Zombies are well worn territory, but this offers something new.
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She simply followed the well-worn formula of the wellness guru.
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It's a tactic, a well-worn one, nobody thinks it's real.
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Nontawat manages to make a well-worn plot feel very fresh.
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The euro moved little within its well-worn range, fetching $1.0855.
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It treads an ugly, but well-worn path in American politics.
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In close elections, the playbook for losing candidates is well worn.
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Its outlines are well worn and don't wear well on Republicans.
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The air of uncertainty was keeping currencies within well-worn ranges.
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With apologies for recycling a well-worn phrase, winter is coming.
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She picked the one that was well-worn, rustic, yet sturdy.
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The company plans to continue expanding upon its well-worn franchises.
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It's a well-worn Trump strategy: Act first, lawyer up later.
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This issue has a well-worn routine: pop up, fade away.
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With its well-worn staples, Thursday's program looked safe on paper.
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Well Worn is out on August 5 via Ghostly/Different Recordings.
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The presidential challengers, most analysts say, are uninspiring and well-worn themselves.
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The problems aren't always easy, but at least they're well-worn territory.
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Today, Christie's auctioned off the well-worn leather jacket of Albert Einstein.
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These stories are so well-worn that folks know them by heart.
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Bloomingdale's is following a well-worn retail path into the appliance business.
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The world has well-worn systems for dealing with refugees in camps.
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It is a well-worn narrative that has ensnared many an organization.
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But do you need such stringent criteria for a well-worn idea?
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The kinetic pace of Doerr's novel makes this well-worn trope work.
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But Sandberg gives Chang her well-worn lines about trickle-down feminism.
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Its tropes are well-worn, and its narrative doesn't go anywhere unexpected.
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Campuses are a well-worn setting for speaking directly to a nation's youth.
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Click here to view original GIFMirrors are a well worn device in movies.
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Am I weak for hanging on to my well-worn Annie Hall DVD?
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" Ah yes, that well-worn backhanded compliment, "You look great for your age!
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Like a well-worn piece of denim, it could easily begin to tear.
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It's a well-worn argument but the example of Japan cannot be ignored.
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Many critics felt paranormal series "Chambers" was filled with well-worn genre tropes.
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Like slipping into a well-worn pair of jeans after months of khaki.
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It's actually a pretty well-worn game plan: First, immediately denounce the sentiments.
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The two-way street between lobbying and lawmaking is well worn in Washington.
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Less justifiable is the hit-or-miss humor and a well-worn plotline.
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Minivans and aging Volvos are packed with violins and well-worn soccer gear.
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Trump ticked through his well-worn criticisms of several candidates, going after Sen.
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Is anything new here, or are we just repeating a well-worn cycle?
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Others traveled overland along well-worn smuggling routes from Pakistan through Iran and Iraq.
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While certain pathways to the Oval Office are well worn, others are less so.
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And many of those views fly in the face of well-worn scientific evidence.
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Read: Sex traffickers target indigenous Canadians Stein's magic tricks are rudimentary and well-worn.
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The phrase has subsequently become a well-worn touchstone among media and politicians alike.
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These books reassemble the well-worn conventions of their genre in wholly original ways.
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Unfortunately, my well-worn human fingers had to type this piece without Botnik's guidance.
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It's such a well-worn cliché in Marvel comics that it often gets tweaked.
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Even the lesser goal of going after CNN's advertisers is well-worn, ineffective territory.
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His arrival, well-worn black briefcase in hand, was greeted with unwonted media attention.
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She is often, without self-parody, wearing a well-worn, beloved leopard print shirt.
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The two complement each other's by now well-worn styles to create something new.
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" Perhaps we should even revive a well-worn but still relevant epithet: "capitalist pigs.
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His well-worn footwear is a pair of $900 Chelsea boots from Saint Laurent.
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The Portland Trail Blazers went for a redesign of their well-worn "ripcity" uniforms.
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The smell of recently cut grass, the musty leather of a well-worn glove.
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To this extent, the Obama visit tracks closely along an already well-worn path.
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Some original music and a few well-worn classical choices accompany the natural beauty.
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The marriage of convenience is a well-worn, well-loved trope in historical romance.
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But "River Under the Road" takes us down an all-too-well-worn path.
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China-bashing is a well-worn tradition for Republicans and Democrats in election years.
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This power negates the well-worn dichotomy between words and actions that haunts late capitalism.
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It's a well-worn template, but Halo Wars 2 has some fun within its confines.
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Disenchantment follows those tropes, but without leaving its own form of well-worn comedy safety.
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It's a well-worn struggle for Google, as well as platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
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Extending a celebrity's reputation and brand after his or her death is well-worn ground.
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Trump's rhetoric will do little to push forward well-worn debates over the nuclear deal.
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This well-worn path to the good life is boring and takes forever, but works.
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Nothing is more well worn, among theatrical tropes, than the pathos of the faded clown.
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It is a well-worn cliché that one should not throw stones from glass houses.
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I headed west and walked for about half a mile down a well-worn path.
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Trump is using a well-worn playbook when he talks these deals up on Twitter.
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The well-worn narrative of helpless, starving South Sudanese "wildly oversimplifies" the reality, he said.
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And some of the tools engineers use to train these models are similarly well-worn.
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Despite this well-worn framework, The Sound of My Voice is entirely satisfying and worthwhile.
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Just outside the door, a small shed protected a wood pile and well-worn ax.
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The teacher handed me a well-worn, wooden block, which served as a hall pass.
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Trigger cuts — a well-worn tool during the last recession — are already entering the conversation.
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There's a well-worn trope in horror fiction about the Monster Who Feeds on Fear.
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The story of Mr. Rohrabacher's transformation from Cold Warrior to pro-Putinist is well worn.
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"Who Is Rich?" is funny, maddening and, despite the well-worn subject matter, defiantly original.
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Bob and Pat have gray hair, matching well-worn backpacks and bring their own mugs.
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That sort of reductive logic leads down a very dangerous -- and, unfortunately, well-worn -- path.
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The groove is so well-worn that the whole cycle has compressed to hours now.
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Video games are a well-worn escape route from the braying morons who infest modern existence.
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The result in this case, however, is more than the sum of its well-worn parts.
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"Blurring the boundary between audience and artist" in such a manner is a well-worn trope.
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The case of the Octo-citizen raises some well-worn questions about economic residency and citizenship.
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The counter-programming fits a well-worn pattern for the White House and its media allies.
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Trump touched one of his well-worn subjects Tuesday night: immigrants committing crimes against U.S. citizens.
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In business, too, avoiding distractions and focusing on the "core" is a well-worn management theme.
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Well-worn leggings can become translucent (but that doesn't call their status as pants into question).
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They were displayed under clear cubes, their well-worn sheets pinned open for visitors to study.
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They are "building off of really well-worn techniques with advertising in the '90s," she said.
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Mr. Bolton and other hawks in the administration seem to be following a well-worn script.
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We eat pretty much the same thing every day; we have a very well-worn path.
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The character-memoir genre isn't exactly well-worn territory, though it has been broken in some.
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He's actually pursuing a well-worn path of American presidents blaming the press for their problems.
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Both styles invite well-worn critiques that have popped up in various forms over the years.
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Nevertheless, Musk's early 2018 donations affirm a well-worn, if uncomfortable, political reality in Silicon Valley.
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While some people are proud of their well-worn palms, others are meticulous about manicures and moisturizing.
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It's a well-worn piece of Wall Street mythology by now: We are in a profits recession.
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But where Unbreakable was meticulous, re-examining well-worn tropes through well-drawn characters, Glass is uncontrolled.
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The path of justice – a path well-worn by the Nine-Nine – is right, but not easy.
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And Johnson is certainly aware of how far and how fast he's pushing this well-worn narrative.
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The dollar nudged up on the yen to 108.23, but stayed confined within recent well-worn ranges.
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For now, Mrs Merkel sticks to her well-worn line: Wir schaffen das ("We will handle this").
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Tackling a preservation project of this scale is a well worn path for the data hoarding community.
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I would propose two well-worn words: difference and diversity, and the privileges they bestow or deny.
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It is a well-worn cliché of European integration that it only advances in times of crisis.
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At the mention of the well-worn anecdote, he shot Dubois a conspiratorial glance, and they laughed.
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Unlike most of today's TV journalists, Russert knew firsthand the well-worn roads his guests had traveled.
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But the fact that they've managed to wring something fresh from their well-worn aesthetic is impressive.
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On one level, "All Creatures Here Below" is a well-worn look at life on the margins.
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Her Berenice inhabits the well-worn kitchen of the Addams house with the sureness of long acquaintance.
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Their stories, at the center of countless novels, plays and films, are familiar, their terrain well-worn.
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The superhighway that runs between Mr. Smith's amygdala and his tear ducts is deep and well worn.
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The suit was green Cheviot tweed so well worn that it was shiny as a tuxedo lapel.
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We were back in "he said, she said" territory, with everyone retreating to their well-worn postures.
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They instead used the six-hour debate to reiterate well-worn arguments and talk past each other.
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But superseding these well-worn subjects was a growing fixation on the lopsided nature of American prosperity.
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In contrast, her fellow investment-banking students, most of them men, had a well-worn road map.
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And this is to say nothing of well-worn economic impact report buzzkills like the substitution effect.
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Unsure how to stop the killing, Mexico's government is returning to a well-worn strategy: brute force.
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"In the realm of synthetic biology, it has become a well-worn cliche that "life finds a way.
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He eschewed formal business suits, dressed in well-worn clothes and in later years drove an old Volvo.
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Sometimes it is those very challenges that help to usher in new meaning to a well-worn play.
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The S&P opened Friday morning at 2,042, before promptly moving back through the well-worn 2,050 level.
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The zombie infestation is too grand a threat; the constant battle between communities too familiar and well-worn.
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There is a remembered flash of neon and a suggestion of a well-worn shortcut down an alley.
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So, she donated some to charity, but couldn't bear to part with Matthew's old, well-worn T-shirts.
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You'll find anything from well-worn Levis and slinky sweaters to overalls and housecoats from extinct French labels.
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Activists, however short- or long-termist, have beaten an extremely well-worn path for how to influence companies.
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Mr. Obama has adhered to a well-worn playbook that second-term presidents have used to stay relevant.
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His demonization of immigrants treads a well-worn path of demagogues seeking to invent enemies to build support.
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My copy of this collection (30 stories arranged chronologically by the date they were written) is well worn.
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By that time though, they were well worn — still sharp, but beautifully weathered and bonded with their owners.
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Limiting women's reproductive health care options by restricting the use of public funding is a well-worn tactic.
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Then they all toast to Kris, the best momager in the world, another well-worn family vacation tradition.
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A cute boy with a well-worn copy of Black Looks: Race and Representation on his bedside table?
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Its branches catch the sun on the east side of the street facing Lord & Taylor's well-worn facade.
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In one post, we see Whiteside's backside, naked but for the straps of a well-worn dance belt.
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Andrew M. Cuomo wedged a variety of hot-button issues, a well-worn tactic that offended some Republicans.
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I've had it for 25 years (gulp), and it has the smooth action of a well-worn tool.
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Machines Like Me manages to add something new and provocative to the well-worn territory of human vs.
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Monzó weaves new adages from the well-worn, like the caution to be careful what you wish for.
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The car I was driving in Portugal — a friend's well-worn but trusty Skoda — had a forgiving clutch.
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He turned to China to rein in the D.P.R.K., a well-worn approach that, predictably, has not succeeded.
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I bunked off school to watch Purple Rain on a well-worn VHS at my friend Nicole's house.
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Those running the festivals are left with little choice but to offer up well-worn nuggets of common sense.
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Blizzards are best spent wrapped up in a well-worn sweater and all the blankets a couch can support.
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It's a well-worn truism that photographs lie to us, and yet it bears repeating now more than ever.
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After their first two games at Euros, the Republic of Ireland looked to be treading on well-worn ground.
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Nor does he try to embroider the well-worn plots or give the stories a context for modern times.
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Linking events to Soros, a liberal philanthropist who escaped the Holocaust, is a well-worn tactic of anti-Semites.
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Critics were divided on the newly ambiguous staging, but agreed that it provocatively pried open a well-worn moment.
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As he closed, Trump trod a well-worn rhetorical path of asking his people to get out and vote.
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There are plenty of ways the well-worn story of Ted Bundy could be retold with purpose and intelligence.
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In the well-worn spines of her notebooks, for example, or the hasty scribbles across her LaCie Rugged drives.
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Like a blanket or a well-worn sweater, they are a comforting constant you'd be forgiven for takingfor granted.
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Trust your guts that the dots will connect even when you go off the well-worn path, he urged.
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There's a well-worn cinematic trope in which some foreboding object shows up on a radar screen, defying explanation.
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So this conversation has all the familiar, well-worn verbal paths of a repetitive discussion that ends up nowhere.
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Trump, defending her husband on the secret recording where he described sexually assaulting women, trotted out well-worn clichés.
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Instead the government seems to be doubling down on its well-worn recipe of debt- and investment-fuelled growth.
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I remain super impressed by how The Night Of drapes a very well-worn story with its grim reality.
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What stands there now is a well-worn mountain of steps, but Nohoch Mul used to have cleaner lines.
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In 2017, however, well-worn patterns of inequality reemerged, with stronger growth at the top than for typical households.
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This well-worn story has gone in and out of favor, often as a staple of high-school theaters.
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As forbidding as that description may sound, the show is also as cuddly as a well-worn plush toy.
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The old Wall Street saying that "markets hate uncertainty" is a well-worn, overused expression, principally because it's true.
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It's a well-worn path in art, but with Sunny War as the guide, the path feels poignantly different.
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Defense lawyers say Daleiden and Merritt acted as "citizen journalists" employing well-worn undercover tactics of the news media.
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Despite the bounce in risk-sensitive assets in Asia, volumes were light with markets hugging well-worn trading ranges.
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The increasing number of higher-priced, bigger-screen smartphones has become a well-worn strategy by the phone makers.
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The pier now houses two stories of offices, a parking garage and well-worn and well-loved playing fields.
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Within a minute, he was fixated on the store's offerings: well-worn ski jackets, fleeces, snow pants and more.
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The specimen was likely an adult male who reached an advanced age, as evidenced by his well-worn teeth.
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So far so good, if also a little too faithful to the source material, and its well-worn themes.
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The old mantras about elections hinging on base turnout are well worn, yet that doesn't make them less true.
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And if what Weisselberg does know incriminates the President, that's yet another hole in Trump's well-worn body armor.
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The episode offers a pretty typical Into the Dark mix of well-worn horror concepts and fresh social commentary.
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But a purposefully well-worn, paper-thin, sort of stained white tee also has a time and a place.
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The second is to help convicts leaving jail so they do not follow the well-worn path of recidivism.
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It's been a real pleasure following along and I know I've got some big, well-worn shoes to fill.
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Melbourne duo Kllo have announced their sophomore EP release Well Worn, and have offered up the first taste of it.
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Duanzi, Bytedance's now-shuttered humor app, trafficked in dirty jokes, goofy comedy sketches and well-worn but persistent gender stereotypes.
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One concern is that satire and headlines that parody well-worn clickbait cliches might get caught up in this trawl.
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Lending site Earnest says that most people start to "break up" with their well-worn IKEA furniture at age 34.
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She spread them out on a well-worn counter and began spraying them with a squirt bottle, one after another.
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Onlookers might glimpse at what appears to be a well-worn sports car and wonder why it's worth $13.75 million.
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Like many well-worn phrases, that one holds a certain amount of truth — and not just in the literal spelling.
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I am often struck by the similarities between our struggles—the journey I'm on is actually a well-worn path.
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As someone who favors stealth, dumping all of my upgrade points into skills like hacking, the formula is well-worn.
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When Jon Bernthal returns to Netflix later this month in The Punisher, he'll be walking down a well-worn path.
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Starting to change the well-worn parenting stereotypes doesn't just come down to having the right policies on the books.
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Did they have to dwell on the 2016 campaign, when their indifference to presidential politics is a well-worn subject?
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For some seething voters, returning Trump products is no longer feasible: They sit, well worn, inside their closets and dressers.
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"It's not how you start, it's how you finish" is a well-worn sports cliché that's timely for baseball fans.
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There are high points and low points, but we tend to settle into routines and stick to well-worn paths.
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Briefly, she mentions a few well-worn titles; why not look at authors the Book Review's readers aren't familiar with?
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Once inside, Ms. Dean, 403, organized the food and unpacked the duffels, which were full of well-worn roller skates.
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A horrifying mass shooting that unfolded onscreen in real time has become a recurring nightmare with a well-worn script.
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Take note if you're using just 20 or so well-worn emojis and remember that there are more than 3,000.
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The easier route would be to use well-worn strategies and earn higher draft picks by letting their record deteriorate.
