| 单词 | shopworn |
| 例句 | He was fat and looked shopworn around the nose and mouth as though he had hayfever. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z And a shopworn new wave dance hit floods a dull world with the radiance of a neon rainbow. ‘Sing Street’ Review: New Wave Music as Sweet Deliverance 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Of late, producers have taken some of these shopworn franchises and, in the interest of revivifying them, injected ready-made strife. New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z Because Loomis Todd is played by Kathleen Chalfant, an actress of rigor and effulgence, the play also provides a master class in how to take a shopworn form and make it nearly new. Review: ‘A Woman of the World’ Dwells in Possibility 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Up to a certain point, the show feels like another shopworn commentary on the emptiness of Hollywood, produced by and for underemployed artists, comedy writers and voice actors. ‘BoJack Horseman’: The equine ennui of a Hollywood stud Prefabricated referentiality is the substance of the series, you realize, while moaning at a shopworn visual gag about a cell phone the size of a bread box. “Black Monday,” Reviewed: In Praise of Regina Hall and Little Else 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The production conceit also seems a bit shopworn. Music Review: An Underworld Rescue With Dancers and Chorus 2011-05-01T21:23:02Z “Nor did they apparently stop to consider that using pigs as performers to ‘inform’ human spectators about their cultural hangups is a shopworn strategy — as old as dancing bears and the circus.” Artists Blast Guggenheim for Pulling Works Involving Animals 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z That's what they were allowed to be, because — and I'll trot out some shopworn industry phrases here — it was "part of their process," "how they accessed their art," or "how their genius manifested," etc. Hollywood's "list of excuses is endless": Enabling bad behavior, from Bill Murray to Jeff Garlin 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Yet “Crush” also has an emotional authenticity lacking in Ms. Ursuta’s other works, in which feelings are crushed by shopworn concepts. Review: Sex, Death and Little Subtlety 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Though the premise is shopworn — the father of a daughter suddenly realizes what women face from men — he’s forced to reckon with his own behavior. Kanye West Writes a Song of Himself on ‘Ye’ 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z 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 Dec. 11: Even by the low standards of the genre, this book’s sociological background — “what science knows” — is a dog’s dinner of shopworn management cliches, hacky quotes and dubious pop science. Review | Can a new self-help book cure procrastination? I tried it and here’s what I found. 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z For years, my wife and I found a haven in the museum’s dark, carpeted, shopworn galleries for gems and minerals. Natural History Museum’s Expansion: Part Dr. Seuss, Part Jurassic Park 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z An exhilarating fusion of high and low, the movie takes a shopworn premise — townsfolk facing a violent threat — and bats it around until it all goes ka-boom. ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z It is a puzzlement why anyone thought that the world needed another movie about this kidnapping, which plays out as a shopworn tale of greed, stupidity and deserved comeuppance. Review: ‘Kidnapping Mr. Heineken’ Revisits a 1983 Dutch Crime 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z To stave off the shopworn and infuse the project with as much authenticity as possible, lead producers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman, of “Spring Awakening” and “American Idiot,” among others, recruited Morisseau. Perspective | Will ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ be better than other jukebox musicals? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Black sets the pace with his shopworn shtick, while Robbins clearly enjoys another chance to play a comically egomaniacal government official. HBO’s ‘The Brink’: In a global crisis, the satirical missiles are mostly duds 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z In this book, the underrepresented and overlooked world of the codependent emerges from the bargain basement of self-help and shopworn homilies into the realm of love and loathing, birth and death, blood and urine. Review | For codependents — yes, many of us are women — a book that feels like a powerful strike back 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Metaphors, new or shopworn, work when they bring things into sharper focus. Rules for writing: block that metaphor! 2013-05-23T14:40:46Z He still leans on obvious boasts, ones that are sounding increasingly shopworn. Music Review: Rick Ross Promotes ‘Mastermind’ Album at Best Buy Theater 2014-03-04T21:54:48Z At its very end, "Heartbeats" becomes more endearing as it tries to salvage some shopworn but nevertheless true things about love and life. Frothy "Heartbeats" fun, if not taken too seriously 2010-05-18T04:35:00Z Agami's musical instincts are mostly on the mark, although, as a newcomer to the U.S., she seems unaware of just how shopworn Barber's Adagio for Strings is in a dance setting. Agami/Ate9's 'Sally meets Stu' returns 2012-11-08T21:10:08Z Married or single, working or not, and most often grandmothers, they are asserting their presence on Instagram, intent, in the process, on subverting shopworn notions of what “old” looks and feels like. The Glamorous Grandmas of Instagram 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z My supervisor said it was the third or fourth return of the same paperback copy and it was getting shopworn. Sarah Manguso: the disease that stole my youth 2011-01-23T00:05:41Z One unwanted effect of juxtaposing Bacon’s books and his paintings is to suggest how shopworn they both were by the last decades of his life. Review | A French exhibition of Francis Bacon turns him into that pseudointellectual dude from college 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Whether this is metacommentary on the extent to which movies have taken over our dreams or just a lazy reliance on shopworn tropes -- that one’s a toss-up. