demoralised and threadbare staff. Wandsworth prison life: Decay, drugs and drudgery 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Critics had said a ban would have a far-reaching impact on the city’s freedoms of expression and information, which have become increasingly threadbare under Beijing’s crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement. Hong Kong court rejects government-requested ban on protest song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Critics worry a ban will further shrink the city’s freedom of expression, which has become increasingly threadbare under Beijing’s crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement — and pose challenges to the operations of tech giants. Hong Kong court to decide whether to ban broadcast and distribution of protest song 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z After decades of pumping them for profits, some of the tires on these properties are threadbare. ‘Mission: Impossible’ for Tom Cruise: Meeting Hollywood Expectations 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z Backlogs, treatment delays, funding gaps and an unhappy workforce have created an increasingly threadbare and overstretched system. Condition critical? Britain’s beloved but battered National Health Service turns 75 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z And he veered into obscure personal jibes, describing one of the report’s claims as “an argument so threadbare it belongs in one of Bernard Jenkin’s nudist colonies.” Trump and Johnson Were Accused of Breaking Rules. One Lost Party Support. 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z But the cast list is more threadbare than he would have wanted. Micheál Martin to meet Stormont parties in Belfast 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Her 11-page ruling called the suggestion of sexual misconduct "vague and threadbare". Judge rules for Tiger Woods in NDA dispute with ex-girlfriend 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z "There are so many social media monitoring tools today, but the use of those tools is often delegated to threadbare marketing teams or third party vendors," said Jim Perry, senior strategist at Market Insights. US banks rethink social media as a threat, not a marketing tool 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Before the cyclone made landfall, its strong winds and rain tore through the tarpaulin-and-bamboo shanties of the Rohingya refugees who live in threadbare camps along Bangladesh’s coastline. Cyclone Mocha Leaves Thousands Homeless in Bangladesh and Myanmar 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The production is first-rate, the period work never rings false, crowd scenes are not threadbare, and choice D.C. locations keep the weirdness real. Review: 'White House Plumbers' reenacts the mishaps of Watergate's operatives for laughs 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z The painful fact is that, to many in South Korea, the American security blanket feels a little threadbare these days. Opinion | South Korea-U.S. partnership is an epic success. We need to keep it that way. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Critics say the promise is becoming increasingly threadbare in recent years after the enactment of the security law in 2020. Joshua Wong sentenced in another Hong Kong activism case 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Dominion asserts that Fox's top brass approved of the coverage, but the network says the evidence of high-level involvement is threadbare. In Fox-Dominion defamation trial, jury to weigh executives' role 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z When Nicklaus won his fourth Masters in 1972 — the year after Dewey died — his borrowed jacket was looking a little threadbare. Where are the Masters green jackets stored? Exclusive vault opened for first time 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z It began with the words, "If you are a Branch Davidian Christ lives on a threadbare piece of land 10 miles east of Waco called Mt. Carmel." Donald Trump and the media: How the Waco siege spawned the MAGA cult 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Shortly before he took over the office, three prosecutors who were concerned about the inquiry’s pace had taken on other assignments, leaving the team threadbare. How Alvin Bragg resurrected the case against Donald Trump 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Conscious that their capital cushions are threadbare, banks will pull back from lending: There will be a credit crunch. Opinion | From bank runs to a credit crunch, the financial future looks bleak 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z With so little warning, many parents found their solidarity threadbare. What? A strike? Parents blindsided by looming LAUSD walkout that is closing schools 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z In reality, the Republican Party and conservative movement have been attempting to eliminate the country's threadbare safety net for decades, going back to at least FDR and the New Deal. The myth of "liberal" news 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z What’s lacking in America’s approach to the social safety net is any appreciation of how threadbare it is under normal circumstances. Column: Anti-poverty programs work. Why are Democrats letting them wither? 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z It has said that the family’s claims that Google supported terrorism are based on “threadbare assertions” and “speculative” arguments. Supreme Court to Hear Case That Targets a Legal Shield of Tech Giants 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Over several harrowing weeks in October 2017, the Tubbs Fire swept over this city’s eastern hills to destroy about 5,600 homes, an estimated 5 percent of the region’s already threadbare housing stock. California wildfires are driving up home prices, gentrifying the state America’s fiercely divided politics are not limited to national government, where Republicans won a threadbare majority in the U.S. State lawmakers turn to creative solutions in speaker fights 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Under the circumstances, it will be useful to examine the “died suddenly” claim and see how hopelessly threadbare the evidence is for it. Column: The Damar Hamlin injury provokes a wave of ignorant anti-vaccine propaganda 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z A moment later, two more men followed, waving a large red flag with threadbare edges. ‘Treason!’ Moorish Americans facing gun charges create disarray in Md. courtroom 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The GOP’s lackluster showing among independents helps explain why Republicans flipped just nine seats, securing a threadbare majority that has already raised questions about the party’s ability to govern. GOP stumbles with independents contributed to midterm woes 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z The GOP’s lackluster showing among independents helps explain in part why Republicans flipped just nine seats, securing a threadbare majority that has already raised questions about the party’s ability to govern. GOP stumbles with independents contributed to midterm woes 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z But critics say it is becoming increasingly threadbare, especially after Beijing imposed the 2020 National Security Law, which jailed or silenced many dissidents. Xi reaffirms China’s governing principle for Hong Kong 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z And in the debate over how to fix the country’s threadbare child care system, the big chains have lobbied and donated to politicians to assert their own interests in Washington. Can Child Care Be a Big Business? Private Equity Thinks So. