If Hilda is supposed to be a breath of fresh air in Halvard's stale, dusty life, the producers could not have cast a better actress than Ms. Heyward.
Before that, she memorably played Legally Blonde's Paulette, the scrunchied, sweetly frumpy manicurist whose stale romantic life Reese Witherspoon seeks to remedy.
It's amazing what a little change of venue can do for a stale sex life.
When Ms. Blige roars, she brings this rather stale language to life.
To say "it changed my life" sounds stale, but stale-sounding things are often true.
*Yes, you can give stale bread a second life by toasting it, but that is certainly is not ideal.
Mr Fadell, who led the team that created the iPod while at Apple, has a knack for breathing new life into stale products.
Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) is running herself ragged between battling the drug problem that plagues her town, raising her orphaned grandson, and groping for any stale crumb of joy life might hold.
For that, the reader must turn to William Styron, whose brutally straightforward "Darkness Visible" manages to capture the full force of the suffering: the isolation, the tedium, the life gone stale.
New hotels are pumping fresh life into stale Communist hangouts, even if the water isn't always hot. "If you want luxury, sorry, go to Paris or New York," Kela Qendro, a 33-year-old Albanian working for a small tourism company, told me later.
