Hoariest

I say "hoariest" because it is utterly nonsensical and flies in the face of the most basic human nature. ❋ Unknown (2008)

• Admittedly, when it comes to sweeps gimmicks, giving your main character temporary blindness ranks among the hoariest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Quibble all you want with certain things — Jack pounding on dead Sayid's chest in that hoariest of TV doc clichés, Sawyer saying goodbye to a dying Juliet, like, six times — but those two hours delivered. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And as John Scalzi makes plain in his essay, writing is damn hard work -- much harder work than Donald Trump has ever done -- hard enough to satisfy even the hoariest demands of the most Puritanical of work ethics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Invoking the hoariest of chestnuts; that oldie but goodie; as predictable as mushy green grapes in a fruit salad: The Class War Boogie. ❋ Will Durst (2011)

The creators don't even seem to be aware that he's a robot and not a human being -- at one point he gets hit on the head and has amnesia, which, apart from being one of the hoariest cliches around, would seem to be an odd thing to happen to a boy made of metal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although the finale skirts with the hoariest of climactic cliches, there is nothing particularly wrong with “The Education Of Charlie Banks.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

But it is hard to believe that Appelfeld wrote the novel merely, or even primarily, to advance such a story through what is finally one of the hoariest of devices, the journey narrative. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You know you're watching first-rate drama when even the hoariest of clichés come out sounding perfectly right. ❋ Dorothy Rabinowitz (2011)

Both start promisingly but degenerate into the hoariest clichés. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is, of course, the hoariest and truest of critical clichés that nobody goes home from a good musical whistling the sets. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

Both start promisingly but degenerate into the hoariest clichés. ❋ Ph.D. Athena Andreadis (2010)

Go ahead and discard the hoariest ones of the bunch, any bruised or yellowed bits, too. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As John Crace, I think it was, pointed out in the Grauniad, this is one of the oldest and hoariest of anecdotes—McEwan has another character spiel a quantity of meta acknowledgment of this fact, but it still feels old. ❋ Adam Roberts (2010)

The series lasted for six years, and the final episode of St. Elsewhere went into one of the hoariest, shaggiest, worst science fiction and fantasy cliches of all, stopping to offer homage to all kinds of major TV shows along the way. ❋ Steve Perry (2010)

Directed by Nicholas Ray, who's best remembered these days for "Rebel Without a Cause," this drama takes the hoariest of bad-movie staples - the disease of the week idea - and elevates it into something original: a tricky, complicated examination of family, materialism, repression, and the explosive nature of the psyche. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Their public transit systems, once the hoariest and most hidebound of city services, have thrown themselves into the geek revolution. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He combined a love of the back-room deal with that hoariest of congressional bromides -- be a workhorse, not a show horse. ❋ Steve Daley (2010)