Look, even the people on Modern Family would probably admit their show is so far past its prime that the phrase "past its prime" ceased to apply in, like, 2014.
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The MacBook Air is a former trendsetter well past its prime.
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Perfect fruit for shrubbin' is already a bit past its prime.
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These days, Twitter feels like a nightclub that's just past its prime.
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What lives in your sink and is way, way past its prime?
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However, a few think Brooklyn's hippest address may be past its prime.
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You could say this joke has really Gon past its prime. 266.
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The old station is like a grande dame long past its prime.
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In the early 2000s, the U.S. chemical sector was considered past its prime.
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When you throw away a gadget, the hardware itself is rarely past its prime.
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But now, a growing number of scientists say, the Pap may be past its prime.
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As a result, their chicks are born when the food supply is past its prime.
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American Idol was well past its prime long before it closed up shop in April.
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With 113,218 miles (182,208 km) on its odometer, the grubby car was well past its prime.
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In the era of the super-team, the Nets built one that was born past its prime.
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And when some food is past its prime but still useable, experts recommend getting creative: Stale bread?
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For a certain kind of midsized, past-its-prime retail company, private-equity ownership often plays out differently.
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Editorial Let's say you have a major bridge rising to replace a faded span well past its prime.
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Though domain hopping is taking hold among some publishers, it's possible that it may already be past its prime.
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A few miles from the nation's capital, the 1950s-era motel in Northern Virginia was well past its prime.
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I can't say I enjoyed them, exactly—garlic past its prime came to mind—but I ate several bites.
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There was a note of sadness in this article that it looked like Peter Luger was past its prime.
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Leafly offered up five helpful hints to know whether your marijuana is past its prime, starting with the sniff test.
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The Who was well past its prime by the time Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey took the stage in 2010.
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Mine was a simple iPhone 4 — released in 2010, and by then considered already past its prime as a formal gift.
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"I think that one of the things that happens with Apple is, it's universally considered to be boring and past its prime that, when they issue things, I'm looking and I'm saying, 'boy, I want that, but it's past its prime,'" Cramer said on "Squawk on the Street " a day after the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference.
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While World of Warcraft is past its prime time, the company managed to create new communities for new games with huge audiences.
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Business investment and capital expansion fell over the past three months, warning signs that the Trump boom could be past its prime.
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Actual Food WasteThen there's the actual food that doesn't get eaten, like orange peels, carrot tops, or anything that is past its prime.
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Roasting or sautéing produce is the perfect way to use it up once it's past its prime, but alone, it's not super filling.
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There are no friendly towns to take refuge in like in past games — this is Hyrule well past its prime, with lots to unearth.
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But business investment and capital expansion fell over the past three months--two warning signs that the Trump boom could be past its prime.
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The bottom line: Despite talk among climate change activists and some politicians that coal is past its prime, it remains king at the global level.
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Any product that is out of date is donated to food pantries, and produce that is past its prime is composted and donated to local gardeners.
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"My goal is for people to use the rest of the material we have before all of it is really past its prime," Mr. Reuter said.
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So, sure, 2016 is the perfect time for a full-length animated movie to create a plot from the nonsensical, seemingly past-its-prime phone game.
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But a number of forces besides a lower-profile host have shaped the perception that the party is, if not over, at least past its prime.
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Most Greeks and Romanians think anything past the "best before" date should be thrown out; in fact, the food may still be edible, if past its prime.
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Glen Canyon Dam may be past its prime, said Michael Connor, the deputy Interior secretary and a former commissioner of reclamation, but it's not past its usefulness.
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Some critics say NATO is past its prime and may even be a drain on U.S. national security, but this could not be further from the truth.
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These vestiges of a subculture well past its prime may not fit into any one tidy narrative, as my fellow trolling scholars Beyer, Coleman, and I note.
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Retailers took a number of steps, for example streamlining date labels to help consumers better understand when something was unsafe to eat versus just past its prime.
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If the company fears using search and mobile to gain dominance in new markets, that could hasten the day it becomes just another tech firm past its prime.