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z Trouble is, the more time we spend with these people, the more shopworn the writing becomes. ‘Flashdance’: Dancing is flashy, but not the story 2013-04-17T17:37:29Z Lately though, such revivals seem shopworn — not to say mindlessly literal. Longing for No Nostalgia 2010-07-30T17:09:00Z The success of Ansari’s show is important, because it demonstrates that it’s possible to find a viewership without hewing to shopworn yet comforting narratives that uncritically reinforce norms invested in cultural whiteness. The next “Master of None”: “#Josh,” a dramedy about Haitian-American millennials in Miami coming from Project Greenlight 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z I’ll add some trigger warnings of my own: blunt exposition, familiar meditations on privacy and the corrosive nature of social media, the now shopworn employment of neon lighting. Review: ‘Assassination Nation’ Bluntly Calls Out All-American Misogyny 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z A good number of the story elements here are shopworn, although a twist at the finale is salutary. Review: ‘Alpha’ Explains How Man’s Best Friend Got That Way 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z With all the finesse of a bullhorn that sprays noise and blood, "All Cheerleaders Die" shows just how difficult it is to pump life into the shopworn teen horror-comedy genre. 'All Cheerleaders Die' has little to root for 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z “Mr. Isozaki’s is an architecture that thrusts aside the shopworn debate between modernism and postmodernism, for it is both modern and postmodern,” the critic Paul Goldberger wrote in The Times in 1986. Pritzker Prize Goes to Arata Isozaki, Designer for a Postwar World 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most time-tested, shopworn but reliable pop star subject matter is “How did I get here?” followed by “Will they let me stay?” Shawn Mendes, the Lonely, Uncertain Pop Heartthrob 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z The separation of art and artist is proclaimed — rather desperately, it seems to me — as if it were a philosophical principle, rather than a cultural habit buttressed by shopworn academic dogma. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The Musical” rests a little too smugly on the sheer absurdity of its conceit, which is itself a little shopworn at this point. | 'Silence! The Musical': The Knives, and Forks, Are Out 2011-07-12T02:01:43Z We have been told about Don Draper, too, though in the most recent season of “Mad Men,” his charm has begun to seem shopworn and sad, and his misbehavior more pitiful than demonic. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z This is a novel so rivetingly plotted and beautifully written that you forget its shopworn premise. Books of The Times: ?You Deserve Nothing? by Alexander Maksik - Book Review 2011-09-12T22:26:31Z Yet his portraits often seem constrained within narrow, shopworn categories. A Fight to Save Soldiers, From the Lab to the Battlefield 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z But the more shopworn features don’t receive enough attention, and the gameplay upgrades address long-running pet peeves more than deliver any new way of playing football. Video Game Reviews: Reviews: Thomas Was Alone, NCAA Football 13, The Secret World, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Fieldrunners 2, Dyad 2012-08-07T16:20:18Z But it feels about as fresh and sincere as that shopworn grade-school bromide “It’s not whether you win or lose but how you play the game.” In ‘Million Dollar Arm,’ Baseball Talent From Overseas 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “Speed Trap Town” brings heartbreaking specificity to the shopworn trope of the highway’s salvation. Review: Jason Isbell’s ‘Something More Than Free’ 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z But on “Certified Lover Boy” they have been polished smooth, become maybe a little shopworn. Drake, in Search of an Enemy Besides Himself 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Relationships unfold with a bright, glossy and antiseptic sentimentality in Park Hyun-gene’s “Like for Likes,” which brings abundant social media usage to shopworn rom-com contrivances. Review: ‘Like for Likes,’ a Rom-Com Set in Seoul 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z And like many of her heat-seeking contemporaries, she took to modeling, her objectives somewhat shopworn and admittedly vague. On the Runway: Beyond Bunny Yeager's Lens, a Shy Pinup 2011-05-18T19:39:20Z Take a shopworn, simplistic concept, apply it in an unexpected way, and what do you get? Review: In ‘Breaking Borders,’ a Chef Cooks for Sworn Enemies 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z A: I did not want to have a shopworn phrase. Novelist Dubus now looks homeward after gritty memoir 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z But the scene also serves as a worrisome reminder that the show is trafficking in some fairly shopworn plot points. