hoary

This hoary habit embodies the conservative philosophy of family life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

But sometime over this last winter — that numbing, hoary stretch between mid-February and March — I decided this might be the year to reclaim a bit of seasonal delight.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025

At its foundation, the movie is a hoary cliché with quirk spackled on it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025

Other animals identified as a potential source of the pandemic were the masked palm civet, which was also associated with the Sars outbreak in 2003, as well as hoary bamboo rats and Malayan porcupines.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024

“We’re working on the spinal ganglia, too. Someday the Boneli test will fade into yesterday’s hoary shroud of spiritual oblivion.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Grapes and their relative merits are one of the hoarier topics in wine.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2022

Since the turn of the century, three paths have emerged for washed-up stars, displacing hoarier options like “Hollywood Squares.”

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 2, 2019

Without a bona fide star role like Lilli, though, you might be hard-pressed to put up with some of the hoarier aspects of “Kiss Me, Kate’s” sexual politics, in Sam and Bella Spewack’s book.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2019

Perhaps inevitably, “One Arm” is sketchier and hoarier than either of those works.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2011

The stars of the past and the beacons are paling, The heavens and the waters are hoarier of hue: But the heart in us chants not an all unavailing    Farewell and adieu.

From A Century of Roundels by Algernon Charles Swinburne

With “Elvis,” Luhrmann matches Presley’s drive and instinctive charisma and raises him for sheer nerve, simultaneously hewing to the hoariest conventions of Hollywood rise-and-fall biopics and seeking to gleefully subvert them at every turn.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2022

This is the film’s hoariest plot device, but it does serve a purpose in getting Ben to grow up.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2019

Maybe we can finally talk about how Jane the Virgin took on the hoariest storytelling device around—a cancer plotline?!—and really made it sing, with the cold waters of the north Atlantic nipping at our toes.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2018

Drake Doremus’s futuristic romance reworks the hoariest dystopian premise: a future society where emotions are banned.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 13, 2015

He could have embraced the hoariest of specials.

From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming