hoary

“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” didn’t make me rethink my opinion of the musical, though this hoary cat really might have nine lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

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

These field exposure estimates informed subsequent studies on the impact of such exposure on hibernating bumble bee queens and the hoary squash bee, a solitary ground-nesting species.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024

Having served enough time in Atlanta with her volunteer work, Mother has moved to the Georgia coast, to a hamlet of hoary little brick houses on Sanderling Island.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

We first see the chef, Andy Jones, on the phone, contending with one of the hoarier clichés of overworked men, that of having missed an important event in the development of one of his children.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

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

Unfortunately, Mr. Urban’s play is far hoarier than Mr. Lucas’s delicate, moving romantic fantasy.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2014

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 Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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

The weapons—50 of them, all B61 nuclear bombs, which can be dropped from F-16 and Tornado jet fighters—are among the Cold War’s hoariest relics.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2019

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

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

From The Guardian ● Sep. 13, 2015

And long hours they talked together,—strong youth and hoariest age; and each was glad that in the other he had found some source of hope and comfort.

From The Story of Siegfried by Baldwin, James