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He works barefoot, sometimes in an unbuttoned, well-worn shirt, sometimes with the help of his two sons and stepdaughter.
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Consciousness raising groups and zines are back; Rookie magazine's series of books are designed to look like well-worn yearbooks.
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" The host recited a well-worn passage: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.
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It's a well-worn path, traveled by more than 215 million refugees who've sought safety on US soil since 1975.
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Garibaldi Lift Co. Bar & Grill, right at the base of the mountain, is a venerable, if well-worn, Whistler institution.
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"The ultimate goal here," he said, turning to a well-worn Disney phrase, "is to delight and surprise our guests."
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Waiting lists managed by the migrants themselves and handwritten in well-worn notebooks govern the order in which families cross.
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They're already a well-worn data set in commercial advertising, an area where some are starting to voice privacy concerns.
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By now, mass shootings are so ingrained in the national character that they come with their own well-worn script.
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The well-worn, well-loved show will play just twice more, on March 4 and 2473 (numbers 246 and 247).
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It can be straddled so that she can easily hammer and tinker with objects on its well-worn work surface.
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This continues an increasingly well-worn tradition of rich and powerful people using private "giving" to distort the public sphere.
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The arguments are well worn at this point: Should someone with Murray's views be given a platform by a school?
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Instead, the Chairman's statement repeats the well-worn justifications for his proposal, which range from questionable to misleading to outright wrong.
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Failing to recognize expenses related to rebates "is the latest page from a well-worn playbook of accounting misstatements," she said.
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The brand social media outrage cycle is a well-worn machine that tends to follow the same pattern again and again.
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Front Room is one of the holdouts: the gallery has inhabited a well-worn space on Roebling Street for 18 years.
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If the government runs out of ready cash, Mr Putin may be tempted to repeat a well-worn trick—printing roubles.
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A bottle of ethyl alcohol, an electronic scale, test tubes, and a stack of well-worn pots and pans lay nearby.
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They were mostly dated humor that echoed his past jokes, fell into well-worn, familiar ruts, or took on unworthy targets.
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Talking to my dad about Haggard used to be as comfortable as stepping into a well-worn pair of work boots.
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Not to mention, every time someone declares their queerness, the well-worn straw man argument about "natural" coupling thins and teeters.
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A Donald Trump interview conducted Tuesday with Washington Post reporters is another entry in what has become a well-worn genre.
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For decades, automakers had abided by the well-worn formula of making bigger and more powerful cars to fuel their growth.
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The film infuses a too-familiar story with so much heart that you forgive it for retracing a well-worn path.
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If this event didn't occur as I recalled, what else in my memory and repertoire of well -worn stories was inaccurate?
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Both are well-worn paths to what's really at stake: the way American culture cultivates racial and gender hierarchies through music.
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The double-edged sword of using a well-worn trope is that you have to hit the mark pretty much perfectly.
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And even though I've heard this well-worn phrase ad nauseam over the years, I'd somehow failed to actually live it.
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Even though we had seen only a few people so far, all of the portage paths we walked were well-worn.
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My pilgrimage to the salon was a well-worn ritual I practiced like a double-process parishioner for over 25 years.
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There is the familiarity of the Conner house, still well-worn, the iconic couch taking center stage in the family room.
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THE PLAYLIST An incongruous smattering of progressive electronic R&B, early Prince, Motown classics and well-worn singles from the Weeknd.
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But those skills have also inspired her family to look beyond the well-worn, existing pathways for talented young American girls.
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With their members split, House Republican leaders have followed a well-worn path in Congress — they have punted on the issue.
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A well-worn passport does not exactly mean an established worldview, but mayors do engage in a bit of parallel diplomacy.
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But the bigger picture is The Electability Question, a conversation so well worn it may as well be a proper noun.
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They have abandoned well-worn phrases, like "growing pains" and "sea legs," that sustained them through the endless winter and spring.
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"Like driving on ice," said Max of his final laps on well-worn, eventually 32-lap-old, medium tyres on Sunday.
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Keys spring up quickly after each press and the space bar sounds like a the smack of a well-worn IBM keyboard.
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Its local candidates have not shied away from pressing religious buttons, well-worn in a state that has witnessed periodic sectarian clashes.
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Elisabeth Higgins O'Connor's "blame/thirst" and "lullaby lament" (both from 2017) are monumental and mystifying interpretations of the well-worn golem mythos.
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The well-worn chairs could have easily been cast out on the front lawn of an estate sale, forgotten and without meaning.
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Seeing the well-worn knit cap atop her head, I felt ripples of contempt and hopelessness and absurdity knock on my throat.
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This mixture ends up placing her in the ironically well-worn tradition of classic surreal satirists like Bulgakov, Hesse, Grass—even Kafka.
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She sees Quinn's son, John Jr., grow up through the photos that are just as well worn as the book they're in.
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His major-label career had been defined by his well-worn Slim Shady persona, with its cartoon violence and gleeful moral relativism.
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ANZ followed a well-worn road out of metals earlier this year, in the wake of exits by Deutsche Bank and Barclays.
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And at a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition in December, Trump made several remarks that played off well-worn Jewish stereotypes.
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Anbang joins a well-worn path used by Chinese companies that entered the global financial system with ties to China's political elite.
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"It's not how you start, it's how you finish" is a well-worn sports cliché that's timely right now for baseball fans.
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"" For decades, "all politics is local" has been the most overworked electoral cliché, well-worn mostly because it was so often true.
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The well-worn sci-fi tool of time travel is applied to tragedy in this directorial debut from the filmmaker Stefon Bristol.
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The walls are painted white — to be fair, five shades of it, the designer said — and the herringbone floors are well worn.
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At the end of the 16 lanes of well worn wood are majestic pinsetter machines, vintage Brunswick beauties in cool spearmint green.
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For one charged moment, the well-worn rules governing domination and fear are flipped: Who is to be pitied and who judged?
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When I pressed my face into the jacket, the well-worn fabric felt slightly scratchy and I got a whiff of cigarettes.
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It broke down the telltale signs of the softboi, from his well-worn Doc Martens to his unshakable obsession with Charles Bukowski.
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From its spectacularly detailed aesthetic to the characters' march down well-worn personality paths, the movie argues insistently for the status quo.
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From its spectacularly detailed aesthetic to the characters' march down well-worn personality paths, "Downton Abbey" argues insistently for the status quo.
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Quick on his feet, he pounces on the first joke he sees, making meals out of first impressions and well-worn stereotypes.
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At that time, movement conservatism for me was uplifting and compassionate, and the well-worn liberal stereotypes about us were growing stale.
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Again and again, the phrase "chi ku" was offered up, a well-worn expression of Chinese forbearance that means to eat bitterness.
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Will she have the stomach to play the bitter identity politics that is now the well-worn playbook of the Democratic left?
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The idea that welfare recipients are criminals who use illicit substances is a well-worn stereotype about the so-called undeserving poor.
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Pragmatic progressives are already starting to pick their battles and move past the well-worn debate about whether Clinton is a progressive.
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Retro Report A horrifying mass shooting that unfolded onscreen in real time has become a recurring nightmare with a well-worn script.
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It's a tactic, a well-worn one, nobody thinks it's real, and it won't work with this show, we are not intimidated.
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She had followed a well-worn script when she and Dan met in 2001: beautiful young Filipina meets old but rich Western man.
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Below, Mr. Barbato and Mr. Bailey discuss their intentions; whether they emerged liking their subject; and Mapplethorpe's well-worn sex club membership card.
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There's also the well-worn trick of buying things that look like purchases, but are really transfers, like dollar coins or money orders.
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No, instead Bergevin played the most well-worn card in a modern-day GM's deck: Bravely vowing not to make a "panic move".
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On their way to the Well Fargo Arena, Khan asked his wife if he should use the well-worn copy in the speech.
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Moreover, the wood-grain painter's tools are well-worn, seemingly relics of another time, though their unorthodox usage imparts a decidedly contemporary feel.
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After a few months with the bag, it's aged nicely and is starting to feel like a well-worn pair of denim jeans.
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The Bushes and the Romneys will lead the exodus over to the Democrats, following the well-worn path first travelled by the Rockefellers.
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But when it comes to papering over the problems it's created, it's happy taking a page out of a well-worn corporate playbook.
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In the time it takes to sing that one well-worn song, she wins Jack's artistic respect and, it is clear, his heart.
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But we should be grateful for Laura Jean's Devotion anyway; despite its well-worn subject matter, Jean's fifth solo album is a win.
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Being with her is easy, like sinking into a bubble bath or stealing a boy's well-worn Reebok sweater after a night out.
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In this year's presidential campaign, Donald Trump tossed out the well-worn Republican playbook to run as an unabashed champion of working people.
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Terrified kids, shocked parents, authoritative law enforcement, inquisitive reporters, and somber politicians act as though they are slipping into some well-worn script.
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He looked at me imploringly, and I was happy to exchange his three well-worn old buffalo nickels for three shiny new Jeffersons.
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It is now a well-worn joke that one need only throw the word "blockchain" around to raise money or to seem smart.
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Despite the well-worn myth that feminists are obsessed with victimhood, feminism today feels like an unstoppable force of female agency and independence.
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These and so many of the novel's other intricacies are overlooked in favor of increasingly well-worn arguments about the standing of Atticus.
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Melbourne duo Kllo (comprised of cousins Simon Lam and Chloe Kaul) have released their new EP, Well Worn, for early streaming on Spotify.
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But most attacks use well-worn techniques like phishing and other forms of fraud and security vulnerabilities that have long since been patched.
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He was dressed that morning in pinstripe slacks several sizes too big, cinched tight with a belt, and a well-worn collared shirt.
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And limiting an analysis of any political figure to those well-worn tropes inevitably obscures other deep divides around imperialism, class, and race.
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"Defendant Harte, the ringleader, employed the well-worn pedophile playbook of grooming and seduction," Geragos & Geragos attorney Ben Meiselas writes in the complaint.
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Practice social distancing — and distant socializing It may be tempting to ignore what by now is a well-worn refrain: practice social distancing.
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Minhaj's comedy peers believe that he has as good a shot as anyone at finding a new approach to this well-worn genre.
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Once I stepped into the costume of a well-worn cultural archetype, I got used to hearing other people's theories about my life.
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"Handsome Devil" transcends its well-worn classroom drama routine once the characters' sexual identities become a talking point instead of a schoolyard taunt.
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These extravagant earrings will spruce up your well-worn summer staples and will look mighty fine peeking out of a turtleneck later on.
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His legal strategy was a well-worn and successful one: assert his innocence and make the jury doubt the veracity of the victim.
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Sitting in the bench-length seat — with its surprising lumbar support — was like sinking into a well-worn rocker, musty smell and all.
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Like the well-worn plot of a terror movie, a scary story is entertainment until it isn't; that is, when it becomes real.
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There's a well-worn saying in the cannabis business that the emerging industry is so fast-moving that it lives in dog years.
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Dean's metaphor is to think of habits as well-worn rivers of action that flow out of the predictable path of your routine.
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The furnishings and fixtures, mainly from the Dessau Bauhaus, are well worn and thoroughly loved, but still somehow feel ahead of their time.
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Learning how to breathe was at least something different, a quick break from analyzing my own well-worn love story with exhausting precision.
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The industrial bones are the same: the double-height ceilings, well-worn floor planks, big arched windows punched through fortress-thick brick walls.
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It wasn't simply the excruciatingly twee musical choices, or the well-worn trajectory of a plot as contrived as its woolly-hatted heroine.
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There are many easy and well-worn ways to get that data, and people have been messing with the sprites from Super Mario Bros.
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Image: Lima Andruška/Flickr Creative CommonsIt's a well-worn fact that our round Earth is warming, and that human carbon emissions are the cause.
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According to Twitter's well-worn origin story, the 216-character limit for tweets was born out of the now bygone restrictions of text messaging.
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This smacked of the well-worn conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers buy off American politicians, and led to Democratic leadership publicly condemning Omar's comments.
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He walked to the well-worn telescope, occasionally passing revelers riding horses through the empty streets—a common sight in Arecibo during the holidays.
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Like Firefly's suits, they appear to be well-worn and patched, but these look like they're quite a bit more durable than those ones.
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They reminded me of Vija Celmins' recreations of found rocks, with the difference that the beaver as artist/builder is a well-worn cliché.
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It is a well-worn truth that most vitamin supplements don't do much of anything unless you have a specific, doctor-diagnosed vitamin deficiency.
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The crisis hotline wasn't a place for us to express our desire for a better human race, or to share our well-worn advice.
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His constituents' newfound affection for far-right populism, after a traumatic encounter with refugees, is a hard reality — but also a well-worn cliché.
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I have often found that unique convictions like the above are born out of exhaustion with well-worn ideas as much as revolutionary impulses.
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This forces flexibility, and tactics worked out on the fly, rather than letting you settle into well-worn battle plans and with them, boredom.
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The euro was little changed against the dollar at $20.7240 , having dipped 21.20 percent the previous day but still hugging its well-worn range.
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The tactic follows a well-worn path for Trump, who called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States during his 2016 campaign.
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Too many kid-accessible animated films spout generic, well-worn tropes: follow your dreams, believe in yourself, you can do anything if you try.
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There is no hint of shabby desperation in these effects, of the sense of a spook house jerry-built over a well-worn drama.
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At first glance, "The Opposite Zoo," by Il Sung Na, appears to occupy well-worn territory: the concept of opposites, and a zoo setting.
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The demonstrators stressed that their well-worn "Death to America" songs and slogans were aimed at U.S. foreign policy-makers, not the American people.
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"Free State of Jones" is a rarer thing: a film that tries to strike sparks of political insight from a well-worn genre template.
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The path from the Obama White House to the tech giants — many of them major political donors to Mr. Obama — is already well worn.
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Mr. Oliver, a practitioner of sentimental gothic, reshapes and reanimates the well-worn formulas of the confessional memoir by infusing them with sepulchral darkness.
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But no conservation issue in the West today is more polarizing than wolves, where the trenches on each side remain well worn and deep.
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Ms. Yellen will follow a well-worn path from the Fed's marble headquarters on Constitution Avenue to the nearby Brookings building on Massachusetts Avenue.
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The well-worn "Croton Aqueduct DPT" cover on Jersey Street in Nolita, behind the red-brick Puck Building, had long been a favorite survivor.
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In broaching the subject after a mass school shooting, Mr. Trump was traveling a path well worn by his predecessors going back for decades.
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Trump's reference to disloyalty, for example, played into a well-worn anti-Semitic conspiracy theory about Jewish attachments, as Vox's Zack Beauchamp has explained.
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I found a weird vintage costume shop and bought a ragged and well-worn devil suit that someone had handmade a long time ago.
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But one Sunday my mother emerged from her bedroom, her well-worn Bible in her hands, and announced that she was leaving the society.
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But designers continued the now well-worn trend of leaning on the socially famous and digitally omnipresent to add some juice to their presentations.
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He asked for our passports with the routine formality of a customs officer and began to copy the details into his well-worn book.
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Klenzendorf (Sam Rockwell) talks of upgrading his uniform with feathers and sparkles, the humor illuminates well-worn stereotypes (Jews are monsters, Nazis are perverts).
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Though it&aposs not a well-worn path from an NAIA program, JJ hopes to follow his brother to the NBA in the future.
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It would soon go on to upstage the outworn "commie" and well-worn "dirty hippie" as objects of vitriol in the American political imagination.
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But when the plot fixates on suburban angst, Behrman risks staleness with well-worn tropes like the closeted jock or the homophobic school bully.
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Sam Hall sat on his narrow bed, his thin frame propped up against the concrete wall, periodically glancing up from a well-worn paperback novel.
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It takes the well-worn high school buddy comedy and spins it on its head — including the costumes worn by its colorful cast of characters.
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"Facebook's ultimate product is you," has become a well-worn explanation for the ways in which it monetizes your private data to sell targeted advertising.
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For Democratic elites and insiders who are tethered to a well-worn centrist playbook, the ideas and policies proposed by party newcomers, such as Rep.
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It doesn't look like it will tread much new ground in this well-worn genre, but the layer of interactivity could add an interesting wrinkle.
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Much of the rhetoric the council used involved hammering home Trump's well-worn idea that America needs to regain ground as the "leader" in space.
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And yet, even these super humans are not exempt from the fact that daily wear makes clothes start to look, well, worn, after a while.
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On his desk are a well-worn Bible, small American flag and a signed photograph of President Gerald Ford thanking Maurina's father for his support.
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In the meantime, companies like Samsung – who am I kidding, only Samsung – continue to show off well-worn Gear VR headsets and increasingly immersive experiences.
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Princess Kate changed out of her favorite well-worn boots and into her chic red heels for an elegant reception in Victoria on Monday night.
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The euro was little moved at $251.38, stuck in a well-worn range ahead of the second round of the French presidential election on Sunday.
