When he created it, in 1999, he succeeded where so many have failed, forging a quintessential Ailey dance while eschewing stale Ailey language.
Whatever caused that season of clarity, once elected, Obama promptly sank into the stale, muffled, parallel-universe language wielded by most politicians, and has remained there ever since.
Baldwin claimed to be going after the sound of jazz musicians in his prose, but aside from some lingo on the order of "Some cat turned her on, and then he split," the language is stale compared with his earlier works — or compared with the burnished eloquence of his next book, which shook the American rafters when it was published, in early 1963.
Since taking power in 1994, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has systematically imposed Russian symbols and language on Belarus to consolidate his stale vision of a neo-Soviet state.
Regardless of how it evokes some state of how things were, perhaps even still in some ways how they are, the book's position as an icon among language-based ambition has long gone stale.
Regardless of how it evokes some state of how things were, perhaps even still in some ways how they are, the book's position as an icon among language-based ambition has long gone stale.
The Bentley Continental GT, the most radical design from the brand since its acquisition by the VW Group, was considered a landmark in reinventing the design language of a marque that had grown stale since the late 1940s.
Mr Whittle thinks that even America's best private schools have a "stale" curriculum in this respect, especially when it comes to foreign languages, which often are not taught until pupils are 11.
It matches, too, the broader marketing trend derived from an initially subversive, currently stale genre of Internet writing of addressing younger consumers, and younger voters, with infantilizing language that verges, often, on contempt.