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Ukraine has served U.S. interests by revealing Russia to be a Potemkin nation, a disheveled exterior hiding a threadbare interior. Opinion | Slinking away from aiding Ukraine would be a major strategic error 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z There’s no sweeping under the threadbare rug in “Downstate” of the heinous offenses for which the men have been severely punished. Review | ‘Downstate’ is a play about pedophiles. It’s also brilliant. 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Democrats managed to defend their Senate majority, already securing 50 seats — along with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote — and managing to limit Republicans to a threadbare majority in the House. Obama to campaign for Warnock on Dec. 1 before Ga. runoff 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z But a threadbare majority will pose immediate challenges for GOP leaders and complicate the party’s ability to govern. GOP wins House control; slim majority complicates ambitious agenda 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z At the same time, austerity put increasing demands on a threadbare social safety net. Britain’s vulnerable await PM’s spending plans with anxiety 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z In 2021, as Democratic strategists brainstormed ways to defend their threadbare control of the Senate, they began an aggressive communications strategy with the goal of choosing their adversaries. How Democrats Quietly Meddled in G.O.P. Senate Recruitment 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z He had just five hours to whip up a men’s coat made from a heap of castoffs: jeans, an old wedding dress and threadbare tweed jackets. TV show ‘Upcycle Nation’ hopes to cut waste, create sustainable fashion out of scraps 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The novel would have been somewhat threadbare had it centered solely on the pair’s forbidden love. Review | In ‘Trespasses,’ an affair can be fatal during Ireland’s Troubles 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z "Political machinations over the weekend point to a party beset with divisions. With party unity and legitimacy conspicuously threadbare, we expect a structural credibility gap to remain," Nabarro said. Sunak looks set to become next UK PM after Johnson quits race 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z In the museum downstairs lay threadbare copies of the Baptist Hymnal, probably from the old church. In graves of a lost Black cemetery, hope for links to family history 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z That tiny, threadbare preschool was only the beginning of Father Joe’s life’s work as a socially engaged priest, as interested in people’s material well-being as in their spiritual growth. Bangkok’s Priest to the Poor Finds His Fit Among Fellow Outcasts 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The Trump team’s next gambit, which the judge also adopted, was even more logically and legally threadbare. Column: The Mar-a-Lago judge's latest opinion is as atrocious as legal experts say it is 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Even star Idris Elba, always a powerful presence in whatever role he takes on, falls victim to the film’s threadbare plotting and dialogue. 8 movies open Aug. 19 at Seattle-area theaters; here’s what to see 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Elba, always a powerful presence in whatever role he takes on, does the best he can in “Beast,” but the threadbare nature of the plotting and dialogue ultimately defeats him. ‘Beast’ review: The humans (and plot) stand little chance in this jungle 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z I spent the next three years, on and off, spinning a book-length tale from that threadbare anecdote. Perspective | ‘The Boys’ author Katie Hafner on her path from journalist to novelist 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z It’s that he’s mistaken his threadbare, comforting routines for bedrock principles. Review: Where did it all go wrong for Generation X? Teddy Wayne's new novel breaks it down 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z By 1960, Eisenhower’s efforts had converted the GOP’s threadbare presence in the South into a sizable organization with ample funding and a roster of newly minted party leaders and candidates. Review | The transformative 1960s still have a grip on America 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Hanks’s threadbare campaign raised just $124,000 — a pittance that in many places can barely pay for a competitive state legislative race. Five Takeaways From Tuesday’s Elections 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z If this project succeeds, America's already threadbare social safety net will be virtually eliminated. Yes, Donald Trump is an "American monster": But he wasn't built by a mad scientist 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z She says community mental health teams are often "threadbare" with huge case loads and it needs to become a more robust service to work effectively in this way. Mental health placements: 'No-one could visit me, no-one could bring me clean clothes' 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z New wear and tear on the garment, such as threadbare sequins, tears along the back closure, puckering and pulled seams were visible in the several posts shared on the account this week. Ripley's denies Kim Kardashian damaged Marilyn Monroe's dress at Met Gala 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Now I'm thinking that I would rather use the money on expenses I have, but I know this will sever a very threadbare relationship I have with my brother. Perspective | Ask Amy: I miss the friends I lost when I got divorced 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Even with that uncertainty factored in, the North’s reported death toll would amount to one of the world’s lowest Covid fatality rates, despite a threadbare public health system. North Korea Launches a Volley of Short-Range Missiles 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z “Those weary of threadbare liberal economics and repelled by present-day conservative nostrums will find here a great deal to ponder,” Winner added. Hazel Henderson, environmental activist and futurist author, dies at 89 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z You’ll need a threadbare cotton or linen towel or a double layer of fine cheesecloth and some twine, as well as a place to hang the cheese as it drains. What tops your own homemade bagels? Your own homemade cream cheese 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Health experts have long expressed concern about the North’s ability to battle a major coronavirus outbreak because of its threadbare public health system and low vaccination rate. North Korea Says Its Covid Outbreak Is Spreading Fast 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Outside experts had been skeptical, however, citing a lack of extensive Covid testing and the North’s threadbare public health system. North Korea reports its first Covid outbreak. 