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Everything is clean the way surgical scrubs are clean: hard-washed, well-worn, as if the entire place is dipped in boiling water every night.
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Remy Labesque Remy Labesque, a former top industrial designer at the lauded house of Frog, wrote a lovely defense of well-worn gadgets in 2011.
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Still, the White House proposal follows a well-worn formula in immigration negotiations — trading enforcement measures for legalizing blocs of immigrants in the country illegally.
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In his versions — rendered on board in oils and enamels — the labels have been faithfully reproduced and the well-worn grooves painstakingly incised by hand.
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The beauty, joy and freshness of the Saint Paul players' music-making on Saturday didn't just breathe life into well-worn standards of the repertory.
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THE PLACE On a quiet corner of Atlantic Avenue and Henry Street, where the sidewalk is well worn with strollers and where gentlemen prefer sweaters.
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The story struck a well-worn chord—women are chronically underrepresented in these sorts of lists, on technology panels, at conferences, in technology in general.
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There's a well worn stereotype of a vape bro sucking on e-cigarettes because he thinks blowing thick clouds of vapor makes him look cool.
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In the video, Julien, sporting a well-worn Route 66 hat, shuffles over to his desk, flips on his computer, and loads up Asheron's Call.
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Still relatively new to venture, Maqubela was seeking someone with a well-worn process for investing and a big heart for what founders go through.
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The traditionalists chanted their well-worn odes to loyalty, competitiveness and Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, who each played their entire careers with one team.
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But I've come increasingly to admire McPherson's use, and subversion, of well-worn tropes to create a collective national sensibility, filtered through decades of memory.
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Following another well-worn trail, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House spokeswoman, said it was just not the right time to talk about gun laws.
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But Ms. Brewer's Amy delivers such well-worn gems from films past with a fresh conviction that feels both buoyant and angry — and highly personal.
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"They published false stories on cloned news websites, then amplified them with well-worn, negative tropes about Israel, Saudi Arabia and the U.S.," she said.
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The opening gala was hit or miss, and a premiere, by Goyo Montero — the festival's first commission — relied on well-worn clichés of contemporary dance.
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A well-worn wooden bar found in Berlin, and twinkling lights that resemble those of traditional Sicilian summer festivals, tone down the grandeur a bit.
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The media has cultivated the reputation of Steve Bannon as chessmaster and puppeteer, both Rasputin and Svengali, a consigliere with a well-worn library card.
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The Treasury Department has provided a map that lays out many roads, some of which are well-worn and bad for consumers and taxpayers alike.
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F.D.R. was an aristocrat before he contracted polio, I told another over drinks, reluctantly sliding over a well-worn volume about how suffering transformed him.
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The elites look down on us regular folks so let's show them a thing or two is a well-worn page in the Huckabee handbook.
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I looked over when I heard the door slam and noticed a well-worn black shoe on the pavement where your foot had just been.
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He followed a well-worn path — the "Law & Order" guest appearance, Off Broadway theater, recurring roles on HBO — before crossing over onto the big screen.
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Gage grabs a broken light tube and does the gruesome but well-worn spot of taking the jagged end and grinding it into Arquette's forehead.
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Morrison, who has a reputation as an ambitious and accomplished politician, drew on the well-worn colloquialism "to have a go" to punctuate the address.
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Using a well-worn racist attack last month, he told four progressive congresswomen to "go back" to their countries of origin, though all four are Americans.
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Beyond chronicling the cruelties and pressures of high school's caste system (certainly pretty well-worn territory), "13 Reasons" unwraps a series of escalating incidents and consequences.
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Yet even as Trump sought to play down his hyper-incendiary tone, he still held fast to several of his most well-worn, and false, claims.
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Gaiman (who shared credit on the novel with Terry Pratchett) wrote all the episodes, which manage to freshen up what is admittedly pretty well-worn territory.
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But he might as well be talking about the well-worn rock star biopic formula, which in recent years is expanding — finally — to include gay men.
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The leather ones require a bit of breaking in before they can sit comfortably, but I tried Obschonka's well-worn prototype and it felt pretty great.
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I'm not sure I would be so into this if the show were American, to be honest, since some of its conventions are so well-worn.
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But lots of them have felt retrograde, gouging a well-worn path into the same old hollow cliches – the gobby indie rebels in the leather jackets.
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Like putting on a well-worn sweatshirt, Carrie slips back into fierce CIA agent mode, and impressively manages to make it out of Conlin's house alive.
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The restaurant was also one of the pioneers of the farm-to-table movement, at a time when those words weren't just a well-worn catchphrase.
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In the waning hours before Iowa Caucus votes come in, here are some of the well-worn and tired phrases candidates and pundits are using: 228.
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It takes the same well-worn tracks as its many predecessors, using haunted tapes, haunted houses, and two well-known horror heroines to tell its story.
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Although building a series around "the tears of a clown" is a well-worn concept, like any good comedy, it's grounded by an undercurrent of truth.
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The device of writing masses round a popular song was then well worn in Europe; "L'homme armé", from about 1450, inspired more than 40 of them.
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But what feels at first like a well-worn tale of the patriarchy's most obvious predations quickly gives way to something even darker and more complex.
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Perhaps the neural pathways that allowed me to derive pleasure from comics and cycling were simply too well-worn to let me think about anything else.
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The IOC's Evaluation Commission will hear a well-worn sales pitch during a three-day visit that will provide a firsthand glimpse at the LA2024 vision.
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In case you've been neglecting your well-worn pair of Uggs, we're delighted to inform you that major changes are happening at the brand right now.
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Oxidized busts and well-worn sculptures fill the parks and public squares of cities around the world, yet these examples of public art are often overlooked.
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How ReCashmere sweaters are madeBy partnering with an environmentally-conscious mill in Prato, Italy, Everlane ReCashmere is made by collecting well-worn cashmere through recycling programs.
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Luckily, unlike the bunks, the structure, which remains uninsulated, had been well made, with an intricately beamed ceiling and smooth, well-worn, slightly uneven oak floors.
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Mr. Spitzer, a Democrat, warned a Republican assemblyman that he was a "steamroller" who'd run over opponents, modifying that word with a well-worn Anglo-Saxonism.
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The artist sets your mind on a well-worn road, and then, just as you settle into that automatic groove, yanks you suddenly in another direction.
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It took 30 minutes or so for Senator Elizabeth Warren to wind toward well-worn territory for her: a riff on the evils of insurance companies.
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It followed the well-worn pattern established by other tech hearings this year: Lawmakers ask predictable (and, occasionally, ill-informed) questions, and C.E.O.s repeat company lines.
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Like the music his brilliant if drunken keyboard virtuoso is describing, the narrative never veers from the expected; even its twists fit into well-worn grooves.
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"Fake it till you make it" is a well-worn business cliché for a good reason: Extensive studies show that confidence is highly correlated with success.
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The extent to which all of the film's antics will work for you depends on your tolerance for Mr. Osborne's well-worn aging hipster milquetoast persona.
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By now it's a well-worn observation that virtually every big-budget Hollywood film is either a remake, a sequel or an adaptation of existing material.
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When the action moved to the Senate floor, the arguments ran along well-worn tracks — but with added gravity and drama percolating through the day's events.
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Neighborhood Joint Fans of the Kent Theater, a well-worn World War II-era multiplex in Midwood, Brooklyn, appreciate the place for a very practical reason.
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"In short, combining two truisms about playas and haters, both well-worn notions as of 2001, is simply not enough," the judge said in his ruling.
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Koplenko is a pale teenager with light-colored hair, barely visible acne, and a well-worn shirt advertising Roger Stone's book The Clinton's War on Women.
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I am enjoying the movies and TV programs and still have, in my home, big, colorful encyclopedias of both superhero universes that have definitely been well worn.
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Social engineering, or using human lies and pretenses as a means to lull victims into security slip-ups, is a well-worn page of the hacker playbook.
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After holding up the well-worn paperback to the crowd of reporters, he urged others to read it as a way to understand the new American leader.
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It's a well-worn IT joke that there are two kinds of companies—those who know they've been hacked, and those who haven't realized they're hacked yet.
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The numbers confirmed the well-worn stereotype that tech companies are mostly staffed by white men, and kicked off conversations about how to level the playing field.
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Hill arranged a well-worn, tasseled scarf on the glass of a Xerox machine and copied it to form a delicate, yet stark representation of a dragon.
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As the conversations continued, well-worn phrases like "Thoughts and prayers" and "Let's not politicize a tragedy" lost their meaning and became subject to ridicule and parody.
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The first trial run with the R13 involved having it follow me through a dense series of trees, off the well-worn hiking path of the park.
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You know, the fact that I was approaching 50: my life had fallen into some pretty well-worn grooves that were perfectly fine and adapting and adaptive.
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It's a well-worn idea that bitcoin is helping to trash the planet, throwing fuel on an already burning world while providing value to very few people.
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Curbed reports: Complete with hardwood floors, a brick wood-burning fireplace and exposed wood beam vaulted ceiling, the well-worn abode was lovely in its own right.
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And the current situation is a well-worn path that North Korea has traveled many times with U.S. negotiators more skilled and less impulsive than Donald Trump.
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In his mid-fifties with a week's worth of white stubble and well-worn glasses, he wouldn't have looked out of place in a Steve Jobs turtleneck.
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Black Rock is a well-worn stomping ground for amateur rocketry due to its expansive, barren lake bed that lacks any signs of life or flammable materials.
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Under the atrium is The Bar Room, The Beekman's lobby bar, decorated like a well-worn library with dark wood, leather seating, and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.
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This is, it's worth noting, actually a pretty well-worn conceit, beyond the "people killing people" vibe of "The Purge" franchise, which also comes from Blumhouse Productions.
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Pitchers can use a scratch to enhance movement, but even if they don't, a well-worn ball tends to not fly as far as a smooth one.
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On the one hand, HBO's adaptation of Liane Moriarty's 2014 novel will be another take on the well-worn "picture perfect suburban life has real darkness" trope.
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In any case, Harkness, who arrived in jeans and well-worn cowboy boots, her blonde hair staticky from the Santa Ana winds, fairly radiated spontaneity and sincerity.
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But watching the Clintons hash over their well-worn tale of falling in love at Yale Law School, I realize that it's not only about the money.
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An inscrutable van driver — likely limited by the language barrier — distributed well-worn wet suits and mismatched neoprene bootees to us and a backpacking couple from Switzerland.
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Batsheva, designed by Batsheva Hay, specializes in the kind of frocks that would look at home at Pioneer Village, in patterns befitting your grandmother's well-worn couch.
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He was wearing white beach pants, his yoga-toned torso draped in a well-worn "Free Willie" T-shirt with an old mug shot of Willie Nelson.
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The movie runs along a well-worn groove, both in its fealty to adolescent sorrows and in its stout conviction that cigarettes constitute a major food group.
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Once the pair teamed up, they focused on a well-worn path: building buzz around the South with mixtapes and club shows, while DaBaby found his sound.
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But this approach collides with a well-worn truth about the man — that he was opaque and impenetrable even to the women who aspired to marry him.
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That is part of a well-worn biographical story Warren has told again and again in this campaign, but what came next was different and very striking.
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If lawmakers want to ensure that a judge will recognize what they are doing as impeachment, it would be better to follow the most well-worn path.
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The path from struggle to resolution is so well worn, albeit not often in an immigrant Korean milieu, that there is little chance of surprise or adventure.
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In a Santa Fe hotel room last week, I slept under a well-worn woobie that kept me warm while lying in an ambush in Ghazni, Afghanistan.
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And somewhere between Fiss's account of "fundamentality without fundamentalism" and the well-worn "ticking time-bomb" scenario to discuss torture, many readers will find their attention wandering.
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The last time Miguel saw his son, Francisco was wearing a well-worn yellow sweater and gray pants — they've never had much money to spend on clothes.
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Individual viewers will probably find that where they fall on that well-worn cinematic divide will determine how much they appreciate this visually breathtaking, emotionally inert drama.
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Washington, DC (CNN)With pressure mounting on its business, Uber decided to take a well-worn page from the Big Tech playbook: hold a flashy press event.
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Relatives and friends recalled him lugging stacks of books and once rounding the baseball diamond in well-worn cowboy boots after leaving his athletic shoes at home.
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He was ready to take his place between those familiar posts, stand firm on his well-worn patch of turf and play the game of his life.
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A look well worn by stars like Frank Ocean and trademarked on classic movie characters like Draco Malfoy is now being embraced by more and more male celebrities.
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Princess Kate packed a few high-fashion dresses for the royal family's tour of Canada – but she also made sure to bring along her favorite well-worn boots!
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For a segment of Italy's political right, lambasting the pope and his bishops for being too migrant-friendly, and ultimately Muslim-friendly, has become a well-worn trope.
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Bonus points if you've already swapped out your Louboutins for a well-worn pair of Converse All-Stars, as Larson did after winning an Academy Award in 2016.
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Far from retreading well-worn paths, many of the artists brought new takes on emergent and evolving issues, ranging from global warming to the construction of alternative identities.
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Like A Christmas Prince, the streaming service's first foray into the genre, Christmas Inheritance is unapologetically cliché and winsomely well worn in its character development and plot devices.
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Odds are that most of us will follow a well-worn downhill staircase of increasing physical problems that, regardless of its pace, eventually leads to the dirt floor.
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With strains of everything from The Man in the High Castle and The Terminator to District 9 and The Walking Dead, Colony operates within well-worn dystopian tropes.
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Another broadcaster blunder Broadcasters being under fire is already well-worn territory in these young Games, and NBC's Chris Marlowe was the latest to have a regrettable moment.
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In his new film, writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson ("There Will be Blood", "Magnolia" and "Boogie Nights") unpicks and refashions these well-worn tropes into something new.
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For her first-ever trip to the popular athletic-wear shop, she wore black yoga pants, a black coat and black scarf with her well-worn running shoes.
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As the world's largest ecommerce marketplace, Amazon has become ground zero for cutthroat tactics in achieving greater product visibility—among which fake reviews are a well-worn method.
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Trump's initial response to Biden's entry into the race was to use a well-worn playbook - give him a mocking nickname - "Sleepy Joe Biden" - and insult his intelligence.
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"Smile Like You Mean It" and "Somebody Told Me" have the same effect that "Mr Brightside" did, that familiar, well-worn melancholy all overlayed with synths and callbacks.
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There's an ambient old-fashionedness to Victory that goes beyond the fact that its "The Longest Yard meets The Great Escape" plot was already well-worn by 1981.
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Trump said on Tuesday that U.S. and Chinese negotiators were "close" to a "phase one" trade deal, but largely repeated well-worn rhetoric about China's "cheating" on trade.
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He co-sponsored a measure with Democrats to stop Congress from using a well-worn budget gimmick to boost military spending with an unaccountable off-the-books budget.
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Presented as a pulsing rock ritual to dispel the doubts that plague early adulthood, the show also feels as cuddly as a well-worn plush toy (2800:2745).
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Presented as a pulsing rock ritual to dispel the doubts that plague early adulthood, the show also feels as cuddly as a well-worn plush toy (1:5813).
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Presented as a pulsing rock ritual to dispel the doubts that plague early adulthood, the show also feels as cuddly as a well-worn plush toy (22800:28118).
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Presented as a pulsing rock ritual to dispel the doubts that plague early adulthood, the show also feels as cuddly as a well-worn plush toy (21:20).
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It's a well-worn concept, but it's true: some of the very best horror is scary because it evokes, rather than fully illustrates some kind of terrifying concept.
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Well, those mealy-mouthed experts and armchair gladiators must have missed old Samart's knock out contribution to that well-worn debate, the side teep. Speed. Power. Timing. Movement.
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In spite of the brisk weather, the top was down and two men, bundled up in stylish but well-worn coats fashionable sixty years prior, occupied the backseat.
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The World War I drama "Journey's End" is an old-fashioned movie from a well-worn source, the play by R.C. Sherriff, who fought in the war himself.
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From The New York Times: So often after these mass shootings, partisans on either side trot out well-worn arguments about guns and their place in American life.
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That's always a threat with a genre so well worn as the coming-of-age film — the probably nostalgic tale of a child or teenager inching toward adulthood.
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I am pleasantly sunken into the cushions of a well-worn couch in the living room of a two-story brick walkup on the south side of Chicago.
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And a well-worn utility cart, spray-painted in Tiffany's trademark light blue (Pantone 1837), held stocks of cookies and chocolate-covered peanut butter cups from Trader Joe's.
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The dudely dude jock (Gladio), the gender non-conforming kickball (Prompto), the average Joe (Noctis), and the fussy nerd (Ignis)... these are very well-worn ensemble tropes (c.f.
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Kim Severson, Reporter by Frank Falcinelli, Frank Castronovo and Peter Meehan (Artisan, 20173) I feel like I learned so much about cooking from my wrinkly, well-worn copy.
