Sentence examples for tired idea from inspiring English sources

But this is a tired idea that seems to have been kept past its expiration date.

She also resists the tired idea of the smart, savvy American kid knowing more than the hopelessly old-fashioned parents.

We're disappointed that Mr. Sachs lauds one tired idea over another, when Malawians themselves are developing far more robust ways of feeding themselves.

Mr. Welsh described Mr. Messier's push to dominate the production and distribution of music, movies and television programs as a "tired idea of the 1980's".

After three years, it's now a very tired idea indeed, but that doesn't seem to have occurred to its main practitioners.

They seemed to be a cliché, to smell of grannies and be used to symbolise some tired idea of sunnier climates.

These tired ideas are embodied in House and Senate bills awaiting reconciliation in a conference committee that begins work this week.

On the whole, however, it is a dismal compendium of tired ideas favoring the coal, oil and gas industries.

Stephen P. Cohen, an American academic who recently published a book on the India-Pakistan conflict, said the leaders appeared as "two men with tired ideas and constraints that they cannot overcome, afraid to take the bold measures that could liberate them".

WASHINGTON — When President Bush called on Congress this week to address soaring gasoline prices by allowing drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and by expanding nuclear power, Democrats on Capitol Hill quickly pummeled him as falling back on tired ideas.

"The reality is, when you look at the Democrats, they've got old, tired ideas being produced by old, tired candidates," Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, 42, said in an interview this month, citing "more government and more spending" for the ideas but not referring to any candidates by name.