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z But the pandemic exacerbated job insecurity as employers hemorrhaged resources and social safety nets went from fraying to threadbare. Influencer culture is everywhere — even in academia 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z To which most Angels fans, hardened by years of rickety rotations, threadbare bullpens, injuries to key players, failed free-agent pursuits and an abundance of overpaid and underachieving veterans, would respond: Yeah, right. Angels determined to show the skeptics they can compete for AL West title 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The pledge included an immediate injection of 100 billion euros — $113 billion — into the country’s notoriously threadbare armed forces. The War Is Reshaping How Europe Spends 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The accusations were extraordinary and the evidence threadbare. They Came to Help Migrants. Now, Europe Has Turned on Them. 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z It is a stark contrast to last season when the Reds were threadbare as a result of injuries. Is this Klopp's strongest Liverpool squad? 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Over the weekend, a key adviser to Mr. Zelensky said he saw greater chances for a diplomatic solution than for war, though the diplomacy around the Russian troop buildup has grown threadbare. Ukraine’s President Tries to Avert Panic as Pressure Mounts 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z “A subsequent two-day stay at the W Hotel downtown ended in a similar fashion, and by July 5, Anna was effectively homeless, wandering the streets in threadbare Alexander Wang sportswear,” Pressler wrote. The real story of ‘Inventing Anna,’ Netflix’s show about the fake heiress who scammed the rich and powerful 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The hand-me-down gym clothes were too threadbare after being worn by six of his older siblings. Japan's 11-member Nambu family shows allure of frugality, limits of stimulus 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z However, in predominantly renter-occupied cities like Houston, protections from these disasters are threadbare, and recovery funds tend to favor homeowners. Why renters are uniquely vulnerable to climate disasters 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Even in terms of using a pale pink, even if it’s on a threadbare dress at the Red Mill. Kirsten Dunst talks about that turban, that scene and that robe in 'Power of the Dog' 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The strength of Biden’s support will determine whether Democrats maintain threadbare majorities in Congress beyond this year or whether they will cede lawmaking authority to a Republican Party largely controlled by former President Donald Trump. Biden supporters ‘apoplectic’ one year into his presidency 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z What’s more, Congress has dumped additional burdens upon this threadbare agency, including responsibilities related to Obamacare and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. Opinion | Get ready for a tax season from hell 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z That leaves Senegal, already hit by six positive cases before they departed for the tournament, with a threadbare squad for their opening Group B clash against Zimbabwe in Bafoussam on Monday. Cameroon v Burkina Faso: Africa Cup of Nations – live! 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z These shelters have likely prevented several deaths, but they’ve stretched a homeless shelter system already threadbare from coronavirus and a labor shortage. A night in a Seattle severe weather shelter, with snow outside but threat of COVID inside 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The safety net was there, he said, but it “got a little bit threadbare.” As world focuses on omicron, delta variant overwhelms parts of U.S. 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The tree drew mirth on Twitter with some commenting that it was "threadbare", "half dead", or perhaps ill with COVID. Norway's 'threadbare' Christmas tree present underwhelms some in Britain 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z In a rebuttal last month, Prince Andrew "unequivocally" denied the claims, and his lawyers described Giuffre’s complaint as "threadbare," arguing she was trying to secure "another payday at his expense." Virginia Giuffre accuses Prince Andrew of 'baseless, defamatory attacks' in civil lawsuit 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z By the time Mr. Fawlty and his wife opened the hotel, the British Empire had already faded to a threadbare and tattered garment of its old self. ‘Don’t mention the war!’ 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z And the “media manipulation campaign” was a threadbare, 11th-hour effort to produce a late-campaign scandal, an attempt at an October Surprise that has been part of nearly every presidential campaign I’ve covered. Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z The White House has sought to deflect this criticism with threadbare talking points. With inflation raging, Congress must end spending spree 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Homeless people living in one of CORE’s largest shelters in Queens complained of threadbare services and poor conditions. N.Y.C. Severs Ties With Housing Boss Who Earned $1 Million a Year 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Mostly moderates, they helped deliver party control of the chamber in 2018 and keep it by a threadbare margin last year. All eyes on vulnerable House Democrats after election losses 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z As a teenager, he walked much of the way to neighboring Botswana to join the armed resistance, sleeping in the bush and training in threadbare camps. They Fought Apartheid in South Africa. Now They Want Veterans’ Benefits. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The halfway house was run out of the basement of a rundown hotel; supervision was lax, drug use was common and services were threadbare. Housing Boss Earns $1 Million to Run Shelters Despite a Troubled Past 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z But as the recession and recovery showed, keeping inventories threadbare carries risk. From paints to plastics, a chemical shortage ignites prices 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z If the U.S. child-care system was always relatively threadbare, today it is unraveling. Opinion | Our child-care system has been failing women (and men and kids). That may soon change. 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z As Wilson said: “Might his reluctance to press expose that threadbare midfield against better sides? Newcastle levelled through a breakaway and a more composed side might easily have had a couple more.” Premier League team news and more: weekend football countdown – live! 