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Terrorism becomes no different from climate change: just more raw material from which to fashion a well-worn narrative about political correctness, elites and the evils of diversity.
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Several designers incorporated workwear basics — a denim jacket, a crew-neck T-shirt or a well-worn button-down — that make the monochromatic summer look feel less precious.
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Based on Eran Kolirin's 2007 film of the same title, "The Band's Visit" uses a well-worn formula that hasn't stopped being recycled since Oedipus stumbled into Thebes.
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Richard Conniff When people talk about natural history museums, they almost always roll out the well-worn descriptive "dusty," to the great exasperation of a curator I know.
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Within a half hour, he had reverted to more well-worn ground, chiding Democrats for pursuing an investigation into potential ties between his campaign and the Russian government.
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Though it&aposs not a well-worn path from an NAIA program, JJ hopes to follow in his brother&aposs footsteps and play professional basketball in the future.
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Because, as 2019 ends, I am breaking up with opt-in by taking up a well-worn Silicon Valley bromide as my digital mantra: Only the paranoid survive.
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Far from the well-worn paths of academic scholarship, Dann acquaints his reader with a protagonist who is an American mystic, a new-age prophet, a cosmic explorer.
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In one well-worn tale recounted by Leavy, Ruth spends a day in a Manhattan lockup, having been caught speeding around the city in his maroon torpedo roadster.
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C.K.'s complaints about they/them pronouns aren't just offensive; they're also tired, well-worn platitudes parroted by everyone from psychologist Jordan Peterson to TV host Piers Morgan.
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Instead of prepared remarks, all he's got is a well-worn legal pad and a book (Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Israeli futurist Yuval Noah Harari).
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The antihero stuff proceeds on such a well-worn track because the digressions that initially seem like pointless ways to fill time ultimately start to take over the show.
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Pat's battles with his literary agent are well-worn clichés, and Tara's marital discord owes mostly to her land-development proposal — one that you'd never risk a relationship over.
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As word got out that Bannon was leaving the White House, Breitbart writer and editor Joel Pollak tweeted "#WAR," a well-worn line made famous by the site's founder.
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Now, Iran's plans to absorb 500 new aircraft in the next decade look set to turn the well-worn system of improvised repairs and clandestine purchases on its head.
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You walk by the ship itself and through a queue that is populated with all the artifacts of an active smuggling operation inside a well-worn, lived-in hangar.
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This is well-worn ground around these parts by now, where we've been pointing out (and making fun of) the timid excuse-making of risk averse GMs for years.
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After the sixth or seventh watch, I knew the film so well it was soothing, like slipping on a sweater so well-worn it sits like a second skin.
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"They're inscribed, Caroline and JFK, Jr." Most iconic might be a leather bomber jacket that was made for President Kennedy to replace the well-worn one he always sported.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Sell in May and go away," arguably the most well-worn axiom on Wall Street, has proven to be shrewd advice during previous midterm election years.
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The director and writer, Noah Buschel, has no fresh insights to add to the well-worn dynamic and doesn't give the actors or the audience much to work with.
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That's much the same thought I had early Sunday afternoon, while hiking a well-worn footpath around the twenty-five-acre lake left behind by an old rock quarry.
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It is all of the qualities that I listed above: video game production value; a recognizable franchise; a well-worn plot; a number of stock characters with clear motivations.
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He didn't cleave to any one tradition or school of thought, limit himself to any one area of philosophy or otherwise take up philosophical questions in well-worn ways.
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This feels akin to the vaccine craze, something that's been safe for so long but now people don't feel the danger associated with deviating from the well-worn path.
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He keeps a well-worn book of the United States Constitution signed by Davis in a glass-encased bookshelf and a letter written by Davis over the fireplace mantel.
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These "pool sprays" are well-worn rituals at the General Assembly, opportunities for jostling reporters and camera people to get photographs and comments from national leaders before they meet.
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But, to put a reverse spin on Mark Antony's well-worn eulogy of Caesar, we come here not to bury the Z and the TT but to praise them.
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The senior Warner executives who made a group decision to produce "King Arthur" saw a chance to put a "Game of Thrones" spin on a well-worn medieval story.
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The playbook is well-worn: First, call for denuclearization, then when asked how to achieve that outcome, call on Beijing to help lean on Pyongyang to make it so.
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Becki Hack, Houston "The Hawaii Cure," by Wells Tower, treads a well-worn path of colonialist tropes as a writer indulges his escapism fantasies with a trip to Hawaii.
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The bar was simple — dim and well worn — while the rest of the street looked comfortable: an upscale grocer, a well-lit head shop, a gym offering aerial yoga.
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But south London's Tirzah manages to pull new, delicate strands out of love's well-worn fabric, on this long-awaited, warm-to-the-touch album of off-kilter pop.
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Most visitors stay only a few hours, travel a well-worn circuit and hustle back onto the boats for the comparative metropolis of Galway or the pubs of Doolin.
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In this video work, an expressionless Nauman walks with his arms behinds his head in an exaggerated contrapposto, wearing a white t-shirt and jeans, with well-worn boots.
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If you've been following Dyson, a company well-known for fresh takes on well-worn household appliances (vacuums, fans, hand dryers), then the Dyson Supersonic may look a little familiar.
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The ambitious effort to get past Buffett's well-worn homilies, however, puts his late wife Susie into the starring role of not just the film, but also his charmed life.
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It's mostly a convenient excuse to repeat well-worn tropes about The Three Laws of Robotics and point out — sagely — that the dreams of building intelligent machines are long-standing.
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Whether it's the CDC building in The Walking Dead or a California amusement park in Zombieland, the so-called "safe zone" is a well-worn trope in the zombie subgenre.
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Frankly, though, the notion of a child reminiscing about a complicated history with a famous parent is such a well-worn device it can't help but feel like a cliché.
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Mr Clegg: What is new, and this is a well-worn observation, is...people don't identify with the same political parties and political philosophies as their parents or grandparents did.
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By now you probably made it through a few rotations of your winter wardrobe and may be ready to retire the tights and shake up your well-worn sweater collection.
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To borrow a well-worn distinction from the moral philosopher Harry Frankfurt, Nixon was a liar—he knew what he said was false—while Brinkley was simply a bullshit artist.
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They can partner with institutions falling into the well-worn traps of academia, teaching theory without application, or relying on dated practices that leave graduates unprepared for the labor market.
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There's a well-worn porn cliche about the college student-turned-actress who decided to have sex in front of a camera in order to pay off her student loans.
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Anderson's depiction mixes the heroic with the ironic, deftly showing how the very dirty work of oil exploration fit into well-worn myths about the conquering of the American frontier.
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Armed with whiteboards, buzzwords, mind-maps, and rainbow colored Post-its, consultants apply the well-worn tenets of design thinking—empathizing, ideating, prototyping and so on—to America's restaurant landscape.
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In light of this, it seems like something of a wasted opportunity that the most recent season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has sunk more deeply into well worn sitcom clichés.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The stereotype of millennials living in their parents' basements is well worn by now, but what about the 25-year-old still on a family cellphone plan?
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The transition from hedge fund to data aggregator is not a well-worn career path, and Reich said he was drawn to Quandl in part because of the Nasdaq acquisition.
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Having spent decades on the road with the Beatles, Wings and as a solo artist, Mr. McCartney acknowledges that concertgoers may have heard one of his well-worn stories before.
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The hall of mirrors confrontation is a well-worn thriller trope, and this is a novel spin on it, bringing dynamism to a scene that's playing out over the web.
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At Hotel Raya, there were no televisions, the towels were well-worn and the doors to my room did not close properly — but then, who would ever want them shut?
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Located in a former grocery store, Taberna da Rua das Flores has the well-worn atmosphere of an old Lisbon tavern, with tile floors, wooden chairs and marble-topped tables.
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On "Social Cues," the group combines — and revitalizes — two well-worn scenarios: the pains-of-fame album and the romantic-breakup album (the band's frontman, Matt Shultz, was recently divorced).
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After gaining few tangible economic benefits from two summit meetings, the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, is now turning to a well-worn playbook written by his father and grandfather.
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"This is certainly, for lack of a better term, a schizophrenic district," Mr. Sanford said on Tuesday as he drove his well-worn Chevrolet Suburban to a deli in Summerville.
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And it is much cozier to step out of bed onto a soft, new rug than cold linoleum or the well-worn wall-to-wall carpeting found in many dorms.
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After graduating from an elite prep school in Manhattan and then Dartmouth College, he began working in finance and climbed a well-worn path to professional success and financial comfort.
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"It's a really scary proposition to leave the country," he said, sitting on his well-worn couch in front of a brand-new 4K-definition Sony television, the room's centerpiece.
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The large-scale installation, titled "Pause," features three boulder-like forms, or, as Shin calls them, "scholar's rocks," encrusted with well-worn Nokias, Blackberries and smartphones that glitter like granite.
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It's a well-worn story that such decisive, military-scale cartel action is largely equipped by the seemingly endless iron river of blackmarket firearms trafficked illegally from the United States.
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Friday's drone strike that took out Soleimani is but merely one more bump on a well-worn, long, and winding road of a conflict that's been killing people for generations.
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The notion of an ordinary person thrust into such dire circumstances has a well-worn history, as Stephanie discover her capacity to inflict and endure pain along with the audience.
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Though his message is well worn, Mr. Sanders has indicated that he is trying to remedy weaknesses from his first presidential campaign, including his lack of support from black voters.
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And yet Kentucky's approach to Medicaid draws from a well-worn playbook, one from which both Republicans and Democrats have drawn to trim the social safety net over the years.
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These shows are wildly different, but both "The 9-8" and The Flash's Earth Two rely on "bizarro characters," a well-worn TV trope that almost always yields satisfying results.
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Get To Work: With Suzy Welch When discussing upcoming meetings, complicated projects or even a workplace conflict, it's easy to fall back on well-worn phrases to get your point across.
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Are these players even making their own decisions, or are they all just following well-worn paths, knowing their places in the hierarchy, carved out by the archetypes that came before?
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Usually, after a breakup, one is left with lingering heartache, a few well-worn mixtapes — or Spotify playlists — and a host of text messages and social media photos to be deleted.
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The campaign against Mr Soros, who is Jewish, used well-worn anti-Semitic themes, portraying him as a "global capitalist" and puppeteer, who tries to control Hungary from behind the scenes.
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In other words, the Lyft co-founders propose combining two well-worn traffic reduction theories — HOV lanes and congestion pricing — into one in order to combat the growing scourge of gridlock.
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But while these new shorts may be able to offer a fresh perspective on some well-worn scenes and characters, I can't help but feel that they're also missing the point.
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We bought them because they cost less than $15 — they also kept us very warm, made our cheap apartment more cheerful, and never looked dirty, despite how well-worn they got.
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No doubt somewhere in Bryan's home is a well-worn copy of Travis' seminal album Storms of Life — as it should be for any country artist (or fan, for that matter).
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Though some were quick to point out to Molyneux the well-worn modus operandi of the site ("not your personal army") enough were bored, amused, or new enough not to care.
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Whether it's The Godfather or Tony Soprano, we love to watch guys in Italian restaurants taking care of business; the Mafia film becoming a trope as well-worn as the Western.
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And so we're using his computer and his printer to print it out and there on his desk is a well-worn, dog-eared copy of the book 'Negotiating for Dummies'.
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So far, May has little option and no desire to do anything but stick to her well-worn script that Britain will leave the EU's economic single market and customs union.
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I don't mean in a romantic sense, I mean in a practical sense: the well-worn sweater that doesn't fit right anymore, the once-comforting movie you've gotten sick of watching.
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Mechanical Drives follows a well-worn path of Siemens activities that have been given operational independence, usually as a precursor to a legal separation followed by a sale or spin-off.
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On the other hand, the West Village is the kind of neighborhood where you can kill time at a well-worn thirty-year-old store called Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books.
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But, Kabila is using well-worn tactics to remain in power, notably fomenting political unrest and using that turbulence to declare the nation is too unstable for him to step down.
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It features a well-worn Pornhub joke genre involving non-sexual videos of Donald Trump with titles that imply he's fucking over the country — or in this case the Democratic party.
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She was pretty well camouflaged for her outing in a well-worn plaid J. Crew shirt and Bottega Veneta black leather jacket, her garb a kind of youthfully understated urban armor.
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Ray argues that rather than sending new films down well-worn lucrative ruts, more data will free up producers to pick up interesting scripts that might not immediately seem commercially promising.
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Most days, he's sharply dressed in a Brooks Brothers button-down shirt, white cotton painter's pants and well-worn suede cowboy boots from the Camargue-based shoe brand La Botte Gardiane.
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"Yomeddine" is not a coming-of-age exactly — Beshay is no adolescent — but his search for a lost part of his identity mimics the patterns of the well-worn bildungsroman genre.
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Instead of asking well-worn questions like, "How was your day?" or "Did you have a good weekend?" get curious about a co-worker, friend or partner by asking something personal.
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Dry January represents well-worn territory for Kim Stodel, the bar manager at Providence, a Michelin-starred restaurant whose inventive nonalcoholic cocktail offerings are almost as popular as the boozy ones.
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And whilst a "bridge to the valley" is a well worn claim by multiple European VCs, Blossom's track record so far bears this is out somewhat, even if it is nascent.
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By shifting the setting to a near-deserted island, the developers at Nintendo have found a premise that lets them play with a well-worn formula while still keeping what works.
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The spiral staircases in the Arc de Triomphe seem to impart the double-helix misery of France's martial DNA in their well-worn spiral steps, vertigo-inducing when I look down.
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As the stock sits at those records, the rally could be putting Apple on its well-worn path leading to a pullback, says Frank Cappelleri, chief market technician at Nomura Instinet.
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But given her previous comments, the latest remarks struck many observers as playing into well-worn anti-Semitic tropes about Jewish attachments to Israel making them disloyal to the United States.
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The current president and his recent predecessors have turned the State of the Union into a campaign rally featuring a laundry list of hot-button issues, repeating well-worn talking points.
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Conversely, one of the downsides of the age of plenty is that the more widely you listen outside your well-worn grooves, the more frequently you'll experience disappointment, distaste or just indifference.
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When Rubio repeated the same line again, Christie sought to reinforce the charge that Rubio is so inexperienced that he relies on well-worn talking points and cannot think on his feet.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Delegates at the opening of China's annual political conferences on Monday were invited to apply their well-worn rubber stamps to a retread of 2017's economic plan.
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Outside of the location-sharing element, Snap Map also gives users an alternative way to discover Story content beyond the well-worn Stories feed and the powerful but buried Story Search feature.
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Take Mr. Trump's bizarre speech last month to the Republican Jewish Coalition, where he kept inexplicably returning to the same well-worn tropes that anti-Semites have been using for a century.
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He has used well-worn Republican rhetoric to explain why Texas must protect women from men dressed as women who were born men following "somebody's wife, or somebody's daughter" into the bathroom.
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The conceit of artists playing target practice with their critics is time-tested and well-worn, and when considered in The 21975's case, it increasingly resembles a total work of fiction.
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For the past thirty-ish years, a well-worn urban legend has been recycled by your grandmother's favorite inspirational channel and websites that have words like 'salvation' and 'testimonies' in their URLs.
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While a summit between the two sitting leaders of the United States and North Korea would be historically unprecedented, many of the issues they will be discussing are actually well-worn territory.
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It's the ultimate "glampsite": Airy wood and canvas tents curated with boutique hotel precision: king-size beds, plush linens, animal hide area rugs, well-worn leather chairs, a wood-burning potbelly stove.
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But markets cautiously stuck to well-worn trading ranges ahead of global risk events such as the first-round of French presidential elections at the weekend and continued tensions over North Korea.
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Consumers have been giving up their well-worn feature phones to take advantage of relatively fast Internet speeds and applications such as WhatsApp and those that facilitate banking and taxi-hailing services.
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I had a well-worn copy of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" and plenty of notepads and pens to keep me occupied when I wasn't gaping at the gorgeous landscapes we passed through.
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We are cynical about so many things these days, including love, and part of the reason the well-worn romantic-comedy genre fell into disrepair is that people stopped believing in it.
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These musicians have been together for three times that long, and even when playing some of their most well-worn material, they manage to embody a blend of comfort and restless ingenuity.
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If you need a staple of competitive play like, say, Scalding Tarn, you can shell out $71.22 and have a well-worn copy in your mailbox by the end of the week.
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By broadcasting for the world to see in all caps, they break the well-worn routine of these events and force us to embody the chaos and terror in the first person.
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For all the passion of the words, there was an air of anticlimax about the final session, with the lawyers and judges going through well-worn paces and stating well-known positions.
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Debates often demand balancing acts from participants — to exude strength without being meanspirited, to deliver well-worn platform points with a perceptible authenticity and to be "likable" enough while defending their policies.
