Sentence examples similar to Threadbare mind from inspiring English sources

Threadbare pennants barely cling to life on overhead beams.

It has more on its mind than exploring a threadbare metaphor.

While Bacon was indisputably a great painter, his was not a great mind, and the deeper one reads into the book the more threadbare and repetitious its contents appear.

"Was I ideal for what she had in mind?" Deidre wonders, as she describes her arrival at the formerly grand but now threadbare stone house and her first disconcerting encounter with the strange, negligee-wearing Madame.

Food for mind and body is on the menu in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at the Read, 158 Bedford Avenue North Eighth Streett), a slightly threadbare but friendly used-book store and cafe.

It was as threadbare as threadbare gets.

JE They are threadbare.

That speech is threadbare.

Is the carpet threadbare?

That thesis is now threadbare.

The furniture is dowdy, the carpet threadbare.