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Navigating America's labyrinthine and threadbare social safety net programs is like a job in and of itself, one that is very time-consuming, frustrating, exhausting and all too often humiliating. Why Americans hate and fear the poor: Joanne Samuel Goldblum on the price of inequality 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Democrats are clinging to threadbare advantages in both the House and Senate, so the success of these candidates could determine the balance of power. Veterans are prized recruits as congressional candidates 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Indonesia’s threadbare rural education system ensures there’s a steady pipeline of girls to enlist. She was promised school. She ended up enslaved and tortured as a housemaid 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z This, even though Japan officially adheres to the “one-China policy” — the increasingly threadbare fiction that Taiwan and People’s Republic of China are somehow part of a single polity. Opinion | Civilized nations’ efforts to deter Russia and China are starting to add up 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z About how knee-jerk my approach could seem and how threadbare this material was getting? Opinion | Ted Cruz, I’m Sorry 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The result is a robust and comprehensive statute that goes well beyond the Justice Department’s threadbare and one-sided policy. Opinion | Maryland can be a model for regulating law enforcement use of genetic databases 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z He finds that the United States has further unspooled, with the fabric of American democracy perilously threadbare as our differences, real and imagined, threaten to shred what remains of our shared national identity. After COVID-19 and Jan. 6, George Packer on the 'Last Best Hope' for an unwound country 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Wade with two threadbare — and ultimately contradictory — complaints about the 1973 Supreme Court. Opinion | On the Supreme Court taking an abortion case 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z In the trustees’ board room, threadbare curtains fell apart at the touch. Vartan Gregorian, Savior of the New York Public Library, Dies at 87 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z What began with a threadbare depth chart amid the backdrop of a pandemic offseason turned into USC’s most promising basketball campaign in recent memory, one that could extend into late March. Their rebuild a success, USC and Andy Enfield seek more in postseason 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z But, all around, the support for her sister was becoming more threadbare, says Rebecca Sprague. Katy Sprague: The family piecing together an 'avoidable murder' 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Lopez’s trajectory illustrates the city’s threadbare safety net for people with mental illness. Four Subway Stabbings and a Young Man’s Downward Spiral 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Given the party’s threadbare margin — which literally comes down to Vice President Kamala Harris’s tiebreaking vote — it’s far from assured that he can secure his agenda with only Democratic support. The Biden Team Wants to Transform the Economy. Really. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z In Khazir camp, 13 family members were sitting on red, threadbare cushions alongside Oman, all women and girls aside from one 17-year-old boy. Iraq wants thousands displaced by the ISIS war to go home. They may be killed if they do. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Friday’s Princess Patter was threadbare of fun but advised that Steve’s Quiz of the Day would be one of the in-room offerings. 'We called it Voyage of the Damned': Days of despair on the Grand Princess 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z But in other cases, science becomes settled and attempts at refutation look increasingly threadbare, if not corrupt. Column: I never 'agree to disagree' — I just tell you when you're wrong 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The number of staff members with current positive tests surged by 79%, from 899 on Nov. 6 to 1,613 on Dec. 7, stretching an already threadbare workforce, according to the agency’s data. Execution staff have COVID-19 after inmate is put to death 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Instead, the Jets all-out blitzed, leaving the secondary threadbare and the Raiders’ receivers covered man-to-man. What Were the Jets Thinking? 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z If anything, the warp and weft of their everyday lives was a little more threadbare. Opinion | Happiness Won’t Save You 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The fat financial cushion that allowed the media to take financial hits for reporting facts is threadbare at best. Patients pay thousands for a back pain treatment promoted by exaggerated claims 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z Roberts seemed to show exasperation with the persistence of the ACA’s foes in ginning up progressively more threadbare challenges to the 10-year-old law. Column: The Supreme Court Obamacare case centers on technicalities, but much more is at stake 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The McLean group's failed attempt to sway the election is partly just another story revealing the chaotic, threadbare quality of the Trump operation — a far cry from the coordinated “disinformation” machinery feared by liberals. Trump Had One Last Story to Sell. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Buy It. 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z The outfit she was wearing on this day also was threadbare. Venezuelans brave COVID wing to bathe, feed sick loved ones 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z "For the most part, it's despairingly threadbare stuff," he wrote. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Mixed reviews for Sacha Baron Cohen sequel 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z He was using his inside voice and he sounded like a man let down by his colleagues because he’d still been holding fast to a threadbare belief in them. Perspective | Republicans have the power to vote in Barrett. Sen. Booker implored them to have grace. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z She calls the argument a “threadbare excuse,” adding: “It’s a convenient way to dodge the tricky question. It’s kept everyone quiet for a long time.” Washington is named for a president who owned slaves. Should it be? 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z He conjured his own threadbare reality, about success, about virility, about imbroglios with women, even about the height of Trump Tower. Opinion | Reality Bursts the Trumpworld Bubble 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z He more closely resembles a cheap souk huckster peddling threadbare carpets that quickly fall apart. Trump First now drives US foreign policy. Even if it leads to war… 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The economic rationale for President Trump’s trade war with China has been so threadbare and the likelihood of losses so great that no one should be surprised that it hasn’t been the success Trump predicted. Column: The competing economic visions of Biden and Trump -- one looks ahead, the other back 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z In March, the threadbare couch in the living room was merely an annoyance, but Megan Barney, a book publicist in Cambridge, Mass., was not ready to spend hundreds of dollars to replace it. They’re Stuck at Home, So They’re Making Home a Sanctuary 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Just as bad, Norris went on, was the toll that lost and sick migrants had on the tribe’s already threadbare services. How U.S. Policy Turned the Sonoran Desert Into a Graveyard for Migrants 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z And not merely because a threadbare argument being posed by a faculty member has been taken up by President Trump, who cites Eastman as a “very highly qualified” lawyer. Column: Newsweek apologized for racism in a Chapman prof's op-ed. Should Chapman disavow it too? 