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On Sunday, he tweeted that the social-media-savvy women known as "the squad" should "go back" to the countries they came from, a well-worn racist trope that dates back centuries.
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The album, released on Third Man Records, Jack White's tastemaking label, blends Ms. Price's gripping confessionals with rootsy melodies that sound as well worn as a 30003 single playing on a jukebox.
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When President Donald Trump travels to Springfield, Missouri, on Wednesday to stump for tax reform, he'll rely on a well-worn argument that giving businesses a tax break will create more jobs.
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Reviews out of the Venice Film Festival compared it to well-worn sci-fi touchstones "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Solaris," and "Apocalypse Now," in part due to its probing adventure narrative.
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Donald Trump's statement today on Saturday's murder in Charlottesville — a grudging, teleprompted address that came only after days of foot-dragging and criticism — is the latest edition of a well-worn tango.
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In having separate classes of shares — and letting its founders have more power than other shareholders — Lyft is following a well-worn tech company tradition, one adopted by Facebook, Snap and others.
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The only part of his outfit that wasn't somehow printed with the Moroccan flag—red background, green five-pointed star—was a pair of well-worn, orange and white Brooks running shoes.
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The Claire Tow Theater is compact, and rather new — opening in 2012 — so it doesn't have much of the creaking floors and well-worn curtains of theaters more prone to conjure ghosts.
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It is unlike any surveys written by other critics and historians who focus on a few well worn, theoretical threads of art making, the better to control contemporary history and the marketplace.
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From 1993 to 2002, a strange show that played off of well-worn tropes from The Twilight Zone, monster movies, and classic detective serials grew from a cult hit into a mainstream phenomenon.
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The group's internationalism shines through in posters with news from Mozambique's civil wars and well-worn copies of Franz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, as well as Ensemble newsletters and copies of Staffrider.
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The conversation isn't too big on major revelations — Forstall discusses well-worn topics like the original multitouch prototype, and how Apple decided to create the iPhone after first planning to produce a tablet.
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It sounds like it could've been written two centuries ago or yesterday, employing tried-and-true melodies along with well-worn, loose and natural instrumentation, handclap percussion, and his own down-home delivery.
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While that isolation has made the area a favorite for drug smugglers, it has made it one of the last sections of the US border where migrants haven't developed well-worn trails north.
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Well-worn photographs of children and families tucked into the edge of mirrors or pressed onto walls in the women's spartan barracks are reminders of what they have sacrificed to join the fight.
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There's the glut of references to well-worn Australian stereotypes, such as Foster's beer (which no one drinks, by the way), cork hat wearing people that carry boomerangs, and kangaroos hopping around everywhere.
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Screenshot: User InyerfaceYou don't know what you have until it's gone is a well-worn cliche, but also an apt description of a web game called User Inyerface, created by design firm Bagaar.
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Several habaneros summed up their sense of betrayal with a well-worn expression: No hay peor astilla que la del mismo palo ("There is no splinter worse than one from the same stick").
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" "A lot of the things we're seeing now like the aluminum and steel tariffs are not new – we've seen those same kind of protectionist measures before and so it's a well-worn playbook.
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For most of our lifetimes, elites of both parties have embraced this economic approach, tinkering around its margins and justifying it with well-worn conservative appeals to meritocracy or liberal ones to diversity.
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After a presentation by a diverse panel, a young man dressed in a well-worn brown tweed coat and loosened tie, as if coming from a long day's work, stood up and spoke.
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This is even truer for novels traversing well-worn fictional territory — like counterfactual World War II fantasies or tales featuring gender-bending female warriors, mythic creatures like golems and the medieval Khazar kingdom.
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Another building has six more rustic rooms, and a set of bookshelves overflowing with well-worn field guides (handy for identifying endemic birds like the pale-headed jacamars that hang around the buildings).
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Catherine Opie's important but well-worn photographs of butch lesbians take markers of masculinity — the dangling cigarette, the painter's-brush mustache — and redeploy them with sex appeal and naughty humor, for political advocacy.
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Swaps were a well worn tradition when it came to music, which could easily be copied onto tapes, but unlike music, cracked video games didn't degrade in quality each time they were copied.
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On the three albums that he released—2011's No Time for Dreaming, 2013's Victim of Love, and 2016's Changes—Bradley reinvigorated the well-worn tropes of soul and R&B.
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He has worked on movies for years, but his directorial debut, "Humor Me," a lightly amusing stroll down some well-worn streets, shares a sensibility with his popular site, with narrative tacked on.
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It helped build Melbourne's European-style devotion to pleasure, where good food came from casual cafes as often as from fancy restaurants, where coffee and wine and conversation flowed across well-worn counters.
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All of a sudden, the well-worn Apple Way—keeping quiet until a world-changing device or service was ready for consumers—looked like a road to ruin for the company's newest product.
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He took a well-worn path to elected office, attending Stanford, serving in the Peace Corps and graduating from Harvard Law School, then taking a job as a county prosecutor in eastern Massachusetts.
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He took a well-worn path to elected office, attending Stanford, serving in the Peace Corps and graduating from Harvard Law School, then taking a job as a county prosecutor in eastern Massachusetts.
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While Bloomberg is forcing other Democrats to talk about something new, Sanders is being asked to defend one of the most well-worn topics in this race: whether his supporters are too mean.
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That player, the 19-year-old Tyler Adams, and other American prospects now head to the continent in waves, and in general the professional pathways there have become well worn and widely available.
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Having set up a lofty coming-of-age choice between good and evil, Andrew Lanham's screenplay — as fuzzy as the legend from which it sprouts — caves beneath unlikely coincidences and well-worn stereotypes.
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" Changing a room by swapping out throw pillows is such a well-worn concept, Mr. Bilhuber said, that "if somebody says 'change your pillows' one more time, I'm going to change my job.
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I wanted to know why there seems to be a newfound appreciation for these flicks, and what the secret to success is when you've got a pretty well-worn formula to stick to.
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LAUNCESTON, Australia (Reuters) - Under-promise and then over-deliver is a well-worn tactic to boost one's fortunes, with OPEC's somewhat woolly promise to cut crude oil output the latest example of this strategy.
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The path to Farrah Abraham's rejuvenated vagina might be well worn, but you can still make an impression on her -- for the cost of a new pair of heels or a trip to Bangkok.
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But then you notice a well-worn path coming out of the river where the tall bamboo-like cane has been flattened, and reality strikes: You're not the first person to come through here.
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Mulheres Rodadas (roughly, "well-worn women"), a feminist bloco in Rio de Janeiro, wanted to remove from its repertoire "Tropicália", a much-loved song by Caetano Veloso, one of Brazil's most popular singer-songwriters.
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But as we react to and evaluate his new foreign policy postures, we must acknowledge that in reiterating his support for America's military presence in this region, he follows in well-worn GOP footsteps.
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But Lord and Miller turned it into a meditation on creativity and childhood joy, with a side order of side-eye at some big, well-worn fantasy tropes, like the prophesied "chosen one" hero.
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Jeffress, and others, said they didn't think Trump was anti-Semitic, trotting out the examples that have by now become well-worn — his support for Israel, yes, and the Jews in his own family.
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Although this diversity hasn't historically been communicated visually, the series Delta Hill Riders by photographer Rory Doyle seeks to change the well-worn narrative of the 'white American cowboy' and amplify these underrepresented voices.
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He wrote: I have come to realize that the traditional pathway to politics, and the traditional politicians who follow these well-worn paths, will not lead us to the transformational change our city needs.
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A quarter mile up a steep driveway, where the rising sun illuminated a panorama of wooded ridgelines, I met Dario Davidson, a retired forester wearing a grubby baseball hat and well-worn leather gloves.
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In putting the blame on foreign enemies—rather than focusing on issues of gun control and our treatment of LGBTQ people of color—McCain is using the tragedy to ride his well-worn hobbyhorse.
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It's a well-worn and occasionally effective strategy, and Donald Trump is employing it with aplomb against Ted Cruz in the last stretch of the run-up to the Iowa caucuses on February 1st.
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Writers sit up at night listening to those well-worn riffs, tapping out tributes, shows become spontaneous cover nights, the passing of an era is marked by gestures on porn sites and subway signs.
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That fourth item may be well worn only in Jewish literature, but be warned: Emily Barton's latest novel, "The Book of Esther," mashes up all four in an imaginative, engrossing and entertaining storytelling tapestry.
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C. Boyden Gray, who worked in the White House under Reagan and the elder President George Bush, repeated Mr. Cruz's well-worn attacks against "the Washington cartel" without prompting in an interview on Monday.
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On the eve of his departure for the NATO summit being held on Wednesday and Thursday, Trump linked two well-worn gripes: funding for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and other countries' trade practices.
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I have not found a copy of that vile book in my library, but I imagine it is also well-worn, often photocopied, and passed around just like the fake Social Security benefits paper.
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I love games where well-worn mechanics find a perfectly fitting use, and if basically all of my friends are any indication, Universal Paperclips will likely consume your life for a couple of hours.
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With sound artist Helmut Lemke's sparse line drawings adorning the walls, it resembles an art gallery inside, while the well-worn sofas and plant-heavy courtyard gives the place a cushy after-party feel.
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Shook messes with that well-worn topic a bit, allowing the culprit to explain their side of the story and at least attempt to convince you that neither party is totally in the right.
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"People don't know what goes into one little piece of trail," Mr. Beebe said as he stood on the edge of the hole in well-worn hiking pants that had frayed at the cuffs.
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In the house, the furniture was well worn, but the rooms felt spare and airy, perhaps because she's "decluttering" using the Marie Kondo method and is proudly down to three shirts in her closet.
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The well-worn tactic of hitting people over the head with scary climate change facts has proved inadequate at changing behavior or policies in ways big enough to alter the course of global warming.
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He does not shy away from the occasional ribald story, although he does sometimes pepper conversations with talk of "little engines that could" and red cabooses and other well-worn references to inspirational stories.
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The narrator fixed on an elusive prey has been a well-worn device at least since "Moby-Dick," but if there were ever a subject worthy of investigative mania, it is Paul Le Roux.
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Soon after I was born, in 1979, they relocated to central New Jersey, where they followed a well-worn, upwardly mobile trajectory into the middle class, shared by many professional, English-fluent, Asian immigrants.
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As you may have gathered, "The Great Leap" — as befits a play whose title refers both to modern Chinese history and athletic prowess — ambitiously straddles several well-worn narrative forms, and not without strain.
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As stirring as Sarsgaard is in conveying Peter's eccentricities, he can't quite transcend the well-worn narrative trope of the obsessive oddball (usually a white man) who is unable to connect deeply with others.
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At risk of reading too much subtext into a fun show, "GLOW" seems designed to compare the well-worn tropes that wrestling cherishes with the authentic relationships and dialogue that fuel good TV comedy.
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That's one of the chief questions posed by McMeekin, the latest historian to tread the well-worn path of revolution scholarship in a new book published to coincide with the event's centenary this year.
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If he does not have the will to right the ship and make tough decisions, Puerto Rico will continue to slide down the same well-worn path of irresponsibility that got us into crisis.
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"I have come to realize that the traditional pathway to politics, and the traditional politicians who follow these well-worn paths, will not lead us to the transformational change our city needs," Mckesson wrote.
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Garner's work is a welcome departure from well-worn tropes: by using this ur-symbol to explore racialized otherness and violence, she reclaims the vagina from its historically entrenched use by white feminist artists.
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Some favored the ability to say more, but most just thought changing the well-worn tweet size, and the forced brevity it caused, ruined the very thing that made Twitter charming in the first place.
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Kahena Kunze, who together with Martine Grael is among Brazil's best medal hopes in the 49er FX class, was reluctant to discuss the well-worn topic at the bayside Team Brazil camp in Urca, Rio.
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Yet despite all the familiar pomp and well-worn phrases, there were enough new policies and numbers in Mr Li's speech to highlight the economic uncertainty now facing many in China, including the government itself.
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Neon cityscapes and gritty cyberpunk lowlifes were well-worn tropes even in 2002, but Morgan's book captures the edge that top-tier authors like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling honed in their own formative books.
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It's far from the first time that Trump has used the seat of the presidency to criticize a person of color, and much of the public reaction to the controversy follows a well-worn pattern.
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These are are well-worn, well-documented, anti-Muslim tropes intended to dehumanize, degrade and reinforce negative stereotypes," Ahussain said, adding: "If the president's tweets don't violate Twitter's policies and deserve a disclaimer, what does?
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"Beer before liquor, never been sicker; liquor before beer, you're in the clear" is a well-worn phrase backing the belief that you can avoid a hangover if you take drinks in the "right" order.
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Rouvre's choice in lighting and exposure reveals the well-worn scars and burns on the skin of all the subjects as they proudly show off the bottles and cash in their hand within the foreground.
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From the looks of the desultory sex we just witnessed — Ray comes, Marnie doesn't, Ray picks up his well-worn copy of A Little Life and gets to reading — they won't be boning for long.
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Some privacy advocates also bristle at the idea that these new restrictions would help already powerful internet companies, noting that is a well-worn argument employed by tech giants to try to prevent future regulation.
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Lewis found that transition from well-worn wet to new slick more of a handful than he had perhaps expected, and he had a scrappy out lap that saw him thump the Swimming Pool kerbs.
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Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, that the well-worn path of anti-Pelosi rhetoric will once again be successful as the GOP gears up to defend their House majority.
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There are innovations like 17th-century Tudor thumb pots, used for gentle plant watering, and some well-worn pony boots, designed for ponies pulling a mowing machine, a 19th-century invention that replaced the scythe.
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Throughout the 14-minute loop of "The Marionette Maker," a tiny opera performance plays out — you can watch it from three well-worn theater seats — and the sounds of an airplane seem to pass overhead.
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Somber Trump There was one new wrinkle in the depressingly well-worn ritual of Washington reacting to the latest massacre -- a new White House now understands the heart-rending duty of dealing with national trauma.
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Beyond the retrofuturist veneer of cuts like "Forget Your Place" and lead single "Viktor Borgia," this is Malkmus alright, earnestly if nonchalantly embracing a lo-fi aesthetic using electronic gear instead of well-worn guitars.
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The use of fear to jolt people to voting booths is a well-worn strategy that I've seen in elections around the world, often in countries far less stable and democratic that the United States.
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In its use of repurposed military terms, the book borrows from the well-worn playbook of procedural poetry, using a set of self-imposed rules, strict or loose, to point the way forward for composition.
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LOS ANGELES — Eugene Kashper looks the part of someone who likes to throw back a few P.B.R.s from time to time — hipster glasses, scruffy facial hair, faded T-shirts and jeans and well-worn sneakers.
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But after staff at Savannah's school, Woodside Preschool in Australia, wrote a letter to the Queen to see if the well-worn Harriet could be located, tenacious palace employees set to work to find it.
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Displayed first on a Boeing 747-8 and an Airbus A321, the new paint scheme no longer features any of Lufthansa's well-worn yellow, but instead focuses instead on a simpler blue-and-white design.
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With that in hand, the researchers applied an advanced statistical technique regarded by some academics as an emerging gold standard for making state estimates using national data, based on well-worn demographic and geographic patterns.
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"As activists, particularly women of color, question Dunham's institutional ties to the feminist movement, the well-worn racial fault lines that have long characterized U.S. feminism are coming to the fore once again," she wrote.
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By skillfully weaving well-worn (and well-loved) sci-fi settings through the game's core, RimWorld counts on the player's familiarity with similar stories to be a point of reference in a world of immense possibilities.
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It would have been more dynamic to see one of her teddies mount the head of one of the "Shades," thereby bringing greater tension to a well-worn narrative of enshrined male artists dominating historical narratives.
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And if your channel is extremely well-worn, so to speak, take a beat to consider the difference between having a "type" you tend to be attracted to, and fetishizing people who fit a certain characterization.
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ACROSS MANY parts of the Christian world, soothing and well-worn sermons were preached on May 12th about the indispensable role of women in upholding the faith: it was, after all, Mother's Day in many countries.
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Sure, there are certain items that only get to see the light of day a few times before they get donated, but for the most part, we rely on a reliable stable of well-worn standbys.
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If Clinton uses this question to launch into her well-worn new gun laws mantra, she will be missing the key goal of all town hall debates: Connecting with the actual voter asking you the question.
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It taps into something primal when she wails on the highest, most sustained note in the track and makes you feel like you're listening to the letting go of a long-held and well-worn discontentment.
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Asked what he expected from China on Saturday, Kevin Durant, the 2014 NBA MVP, searched for a moment for something positive to say before settling on the well-worn but trusty cliche: 'they made us work'.
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The welcome is personalized near the entrance by a display of notable cookbooks, one of them a well-worn copy of "Uchi: The Cookbook," from the esteemed Austin, Texas, restaurant Tien lists on his impressive résumé.