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Cue the Seance 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z During the show's original run, Essex was a dour world full of put-upon prisoners' wives knocking around uselessly inside beige shopworn World of Leather showhomes. Can TV's returning Birds of a Feather cope in Towie's Essex of today? 2013-06-18T12:12:30Z It’s a contemporary if shopworn story of good and evil, decency versus corruption and one man fighting the machine when topsy-turvy and not. Movie Review: ‘Headshot,” Directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang 2012-09-27T21:57:00Z Actually, in the mainstream commercial arena, they're the most discerning, driven by an appetite for fresh spectacle and novelty, more easily becoming impatient with shopworn formulae. Action sequels hit more targets beyond US shores 2013-03-05T13:13:51Z So shopworn has the approach become that is now ripe for the mockery of other comics. Comedy gold: Jason Manford's Live at the Manchester Apollo 2013-02-14T14:03:04Z Although she states repeatedly that she doesn’t want to rely on the shopworn story of motherhood as the ultimate expression of the female experience, some passages flirt with this trope. Shattering myths about women and evolution 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z “Knowledge is power” might be a shopworn cliché, but when it comes to emergencies, it’s absolutely true. Safeguard your home and family from earthquakes with proactive planning | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Without once invoking the shopworn term “mindfulness,” this stimulating collection makes an unusually effective tool for coming to one’s senses. 8 audiobooks to enjoy National Poetry Month 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Unlike in Shekar’s “In Love and Warcraft,” a romantic comedy produced locally by No Rules Theatre Company in 2015, the narrative twists and rhythms in “Nice Indian Boy” feel shopworn and predictable. Review | ‘A Nice Indian Boy’ is a meet-the-parents comedy that’s too familiar 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z She found the pathos in the shopworn clichés of “Cry Pretty,” which featured actual fireworks to go along with the metaphorical kind. Carrie Underwood brings pop-country bombast, and a grinning Axl Rose, to Stagecoach 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z According to a shopworn saying of indeterminate age, “The Kurds have no friends but the mountains.” Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Virginia that the way to end sex discrimination is to prohibit policymaking based on shopworn stereotypes about women’s talents and abilities. Opinion | Boardrooms’ diversity should not be mandated 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Carson’s office, on a quiet street in downtown Modesto, was gritty and shopworn and functional in feel. A rebel lawyer accused California cops of corruption. Then they accused him of murder 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Think of how former New York magazine columnist Andrew Sullivan once evoked a shopworn trope about Asian Americans’ “solid two-parent family structures” to taunt Black communities and their allegedly inferior moral habits and domestic arrangements. Perspective | Why don’t we treat Asian American history the way we treat Black history? 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z While its blockbuster contemporaries are better crafted and less shopworn narratively speaking, The Liberator seems more interested in recalling its predecessors, like Band of Brothers, than saying anything of note. Netflix’s The Liberator is another war story too focused on spectacle 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z And the job immediately provides fuel for interesting twists on shopworn stories. Evil makes sense of a messy world 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Woodward wisely taped his interviews with Trump, so the shopworn “fake news” ploy won’t work here. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Then last week, they took their vanguard knowledge and reused a shopworn saying. Meet the doctors who are helping decide the fate of the college football season 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Myron Ebell dismissed the plan as “a list of shopworn proposals that would benefit special interests at the expense of consumers and taxpayers.” Green New Deal lite: House Democrats unveil alternative to AOC’s climate plan 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z There is overwhelming consensus that it is absurd for the American president to be exercising military powers under a shopworn, two-decade-old authorization for the use of force. The Senate goes to Gobblers Knob 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Standard operating procedure in Washington is to pivot away from uncomfortable questions and turn to shopworn talking points instead. Press Watch: Republicans in Congress can't handle the questions — and reporters are finally noticing 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z At a time when American movies are overrun with shopworn visions, its madness is a balm and a beacon. Review: Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe make a mad and mesmerizing duo in 'The Lighthouse' 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z I’ve been asked that last question so many times, and asked it in return, never getting further than the theater enthusiast’s shopworn answer: “There’s something magical about seeing it live.” Why go to the theater? It’s inconvenient. It can be uncomfortable. And here’s why I love it. