mustiness

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• The musty Conservative Party of Margaret Thatcher was in decline, to be replaced the following year by the sterile charm of Tony Blair and his New Labour project.

• Colman Domingo, the actor and writer, lifts them out of the musty corners of his west Philadelphia childhood in “A Boy and His Soul,” an affectionate and aurally atmospheric one-man memory play.

• The used-book department in the basement had that musty scent of dust and other people’s houses.

• The coronavirus crisis has made things that normally excited college-bound teens, like socializing with peers and gathering in musty classrooms, potential health hazards.

• Today, though, its musty depths speak not to local sustenance but global peril.

• While many await discovery in musty warehouses, there is at least one piece whose absence is more difficult to explain.

• Quickly climbing the musty stairs to the executive offices, I sought out an old acquaintance.

• In the meantime, she is off to Egypt on assignment and he continues his research in the musty clime of an Oxford library.

• After five years at Gucci, he got the call to come to Burberry and reinvent the British brand, which had grown musty and stale.

• But the creatures did, it appears, spend their last days on a planet as hot and musty as a gym locker room.

• Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.

• It's an idle question, I know; wise men and musty philosophers say that regrets are foolish.

• Isn't this free-booting spirit, now, better than leading a cowardly life of musty regularity?

• Her decisions depended not upon the voice of inspiration but upon the musty parchments of the past.