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"To recreate the feeling of that pair for Madewell, we used a dead-stock broken twill fabric from the '70s and washed it to give it a well-worn feel," Daily told Refinery29 of their jeans.
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Advertisers dusted off their well-worn playbooks for Super Bowl 50, deploying a combination of humor, celebrities and plenty of animals in their annual appeal for the attention of the game's more than 100 million viewers.
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Scrapping term limits would enable Abdel Aziz to tread a path well worn by leaders of more than a dozen other African countries including in Uganda, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and more recently Rwanda and Congo Republic.
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His recent public statements have focused on the need for continuity and to fight imperialism, a defiant and well-worn message as Cuba faces renewed tensions with the United States since President Donald Trump took office.
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But the carnage he unleashed is unlikely to sufficiently shake up well-worn gun politics to produce meaningful changes in the nation's gun laws, even though public support for more regulation typically spikes after mass shootings.
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Brazilian Nelson Piquet's comment that racing around Monaco was like riding a bicycle in your living room has become a well-worn cliche, but the sense of balance and poise remains as crucial now as then.
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MARACAY, Venezuela (Reuters) - Every morning, Venezuelan archer Elias Malave picks up his old bow, attaches a handful of well-worn arrows to his belt and trains for five hours on an empty field, without a coach.
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Chuck D, Ice Cube, Rakim, Kendrick, Killer Mike, Kano, Mike Skinner, Little Simz and countless others, all tread the well-worn path in that illusory "ideal direction," but it will likely be decades before they're considered.
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If you only know Mastermind as a well-worn and underplayed fixture of living room closets and nursing home common areas, you may have no idea just how big this thing was in its early years.
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And for all his indignation at the start of the speech, Mr. Trump lapsed into well-worn themes later in the one hour and 22-minute speech, even delivering a leisurely reminiscence about his election victory.
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But its approach has been unconventional: • Instead of following the well-worn development playbook — first make shoes, then steel, next cars and computers, and finally semiconductors and automation — China is trying to do all of them.
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The last three pages of the book are filled with a well-worn laundry list of proposals to increase taxes, reduce military spending, limit the role of money in politics and increase the effectiveness of government.
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Suzanne Demko, who lives in Silver Spring, Md., and leads clinical teams in rare tumor research at the Food and Drug Administration, paid $7,087 for three well-worn wristwatches, their thin leather bands cracked and fraying.
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At this point it's a well-worn path to fame: A baby-faced teen rapper with urgent energy and a homegrown mystique comes out of nowhere with a low-budget video that is impossible to ignore.
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Outside, veteran pro- and anti-EU protesters with flags and placards took up well-worn positions on nearby pavements and squares, their rivalry and modest numbers reflecting how Brexit has both divided and exhausted the nation.
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When Target employee Kimberly Davies Shipley found a floppy, well-worn stuffed bunny with a bow in its hair inside her Braintree, MA, store's lost-and-found bin last week, she couldn't bear to part with it.
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Combined with the sort of juvenile coding of the title, above an emblem featuring a Sorcerer's Apprentice-style Mickey Mouse holding a key, framed by a circle of eyes, the tome feels like a well-worn notebook.
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If you're wondering how the hell we got from a heavily rumored Samoa Joe debut-and-win or a Finn Balor return to the well-worn spectacle of a Gen X veteran standing triumphant, you're not alone.
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"I have come to realize that the traditional pathway to politics, and the traditional politicians who follow these well-worn paths, will not lead us to the transformational change our city needs," he said in his announcement.
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Director Daniel Espinosa (who previously worked with Reynolds on the similarly worth-a-rental Safe House) understands that with well-worn material like this, it's best to deliver the goods without a mocking wink to the audience.
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" Now, however, she's often asked to autograph adults' well-worn VHS tapes of the film "and people are always coming up to me, saying, 'My mom played it for me and I play it for my kids.
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Honing in on the well-worn, familiar Rogers and Stark, and to a lesser degree Thor, Black Widow, Bruce Banner, and Hawkeye, tightens Endgame into a superhero movie that's much more thoughtful, wistful even, than its predecessors.
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Discoursing to us from the perch of her well-worn institutional office (Rachel Hauck did the comfortably uncomfortable set), she tells us that it's always important to have an answer, even if it isn't the correct one.
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Both movies have awfully well-worn formulas, with Rodriguez playing Gloria, in a classic tale of an ordinary person drawn into a perilous situation simply by virtue of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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After being traded back to Miami by the Cavaliers early last year, Wade talked himself into a last dance for the 2018-19 season, many nights of which he played younger than his well-worn 37 years.
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"Teacher's Pet" (season 246, episode 247) By 1997, the student/teacher love affair was already a well-worn teen soap trope, and "Teacher's Pet's" twist of having the teacher be a literal predator is only mildly clever.
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A vitrine in the gallery contains a few early versions of Our Bodies, Ourselves, and most notably a well-worn, vintage, black-and-white coffee table photo book that was clearly a huge influence on Haynes's work.
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Our well-worn yard had the look of the perfect hangout house: thick leafy dark clover, bright yellow dandelion blooms, crab grass and bare spots where dust was kicked up after years of sliding into home plate.
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First Person Plural The wealth of memoirs by teachers seems to spring from a well-worn career path — so many writers are also educators; they know the allure of the natural narrative arc of the school year.
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Nearby a producer named Aaron Merrell, who works full time for the church, draped a well-worn copy of the Book of Mormon across his lap, "Season Three" printed neatly in permanent marker along the outer pages.
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What is coming is this: a hat to be worn when taking a train, a compact in a pocket, a letter in a pocket, two hands, a waterfall pouring its contents into a well-worn shuddering mind.
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And the content of his stand-up right now is pretty banal stuff, often from the well-worn perspective of an older guy marveling at how technology or fame or dining has changed since he was young.
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Ms. Thurman's husband, Robert Thurman, the Buddhist scholar and activist, made his way down the twisting stairs of their idiosyncratic handmade house, and the two settled into a well-worn sofa, the dogs strewed on the floor.
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And for many voters, that's "a nostalgia act whose well-worn slogans about middle-class uplift and national unity are out of sync in this season of outrage," as Molly Ball wrote in Time magazine last week.
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They laid him out on a sturdy folding banquet table and dressed him in well-worn bluejeans, a Harley Davidson bandanna, a long-sleeved Affliction T-shirt and his black leather vest painted with the American flag.
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"The patterns of U.S.-North Korea crises are well-worn and North Korea's nuclear and missile capabilities are obvious," wrote Cotton, an Army combat veteran who has advised the White House on foreign policy issues like Iran.
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The greatest peril for today's Democrats is that Hispanic-Americans will continue along this well-worn path of prior immigrant groups, leaving them increasingly estranged from the party's embrace of left-progressive policies and racialized identity politics.
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SINGAPORE — Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan called on America's allies in Asia Pacific to invest more in national security — a move that's reminiscent of U.S. President Donald Trump's well-worn script to NATO nations on burden-sharing.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling rose against the dollar on Thursday an initiative by European Central Bank President Donald Tusk on Brexit negotiations was taken as mildly positive, on a day when currencies mostly stuck to well-worn trading ranges.
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The expression that "prostitution is the oldest profession in the world" is well-worn, but doesn't capture how sex work can paradoxically attract the highest respect or the cruelest disdain within the same society, depending on the context.
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The sleek, modern designs of the equipment in Ridley Scott's Prometheus doesn't mesh well with the well-worn Nostromo in Alien, and the elegant lines of the Star Wars prequels feel out of step with the original trilogy.
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In this final gallery, we see the artist's Balenciaga suit and well-worn Ferragamos, a spread in Interview and the Warhol silkscreen, a Cecil Beaton portrait for Vogue, the adoring photographs by Philippe Halsman, Arnold Newman, John Loengard.
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Granted, both the milieu — "gay Paree" in the belle epoque — and Lautrec's life, with its built-in pathos surrounding his congenital physical problems and his early death, at 36, from alcoholism, are well-worn ground, cobbled with clichés.
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Dreamy and supple at first, the premiere, for five dancers, grew heavy-handed in its depiction of sacrifice as "the chosen one" shed her clothes and danced to Arvo Pärt's well-worn "Für Alina" in the fading light.
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Her fantasy was that a musician would walk through "Star Formation," recognize some well-worn cymbal that he or she once owned, pull her aside and tell her a great back story about the night it got cracked.
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The president, returning to a well-worn tactic of scouring media reports for any opportunity that would allow him to seize the news cycle again, decided not to cancel a planned sit-down with Fox News on Wednesday.
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As Sanders spoke, rolling through the well-worn and well-loved lines of his stump speech, hitting issues like student debt, marijuana legalization, and police accountability, Manu Gowswami was happy to get a glimpse of his beloved candidate.
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When he's not on set, or being the face of the Armani Code Absolu fragrance, he can be found at home in Westchester County, N.Y., wearing a favorite T-shirt, well-worn trousers and trusty pair of boots.
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Even in the 1890s, a killer who targets prostitutes is such well-worn territory that it's tempting to turn off the series after its premiere, writing it off as an exercise in macabre, exploitative style and little else.
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Other attacks include simply tricking users into giving up login credentials, using extreme amounts of online traffic to crash networks, monitoring unsecured communications like email and simply exploiting well-worn vulnerabilities a target never got around to patching.
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But with his new movie, "Dunkirk," (out Friday, July 21), Mr. Nolan ventures into the harsh world of a real war, which outwardly seems like well-worn terrain, except that he has never tackled anything like it before.
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Based on a 2014 comic by Rick Remender and Wes Craig (Remender is also the new series' showrunner and executive producer), Deadly Class plays with the well-worn and very successful trope of a school for gifted youngsters.
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It's one of the most well-worn romantic conceits out there, in which circumstances conspire to lead two people to pretend to be in a relationship together, only to inevitably fall in love during the course of their subterfuge.
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Indeed, instead of asking tough questions on China, nuclear weapons, under what conditions would a candidate use force, NBC chose to play off the same thoroughly politicized and well-worn themes: support for the Iraq war and Clinton's emails.
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It also looks like Peppermint is exploiting some particularly well-worn tropes in terms of class and race (picture-perfect upper-middle class white family beset by evil gang violence) that feel particularly tired given the current cultural climate.
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Or Angel Cabrera, who rewrote his well-worn script in 2007, the last time the Open was held at Oakmont, by winning the first of his two majors with great ball-striking and putting that was merely good enough.
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In the past year, movies like Love, Simon, Set It Up, Crazy Rich Asians, and To All the Boys I've Loved Before have put their own spins on well-worn conventions, and addressed a lot of Isn't It Romantic?
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Senator Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican who has also embraced Mr. Trump, acknowledged that the party may have to disavow Mr. Trump, employing the well-worn maxim from former Justice Potter Stewart about how one can detect pornography.
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In other words, when you rely on national, highly-polarized news to inform you, you're more likely to fall into well-worn partisan grooves, and less-likely to actually weigh an individual politician or issue on the actual merits.
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When he stepped onstage at the well-worn Teamsters building, he was standing in a thoroughly gentrified neighborhood, Lawrenceville, that is home to a ramen joint, several boutiques that trumpet their female ownership and, naturally, a hipster coffee shop.
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Ms. LeCrone, recycling her well-worn patterns and phrases, presented one lethargic ballet after the other, while Ms. Schreier, whose bland choreography is overly embellished with Balanchine touches — a raised hip, a flexed foot — had an oppressive, sanctimonious air.
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This extends to the well-worn storytelling devices that have been used to elicit the empathy needed to truly fathom such mass-scale tragedy (think of any World War II film with its tragic ending and rain-soaked cinematography).
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As with photographic postcard imagery of well-traveled sites, Warren's stagings of tranquil collegiate vistas represent the beginnings of a robust if now well-worn tradition: the elite college experience pitched as a picturesque retreat enhanced by the blandishments of nature.
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You probably keep note of the songs that remind you of the euphoria of your early twenties, the drudgery of a commute, the comforting rat-a-tat rocking of a train carriage along a well-worn path to visit family.
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For instance, there's the early autumn outfit, when it's solidly in the mid '60s but still sunny: You break out a fur-lined bomber and wear it over your well-worn summer cutoffs, as Hill demonstrates in the image above.
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Those arguments largely restated her well-worn line and have yet to convince lawmakers, especially eurosceptics who say her agreement does not offer a clean break with the EU, as well as EU supporters who want to maintain closer ties.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BEIRUT — As the Sunday evening sun set on the 13th edition of the Sharjah Biennial, Tamawuj, elbow room became scarce on the third floor of a well-worn stately home in Beirut's Sanayeh neighbourhood.
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This week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said little about Trump's approach, simply renewing a call for "calm and restraint" from all sides, a well-worn talking point that has allowed them to present themselves as the adults in the room.
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It is moving away from marketing its medieval cities like Bruges and Ghent as it tries to lure cyclists, art lovers and beer aficionados to its country lanes, cultural gems and monastery breweries - taking them off well-worn tourist trails.
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While many of the techniques are well-worn, and promises of achieving "dramatic changes" via small, largely common-sense tweaks might strain credulity, the 87 take-em-or-leave-em tips are bound to include a few nuggets you can implement.
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Daleiden, who runs the California-based nonprofit Center for Medical Progress, and Merritt, a fellow anti-abortion activist and retired teacher, have cast themselves as "citizen journalists" who employed well-worn undercover tactics of the news media to expose wrongdoing.
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Lowell, Massachusetts (CNN)Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Monday night, delivering a fairly routine stump speech covering well-worn topics such as a southern border wall, ISIS, his poll numbers and getting in some knocks on Hillary Clinton.
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His campaign for president represented little more than the cynical deployment of a well-worn Republican strategy: whip up white resentment toward immigrants and people of color in order to build a governing agenda that enriches the most privileged among us.
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With the number of countries importing LNG having risen to 22017 from 22016 in three years, "plug and play" projects, in which regasification vessels link to well-worn physical and commercial infrastructure, are expected to continue if at a slower pace.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Central banks might inject no more cash into economies by dropping money from aircraft — whether real or imaginary — than via well-worn QE schemes, but in breaking a long-standing taboo they may do far more damage to currencies.
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I fantasized that we might have breast-fed while watching the sexy antihero Louis C.K., recited the poetry of Sei Shonagun, talked about the new Jenny Offill novel that we couldn't put down, sharing our well-worn copies of Jane Bowles.
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KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military wants to replace Afghanistan's well-worn fleet of Russian helicopters with American-made aircraft, according to a new budget proposal, a decision aimed at reducing the Afghan air force's decades-long reliance on Russian equipment.
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That couch is the well-worn centerpiece of many pornographic films that fall into the "casting couch" genre: The interviewer welcomes a woman into his office, under the pretense (at least to the viewer) that there's a job to land.
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It's a tribute to the grit of those for whom the solitude and breathtaking panorama outweighed the lonely toil (though one well-worn, if unconfirmed, story involves a new bride who high-tailed it back to civilization after just one night).
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Though his account retraces well-worn trails, he advances the debate with his analysis of the role that Castro's independent decision to fire at United States reconnaissance planes may have played in encouraging a worried Khrushchev to respond to Kennedy's ultimatum.
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Outside the elevator in his West Hollywood apartment building, holding a bag of garbage to go out, the tall, silver-haired man in a well-worn black polo shirt appeared a far cry from the hell-raising socialite he once was.
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However, a quick review of the companies behind LinkNYC suggests that the focus is less on the futuristic goal of improving citizen's daily lives, and more on the well-worn moneymaking practices of collecting user data and providing targeted digital advertising.
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As we sat over glasses of wine and talked about life, liberty and the pursuit of wellness, I was struck by the couple's well-worn camaraderie and by a certain aura of renegade authenticity that both possess, despite their success.
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Imagining these rituals and how they would unfold, it's hard not to feel that a tragedy as huge as 9/11 today might ultimately feel diminished, flattened by these well-worn responses and outrage cycles that unfold at ever-faster speeds.
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What's overlooked in the well-worn narrative of the first comedy boom is that it began after an era of remarkable innovation from artists like Steve Martin, Richard Pryor and Andy Kaufman, and its subsequent collapse led to more adventurous work.
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Mr. Lieberman filled in for Mr. McCain at the forum and visited the senator afterward at the hospital, mixing talk of North Korea and Iran with well-worn jokes, like the one about the difference between a lawyer and a catfish.
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" The Sun continued, "From China — the largest producer of fentanyl worldwide — the drug is sent daily by plane or ship to Mexico, where traffickers and truckers push it along well-worn paths of illicit narcotics north to the United States.
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And, as the opponents of meaningful restrictions on the sale of guns and ammunition trot out their well-worn arguments for ignoring the bloodletting, another missed opportunity to call them on the enormous gap in the logic of their case.
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When the subject of Trump came up aboard Air Force Two, Biden referred to a well-worn story about how, as a freshman senator, he saw Jesse Helms, the archconservative North Carolina Republican, ripping into a piece of disabilities legislation.
