Word: stale
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...HUDS can do until the renovations are finally completed is to end the unfair interhouse restrictions and allow all students to eat where they will most enjoy their meals. After all, without good food, Harvard students, like Molière, know that eventually even the finest of words becomes stale...
...Baghdad's working-class al-Ghadeer district is filthy; the rooms are damp and smell of rotting garbage. Her pets, a mangy brown pup and two molting cats, have shed clumps of fur on her bed, an old foam mattress on the living-room floor. There are pieces of stale bread everywhere. But the squalor doesn't seem to bother Nouman. She has lived in much worse places - a succession of prison cells, torture chambers and mental-hospital wards. Her living room may be fetid, but it is home, and she's free. "Nobody bothers me here. Nobody does...
...really early in the morning so we were a bit stale, but we executed the race very well and got a victory, which is all that really matters in the end,” said junior stroke Kip McDaniel...
...episode that Guest has mined so skillfully in the past, but this time around he maintains little of the comic consistency that he has previously captured, settling instead for ham-handed punch-lines and tonally confused subplots. Guest’s distinctive mockumentary technique is not yet stale, but this latest creation arrives disappointingly undercooked. A Mighty Wind screens...
This fresh, vibrant presentation picks up the latter part of the play—while the beginning’s hostel sparring and predictable play-fighting is almost as stale as the baguettes the girls poke each other with. Throughout the production, a lively musical soundtrack keeps the energy level up, from Cake to Eminem to Supercat, adding to the cinematic quality of the scenes...