hoary

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• Colleagues say Schumer’s hoary bromides and constant solicitousness mask a fierce intelligence–one smart enough to know that people prefer feeling like they’re being heard to feeling like they’re being led.

• “Canary in the coal mine” has become a hoary environmental saw.

• I tried to avoid famously hoary puns like “Tequila Mockingbird” or “My Corona,” though I didn’t insist that some joke had never been made before by anyone ever.

• This is just one of those cases when the hoary cliché is true.

• Every president and political movement, of course, brings to power an often-hoary group of grasping interest groups.

• The idea is an old one—or as the irritable Economist magazine calls it, “hoary.”

• Here we taste a mingling of modern elegance and hoary antiquity, such as has never ere now graced life for either of us.

• Hoary sires crept along on their staffs, followed by sons and sons' sons and daughters also.

• He describes the storm sweeping over the white-crested mountains till the earth, like a hoary king, trembles with fear.

• Over the screen of trees you can see beautiful Delhi lying within its hoary walls.

• She placed her hand lovingly on the edge of a hoary shutter.