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Well-worn black leather on one side, raw cowhide on the other, it recalls the black-and-brown body of Marsyas, as depicted in Titian's late masterpiece, an artistic martyr gruesomely flayed for daring to challenge Apollo to a musical contest.
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It also puts its statement jewelry, which is beloved by bloggers and a well-worn fall-back for the fashion-savvy looking to spruce up an #OOTD, on the radar of potential customers who might not belong to either of the aforementioned circles.
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I want to put it on pause — to stay in this moment in time when we villagers slip in and out of each other's homes as easily as well-worn slippers, shared caregivers to this throng of helmeted children racing down the sidewalk.
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When I exhausted the well-worn tactic of detailing her alleged crimes in my diary and loose-leaf paper I would conveniently leave around the house for her to find, I decamped to the home of a family friend in north London.
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" But the op-ed itself is really a well-worn list of criticisms of the president: He is "immoral" and "engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed, and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.
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He would have loved to make films about something else, to have dumped the tragic national themes and their well-worn symbols—sabres, white horses, red poppies—for something more exotic, such as "a handful of sexual symbols from a Freudian textbook".
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SOMERSET, N.J./SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As U.S. stock indexes dropped in volatile trading and oil crashed below $30 a barrel on Friday, Federal Reserve officials stuck to a well-worn script: day-to-day financial market swings do not drive monetary policy.
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It's a well-worn tale that, before the boy wizard first hit British bookshelves on June 26, 1997, author J.K. Rowling was turned away by dozens of agents and publishers who couldn't see the value of investing in such a fantastical yarn.
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Questions about the name are well worn by now - his father is a boxing-mad taxi driver - and reporters were warned by a team official not to land any more as a distraught Ali struggled to come to terms with what had happened.
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Making an impactful feature debut, Trachtenberg eschews the well-worn found-footage technique in favor of a suspenseful style that's more consistent with the tense character dynamics of the first two-thirds of the movie, perceptibly heightened by the claustrophobic underground setting.
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"Well-worn diagnoses like bipolar, ADHD, depression, alcoholism all allow the doctor to come up with a game plan they've come up with many times before, giving what they think is a clear path to treatment for their patient," Reynolds told VICE Impact.
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In an interview Wednesday with Fox News's Bret Baier, Clinton initially dodged questions about what she would do differently than Obama on the economy, turning to a well-worn campaign statement about how Obama hasn't received enough credit for the economic recovery.
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Despite the light dusting of pop physics — specifically, the "many worlds" version of multiverse theory, in which virtually every choice made by every sentient being engenders a new universe — Crouch is effectively repurposing and joining two well-worn channels of fictional speculation.
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Though its title comes from the French — Camus's well-worn "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there lay within me an invincible summer" — Alice Adams's irresistible debut novel falls squarely into that most English of genres: the comedy of manners.
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The games are based on well-worn tropes of the genre and hark back to simple, free puzzle games of decades past: bring a line to an end point, set a number of squares on a line without any of them touching.
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There are strikingly evocative images ("The dogs are in the woods/And the huntin's lookin' good"), as well as some well-worn phrases about soaring eagles and hell's fury that might pass unnoticed in a song but jump out on the page.
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"I told the president that the Pacific is big enough to accommodate both China and the United States," Mr. Xi said, after reciting his well-worn line that the two countries could peacefully coexist if they respected each other's different political systems.
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I'm meeting one-half of Malitia Malimob, Chinoo Capo Gaddafi (born Guled Diriye), at Paradise Restaurant, a well-worn Somali restaurant so underground and deep in the community that Chinoo had to call ahead to let them know that white people were coming.
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"He is also a leading proponent of that elusive brand of anti-decoration, high-bohemian taste favored by self-confident Englishmen, a look based on well-worn grandeur, disarming charm and unexpected contrasts," Christopher Mason wrote in The New York Times in 290.
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Critic's Pick If Mike Birbiglia were a piece of furniture, he would surely be a well-worn, deeply stained, slightly squishy couch, much like the one he describes at the beginning of "The New One," his winning Broadway debut at the Cort Theater.
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But Phillip C. Saunders, the director of the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at the National Defense University, said they usually emphasized two well-worn points: The North Korean government is stable, and China's influence over North Korea is limited.
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WASHINGTON — The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, strolled before the cameras on Thursday with defeat at her back once more, projecting a well-worn swagger — brash, defiant, more than a little off key — as she insisted that her moment had not passed.
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His stand-up has long found creative ways to ridicule well-worn expressions ("I can't even begin to tell you; I'll begin to tell you," went one digression), and he delights in playing devil's advocate (see his remarkably persuasive case for Vanilla Ice).
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"Crime in Sports" sheds light on a lot of bizarre stories you've likely never heard, but even when they're on familiar ground with Tonya Harding or O.J. Simpson, Pietragallo and Whisman find new angles and avoid the well-worn aspects of each subject.
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And the industry — following the same well-worn path industry groups used to create doubt about the dangers of tobacco, acid rain, the ozone hole, and more — has systematically showered money on think tanks and scientists willing to express skepticism about climate change.
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Following the retreat of the glaciers, Anishinabek Indians were active here when Europeans arrived in the mid-1600s, and some of the 100 miles of hiking trails trace well-worn paths the Indians followed across the dunes to reach their fishing camps.
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With their son's well-worn Superman cape, pre-school diploma and lemonade stand advertisement spread in front of them, they said they hoped museum visitors will get to know their son as an individual, as well as experience civil rights history up close.
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Yet, in keeping so closely to the well-worn script, he proved, that even in this #MeToo era, where he will claim to be a change agent and a leader, the script is too enduring and too ingrained to attempt a rewrite.
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The presence of Jones is always welcome, but notice how he slots into a well-worn position, previously held by Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, and Albert Finney: the older gentleman spy, whose machinations rouse the ire—and the dormant idealism—of Bourne.
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Season 2 seems to be losing ground on that front, by using a ridiculous, well-worn supervillain trope in a plot centering around Detective Brigid O'Reilly (Emma Lahana), who was exposed to a particularly strong blast of the mysterious energy in the season 1 finale.
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Whether they are expertly redesigning a cute home for the man that needs their help, tossing a well-worn La-Z-Boy in the trash, or engaging in difficult, and ultimately important conversation about masculinity, the Fab Five perpetually operates with love, optimism, and empathy.
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However, we should be mindful, because as we have discovered in the work of Diversity and Inclusion, change is a long road that many times falls back on well-worn excuses, flashy presentations and fast following others to explain away the lack of substantive progress.
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Bring the look into your everyday life by slipping on some Birkenstocks or Teva's with cropped denim and a fisherman shirt, hoops, and extra-thin sunglasses, or sling-on a nylon backpack in place of your well-worn tote for commutes or weekends away.
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There's a comfort in those old chords, the kind of well-worn familiarity that is so often missing in a streaming-centric world where it's almost infuriatingly easy to speed through eight new albums in a day without a single riff catching in your head.
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Their reminiscences are thoughtful and emotional — their well-worn faces beautiful, weathered afterimages of the ones we see in the footage from 1973 — and they expose the complicated power dynamics that emerged in the group, as well as an easy camaraderie that challenged Genovés's hypothesis.
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As we watched, the group of women exited their well-worn patch of garden and moved to the upper level, where we were seated, a bold maneuver that allowed them to pass directly in front of us, as close as polite American society would permit.
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The former New York City mayor is putting his focus toward a slate of states that will vote in the Super Tuesday contest in March -- a stunning deviation from the well-worn presidential campaign playbook that calls for stops in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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The workers who toiled at the Vázquez carwashes battled for nearly six years before receiving the money they were due, their efforts hampered by the owners having filed for bankruptcy — a well-worn tactic used to avoid paying exploited workers, according to labor advocates.
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" And while Le Maire reiterated his insistence that while a settlement would be "wiser" for both sides, in the absence of any compromise, he repeated a now well-worn mantra about potential retaliation: "we won't have any other choice but to also take measures.
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If you're the person who blurts out "I'm a poet and I didn't even know it," whenever anything related to poetry pops up in conversation, or if you've ever uttered the even more brazen of the well-worn poetry phrases — "Poetry is dead" — keep reading.
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Meanwhile, hip-hop as an industry continues to develop its own exclusionary economics, luring aspiring rappers with its well-worn rags-to-riches narrative only for agents to charge them to play gigs and established MCs to rip them off for paid guest verses.
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In addition to Tom and Joan's marriage, which has the warm if slightly itchy feel of a pair of well-worn wool socks, the film also looks at Joan's friendship with a fellow cancer patient (David Wilmot), who used to teach their late daughter.
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To my memory, we rarely bought anything, but I was captivated by these whole lives suddenly exposed to be dug through by scavenging hands, while family members or strangers set a dollar amount for stacks of well-worn records and boxes of vacation travel slides.
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That said, the objective of the summit was absolutely conventional: to explore whether we have sufficient national interest and the leadership will to take a very unhealthy relationship with an important nation out of a well-worn rut and move it in a more constructive direction.
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Since we're at the beginning of a new year, and, subsequently, a moment where we're looking for fresh inspiration within our well-worn wardrobe, we're pretty thankful for the current rise in deconstructed tailoring and asymmetrical hems that offer up a more innovative take on a classic.
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And when you hold it, it feels even better thanks to its curvy, rounded plastic back that makes the phone feel like a well worn ocean pebble while also offering a nice departure from the glass sandwich think seemingly every other phone maker is pushing nowadays.
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These days, nearly 21917 years after the fall of the Soviet Union and with all that's happened since — 22019/22008 and the Iraq War, in particular — many in the US have forgotten a lot of the once-well-worn conversations about the Soviet Union and communism.
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It's a well-worn path for Bachelor and Bachelorette alums: Top-billed stars like Nick Viall, Jake Pavelka, and the OG Bachelorette, Trista Sutter (the shows are all on ABC, after all) parlay their top billing into a near-guaranteed second life on Dancing with the Stars.
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The guards, whose main job is to protect Sansa from threats, thieves, and otherwise grungy plebs, noticed Arya's dirt-laced fingernails and her well-worn threads and were like, Yeah, no, someone just mopped and you're definitely not walking in here claiming to be a Stark.
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The premise sounds pretty well-worn by now: Pegg plays an aspiring comic artist who is so desperate for a new apartment that he pretends to be in a relationship with a total stranger (Jessica Stevenson) so the pair can land a new place as flatmates.
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The retro-heavy playlist is dominated by well-worn rock hits of the '70s and '80s, and while "Eye of the Tiger" played to the bar's smattering of patrons, Jeff Dick, a manager and bartender at Heartbreakers, extolls the virtues of the man behind the song.
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I did find some standout pieces among the well-worn modernists, including Burri's "Bianca Plastica" (1967) at the booth of Mazzoleni Art and Magritte's "Paysage Marin avec Oiseau" (1961), a painting of clouds in the shape of a bird on a wine bottle, at Keitelman Gallery.
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While the worldbuilding shows off a surprisingly well-thought-out take on the space opera genre that belies its deployment of some well-worn tropes, the main plot itself is convoluted and jagged, with too few reasons to get invested in the events of the story.
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So much of it feels familiar from many other recent superhero tales — Batman Begins, Doctor Strange, even a bit of Iron Man and Arrow — and the story the series has thus far offered in its first six episodes does little to shake up that well-worn formula.
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Results soon showed the candidate had gained the support of more than 80 percent of voters under 30 in early states like Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, where tens of thousands of people filled rally venues, where they screamed out lines from Sanders's well-worn stump speech.
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" A speaker beside a pair of well-worn sneakers plays a recollection by 29-year-old Adam, on how, during a difficult year, he found escape through hiking: "Nature is something that can take my mind off things, and also give me a purpose to keep going.
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The point seems to be that the human world distracts itself with baubles — fidget spinners and showy art — as its doomsday hour approaches, but, in its penchant for the obvious aesthetic gesture, Semo's version of this well-worn argument participates in the phenomenon it purports to critique.
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It was teatime late last month, and Ms. MacDowell was sitting on a well-worn sofa upholstered in a faded cabbage rose print in the living room of her modest ranch house, mildly exasperated by her inability to recall the names of two current movie stars.
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The former New York City mayor is putting his focus and personal wealth toward a slate of states that will vote in the Super Tuesday contest in March -- a stunning deviation from the well-worn presidential campaign playbook that calls for stops in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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But the six-acre garden has been so ingeniously designed — divided into sections, each of which feels like a separate room enclosed by hedges or tall plantings — that I never felt as if I were part of a mob trudging along the well-worn landscaped paths.
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Think DSquared2, whose maximalist designers, the Canadian twins Dean and Dan Caten, celebrated a quarter century in the business with a greatest hits collection of their well-worn motifs (ponchos, biker gear, north country fleeces, denims) layered in a way they have made a brand signature.
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Photo: Mark Lennihan (AP)After the California legislature passed AB5, a bill designed to force tech companies to treat gig economy workers as employees rather than contractors, Uber has pulled an well-worn card out of its hat: inventing an excuse to just like, not do that.
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It's impossible to know whether this time will be different, but the students affected so far say they have no intention of repeating the well-worn cycle of a school shooting shocking the nation only to recede from the public consciousness before any laws are changed.
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Tracing the influence of Asian art and thought on the American abstract painter Norman Lewis (1909-1979), this lavish, personal exhibition called "Looking East" includes ink drawings, oil paintings and rare notebooks, along with well-worn books on Chinese philosophy, calligraphy and art that Lewis once owned.
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Trump's simmering anger over Special Counsel Robert Mueller's year-old Russia probe appeared to spill over into a series of well-worn recriminations in several tweets, including that the investigation was politically motivated and had its roots in the administration of his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama.
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Regardless of how well-worn the meme is, it's always delightful to see social media-fed super-athletes catching on and having their own go at it, because, well, they're just as bored as us, waiting for two kids from Riverside, California to deliver us some idle-handed joke.
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However, if larger game developers and publishers adopt NFTs, we could quickly revert to the well-worn path of virtual goods, where the token holder is deemed a licensee instead of an owner and is therefore unable to transfer or sell the virtual good to others off platform.
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This week on the podcast, New Republic film critics Tim Grierson and Will Leitch battle it out over X-Men: Apocalypse: Is the film an unnecessary addition to a well-worn franchise, or is it emotionally grounded enough to elevate it above the rest of the year's superhero offerings?
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But despite the undeniable musical brilliance of the trio, there's absolutely no chance in hell that they will ever reunite (Pras claimed that Lauryn Hill was definitely not up for it), so you might as well give up on ever hearing anything other than their well-worn back catalog.
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Ultimately, "Pose" advances the well-worn idea that family is what you make of it, with the various ballroom groups providing "homes to all the little boys and girls," as Elektra puts it, who would otherwise be preyed upon and vulnerable if forced to survive on the streets.
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They're eye-popping numbers, especially for a company whose mantra since 2015 has been "responsible growth," a buzzword so well-worn that company execs have uttered it nearly 250 times in presentations and earnings calls since, according to a transcript review via financial data and analytics platform Sentieo.
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Most of mass-marketed commercial games all tell essentially the same variant of the well-worn Hero's Journey tale: a tale that forms the backbone of so much of video game culture yet seems to have less and less of value to say about our current reality than ever.
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If Cloakroom's previous two genre-bending releases, Infinity (2013) and Further Out (2015), are like well-worn amphibious vehicles built of Midwestern oak and Great Lakes maw, then Time Well, the band's colossal new record, is something like a steel-framed airship forged, slowly, in a cold, dark bunker.
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Long frustrated with their inability to find a new stadium and fill their well-worn current one, the Tampa Bay Rays were given permission by Major League Baseball's executive council on Wednesday to begin exploring an unusual possibility: to split their games between the Tampa Bay area and Montreal.
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As Sal Cinquemani noted for Slant magazine, Gomez is at her best on "Revival" when she reinterprets well-worn pop music tropes with sincerity and self-awareness — that is, an awareness that no human experience is straightforward or correct, that every emotion is muddled by layers and grooves.
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In the speech, Mr. Dylan recounted how he is influenced by Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" and Homer's "The Odyssey" — the kinds of well-worn classics that most students encounter in school, and may consult a study guide to help understand.
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I liked the idea of the fashion community thinking I didn't care—that I was cool and confident enough to pull off wearing tattered Chuck Taylors to a gala dinner or a well-worn Patagonia fleece pullover in the front row at the Versace runway show in Milan.
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Contrary to the well-worn notion that creativity resides in the right side of the brain, research shows that creativity is a product of the whole brain, relying especially on what the authors call the "imagination network" — circuits devoted to tasks like making personal meaning, creating mental simulations and taking perspective.
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To the extent that stories were even hinted at, they mostly involved ongoing matters: Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens in match No. 700 of their (quite good, but very well-worn) feud; A.J. Styles and John Cena; the possibility of Finn Balor reuniting with his Bullet Club mates from years ago.
