Pictures and statues have been staled by copy and description.
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It was staled to be called Pinky's, Justin Timberlake's nickname for her.
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Back in our world, custom has perhaps staled Shakespeare's infinite variety a bit.
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Repetition had staled even this most grisly of entertainments, and audiences grew bored.
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The mystery of the ancient wood was not to be staled by use.
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The Popes used them at last with a frequency that staled their effect.
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The information, however, was not particularly new to me, and the effect was staled by previous rehearsals.
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They were not staled and blas, those simple people, but as fresh as children for the game in hand.
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He was a brave man, but of a narrow and unsympathetic school, staled by continuous service throughout the war.
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They were most creditable tales and entertaining too at a first hearing, but they staled, as all tales must, with repetition.
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Dixon liked and revered him for his air of detesting everything that presented itself to his senses, and of not meaning to let this detestation become staled by custom.
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The information obtained from the owner was, that a month ago he perceived that the horse staled very much, but he attributed it to the oats being a little mildewed.
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Parents often brought their children. By the end of the Terror, the crowds had thinned drastically. Repetition had staled even this most grisly of entertainments, and audiences grew bored.R.F. Opie, Guillotine (2003) What it is that horrifies people changes over time.
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The first says the play was "acted by the King's Majesty's servants at the Globe"; the second version omits the mention of the Globe Theatre, and prefaces the play with a long epistle that claims that Troilus and Cressida is "a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapper-clawed with the palms of the vulgar".Halliday, F.E. (1964). A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964, Baltimore: Penguin; pp. 501–503.
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By the end of the Terror, the crowds had thinned drastically. Repetition had staled even this most grisly of entertainments, and audiences grew bored.R. F. Opie, Guillotine (2003) What it is that horrifies people changes over time. Doyle comments: :Even the unique horror of the guillotine has been dwarfed by the gas chambers of the Holocaust, the organized brutality of the gulag, the mass intimidation of Mao's cultural revolution, or the killing fields of Cambodia.
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However, the salad leaves tended to wilt and the sandwiches acquired quickly staled due to the dry atmosphere inside an aircraft cabin. As a result, many passengers disliked the food. Thus Air Europe resolved to serve proper, restaurant-style meals including at least three courses – a starter, a hot main course and a dessert — on all flights, time permitting. This saw bulk-purchase of deep-frozen ingredients only to take advantage of lower rates.
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But somehow Tilson Thomas's eclectic assembly of talents together made up "an idiomatic ensemble that's perfectly at home with those crafty Bernstein rhythms and vocal lines and that works together seamlessly". The show had many well known songs - "Carried away", "Lonely town" and "New York, New York", for axample - but its finest passages were its purely orchestral numbers. Half a century had not staled them, and the London Symphony Orchestra played them as convincingly as Americans would have done. Tilson Thomas elicited "maximum energy and punch" from his coworkers.
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Maggie Fergusson p. 89 Subsequently, alcohol played a considerable part in his life, although he says, "I never became an alcoholic, mainly because my guts quickly staled".George Mackay Brown, p. 70 He was a mature student at Newbattle Abbey College in the 1951–1952 session,Maggie Fergusson p. 100 where the poet Edwin Muir, who would have a great influence on his life as a writer, was warden.George Mackay Brown, p. 92 His return for the following session was interrupted by the recurrence of tuberculosis.Maggie Fergusson p. 122 Having had poems published in several periodicals, his first volume of poems, The Storm, was published by the Orkney Press in 1954. Muir wrote in the foreword: "Grace is what I find in these poems". Only three hundred copies were printed, and the imprint sold out within a fortnight.
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