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Speaking to reporters on Sunday, the president cooled on background checks, insisted that he is “very concerned with the Second Amendment” and repeated shopworn Republican talking points. Opinion | Of course Trump backtracks on gun reform. He lacks the courage. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z There is, isn’t there, an all-too-familiar numbness, a shopworn feeling of helplessness, of what can I do to stop it, what can I do, what can I do? There is nothing natural about this disaster 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The duality of the “two Californias” is a shopworn cliché, but, like many clichés, it prevails for a reason. A major Kern County oil spill in environmentally conscious California 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Nor will his presence enhance the fabled, albeit somewhat shopworn, Anglo-American relationship. Opinion | Britain is in crisis. So why is President Trump coming to visit? 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Consider the fact that, despite the ease with which the sentences pass, he almost never employs a shopworn, overused word, but rather finds the unexpected one, which also happens to be utterly right. Dan Jenkins: Another side of Dad - Golf Digest 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z In that shopworn approach, flaws were never exposed. Jim Nicholson, champion of the common-man obituary, dies at 76 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z The sultry two-tiered space offers up the shopworn bohemian elegance of Old World tile floors, plush wicker seating and lush tropical foliage. Review: Pan-Latin reveries at Dama in Downtown L.A.'s Fashion District 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Is there any way to make these kinds of shopworn stereotypes funny? Review: Dan Gilroy's ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ savages the art world 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Tuesday’s results refuted two tiresome and shopworn axioms: Americans “vote their pocketbooks,” and “all politics is local.” Opinion | America has shingles. A divided Congress could be the cure. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z America isn’t hungering for a left-leaning version of Trump’s shopworn drama. Opinion | The Trump show is in serious need of a reboot 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z His sudden rise is reminiscent of President Trump, who is hailed by his supporters for breaking all the shopworn rules of modern politics. For a groundbreaking candidate in West Virginia, big money and attention come with downsides 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Whatever you think of my views on this issue, I’d suggest that they’re more interesting than hearing someone repeat the same shopworn talking points on capital punishment for the thousandth time. When the Twitter Mob Came for Me 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z One person’s trope, after all, is another’s shopworn cliche. Review | ‘You Were Never Really Here’ is good, maybe even great, and also hard to like 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z In short, an introduction oozing with potential for the sodden and the shopworn—which, despite its subject, “9-1-1” is decidedly not. ‘9-1-1’ Review: Adventures in Terror 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z And Lin’s success has reinforced a popular but shopworn narrative about the lonely artist with a vision fighting and prevailing over philistinism. Fighting a war over a war memorial 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Bookstores will return shopworn books or those damaged in shipping under the category of “hurt books.” Opinion | Publishing’s Unfair Gray Market 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Once sooty and shopworn, Wrigleyville has been revitalized in the last couple of decades, becoming a sort of post-graduate halfway house for Big 10 kids transitioning from the rigors of Champaign or Ann Arbor. My guitar gently weeps for Chicago, John Prine, sinful sandwiches and the old 'hood near Wrigley 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z In his outsize personality and unmasked audacity, he's making it clear that this all-too-familiar story has roots much deeper than even the most shopworn Washington lore. Can Robert Mueller's Investigation Separate Fact From Fiction? 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z But far more often they leave their participants debased unless they’re forgotten altogether: George Foreman, still nursing the psychological wounds of Zaire, taking on five hopelessly shopworn opponents in one night in 1975. The Mayweather-McGregor farce is the event our idiocracy deserves 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z What initially augured a spiky portrait of late-age restlessness recedes into a woefully generic case of shopworn cross-generational uplift, sprinkled with tired wisecracks. Still fiery Shirley MacLaine is let down by predictable 'The Last Word' 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z “It was typical and shopworn,” he said, “so I started to put together my own Christmas soundtrack.” An Eclectic Holiday Mix That for Decades Has Skipped the Cheese 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Start with economic nationalism, a shopworn idea commonly associated with Latin American governments such as Juan Perón’s Argentina. Trump’s Neo-Nationalists 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z In Washington, the 'first law of holes' is one of those shopworn maxims that are so familiar, they need not be spoken. Can Robert Mueller's Investigation Separate Fact From Fiction? 