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By the 1960s, Bridgeport Brass was buffeted by labor unrest and was long past its prime in World War II as a maker of shell casings and military hardware.
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It's Clue, but instead of a stuffy British mansion, its set in a seedy past-its-prime Lake Tahoe hotel that sits astride the border of California and Nevada.
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The Hastings Steam & Sauna is now time-worn and well past its prime, but it stays committed to its nine-decade promise of stress-relief and detox health benefits.
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The show, which debuts Monday on YouTube, follows a group of employees (including Hecox and Padilla) of Pork E. Pine's, a popular pizzeria and arcade well past its prime.
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"It is one of those shows that people keep questioning whether it&aposs past its prime, is it something that should come to an end?" the hosts asked Elfman.
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Here's some of our conversation, which has been edited and condensed: Q. In your first column for The Times, you write disparagingly about any suggestion that California is past its prime.
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It's a humiliating experience, being caught in a lame scene past its prime (and in platform shoes no less), but, being a high school boy, his love of girls supersedes his hatred of disco.
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If the Autun that Salter depicted in the 1960s was sleepy and forgotten, many lifetimes past its prime as an important seat of power in the Roman world, the town today is doubly so.
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Damodaran said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella deserves credit for leading the company "that seemed to be past its prime" to new growth opportunities outside the Windows and Office suites with a push into cloud services.
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When Mouth Sounds dropped in 2014, the mashup was already past its prime and from its genesis, the disconnect at the heart of Cicierega's work always seemed more interested in shock value than cultural longevity.
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But with a little sugar, a handful of past-its-prime fruit, and about a week in the fridge, vinegar can transform into one of the most complex, mixologist-approved flavors to ever grace your cocktails.
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"You can have the fluffiest blanket and smoothest sheets, but if your mattress is past its prime, you're just not getting the support you need for a quality night's sleep," according to a description on QVC.
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"Most of the time when people talk about quantum computing, classical computing is dismissed, like something that is past its prime," said Cristian Calude, a mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
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The former Sith lord has become a pathetic figure and the storyline is long past its prime; Maul needed to be killed off again, this time as definitively and clearly as the rebel heroes in Rogue One.
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In a sequence that encapsulates the book's easy charm, the narrator takes Billy to Chumley's, the past-its-prime West Village literary bar, hoping that some of the Hemingway and Fitzgerald magic will rub off on them.
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Joseph Baum of Restaurant Associates had created the Four Seasons on the ground floor of the Seagram Building, on Park Avenue and East 52nd Street, in 1959, but by 1973 it was considered to be past its prime.
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"HTC is past its prime in terms of being a leading hardware design house, mainly because of how much it has had to scale back over the years because of declining revenues," said Ryan Reith, an analyst at IDC.
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And, like that, in front of 218,565 fans in a small, sold-out arena past its prime and a global television audience curious to see where this all leads, the world's best basketball player made his debut with the Lakers, maybe the world's top basketball brand.
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If you have been to holiday parties where the only refreshment offered is a picked over cheese board you can't get to, a crudités platter that everyone ignores or a chip-dip situation past its prime, you know why it's important to serve enormously satisfying food.
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" Indeed, Shelly Edgerton, who spearheaded Michigan's medical marijuana licensing program and now serves as senior counsel at the law firm Dykema, said that the whole idea of moving marijuana to Schedule II is "past its prime for the purposes of the real work that needs to be done.
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In the summer of 22016, Trump was busy filming Season 6 of his reality TV series, The Apprentice, on NBC In addition to overseeing the daily operations of his Trump Organization, the businessman also served as executive producer and host on The Apprentice, which by 2006 was past its prime, with ratings fading.
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Over time fatoot samneh became a popular, and traditional dish among the Yemenite Jews as both a way to use up stale pita bread that was past its prime, as well as a popular breakfast or dinner dish.