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z David Morrell, an attorney for the U.S. government, called the motion “extraordinary” and said it was based solely on “a few threadbare declarations” from witnesses and a Twitter video. Portland mayor jeered as he tries to rally protesters 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z During a video federal court hearing Wednesday, David Morrell, an attorney for the U.S. government, called the motion “extraordinary” and based solely on “a few threadbare declarations” from witnesses and a Twitter video. ‘When you are setting a fire, you mess with the message’: a dispatch from a long night in Portland 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z David Morrell, an attorney for the U.S. government, called the motion “extraordinary” and told the court it was based solely on “a few threadbare declarations” from witnesses and a Twitter video. Oregon seeks restraining order against federal agents in Portland 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Few good jobs and threadbare health and education systems have contributed to the highest poverty rates, lowest literacy rates and highest mortality rates for children and expectant mothers in Indonesia. George Floyd's death inspires an unlikely movement in Indonesia: Papuan Lives Matter 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z More importantly, though, even after a quarter century of labor peace, the trust between the sport and its fans is at risk of being threadbare. Perspective | MLB owners and players are so busy yelling, they can’t hear their fans’ frustration 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The sound design, often an indicator of how strong the material is, is overzealous; the visual effects draw from a threadbare bag. Review: 'You Should Have Left' is too familiar to frighten 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Archive television footage shows a threadbare pitch and a blonde Englishwoman in the crowd wearing an extraordinary nose guard, presumably to offer protection from the unforgiving UV rays. Razor sharp and revolutionary – Gordon Banks's historic save at 50 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z The basement apartments they lived in were threadbare and miserable. Javon Kinlaw’s NFL draft path took him from D.C. homelessness to rural Mississippi 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z And in turn, it exposed a threadbare unemployment administration that had struggled to keep up with claims even when unemployment was at 4 or 5 percent. One call at a time, he listens as an economic crisis unfolds because of the coronavirus. He can’t help. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z It's a surrender to diminished standards and threadbare hopes. Andrew Cuomo's not your boyfriend — and Joe Biden's definitely not your dad 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Entering March, he was only the sixth biggest spender in the Democratic field, after running a relatively threadbare campaign during the primaries. Biden Faces a Cash Gap With Trump. He Has to Close It Virtually. 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z “This blanket of comity and respect is pretty threadbare right now.” A Unanimous Senate Vote That Nobody Seemed to Agree On 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z They might want to use one on a tackle if the trade of Williams materializes because there’s no heir apparent on the roster and the free agent market is threadbare. How free agency will influence the Redskins’ draft plans 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Even when unemployment was stable and low, state employment offices were “threadbare,” said Andrew Stettner, a senior fellow with the Century Foundation, a public policy research group. Coronavirus Layoff Surge Overwhelms Unemployment Offices 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Security researchers have even found that hackers were setting up threadbare websites that claimed to have information about the coronavirus. Surge of Virus Misinformation Stumps Facebook and Twitter 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z But as many US schools try to shift to online lesson plans, they’re running into the limitations of our threadbare broadband networks, which leave many students unable to connect to their new online classrooms. As COVID-19 pushes classes online, some students are caught in the broadband gap 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z But she never experienced a true “viral moment” — something she lamented in the closing days of her campaign while speaking in Nashville — forcing her to run a threadbare operation in every state outside of Iowa. Amy Klobuchar Drops Out of Presidential Race and Endorses Biden 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z The CAA/NRC two-step is an existential threat to both Muslim citizenship and India’s now threadbare claim to being a secular, pluralist state. Anti-Muslim violence in Delhi serves Modi well | Mukul Kesavan 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Klobuchar’s staff has sought to embrace its threadbare condition as a virtue, noting that the wooden apple boxes Klobuchar sometimes uses as a stage were made by a campaign aide with carpentry skills. Klobuchar scrambles to turn her magic moment into something more 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z The bathrooms on the ground floor didn’t always work, the walls were scuffed and filthy, the carpet was threadbare. Perspective | A homeless child is killed in a hotel that was supposed to be a home 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Its financial cushions to absorb future shocks are threadbare. The Money Behind Trump’s Money 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z On Thursday night, mourners in threadbare clothes lit candles and adorned the casket of González with simple floral arrangements. Second person connected to Mexican monarch butterfly reserve found dead in a week 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z On Thursday night, mourners in threadbare clothes amid a few candles and simple floral arrangements underscored the tough struggle being played out in the nesting grounds, beset by grinding poverty and gang violence. Guardian of Monarch butterfly grounds eulogized in Mexico 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The administration contends that changing Medicaid rules is a critical need because the program is so costly, but that’s a threadbare rationale. Column: Trump makes his most aggressive move yet to gut Medicaid 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z There I was, as close to 40 as made no difference, alone in a forest on a moonless night and weeping with cathartic abandon at the sight of a threadbare stuffed animal. Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Seattle’s farm system was so threadbare on talent and depth that it was considered the worst of the 30 teams in baseball by Baseball America and other outlets. Led by Julio Rodriguez, the Mariners have five players in Baseball America’s Top 100 prospects list 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Like the young Biden, he vigorously defended the threadbare American welfare state. Joe Biden used to be a progressive Democrat. What happened? | Bhaskar Sunkara 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Even before the N.B.A.’s Philadelphia 76ers popularized it, the Astros used the word “process” as a euphemism for tanking — a strategy of fielding a threadbare roster to get better prospects and accelerate a rebuild. The Rise and Sudden Fall of the Houston Astros 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z But in practice, with threadbare budgets and little technical expertise, they are the weakest link in enforcing regulations. ‘A Slow-Motion Chernobyl’: How Lax Laws Turned a River Into a Disaster 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z But the threadbare group that secured the second pick of April's NFL draft was indicative of how far the franchise has tumbled. With change coming, Redskins finish dismal season with blowout loss to Cowboys 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z “And now it’s hard to get on, like the zipper - it’s starting to be threadbare a little bit,” Christen said. Dress becomes heirloom worn by 3 generations of women 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Frankly, the fashion material draws too much on threadbare clichés. Review: The Soska sisters are back on their bloody game with ‘Rabid’ 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Within the hour, the president had predictably tweet-trashed her, saying she had “a nervous fit,” returning to the threadbare canard of women as hysterics. Opinion | Hating the Word ‘Hate’ 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Carriere said, “why would the North Koreans agree to more talks, knowing full well that this would reinforce Trump’s threadbare claim that North Korea is one of his foreign policy successes?” U.S. must ramp up, not ease, pressure on North Korea, new report warns 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z At the end of the year — a crucial time for retailers — Sears’ threadbare Black Friday catalog signals it’s going to have problems getting shoppers to its doors. Season’s greetings at Sears: Dingy shops, sparse shelves 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z At the end of the year - a crucial time for retailers - Sears’ threadbare Black Friday catalog signals it’s going to have problems getting shoppers to its doors. Season’s greetings at Sears: Dingy shops, sparse shelves 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z His dust covered garments were threadbare and seedy. The life and death of Jim Devlin, baseball's original cheat 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Their farm system was threadbare, their scouting operation understaffed, their ballpark outdated. The Nationals are going to the World Series — and a city’s baseball scars have healed 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Welcome, yes, but Sajid Javid’s offer of “a decade of renewal” will be greeted with wry disbelief, too late to change public perceptions when voters see the threadbare services around them. The Tories have split the country. No spending splurge can repair it | Polly Toynbee 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Fighting between rebel groups near there has forced farmers into ramshackle camps, where people have nothing but threadbare shirts, ragged dresses and ripped pants. Diamonds, Warlords and Mercenaries: Russia’s New Playbook in Africa 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Johnson took that threadbare, hand-me-down legitimacy and shredded it. The verdict is in: Boris Johnson is a liar. And he should pay the price | Rafael Behr 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z One potentially effective defense against Trump’s revocation is that it’s based on an exceedingly threadbare scientific rationale. Column: Can Trump legally revoke California's clean air waiver? Short answer: Probably not. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The other is a tepid father / son drama that Gray and his co-writer, Ethan Gross, don’t even try to elevate above the most threadbare clichés. The gloriously surreal space epic Ad Astra is half a great movie 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z For decades, Republicans have been trying to get rid of the threadbare “safety net” under the pretext of self-reliance. Opinion | The Tired and Poor Who Make America Great 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z It is hard, at this late date, to be moved by Scientists’ threadbare theological squabbles and internecine court battles, by the minutiae of their predicaments. Dying the Christian Science way: the horror of my father’s last days 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Over my life as a journalist, as the whirlwind of wealth concentration stripped so many threadbare, these guys have prospered on an unprecedented scale. Jeffrey Epstein is Exhibit A for capitalism’s moral bankruptcy 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z What was surprising was that the feat was achieved on Wimbledon’s rather threadbare lawns as the Ukrainian’s game is more suited to the sport’s slower surfaces. Svitolina becomes first Ukrainian woman to reach major semi 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Overnight, a threadbare piece of American mythology became both a symbol of white nationalism and a treasured icon of American patriotism. Opinion | When racists try to poison our national symbols, we shouldn’t just surrender 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Gore, which effectively threw the 2000 election to Republican George W. Bush on the basis of threadbare legal reasoning, could be trusted to manage congressional elections forever. Opinion | Progressives should be glad they lost the Supreme Court gerrymandering case 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The Washington Wizards started the NBA draft with a threadbare roster of five healthy players and only one pick in the first round. Wizards add Jonathon Simmons, Va. Tech’s Justin Robinson to the roster 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Yet, the already threadbare relief effort may only get worse. Women forced to exchange sex for food aid after Mozambique cyclone, Human Rights Watch says 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z New chairs aren’t a status symbol; but old, threadbare ones are. The best seats at the Masters can be yours — until the owner wants them back 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z But cabinet discipline is now so threadbare that it starts to become interesting. Brexit: May flying to Berlin and Paris in bid to persuade EU to agree to article 50 extension - live news 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Long gone are the days when minor leaguers subsisted on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with threadbare coaching staffs to guide them. Baseball Is Stuffed to Its Seams 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z The display was whimsical and fun, but it would not have been used much, anyway — no player on this threadbare roster hit more than 13 homers last season. A Deep Talent Pool Should Keep the Dodgers Afloat 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Languishing in