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Honestly, I'd probably be okay with design for design's sake, but this isn't even that — both Samsung and Lenovo are treading a very well worn path by gluing on more angular plastic and tacking on features like a "Beast Mode" button (whose name Samsung promises to change before release, at least).
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Attorney General William Barr and Rod Rosenstein Rosenstein hasn't said what he'll do next, although, in his tribute video, his current and former colleagues suggested everything from a Supreme Court seat to a university presidency; he could also take the well-worn path from public service to a lucrative private practice.
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"With unseasonably cold weather delaying the sales of spring ranges in the month, consumers chose to spruce up well-worn winter warmers with jewellery and accessories from the comfort of the living room rather than hitting the high-street for new outfits," David McCorquedale, head of retail at KPMG said.
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Using a well-worn record book, a green plastic rain gauge, and a mobile phone on which he receives climate-related information via SMS, Tshuma makes farming decisions based on the weather patterns in his area, including when to plant, how to till the soil and how much fertilizer to apply.
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This first phase of the Israel-Iran showdown in Syria was thus conducted largely in the shadows and followed a well-worn pattern: An explosion would take place someplace in Syria, with later reports confirming that the target was a weapons convoy, an arms depot, or senior Iranian or Hezbollah operatives.
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The small cast — just four dancers — limits the well-worn use of Rockettes-inspired unison; Mr. Geaney, a five-time world Irish dance champion, and Mr. Devine, who is said to hold the world record for fastest feet (38 taps per second), are joined by AnneMarie Keaney and Gabriella Wood.
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This is true even in pop music: It may fixate on a very short list of teenage feelings, well-worn images and obvious rhymes, but it's forever wrapping them in fresh gestures, finding new facets of the same old emotions, until one generation's love songs seem bizarre to the next.
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Wearing a jumpsuit from her Magnetic Motion collection and well-worn platform boots ("I think they're Louis Vuitton something"), van Herpen made last minute tweaks to the looks on display, reattaching interlocking 3D printed pieces, fluffing metal gauze and adjusting the spines of children's umbrellas reborn as wire neck pieces.
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At the same time, the idea of a star held together by booze and pills, thirsting for a final hurrah, is such a well-worn cliché that even the fact-based underpinnings can't really prevent the movie itself from feeling a trifle humdrum, the showiness of its central performance notwithstanding.
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And if that sounds like a well-worn — and maybe pretentious — basis for a film, there's a twist: In both style and substance, The Plagiarists is recognizably ripping off and skewering a low-budget, talk-heavy strain of American independent filmmaking, featuring young creative wannabe artists and their faux-intellectual musings.
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Precisely because that's such a familiar, well-worn trope, the movie's best parts come out of the easy camaraderie that the actresses exhibit, augmented by random insults, wine-soaked confessions and references to experiences and the music that these women shared, as opposed to what "Seinfeld" might call the "hugging and learning" material.
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If you're a runner or cyclist visiting a new city, or even just exploring a different part of your own town, heading out for some impromptu exercise can feel like a bit of a gamble: If you're lucky, you might chart a long, uninterrupted course along safe streets or well-worn trails.
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I can think of well-known investors who wear these titles, and I cringe whenever they speak, because all they ever do is argue why everyone else is wrong when stocks move opposite to their well-worn view, and crow about how right they are when stocks move in favor with their case.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Where once visitors to the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan would see the gilded names of its wealthy founders, there is now a grid of well-worn books, each representing one of Henry David Thoreau's journals that he kept for 24 years in the 19th century.
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In the currency market, the euro stuck in its well-worn $1.13-$1.14 range over the past few days, a day after the European Central Bank ended its 2.6 trillion euro bond purchase scheme but pledged to continue reinvesting maturing bonds -thereby avoiding shrinking its balance sheet- for an extended period of time.
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She most often appears in headlines as a stock character in a well-worn media storyline, starring as (yet another) gifted female star unraveling in slow motion through a zoetrope of clickbait stories exploiting her personal struggles: O'Connor disappeared while out on a bike ride in Chicago and was found in a hospital.
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Without expending too much time relitigating the well-worn, bitter particulars of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, it seems clear to me that the first candidate's platform is more beneficial for the second of our imaginary teenage girls, the one whose life chances are severely restricted by economic factors and family responsibilities.
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"Almost every time when you are doing exploration, a new path is going to provide more return on your investment (time or money) than continuing to repeat the old well-worn path," Dr. Russell, a professor of geophysics and space physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote in an email.
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Da Nang, Vietnam (CNN)When President Donald Trump awoke on his first day in Asia to news that a gunman had massacred more than two dozen people at a church in Texas, it presaged a week of events back home that -- in a well-worn pattern -- have overshadowed his attempts at diplomacy abroad.
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" But when Sanders pivoted back to his well-worn argument that his vote against the Iraq War, which Clinton supported, shows he has the foreign policy judgment needed to serve as commander in chief, Clinton parried by arguing that a vote in 85033 is not "a plan to defeat ISIS in 2016.
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A key individual in the Experimental Gameplay Project at the time, which had enabled him to hone his innovative design skills and get as far as a prototype, Gray was surprised that EA green-lit what was a very unusual project for a studio predominantly pumping out annual iterations on well-worn franchises.
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With his familiar Brooklyn accent and half-moon glasses perched on the downslope of his nose, Mr. Schumer has long been an upbeat, if publicity-hungry, figure in the Capitol, giving rise to the well-worn joke that there is no place in Washington more dangerous than between him and a camera.
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It's been so long since I first saw Finding Nemo that I was genuinely surprised by how happy I was to hear Ellen DeGeneres's Dory and Albert Brooks's Marlin bickering again; the two actors return to these roles with the comfortable ease of someone putting on a well-worn pair of slippers.
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It fits the story, which is as much about the vulnerability and uncertainty of childhood as it is bloodsucking creatures of the night, but it also makes Let the Right One In an appealingly different sort of scary movie — and vampire movie, for that matter — for those weary of the genre's well-worn tropes.
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Cooper's A Star Is Born is based on the well-worn story about a woman performer's rise alongside her lover's decline, already told in the original 1937 film starring Janet Gaynor and revised twice — first in the 1954 Judy-Garland-as-film-star remake, and, most recently, in Barbra Streisand's 1976 rock star update.
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To All the Boys, Sierra Burgess, and Love, Simon were all movies that carried the burden of finding a way to turn what might seem like specific stories about identity into just another teen movie — shedding baggage and biases without jettisoning the well-worn archetypes and narrative beats that viewers have come to expect.
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A Star Is Born is a foundational myth that's as much a part of the fabric of Hollywood as it is a product, a narrative that has evolved in tandem with the industry it portrays, giving audiences both the comfort of a well-worn fairy tale, and a new outlook on the perils of fame.
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"With Snap's large, valuable, and highly engaged user base generating ad inventory and the monetization path in mobile now well worn, we believe the potential for outperformance as the company continues to innovate against the growing mobile opportunity outweighs those early stage risk," Goldman Analyst Heath Terry said in a note to investors last week.
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Still, it's hard to ignore the basic fact that we see a movie much like The Hero at least once per year, and the premise is starting to feel a bit too well-worn; only four months ago, Robert De Niro took a similar turn as a potty-mouth shock comic in The Comedian.
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Mark Landler writes, The trip marked a well-worn routine for a president on his fourth visit to a disaster zone in two months: a pep rally-like briefing with officials in an aircraft hangar, a quick drive past twisted houses and uprooted trees and a brief, friendly encounter with victims of the destruction.
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President Trump, a new-to-the-game politician who once campaigned on a promise of "I alone can fix it," has spent the past month speaking with a decidedly less definitive stance, shrugging off a series of diplomatic high-wire acts that may come to define his presidency with a bit of well-worn Trumpese.
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Gears 5 is set against the backdrop of a never-ending war we've seen play out in the earlier four entries in the series and follows in the footsteps of last year's God of War by taking a well-worn franchise and turning a critical eye toward the development of its own characters and world.
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On her two-day-long visit to New Hampshire, the sixth to the key first-primary state, the senator and presidential candidate has already talked to dozens of voters in coffee shops like this one: around 50 types of latte flavors, beers you've never heard of on tap, twinkly string lights, well-worn couches, paintings by local art students.
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Much like the original story amounted to a political spear for Democrats to wield against the president, Friday night's special counsel statement represented a political gift to Trump and his reelection campaign, giving fresh fodder to the well worn narrative that stories unfavorable to the president are "fake" and that the news media is "biased" against the Trump administration.
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A Wall Street banker at another firm who asked to not be quoted said that Gao Jue's trip through Wall Street from China is a "well-worn path," and added that it's common at many firms for word to circulate about which junior staffers or interns are of international aristocracy, and are to be afforded different treatment.
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"'Moana,' which sounds on paper like another rehash of the established and well-worn 'Disney Princess' narrative, but in practice is a progressive and rousing tale that becomes the crown jewel of the latest renaissance from the company," Andrew Parker, a writer with The Global and Mail and a top-rated critic on Rotten Tomatoes, said in his review.
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"Nothing beats the scent of a well-worn book," he says, "and now the Hemingways and Fitzgeralds in your life can smell like their favorite classics wherever they go…" They also selected Novel Teas (tea bags that feature quotes from literary greats), the Hot Dudes Reading 2018 calendar, library pillow cards, banned book socks, and prism reading glasses.
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Ms. Wilson, whose identity as a covert operative was leaked in 2003 by members of the George W. Bush administration nettled by the opposition of her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, to the Iraq war, repeated the well-worn narrative that Jewish neoconservatives promoted the invasion of Iraq — and are beating the drum for a conflict with Iran.
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Appearing at ease among some of his most fervent supporters, Mr. Trump returned to his well-worn list of campaign themes — "Don't worry, you're getting the wall," he told the crowd — and even poked fun at his trademark bright-blond pompadour after catching a glimpse of his image on a giant screen in the convention hall.
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Mr. Hernández, a diminutive man with a weather-beaten face and workman's hands, said that in late March he handed over 11 well-worn, button-down shirts embroidered with his name and the name of the club, 11 pairs of khakis and a club cap to his supervisor, who praised him and gave him a farewell hug.
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It's a well-worn cliché of book jacket copy to say that place is as important a character as any of the people in a book, and yet the women who populate Phillips's novel are so intrinsically and intelligently identified with their region that it's impossible to understand or even consider them without Phillips's precise evocation of Kamchatka.
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Except for that sad adjustment, the trip marked a well-worn routine for a president on his fourth visit to a disaster zone in two months: a pep rally-like briefing with officials in an aircraft hangar, a quick drive past twisted houses and uprooted trees and a brief, friendly encounter with victims of the destruction.
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There are several well-stocked ones near the Nassau Avenue G station: Awoke Vintage (688 Manhattan Avenue), which also has a Williamsburg location; Mirth (606 Manhattan Avenue); and Fox & Fawn (9843 Manhattan Avenue), where a pair of strappy Jimmy Choo high-heeled sandals for under $30 might be found among the well-worn leather jackets and polyester dresses.
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But Sanders was also able to lean on well-worn campaign slogans and even faded into the background for large portions of an ill-tempered debate marred by cross-talk and marked by a number of other conflicts, including Joe Biden and Tom Steyer trading accusatory shouts over their records and promises to the African American community.
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As New York's lawmakers faced down a midnight Friday deadline for the state budget, the mood seemed sedate if uncertain, following a well-worn trajectory of tantalizing hints about possible agreements — an Uber expansion upstate, a new court system for juvenile offenders and billions for new water systems, among others — coupled with constant reminders that nothing was actually finalized.
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A well-worn strategy by on-demand transportation companies — typified by others like Uber, Lyft and Didi — is to go big and go fast in order to establish a market presence among drivers and passengers, which can be used as a foothold to expand into other areas like food or package delivery and to then increase prices to improve margins.
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Neri Zilber described the first part of this fight for Vox: This first phase of the Israel-Iran showdown in Syria was thus conducted largely in the shadows and followed a well-worn pattern: An explosion would take place someplace in Syria, with later reports confirming that the target was a weapons convoy, an arms depot, or senior Iranian or Hezbollah operatives.
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Aside from the well-worn bike-share path, there's also the question of whether Australians will pick up the electric scooter trend, which has had a year to settle into the U.S with Lime, alongside competitors like San Francisco-based scooter-share startups Spin and Scoot, the Uber-owned Jump, Lyft-owned Motivate, and Santa Monica-based main player Bird.
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And then walking through the forest, listening, looking, smelling, hearing, looking in wonder at the undergrowth, looking in wonder at the trees, seeing lots of small mammal tracks going across the ground, some of them very well-worn, which is very exciting because that means we've got stuff up there, small mammals up there running around all over the place.
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"With Snap's large, valuable, and highly engaged user base generating ad inventory and the monetization path in mobile now well worn, we believe the potential for outperformance as the company continues to innovate against the growing mobile opportunity outweighs those early stage risk," Goldman Analyst Heath Terry said in a note to investors, giving Snap a price target of $27.
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"With Snap's large, valuable, and highly engaged user base generating ad inventory and the monetization path in mobile now well worn, we believe the potential for outperformance as the company continues to innovate against the growing mobile opportunity outweighs those early stage risks," Goldman analyst Heath Terry said in a note to investors, giving the company a price target of $27.
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In Kenya, where I am from, she will reportedly take that very well-worn VIP circuit in Nairobi, making the same familiar stops -- a "courtesy call" to the President and first lady of Kenya, a viewing of a dance performance, a visit to a children's home and a stop at the Nairobi National Park to "adopt" a baby animal and possibly name it.
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"This is nothing but a continuation of an internal political struggle, with the party that lost the election, the Democratic Party, trying to reach its goal by different means," Mr. Putin said during the 15th edition of the news conference, a well-worn ritual that the president uses to parade his mastery of domestic policy detail and take swipes at political tumult overseas.
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There's no well-worn narrative about a victim's struggle here to guide us into familiar territory, but a minefield of a comedy that shows Nazis as both buffoons who look like Rebel Wilson and Stephen Merchant, but also as little kids like Jojo and his chubby friend Yorki (Archie Yates), who look like they belong in a Wes Anderson film.
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" He also sees a link between the subject and his own well-worn interest in critiquing elements of modern Chinese government and society: "Through our research, we discovered that China has a great interest [agriculture and cattle farming] … During a recent visit to China, the newly elected president of Brazil highly praised China and green-lit Chinese investment in Brazil.
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In 1995, a pair of well-worn prosthetic legs were placed at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. These tributes, offerings, and material messages of thanks are brought together in Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place, an exhibition at Bard Graduate Center Gallery examining the centuries-long global tradition of using objects to connect with the divine.
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" She also tells me that "we actually find it very exciting when a piece comes in and it's just really well-worn, rather than when it comes in and is basically new, because it means that somebody put their life in their garment and they wore it out into the world and they really lived in it, and that's exciting.
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Hours in a lecture devoted to learning the difference between Colonial-era and Colonial Revival buildings disappeared in a haze, and come finals I could be found, until the wee hours of the morning, with my nose buried in my well-worn copy of the field guide, where I knew I'd find not just answers to test questions but also shortcuts to figuring them out.
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Instead, with his sharp, sensitive eye, Mr Glick captured the texture of life in Chinatown in beguiling portraits—of business owners, factory workers, a stylish young man in a Ramones t-shirt—and in carefully composed still-life studies of living spaces and well-worn possessions: blackened pots and pans, coats, beds, bowls, old coca-cola cans and some freshly washed socks drying above a kitchen cooker.
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The well-worn "sounds like [random band] on acid!" trope is way, way overused, so I won't go there, but I'm also going to go out on a limb here and assume that the fine Finns behind Tusmörke weren't completely sober when they recorded this—or if they were, they were tapped into some kind of unseen realm that we mere mortals can only imagine.
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For a few brief moments, Bentley, 40, poked his head out over one of the mannequins dressed in his clothes, delivered a kiss to his hand on his well-worn guitar, and saluted his pilot's uniform from the Drunk on a Plane video – and then he left his stunned audience to head off to an autograph session in the museum lobby for 100 fans lucky enough to snag a free ticket.
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"There's no worse nightmare for West Virginia this November than Chuck Schumer running the Senate and Nancy Pelosi, with Maxine Waters, running the House," the president said, naming the top Democrats in the Senate and the House, along with Ms. Waters, a 14-term congresswoman whom he has derided as crazy and "low I.Q." But Mr. Trump also added new material to his stock of well-worn rally staples.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The thing about a group exhibition convened under a promise to "explore the experiences of displacement and dislocation," based on the conclusion that a "homeland can be fixed and unfixed, a physical place and a psychic space" (from the wall text), is that for those who have been looking at contemporary art for the past few years, these angles of approach are well worn.
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