Weatherbeaten

Monsanto is apparently out to put a friendly, slightly weatherbeaten, gently grizzled face on industrial agriculture see above photo, taken at a DC bus stop just outside USDA headquarters. ❋ Kerry Trueman (2011)

From the oak tree by the kitchen door, in tattered, weatherbeaten garments, hung the bodies of two men. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Their weatherbeaten faces reflected a century of drudge, drought, rising fuel prices and a sharp decrease in demand for anything corn or soy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Darren the scaffolder doubtless just wanted to look more youthful – that's a whole other discussion – but it's distressing that in an economy as grim as ours, a man should feel the need to hide the signs of honest toil, trading his weatherbeaten appearance for a face that suggests a life lived more luxuriously. ❋ Unknown (2011)

David Hayman makes the potentially tiresome Chris into a wiry, weatherbeaten figure who articulates O'Neill's doom-laden vision of the sea's impenetrable mystery. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Her book "When Things Fall Apart" sits on my bookshelf, dog-eared and weatherbeaten from much use. ❋ New Harbinger (2011)

One chapter develops the story of an isolated woman living in a "weatherbeaten house on a big weatherbeaten cliff" in ❋ Unknown (2010)

The open court before the church, though it too is bare and dirty, with lonely, crumbling walls and pillars about it, yet has in its centre a weatherbeaten cross that speaks of service to the Lord. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fairview Park was a broad expanse of grass, pathways, and small clumps of weatherbeaten hawthorn and poplar. ❋ Gerard O’Donovan (2011)

I will say only that he is not as solitary a figure as we might think: the film Baby Boom happened to drift by on television recently, and there was that most goyische of leading men, Sam of the craggy weatherbeaten features Shepherd, throwing himself at Diane Keaton, who goes accommodatingly limp at his unsolicited and rather overbearing kiss. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To learn more, let's all hop into the lovingly weatherbeaten late-model Ford F-150 pickup truck I want you to imagine that I drive, and take a ride to a town in deep southwestern Virginia, on the Tennessee line, called Bristol, the birthplace of country music, and about as far from MSM-land as we can get. ❋ Unknown (2010)

   She pictures him sitting atop some weatherbeaten couch in a small apartment somewhere, his hair longer and less kempt, opening it with anticipation - ❋ Unknown (2010)

He found the house, a weatherbeaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington, and I went out to the country alone. ❋ David McDuff (2010)