the threadbare luxury of a dying empire, Hassan and Fatima find refuge in stories and in each other’s company, freed from the claims of desire and ownership. Seattle’s G. Willow Wilson delivers an enchanting, resonant fable in ‘The Bird King’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Instead, Murdoch rescued a threadbare operation from financial ruin and turned it into the centerpiece of a growing empire that has reshaped the entertainment industry. Essential California: On death row, 'reality hasn't set in' 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z That’s what Bravo is hoping for as it seeks to revive the threadbare reality competition. Christian Siriano shakes things up on the red carpet — and ‘Project Runway’ 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Finally, an angry mob stamped through the street, bleeding hearts brandished on their threadbare sleeves. Islanders fans throw John Tavares the most brutal homecoming in sports history - Golf Digest 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Inside is a cozy, but decaying mishmash of elegant vintage wares - threadbare rugs, torn upholstery and black-and-white photos in dusty silver frames that looks like it belongs to a 95-year-old, not a 65-year old. Review: Huppert adds class to stalker thriller ‘Greta’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Zaidi inherited a franchise harboring the hubris accrued from its achievements but saddled with a threadbare roster. Farhan Zaidi is reshaping Giants' future to resemble recent past 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Christie said the campaign was too disorganized and threadbare “to run a Tom Clancy operation,” and said he never saw evidence of collusion with Russian officials. Trump Thought Firing Flynn Would End ‘Russia Thing,’ Chris Christie Writes in Book 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Christie said the campaign was too disorganized and threadbare “to run a Tom Clancy operation,” and said he never saw evidence of collusion with Russian officials. Trump thought firing Flynn would end ‘Russia thing,’ Christie writes 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Particularly in the early scenes in a war-ravaged Poland, you see cold everywhere — the young singers wear their threadbare coats indoors — and the actors are often captured standing eerily and beautifully still, like icy statuary. ‘Cold War’ tells a mesmerizing love story through music, chilly beauty and empty spaces 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z He figured, if he just did what Almena said, maybe Almena would calm down, find his banjo, settle into one of the many threadbare couches upstairs and fall asleep for the first time in days. He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The proposed museum would be more threadbare than opulent. A Museum Honoring Judy Chicago, Star of Feminist Art? Not in This ‘Sleepy Little Town’ 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z His office was threadbare and littered with ashtrays. Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z In his father’s threadbare campaign, that was enough. From rebellious to reliable: Donald Trump Jr.’s journey back to family loyalty 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Even with their threadbare and unpopular policy agenda, Republicans would be favored to keep the House and maintain their state-legislature advantages. Opinion | The Luck of the Democrats 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z The threadbare defense of the Confederate flag that is used today—that it represents heritage, not hate, etc.—falls flat when considered against the circumstances under which it was instituted. Stacey Abrams and the Politics of Georgia’s Old State Flag 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Mr Ricketson's trial produced threadbare evidence of espionage, yet he was sentenced to six years in jail on 31 August. 'Dad saved my life - so I helped save his' 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Refugees live in threadbare, cinder-block apartment buildings and small clusters of tented structures scattered across the country. Opinion | A miracle in the Middle East 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Ken and Angela had kept up a bright appearance of enjoying themselves, but it was threadbare, and the strain had told: they had quarrelled more tensely than usual over directions and plans. “Cecilia Awakened” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z She included the details of two starkly contrasting experiences: an opulent lunch at King’s College with some of her men friends, followed by a threadbare dinner at Girton. ‘Different sex. Same person’: how Woolf’s Orlando became a trans triumph 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Asked for his thoughts on the primary, with Mr. Duprey at his side, McCain answered: “I am so glad to be leaving this terrible hotel, with threadbare towels, thin soap and cheap furniture.” Opinion | A Life of Service, Lived With Good-Natured Irreverence 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Attorneys for DeVry countered the lawsuits by saying the “threadbare recitals” of the former students fail to explain how their perceived damages were caused by any of the school’s alleged representations. For-profit colleges have allies now, but complaints persist 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The developer announced the news today with a threadbare teaser that still tells us absolutely nothing about the game. Life is Strange 2’s first episode arrives on September 27th 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The invocation of piety is also familiarly threadbare when the behaviour of this holy sovereign, allegedly with God’s will vested in him, is taken into account. Trump is creating his American caliphate, and democracy has no defence | Nesrine Malik 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z At the time, the organization’s personnel was so threadbare that Mr. Blind himself had to pump the balls, referee some games and escort injured players to hospital. In Alternative World Cup for Would-be Nations, Karpatalya Beats North Cyprus 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Algin Sutton, with its threadbare pitch and violent history, seemed too big a risk. Common goal: how soccer healed a gang and riot-hit area of LA 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The casino is empty and quiet, the multicolor carpet worn threadbare and caked with cigarette ash where slot machines once stood. An existential bet: For Atlantic City and its two new casinos, survival depends on more than gambling 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Back then, I got most of my clothes at thrift shops, but I remember feeling that I needed something that wasn’t weird or stained or threadbare. Perspective | What’s the oldest piece of clothing that you own — and that you still wear? 