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The leaves are used to wrap burrata, an Italian cheese. The leaves and the cheese last about the same time, three or four days, and thus fresh leaves are a sign of a fresh cheese, while dried out leaves indicate that the cheese is past its prime.
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147, 150. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was past its prime by the time of the war, but is remembered for its striking account of conditions during the Anarchy, in particular its description that "men said openly that Christ and his saints were asleep".Davis, p.151; Bradbury, p.215.
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His one known recording is of an aria from this opera. It was made in Paris in 1905 for the Fonotipia Company and shows a voice past its prime. By this time Capoul was almost stone deaf. According to Scott however (Record of Singing: 1978) the mid-19th century style remains.
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A number of monasteries grew up during the Pāla period in ancient Bengal and Magadha. According to Tibetan sources, five great Mahaviharas stood out: Vikramashila, the premier university of the era; Nalanda, past its prime but still illustrious, Somapura, Odantapura, and Jagaddala.Vajrayogini: Her Visualization, Rituals, and Forms by Elizabeth English. Wisdom Publications.
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A range of monasteries grew up in ancient Magadha (modern Bihar) and Bengal. According to Tibetan sources, five great mahaviharas stood out during the Pāla period: Vikramashila, the premier university of the era; Nalanda, past its prime but still illustrious, Somapura, Odantapurā, and Jaggadala.Vajrayogini: Her Visualization, Rituals, and Forms by Elizabeth English. Wisdom Publications.
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Under the rule of the Pāla and Sena kings, large mahāvihāras flourished in what is now Bihar and Bengal. According to Tibetan sources, five great Mahāvihāras stood out: Vikramashila, the premier university of the era; Nālanda, past its prime but still illustrious, Somapura, Odantapurā, and Jaggadala.Vajrayoginī: Her Visualization, Rituals, and Forms by Elizabeth English. Wisdom Publications.
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When first constructed, the mall included a Ben Franklin dime store, a bowling alley, a furniture store and doctor offices. The very popular Organ Grinder pizza parlor, with its famous two story organ, was located at the center. By 1990, the center was past its prime and declared a blighted site. The center was redeveloped by Brighton Corporation in 2009-11.
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When the burrata is sliced open, a spurt of thickened cream flows out. The cheese has a rich, buttery flavor and retains its fresh milkiness. It is best when eaten within 24 hours and is considered past its prime after 48 hours. Thanks to its flavor and differing textures inside and outside, it goes well with salad, prosciutto crudo, crusty bread, fresh tomatoes with olive oil, cracked black pepper, or pasta.
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2006-02-25 McDaniels performing with his backing band in 2011 Meanwhile, McDaniels began to have creative differences with his bandmates in Run-D.M.C., which by then, was well past its prime as a commercially successful hip-hop group. A longtime fan of artists such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Harry Chapin, McDaniels wanted to move towards a slower, softer sound which suited his now troubled voice.
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After a short absence of baseball, the field found a new tenant in the Baltimore Orioles in 1992. Unfortunately, the facility was well past its prime at this point. Former Orioles pitcher Rick Sutcliffe noted that the locker room was reminiscent to that of a high school locker room. The team did not stay long, playing its last Spring there in 1995, which would be the end of Spring Training baseball at Huggins-Stengel Field.
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A jaded pilot named Noah Dugan (Elliott Gould) is unemployed and owes a large amount of money due to his gambling. He goes to an old friend, Stoney (Vincent Gardenia), who owns an airfield. He is offered a job flying a cargo of animals to a remote South Pacific island aboard a B-29 bomber, a large plane well past its prime. Bernadette Lafleur (Geneviève Bujold) is the prim missionary who accompanies him.
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339 Tadolini was nearly 40 at the time, and her voice may have been past its prime. However Ashbrook has suggested that her relative lack of success with the British public may be partly attributable to its obsession with Jenny Lind at the time.Ashbrook (1983) p. 641 While in London, she also sang Norina in Don Pasquale (again warmly, but not ecstatically, received) and participated in several concerts before returning to Naples.
