Word: staling
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...music in Carousel is lovely but corny. Anyway, the essence of a book musical is the book. Hammerstein's protege Stephen Sondheim has said even the best musicals have a life of a few decades. Carousel is proof: it's stale...
...digitally enhanced photos were tasteless, I though, but I did not let my Luddite I though, but I did not let my misery, I at least wanted a stiff, stale piece of gum as compensation. But the baseball card industry, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that gum stains depreciate the value of cards too much, and would hurt collecting...
...sense of any personality from Florence, no insight into what created this tensed up, time bomb of a woman. Granted, the prissy Florence should be annoying, but not completely unlikeable. Dickey's failure to develop Florence beyond a superficial level leaves the characters with nothing to do but trade stale jokes about their relative cleanliness. In addition, the ululating, screechy voice that Dickey uses for her character is the equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard, or a rusty train whistle...
...sending food to the people of Sarajevo, we are merely fattening up the ducks in shooting gallery. As stale as the bread may be when it gets there, it's not going to stop a 60mm mortar shell...
...inside our four-seater Cessna Skymaster is both hot and stale as pilot Eduardo Domaniewicz patrols the sea off Key West. The aquamarine water of the Straits of Florida, so beautiful at first, becomes monotonous after three hours of scanning. Cuba lies just 38 miles to the south, but the horizon here is flat and featureless. The only sound is the lulling drone of the Cessna's engines. In fact, it is so boring and so suffocating in the cabin that two of our spotters are nodding off. Then, abruptly, the radio comes alive: "Stand by for a surprise!" yells...