Word: staling
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...basketball season leaves an ambiguous, sort of stale taste in your mouth--like the kind you get after cheering for a second-half Crimson rally against Penn and then swearing all the way home after the good guys falter and lose...
Linda, ever so slightly bored out of her mind, has gone stale in London toward the end of filming her first and maybe her last movie, Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. She knows it and she is sorry, because she loves Pirates, and Papp, and Director Wilfred Leach, and Cast Members Rex Smith (the seraphically stupid hero Frederic), Kevin Kline (the pirate king), George Rose (the major general), Angela Lansbury (the nursemaid Ruth) and Tony Azito (the double-jointed police sergeant...
Bertagna, who has spent 10 of the last 12 years at Harvard, first as a student, then as coach and information director, said his decision was not prompted by "anything negative from Harvard." He said, however, that his job might be "getting stale," adding, "if you don't take risks, you look back and kick yourself...
...Perhaps, he perceives in Andre's calm mellifluous tone a lack of confidence that gives him leeway to speak up loudly and clearly. And that's just how Wally responds, with a diatribe of his own, against the unnecessarily highbrow. The world for him is real, with cockroaches, and stale coffee, and if the cockroaches stay out of his coffee, he'll be happy. He huffs and sputters, but he says what he has to say. He tells Andre what he thinks of all his spiritualism: "I know what you're talking about, but, then, I don't know what...
...there a while), but because he had been upstaged by trial lawyer Joseph Welch in the Army-McCarthy hearings. Or possibly, people simply grew tired of McCarthy and his tremulous voice, tired of him as they grow tired of over-exposed rock musicians whose hate-filled music finally becomes stale and offensive...