Word: worn-out
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...club owns four "very worn-out" rifles, he added. Members usually bring their own weapons to practices and meets...
...school, people sometimes called me an idealist. I would answer that the real idealists were those who believed that the world could continue to groan onward without completely falling apart, that I was actually a realist because I saw change as imperative. I also answered by using an old worn-out quote from Albert Camus--"Perhaps we cannot feed all the starving children in the world. But we can surely feed some of them. If you will not help us do this, who will help us do this?" And for all the quote's disarming simplicity, I still believe...
...much of what might have been cynical humor ten years ago come across as a collection of worn-out retreads now. The old man recommends selling the whole country to Japan, because "they're going to get it anyway." He urges a halt to the spinning of the earth, so that "we all won't be so dizzy and nauseous." And he recites a poem that looking back on it I enjoyed...
...like Nixon's White House squad. Allen's Redskins cheer themselves and pat themselves on the back when they succeed. Just like Nixon's men. Allen's Redskins sulk when they lose. Just like Nixon's men. Allen, the human re-tread wizard, has made a career of reviving worn-out careers. Nixon has been through it all before...
...begin with, Alan Symonds set is a disaster. It is far too bulky for the small Agassiz stage, and its dingy color does nothing to enliven the worn-out backdrop already there. Symonds concerns himself with unnecessarily minute detail that involves complicated scene changes. The changes are all made by the actors, who really don't know what to do with their characters during them. The result is annoyingly sloppy...