Timeworn

At the end of the day, OWS gave truth to that timeworn sentiment that dissent is the greatest form of patriotism. ❋ Marlo Thomas (2012)

The role-playing is a familiar practice for job hunters, but the weekly sessions at the Career Network Ministry reach beyond timeworn employment strategies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of course, we have our petty absurdities – Sir Dave Richards's position as both FA board member and Premier League chairman is a timeworn example – but, by crikey, don't they lack the scale and imagination of this? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Finally, the film addresses the timeworn phrase 'When a Young Man's Fancy Turns to Love,' by having the shepherd wander into a local dive bar and become entranced by a sexy pool hustler Uma Thurman, who uses the testicles of the men she has defeated at billiards as the balls in a supernatural game-to-the-death. ❋ James Napoli (2011)

The idea that a dog owner must become the dominant member by using jerks or harsh words or other kinds of punishment, she writes, is farther from what we know of the reality of wolf packs and closer to the timeworn fiction of the animal kingdom with humans at the pinnacle, exerting dominion over the rest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mullen repeated the timeworn invocation that Beijing and Washington should work together on "broader, and common, goals" on the global stage, after asserting that China was now a world power. ❋ Michael Auslin (2011)

Somewhere around this point, we usually get sucked into another timeworn argument which states that trans women are reinforcing gender stereotypes by transitioning to a female binary spectrum identity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their timeworn end found Colin, naked, as was his bedtime preference, pressed to the bed, sweat-fretted, and silent. ❋ Seamus Bellamy (2011)

Because sometimes, it seems to me as if all of the big moments in my life can be traced back to the gorgeous, timeworn stories of opera. ❋ Sarah Pekkanen (2011)

The government responded to the crisis by sticking to a timeworn formula of helping big manufacturers and exporters, creating a fast turnaround for the nation's big companies but one that didn't trickle down to smaller firms and the less affluent. ❋ Evan Ramstad (2012)

Jeff Parker has established himself as a smart writer of a variety of snappy, satisfying genre comics, even finding fresh approaches to timeworn franchise characters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even those dramas founded on more mainstream set-ups – new cop series Chicago Code and The Closer, for example, starring, respectively, Jennifer Beals (47) and Kyra Sedgwick (45) – appear to have jettisoned the timeworn notion of the gutsy dame forced to overcome prejudice in a traditionally male environment. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Running with the children of the village through meadow grass, among the mounds and hillocks, chasing along the timeworn runs of fox and rabbit through the ruins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is a fresh, visually stunning assessment of a current design trend effectively erasing the timeworn divide between creators and consumers. ❋ Dorothy Spears (2010)

The precision of this timeworn mating ritual between human and automobile is erotic, intoxicating. ❋ Joseph M. Owens (2011)