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z I suspect that most American were bludgeoned into a stupor by this endless conflict—and by the equally endless argument about American intervention overseas, and by the use of shopworn, abstract market-tested words. Running Mates From the Past Prove the Need for a New Politics of the Future 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z He writes at a high level throughout the book, almost never settling for a shopworn expression. The deep, greater meaning of following a trail 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Based on a life of standing up and speaking out, my read on the New York mogul is that he's a shopworn sexist, capable of some ugly moments. Armchair Feminism and the Media Chorus 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The shopworn cliche about politics as a popularity contest has just been shredded. Presidential Race a Popularity Contest? Not This Year 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The image has become a symbol of something shopworn and overdone. Trump says Cruz’s Canadian birth could be ‘very precarious’ for GOP 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z The shopworn arguments, the detached tone, the willful denial that there might be anything wrong with his policy were deeply unsettling for left, right and center. Why take the Trump stunt seriously? 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Truth be told, I’m sad that I’ve neglected this shopworn dive for so many years while searching for shinier objects. The Post Pub: A dive bar that doubles as a soul mate 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The network is traversed by United States customers of pinnaclesports.com, a hugely successful Internet sports-gambling company with headquarters until recently in a shopworn hotel in the tiny Caribbean island nation of Curaçao. The Offshore Game of Online Sports Betting 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z The book is organized in short sections with somewhat shopworn titles, such as “Focus on Results,” “Taking Charge” and “Have the Conversation with Your Boss.” Is ‘having it all’ as simple as getting men to demand that, too? 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z As time goes on, the stories justifying investor optimism become increasingly shopworn and criticized, and people find themselves doubting them more and more. Rising Anxiety That Stocks Are Overpriced 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z “I hate to trot out such a shopworn cliché as ‘If we can put a man on the moon,’ but it does seem to apply here.” Numerals on College Basketball Jerseys? You Can Count Them on One Hand 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z She does not have an MFA, that shopworn badge of literary culture, long thought necessary to get published by a good New York house. Author Hanya Yanagihara's Not-So-Little Life 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z I don’t actually believe the nation is eager to see the 2016 presidential race devolve into a contest of attrition among the tired, the shopworn, the unviable and the famously surnamed. Eugene Robinson: The 2016 campaign is returning to the familiar 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z And the approach seems particularly shopworn if readers see several examples one after another. The Stranger in the Story 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z The Kremlin is attempting a shopworn gambit to avoid further sanctions and shield Putin from world opprobrium at the G20 conference. Russia Uses Semantics To Walk Back Recognition of Donbass Elections Before G20 Summit 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z It is also a bit shopworn after two rocky presidencies — though there is the prospect that his father will make a bid in 2016 to be the third Bush in the White House. George P. Bush, headed for landslide win, looks to make his own name in politics And while it may be shopworn when it comes to leadership it echoes the truth. It Is What You Do After You Get Knocked Down That People Remember 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z This phrase has become shopworn, especially when used to describe something not remotely likely to spoil an experience for anyone. The Slang Patrol 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z But even when it skates recklessly close to shopworn cliches, “Pride” manages to navigate around them with vigor, as well as disarming, even wholesome, open-heartedness. ‘Pride’ movie review Beijing may complain that expedited review would be a form of “foreign interference” — a shopworn charge that dates back to Mao Zedong’s complaints that CIA infiltrators were attempting to subvert Communist rule. For Hong Kong students, getting arrested could mean a complicated visa process This is a shopworn rhetorical device for jihadi propagandists. The Meaning of the New ISIS Videos 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Much of his campaign was built on shopworn conservative boilerplate: cutting taxes, shredding Obamacare, enacting term limits and protecting the Second Amendment from looming threats. Meet Dave Brat, The Giant Slayer Who Beat Eric Cantor 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z It’s a shopworn trope to call the world a family of nations, but the description is no less accurate for that. Bad Russia! The Limits of Sanctions 2014-03-19T16:35:51Z It’s shopworn advice, but it’s something many leaders forget in the day-to-day. Leadership Without Presumption: Lessons From Eisenhower 2013-06-26T13:19:11Z They age badly for one thing and quickly look shopworn. Big ideas can be bad ideas – even in the age of