Stalest

But first, in the key areas of foreign and economic policy, he surrounded himself with the old crew, the deadest of heads, and the stalest Washington thinking around. ❋ Tom Engelhardt (2010)

A-listers like Robert Downey Jr. who - after being introduced by Gervais with the stalest of Betty Ford gags -- stole the show when he asked the ballroom of borrowed rags and gems: ❋ Lisa De Moraes (2011)

Still, the two stalest items were a huge relief to finally do. ❋ Da_lj (2008)

Widespread conviction can be false, of course, which is why the method of the School of Common Sense was thought suspect by many, described by Kant, for example, as a stratagem by which “the stalest windbag can confidently take up with the soundest thinker” (Kant 1951: 259). ❋ Marcel Inhoff (2009)

Why waste another precious hour of your life watching all those inside-the-Beltway bozos compete to see who can offer the most ossified observations, the stalest sound bites? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Too bad their leader prefers to sell the party down the river in order to throw her support to the Liberals, the oldest of the old-line parties, the stalest of the stale, precisely the type of old-guard, cozy institutionalism against which the Greens stand firmly opposed. ❋ ALW (2008)

The rowdies laughed themselves sick, so moved were they by that ludicrous scene, for here was I, mounted by the stalest of catamites, involuntarily and almost unconsciously responding with as rapid a cadence to him as Quartilla did in her wriggling under me. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A catamite appeared, the stalest of all mankind, well worthy of that house. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I am also too uncool to keep up with the latest or even stalest alternative rock. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The prince, when he heard the story afterwards, felt that he had never yet come across so wonderful a humorist, or such remarkable brilliancy as was shown by this man; and yet if he had only known it, this story was the oldest, stalest, and most worn-out yarn, and every drawing-room in town was sick to death of it. ❋ Unknown (2002)

"Ay, perhaps, my good Marmaduke, but I'm not in London much of the time, so London's stalest gossip is news to me." ❋ Various (N/A)

It were a good deed if the Goddesse and thy master here, would put thee to death, for thou art worthy to be imprisoned and to weare out these yrons, that stalest my slippers away when thou werest at my baines yester night. ❋ Lucius Apuleius (N/A)

The latest news from Lucknow he inquired for, indeed, but as I had come from the opposite direction, and withal did not know the latest news of the capital from the stalest, I could contribute nothing to his enlightenment. ❋ Various (N/A)

If it ever had been, its essence was long since exhaled: there was nothing in his whole nature now but the stalest dregs, surely? ❋ Various (N/A)

I confess it does fill me with sardonic laughter to find this oldest and stalest of all experiments, this oldest and flattest of failures, paraded as a brand new and original panacea for all the woes of our family life, -- woes which, if nobly borne, at least make "perfect through suffering." ❋ Ellice Hopkins (N/A)