cobwebbed

• “There may have been some initial exculpatory talk about cobwebbed values – collateral damage from a career-long walling-up within the dungeon of football – but this evaporated with the first airing of the phrase "Would you smash it?”

  The Guardian: Andy Gray and Richard Keys convicted on sound evidence | Barney Ronay

• “The same goes for James Whale's Frankenstein (1931), which, in any case, doesn't hold a cobwebbed candelabrum to Mel Brooks's classic Young Frankenstein (1974).”

  The Huffington Post: Stefan Beck: Wrap Party: Freund's The Mummy and Baba Ghanoush

• “So we sit like global sport's great harrumphing, cobwebbed mother-in-law, glowering with assumed entitlement, craving only a sense of triumphant, spoiling vindication.”

  The Guardian: Now England have won the Ashes, it's time to focus on being liked | Barney Ronay

• “For thousands more questions and answers take a trip through the cobwebbed corridors of the Knowledge archive"This week Danish tennis world No1 Caroline Wozniacki – a Liverpool fan as I – warmed up in her Liverpool shirt before beating Nadia Petrova in Doha," writes Mikkel Andreas Beck.”

  The Guardian: At which grounds can you watch football for free? | The Knowledge

• “She prefers to live in the cobwebbed corners of her dark mind writing paranormal romance with a Steampunk twist.”

  TeeMorris.com » Blog Archive » GUEST BLOGPOST: Wherein the Tinker’s Art Is Discussed

• “Beneath the allegedly young idealism of Occupy Wall Street are very cobwebbed assumptions about societal permanence.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Notable & Quotable

• “But to Anjali and the other bright-eyed "freshers" in Bangalore, the house is an absurd, cobwebbed relic.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Rock City By Way Of Bangalore

• “Archie Comics and DC Comics -- the last two publishers said to still carry the cobwebbed Comics Code Authority Seal of Approval -- will no longer bear the CCA's badge of McCarthy-era fear, hysteria and grand overreaction.”

  The Washington Post: QUICK POST: Only 56 years later, the CCA seal of censorship is dead

• “He remembered first learning to master the tessellated squares alone in his basement, a cobwebbed series of spider nests along the ceiling, the static sheen of a computer screen backlighting their wiry, clockwise movement.”

  Fictionaut: Empty Homes, Empty Windows

• “He vaguely remembered first learning to master the tessellated squares alone in his basement, a cobwebbed series of spider nests along the ceiling, the static sheen of a computer screen backlighting their wiry, clockwise movement.”

  Fictionaut: Empty Windows, Empty Rooms

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