hoary

• “If the inheritors of the future someday find quaint the idea that feminism once advanced the goals for women of reproductive rights, health care access, and cultural and legal equality of opportunity, and the F-word's future definition instead represents aspirational female success within hoary notions of gendered expectations and opportunities ... well, that would be unfortunate.”

  The Huffington Post: AJ Rossmiller: Brilliant New Book About Gender and 2008 Election

• “Since 9/11, Pipes has become notorious for trafficking in hoary old Orientalist stereotypes in order to stoke Americans’ prejudice against, and fear of, Islam.”

  Wonk Room » Why Is Specter Speaking At Pipes-Sponsored Conference?

• “People are bowing in the presence of what they suppose to be the antiquity, that is, the hoary-headed wisdom, of the world.”

  Our Unitarian Gospel

• “It hushes the infant to its slumbers in the cradle with a song whose theme is the babe of Bethlehem; it allures the child to virtue by the example of Josiah, Timothy, and Samuel; it warns the wayward youth, and reproves the erring man, and calls the hoary sinner to repentance.”

  Characteristics of the Bible. A Sermon Preached before the Bible Convention of South Carolina, in the Washington Street Methodist Church, Columbia, September 15, 1862

• “Finally, Mr. ARTHUR HATHERTON, as _Lob_, the host of the party, a kind of hoary old _Puck_ who had a _penchant_ for filling his house every”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917

• “The leaves of the willow are, in fact, white underneath, and it is this part of them which would appear "hoary" in the reflection in the brook.”

  Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution

• “The "hoary" (to borrow a word) chestnut that it takes a big man to apologize was floated.”

  Simple Justice

• “British novelist John Galsworthy knew the value of preserving the past -- and he would likely have counted "hoary" among those old things worth saving.”

  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

• “That "hoary" ancestor evolved into "hoar," a synonym of "ancient" that has been part of our language since before the 12th century.”

  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

• “And at the risk of further alienating respected colleagues and groups, do the hoary lessons of democratic transition and consolidation--particularly in the Southern Cone--which we all read and absorbed as undergraduate and graduate students still apply?”

  The Huffington Post: Christopher Sabatini: As Latin America Changes Will the U.S. Policy Debate?

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