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End year sales were less than $300 million. By the end of 2010, the instrument controller-based rhythm market was considered "well past its prime", and developers shifted their focus to downloadable content and potential integration with motion control systems. In late 2010, Viacom sold Harmonix to an investment-backed group and allowed it to continue developing Rock Band and Dance Central. Citing the downturn in rhythm games, Activision shuttered their Guitar Hero division in February 2011.
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The group had past its prime, and, as Maiorescu recorded in his private notes, the sessions attended by Arion were "rather dull".Ornea, pp.91–92 The conservative association had been traditionally hostile toward Arion's "unproductive" and "lawyerly" liberalism. As Junimist poet-critic Mihai Eminescu once wrote, the Arion brothers were "the runts, the intellectual and moral plebs, ... everything basest and most degraded that one can expect to find in the cities of the Romanian nation".
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Skate outsold Proving Ground on a 2:1 ratio, resembling its lackluster reception. With the franchise suffering from product fatigue and appearing to be past its prime, Activision decided to dedicate most of Neversoft's laborforce to the Guitar Hero and Call of Duty franchises. This development would more and more marginalize Neversoft, which was defunct and completely merged with Infinity Ward by 2014. The control of the Tony Hawk's franchise had passed on to Chicago studio Robomodo by 2008.
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Helsingin Sanomat, 9 August 2016. While new and more powerful icebreakers were built in the 1970s and 1980s, Moskva continued to escort merchant ships in the eastern part of the Northern Sea Route. However, already by the mid-1980s the icebreaker was described as being "definitely past its prime". Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the traffic volumes along the Northern Sea Route declined drastically in the early 1990s due to the slowdown of the Russian economy.
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A resurgent Tipperary provided the opposition on that occasion and an exciting game was expected, however, Tipperary were much too strong for 'the Banner' county. The game was far from a classic as Lynch's side eventually lost by 2–21 to 0–19. This defeat was not the end of the road, as Clare later lined out against Cork in the All-Ireland quarter-final. Clare were the favourites against a Cork side that was seen as past its prime.
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The Justice's Desk in the Justice Room Henry's son, John, inherited the castle in 1780, but when his son, also called John, inherited in 1816 he chose to live in London instead, opening up Dunster Castle to the public.Garnett, pp.44, 48. By 1845 the castle appeared to visitors to be past its prime: with only two of John's sisters living there and no horses or hunting dogs left in the castle grounds, the remaining servants had little to do.
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The ruins of Shalvan Vihara, the Buddhist monastery that operated between 7th-12th century in what is now Mainamati, Bangladesh. A range of monasteries grew up during the Pāla period in ancient Magadha (modern Bihar) and Bengal. According to Tibetan sources, five great mahaviharas stood out: Vikramashila, the premier university of the era; Nalanda, past its prime but still illustrious, Somapura, Odantapurā, and Jagaddala. According to Sukumar Dutt, the five monasteries formed a network, were supported and supervised by the Pala state.
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The doomed flight of October 20, 1977 was intended to be the last Lynyrd Skynyrd would make on the Convair CV-240. "We were flying in a plane that looked like it belonged to the Clampett family," said Pyle, and the band had decided that their status as one of the world's top rock acts warranted an upgrade. After arriving in Baton Rouge, the band planned on acquiring a Learjet to replace the 30-year-old plane, which all in the band's circle agreed was well past its prime.
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This show used to be the 'South Park' of its day. Now it's just showing its age and it's no longer the cool TV rebel that it used to be." Alex Strachan had the opposite reaction in a review in Calgary Herald and concluded that we should "[f]orget all that talk about The Simpsons being past its prime. Based on tonight's sharp-eyed, keen-witted Treehouse of Horror XXII - funnier, faster and more fright-worthy than last year's dud, thankfully - there's a lot of ink left in the old ink pot yet.