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Some agency staff, while pleased that the administration is raising the profile of lead poisoning, described the new plan as threadbare and muddled. Trump plan to tackle lead in drinking water criticized as 'empty exercise' 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z In a televised speech Sunday, Mr. Ortega said that he revoked legislation to increase payroll taxes and cut pension benefits to shore up the country’s threadbare social security fund. Nicaragua Revokes Legislation That Increased Payroll Tax, Cut Pension Benefits 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z The interior of the central London apartment is modern, pleasant and warm - there are no grubby net curtains at the windows, or threadbare sheets on the beds. The brothel operating 'in full view of police' 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Consider the excuses above, each more threadbare than the last. Trump’s apologists have drunk the Kool-Aid 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Michael Jackson’s first posthumous release, 2010’s Michael, was so threadbare that his family strongly questioned whether it was him singing on three of its tracks – the so-called Cascio Tapes. Heaven or hell? The problem of the posthumous album 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z A threadbare sleeping pad, meant for a tent, was stored atop the storage lockers along with some blankets. Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The problem is design education is stretched threadbare right now. Tech designers should be licensed, says Silicon Valley designer Mike Monteiro 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z He will, of course, eventually find someone willing to serve as lead counsel alongside his existing, threadbare team. Lawyers, lawyers everywhere. And none to represent Trump | Jill Abramson 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Pull over to the side, and someone in threadbare clothing will soon approach your window holding out a mysterious little box. Biggest Fake Native American Art Conspiracy Revealed 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Owners of the state’s most expansive casino licenses didn’t bid in Friday’s auction of the fifth mini-casino license authorized under a four-month-old state law aimed at scraping up cash for Pennsylvania’s threadbare treasury. Pennsylvania’s lucky streak ends in bids for mini-casinos 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z South Dakota’s threadbare budgeting desperately needs some new streams of revenue, and since increasing taxes would be unpopular, new ideas are required. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z A state law passed last year authorizes the gambling board to auction the rights to 10 new mini-casinos in an effort to scrounge money for a threadbare state treasury. 4th mini-casino set for south-central Pennsylvania 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z What’s more, imports from countries with cheaper labor, weaker worker protections and threadbare environmental standards will be seen as unfair. After Globalization, a New Specter Could Feed Populist Politics 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z "The application contains threadbare statements in support of C.J.'s asylum claim and much of what is written is borderline inscrutable and nonresponsive," the 9th Circuit said. Immigrant children aren't entitled to government-paid lawyers in deportation hearings, court rules 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The threadbare sheet isn’t enough to keep her warm so she often throws a blanket on top of a nearby space heater. $10K donated to woman living in poverty, collapsing home 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z But others voiced their concern, saying that their hearts ached for him, especially seeing his swollen hands and threadbare clothes. China's #IceBoy reignites poverty debate 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Its threadbare appearance drew international ridicule and saw it likened to a toilet brush. New life for Rome's 'baldy' Christmas tree 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z On their first date, when Zhang was back home in Henan, he wore a jacket with threadbare cuffs but showed Li his identity card in an awkward attempt to prove he was genuine. As China smothers Xinjiang, even mild critics are silenced 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z There are organizations committed to feeding the hungry, clothing the threadbare, visiting the lonely, helping the poor, and being involved with the young throughout the year. Georgia editorial roundup 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z To a threadbare insurgency that had been driven into the mountains, the two payments in 2016 and 2017 represented a timely windfall. Two Bags of Cash for Boko Haram: The Untold Story of How Nigeria Freed Its Kidnapped Girls 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The debate also pulled in other high-profile black intellectuals like the New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb who said that “no one is above critique”, but that he was “frankly embarrassed by West’s threadbare commentary”. Ta-Nehisi Coates quits Twitter after public row with Cornel West 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Agencies such as the IRS are now threadbare. Opinion | The GOP tax bill may be the worst piece of legislation in modern history 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s about time, because the base, which overwhelmingly backed Trump, is impatient with the infuriating combination of insouciance and threadbare slogans offered by Republican elites. Opinion | How Trump can win the GOP’s great war of ideas 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z In the concrete dorms, which are managed by Xawax and other agencies, workers from Romania, Slovakia and elsewhere filed in from an afternoon shift and cooked a modest meal in a threadbare communal kitchen. Europe’s Thirst for Cheap Labor Fuels a Boom in Disposable Workers 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z But it is also threadbare elegant with its hint of sherry, and you could call the gravy a French sauce suprême if you liked. Thanksgiving Leftovers Fit for a King 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z As the man who would inspire the character of Scrooge — first spied at night in a cemetery attending a threadbare burial for his business partner, while uttering, “Bah, humbug!” Review | ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ looks at the birth of ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z The man looked emaciated, but underneath his threadbare T-shirt, his muscles were tense and lean. After the liberation of Mosul, an orgy of killing 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Tuesday’s thunderclap exposed the threadbare relationship Trump has with the GOP. ‘Dangerous,’ ‘utterly untruthful’: Two retiring GOP senators sound alarm on Trump 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z When the United States failed to qualify for the World Cup in 1986, the New York Times ran a threadbare four-paragraph Associated Press report. Left out of the World Cup, America’s footballing deficiencies are laid bare 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z The “moral fabric” of society was threadbare and torn for years, left in shreds by Republicans who sold gay-bashing, racism and misogyny as elixirs that would cure society’s ills. Opinion | The Essential John McCain 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Along with its neighboring oxymoronically named fleabags, the Magic Castle evokes the American Dream, while denying it at every downbeat, threadbare turn. Review | ‘The Florida Project’: Willem Dafoe delivers his finest performance in recent memory 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z |
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