Word: well-worn
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...dental prosthesis that allows him to speak pretty well. And so here he was on Wednesday morning - back at the fairgrounds rung by red-clay cliffs and sitting in front of the national media beside former Senator John Edwards and a group of health advocates, all because he wanted to say thank you to the people who had helped him. "We grew up hard, had nothing," he said, slim as a stick, with thick brown hair combed straight back from a well-worn face that's anchored by a salt-and-pepper goatee. "But what these people done...
Watching a film you haven't seen before, you come to know it as you would a new acquaintance. It moves along, taking you into its confidence by following certain well-worn paths - it's a buddy comedy or a domestic drama or a space epic. These paths create expectations, which the standard Hollywood picture is bound to satisfy. Familiarity breeds complicity. But there are some movies that, in the middle of the story or later, take turns, make strange twists, as if to say, like that new acquaintance, Don't presume you know me. I am not what...
...well-worn jazz riff: superb player, been around forever but known mostly to musicians and insiders. Andrew Hill almost fit the bill. Over his 50-year career, he was lauded as a groundbreaking pianist and composer. And yet he was often overlooked by mainstream audiences, which focused on contemporaries like Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins. But Hill refused to fade. His 2006 album, Time Lines, earned him album-of-the-year honors from Down Beat magazine. Hill, who performed just three weeks before his death...
...privileged office of the party apparatchiks. He dismissed two-thirds of the city's 33 district party secretaries and berated officials for wearing imported watches, suits and shoes. When, in a meeting, one of them asked truculently where he bought his own shoes, a furious Yeltsin yanked off a well-worn oxford, held it in the air and shouted: "In Sverdlovsk, locally made at the Ural Shoe Factory for 23 rubles. I recommend them - they will last you a five-year plan...
...flying through the air, we get Wolf reviving a dead motorcyclist, wearing a leopard print hoodie (or oversized potato sack?), and surrounding himself with uninspired dancing townspeople. Lesson Three: Don’t attempt a vintage trope unless you have something to add. The music video musical concept is well-worn, but it can be candy-coated wonderful—if the confection comes to life with the right spoonful of imagination...