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On April 6, 1881, he lost his job after a change in city government, and the belief that the long-standing hard-line stance of the Marshal's Office was past its prime and no longer useful. He fell out with his business partner, A.J. Peacock, over the hiring of the latter's brother-in- law, Al Updegraph, as bartender, and someone wired Bat Masterson in Tombstone that his brother's life was in danger. Bat arrived in Dodge on 16 April and saw Peacock and Updegraph near the station. Firing broke out, with Jim and others also taking part.
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The song starts with Lavigne beginning in a relationship that's clearly past its prime, "I'm breaking free from these memories/ Gotta let it go, just let it go/ I've said goodbye, set it all on fire,". Chad's verse, "You came back to find I was gone / And that place is empty, like the hole that was left in me", brings a turn to the lyric's meanings. Now, the act of letting go of memories carries the promise of another beginning. Lavigne's husband Chad Kroeger (pictured), is the co-writer, producer, and is featured on the track.
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After European powers formalized the scramble for Africa in the Berlin Conference, the French assumed control of the land between the 14th meridian and Miltou, South-West Chad, bounded in the south by a line running from Say, Niger to Baroua. Although the Azawad region was French in name, the principle of effectivity required France to hold power in those areas assigned, e.g. by signing agreements with local chiefs, setting up a government, and making use of the area economically, before the claim would be definitive. On 15 December 1893, Timbuktu, by then long past its prime, was annexed by a small group of French soldiers, led by Lieutenant Gaston Boiteux.
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" Sietsema also criticized the scenes showcasing molecular gastronomy because he thought they were out of date, since molecular gastronomy is, "by now, long past its prime". Chris Shott, a food critic for Washington City Papers Young & Hungry column and blog, wrote negatively about the character that owns El Chemistri and is a parody of José Andrés. He commented that "For one thing, the character seems far more subdued than the kooky, wild-eyed power drill-wielding cook we saw on Conan recently. The satire here, involving a deconstructed Caesar salad of foams, gels and airs, is more a riff on molecular gastronomy in general than a send-up of Andrés' over-the-top personality.
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Patti cut more than 30 disc gramophone recordings of songs and operatic arias (some of them duplicates) — plus one spoken voice recording (a New Year's greeting to her third husband, which she intended him to keep as a memento) — at her Welsh home in 1905 and 1906 for the Gramophone & Typewriter Company.Discography compiled by W. R. Moran and appears in the appendix to Klein's Reign of Patti referenced above. By then she was aged in her 60s, with her voice well past its prime after a busy operatic career stretching all the way back to 1859. Nonetheless, the limpid purity of her tone and the smoothness of her legato line remained uniquely impressive, compensating to some extent for the weakening of her breath control.
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In 1906, following the family profession, Jamini Bhushan Ray started practising the ancient Indian system of Ayurveda – despite being educated in the western system of medicine. In those days the practise of Ayurveda was not glamorous, considered ancient, and way past its prime. His friends and well wishers tried to dissuade him from his chosen path, instead advising him to practice western medicine – in which he was already well- versed. But he refused, saying: “If I cannot make a living practising Ayurveda, then I shall make a living by selling Panchan (Ayurvedic laxative).” With a view to reviving the glory of Ayurveda, lost over the ages mainly due to India's rule by foreign powers and their lack of support for ancient Indian traditions, Dr. Ray set up the Vaidyaraj Pharmacy that sold only Ayurvedic medicines.
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" Richard Corliss of Time magazine, considered the film a "by the numbers adaptation," criticising the pace and the "charisma-free" lead actors. CNN's Paul Tatara found that Columbus and Kloves "are so careful to avoid offending anyone by excising a passage from the book, the so-called narrative is more like a jamboree inside Rowling's head." Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine wished that the film had been directed by Tim Burton, finding the cinematography "bland and muggy," and the majority of the film a "solidly dull celebration of dribbling goo." Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times was highly negative about the film, saying "[the film] is like a theme park that's a few years past its prime; the rides clatter and groan with metal fatigue every time they take a curve.