the thinktank 2013-06-18T20:00:01Z So let us put aside partisanship, reach across the aisle, fix our eyes on the summit, write the next chapter in the book of shopworn metaphors, and continue the task of making America great. State of the union: flattering the American people and 'solving' problems 2013-02-13T15:20:02Z There is also a big risk of an item in store being "shopworn," or unsuitable to be sold. Insight: How U.S. retailers are building up their online muscle 2012-12-24T06:33:06Z These details are minor to a fighter who turned 26 this week, while seeming more shopworn than Molina, who is nearly a year older but retains the glow of youth. Amir Khan determined to land his latest shot at redemption 2012-12-14T12:03:13Z The image of women in binders is so good, so visually acute, it might just replace the shopworn “glass ceiling.” Romney’s Binders: The Meme Women Love to Hate 2012-10-19T11:48:17Z Instead, he attacked Obama's healthcare law with shopworn Republican campaign themes. Obama, Romney debate sheds little light on healthcare issues 2012-10-04T05:34:24Z These passages grate in a play that is otherwise filled with sensitive, if sometimes slightly shopworn, observations about jealousy, loneliness and the absurdities of life. | Long Island: A Review of ‘My Brilliant Divorce,’ at the Bay Street Theater 2012-06-09T00:50:54Z “The naysayers and critics and their shopworn clichés about why he can’t continue is actually oxygen for him,” said the adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Gingrich Soldiers On, Despite Dearth of Delegates 2012-03-26T05:28:01Z But longtime opposition figures were ebullient, glimpsing an end to the days when anti-Putin rallies were sad, shopworn affairs attended by a few hundred people at most. Thousands Protest in Moscow, Russia, in Defiance of Putin 2011-12-10T11:28:28Z He sees Thomas and Brown in their book, A New Culture of Learning as being closer to the right track, though he remains concerned that the term “learning” invokes shopworn images of classroom and teacher. Is Montessori The Origin Of Google & Amazon? 2011-08-02T14:42:42Z Was any thing shopworn, moth eaten, or out of fashion, the spectacles told it as plainly as if they had spoken aloud. Daisy; or, The Fairy Spectacles 2011-07-18T02:00:20.857Z "I'm afraid you were buying shopworn and second-hand articles," I retorted; "or you may have gone to some bargain counter where they make a specialty of ninety-eight and forty-nine cent goods." The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z Even the most iconic moments in American history can start to seem a little shopworn after a while. The 50th anniversary of Kennedy's moon speech to Congress 2011-05-25T20:55:00Z But Robinson’s old-school approach is clearly not shopworn, as he has remained relevant by winning. Near Win No. 800, Coach Teaches New Players Old Tricks 2011-02-08T18:08:29Z I had a feeling that the end and slice would lie around and get shopworn if I did not take them. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z The room has the shopworn air of Sergeant Sarah Brown’s Save-a-Soul Mission in “Guys and Dolls.” About New York: At a Food Pantry, the Price Is One Sermon 2010-09-28T20:30:00Z In 1964 Ms. Neal received an Oscar as best actress for her performance as the tough, shopworn housekeeper who did not succumb to Paul Newman’s amoral charm in “Hud.” Patricia Neal, an Oscar Winner Who Endured Tragedy, Dies at 84 2010-08-09T05:08:00Z And, yes, inescapably, there was the shopworn “New York, New York.” 2010-01-22T06:25:00Z One of the penalties an inventor of harmonies pays is that his inventions become shopworn. Interpreters The roller coaster's string of cars, looking shopworn in their flaky blue and orange paint, crept toward the top of the incline, the ratcheted lift chain clanking with weary patience. The Enormous Room The well-to-do and well-satisfied middle-class with its somewhat shopworn ideals was a popular topic with these young men who lustily set about to demolish the Mosaic and other codes of life. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature He began from that moment to overhaul his stock of phrases, to see if they were really shopworn and worthless. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Such a simple, brown hat she found, a little shopworn; the long, warm coat she bought matched perfectly. Old Valentines A Love Story In my opinion Indians do not make very good preserves, especially when they have been in stock a long time and have become shopworn, as was the case with these goods. Roughing it De Luxe These tricks you have done are stale and shopworn. A Chinese Wonder Book Don't tout up his stuff any, or try to shove off any seconds or shopworn pieces. On With Torchy Amid a mob of shopworn public men, here was one who had at least the charm of novelty. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I I been strugglin' along, as you know, ever since, just like this, some shopworn, but so's to set up. Heart's Desire One can sometimes find a bed or chest of drawers or other piece of furniture which is a bit shopworn and can be had for a bargain. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Don't use quotations that are shopworn, and avoid the set forms for toasts—"Our sweethearts and wives—may they never meet," etc. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations She sank into a chair, looking a bit shopworn. Right Ho, Jeeves Even in these shopworn quotations the power still remains. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism She had her eyes on two, one somewhat shopworn, and the other a bankrupt; and in training, she had one just coming of age. The Man Who Could Not Lose |
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