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The partially fictionalized film is set in 1977, the year in which Callas died, and centers on the making of a movie of Georges Bizet's Carmen. The diva, whose now-ragged voice is well past its prime, is persuaded to star in it by longtime friend and former manager Larry Kelly, who abandoned classical music to become a rock impresario. He insists by lip-synching to her old recording she will recapture her lost youth and leave behind a priceless legacy for her admirers, and his theory is supported by Callas confidante and journalist Sarah Keller. Other characters include Michael, a handsome young painter of limited talent and ardent Callas fan with whom Larry is infatuated; Marco, the tenor who plays Don José in Carmen and flirts with his aging co- star, who responds to his advances; and Bruna, the housekeeper in Callas' Paris apartment.
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When SSI began work on the Dark Sun game engine in 1989 after the completion of The Secret of the Silver Blades, they passed responsibility for continuing the Forgotten Realms Gold Box games to Stormfront. SSI had planned to do only one more Gold Box game (Gateway to the Savage Frontier) before retiring the series in favor of the Dark Sun engine, but when Dark Sun was delayed and Gateway went to No. 1 on the charts they asked Stormfront for a sequel. Designers Don Daglow, Mark Buchignani, Mark Manyen and David Bunnett recognized that the Gold Box engine was past its prime and needed some kind of story or character enhancements to feel like a new game and not a tired sequel. Although they added many small enhancements to the second game in addition to its all-new story, the largest feature was the first-ever option for either of two NPCs to fall in love with a player character.
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When SSI began work on the Dark Sun game engine in 1989 after the completion of The Secret of the Silver Blades, they passed responsibility for continuing the Forgotten Realms Gold Box games to Beyond Software. SSI had planned to do only one more Gold Box game (Gateway to the Savage Frontier) before retiring the series in favor of the Dark Sun engine, but when Dark Sun was delayed and Gateway went to #1 on the charts they asked Beyond Software for a sequel. Designers Don Daglow, Mark Buchignani, Mark Manyen, and David Bunnett recognized that the Gold Box engine was past its prime and needed some kind of story or character enhancements to feel like a new game and not a tired sequel. Although they added many small enhancements to the game in addition to its all-new story, the largest feature was the first-ever option for either of two NPCs to fall in love with a player character.
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A number of monasteries grew up during the Pāla period in ancient India in the eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, comprising Bengal and Magadha. According to Tibetan sources, five great Mahaviharas stood out: Vikramashila, the premier university of the era; Nalanda, past its prime but still illustrious; Somapura Mahavihara; Odantapurā; and Jaggadala. The monasteries formed a network; "all of them were under state supervision" and there existed "a system of co- ordination among them ... it seems from the evidence that the different seats of Buddhist learning that functioned in eastern India under the Pāla were regarded together as forming a network, an interlinked group of institutions," and it was common for great scholars to move easily from position to position among them. Xuanzang of China was a noted scholar who resided at the Somapura Mahavihara (the largest monastery in ancient India), and Atisa traveled from Bengal to Tibet to preach Buddhism.
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From 1969 to 1977, Kellogg's acquired various small businesses including Salada Foods, Fearn International, Mrs. Smith's Pies, Eggo, and Pure Packed Foods; however, it was later criticized for not diversifying further like General Mills and Quaker Oats were. After underspending its competition in marketing and product development, Kellogg's U.S. market share hit a low 36.7% in 1983. A prominent Wall Street analyst called it "a fine company that's past its prime" and the cereal market was being regarded as "mature". Such comments stimulated Kellogg chairman William E. LaMothe to improve, which primarily involved approaching the demographic of 80 million baby boomers rather than marketing children-oriented cereals. In emphasizing cereal's convenience and nutritional value, Kellogg's helped persuade U.S. consumers age 25 to 49 to eat 26% more cereal than people of that age ate five years prior. The U.S. ready-to-eat cereal market, worth $3.7 billion at retail in 1983, totaled $5.4 billion by 1988 and had expanded three times as fast as the average grocery category. Kellogg's also introduced new products including Crispix, Raisin Squares, and Nutri-Grain Biscuits and reached out internationally with Just Right aimed at Australians and Genmai Flakes for Japan.
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