" - Samantha, 28 "Threadbare beach towel only towel available.
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Put that ratty, faded threadbare excuse of a towel away!
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The clothing they do have is ill fitting and threadbare.
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They have a dog named Snickers and two threadbare horses.
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There, as in New York, he led a threadbare existence.
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But when it comes to policy the mayor's record is threadbare.
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It showed, more vividly than before, how threadbare are his positions.
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Rooms are threadbare, and there is no water in the pool.
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Creativity is a balm, a patch for the soul worn threadbare.
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The camera lingers on expensive cars, but club scenes appear threadbare.
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These are rather threadbare reassurances, but they are better than nothing.
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Mr Tsipras's talk of economic success is also starting to look threadbare.
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Now Trump has stripped Obama's policy of its already threadbare human face.
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That would give any buyer a threadbare 20113 percent return on investment.
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Yes, the S.I.G. is threadbare and it struggles to provide essential services.
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The items I still have are threadbare but still soft and comfortable.
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The Aura app is threadbare, showing activity as a sort of fever chart.
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The threadbare safety net available to the self-employed can be a problem.
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But GBS and microcephaly are already straining threadbare health systems throughout Latin America.
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The second was a threadbare poacher who trespassed on his estate in 2006.
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Do not hold the Angels' threadbare roster or serious pitching injuries against him.
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The larder at the pay cable network is starting to look pretty threadbare.
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But what holds this patchwork of naughtiness together is some pretty threadbare cloth.
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Threadbare is published by Microcosm and available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
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The staff at the A's was threadbare, and the club was in chaos.
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Beyond that, information's on the threadbare side, especially when it comes to the plot.
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Unquestionably his country's best player, Neymar is the fur coat covering a threadbare suit.
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Trump's repeated mantra of "no collusion" with the Russians is also looking increasingly threadbare.
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The sensational, one-sided press release hides a threadbare justification of a power play.
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The record is short — clocking in at just 20 minutes — but feels extremely threadbare.
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Enduring poverty limits access to the vaccine in countries with threadbare public health systems.
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Today, drug production and corruption are rampant; women's empowerment, governance and security are threadbare.
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And his defences, in the face of rare but legitimate criticism, are increasingly threadbare. ■
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ALMOST every morning Britons wake up to another alarming story about their threadbare public services.
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In "Stranger Things 2", there are places where the new characters feel a little threadbare.
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In Syria, the government offers threadbare care in loyal areas and none in rebel towns.
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But it has always been a threadbare one, with weak institutions and feeble central authority.
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Along one wall was a twin bed with a thin mattress covered by threadbare sheets.
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If these are clichés — what's more threadbare than May and December, student and amorous teacher?
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A threadbare magic-carpet ride to nowhere special, with Will Smith as a blue genie.
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These gloves, one of the last physical connections I have with her, have become threadbare.
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Dramaturgy is, at best, threadbare; old-fashioned exoticism and sexism are par for the course.
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These productions had threadbare sets and limited light sources, and often featured non-professional actors.
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The clean lines and supple cuts were punctuated by threadbare, frayed hats and other accessories.
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On the one hand, his statements that Clinton should be in jail began to look threadbare.
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But they certainly leave the viability of that defense, especially in a political sense, increasingly threadbare.
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Though the Astros led, 73-27, they had already used four pitchers from a threadbare bullpen.
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Even the glamour of the homoerotic, which fuels Orringer's engine of suspense, turns threadbare through overexposure.
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To these contractors, it provides no employee benefits, threadbare human resources, and pays therapists per session.
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The prospect of losing what is already a threadbare living is making Mr. Njoroge, 214.50, nervous.
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And he's doing so while assisted with what continued to be a rather threadbare and inexperienced team.
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Growth is good; but Trumponomics is otherwise a threadbare, retrograde and unbalanced response to America's economic needs.
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Assange's factually threadbare indictment doesn't give much indication of how strong a conspiracy case the government has.
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Back then, they competed in Mexico without a coach, medical staff, or cleats, and wore threadbare jerseys.
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Before the election, a lot of people were mocking Donald Trump's threadbare get-out-the-vote operation.
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Even before austerity, it had long been the case that poor places had the most threadbare public services.
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All of these hundreds of nights out have pretty much congealed into one indistinct and threadbare memory now.
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But the number of children born with Congenital Zika Syndrome is straining Brazil's already threadbare public health system.
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But the old adage that Europe is forged only in times of crisis is starting to look threadbare.
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How can they relax when Paterno's reputation, once pristine, grows more threadbare with every development in the case?
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And now the dreamers, unwitting, sickened with nostalgia, have torn down that last, threadbare vestige of Great Britain.
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Old chants are still sung and old certainties are repeated, but it's a threadbare act, lacking real conviction.
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This kind of procedural extremism, in other words, seems to be the byproduct of a threadbare civic fabric.
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O have built reputations on offering threadbare fares at much lower prices than the larger, legacy U.S. carriers.
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Mr. Ogik dug out a threadbare shirt and held it up, the blue sky visible through its holes.
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A threadbare sleeping pad, meant for a tent, was stored atop the storage lockers along with some blankets.
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And "Lodge 49," about the collection of beautiful losers in a threadbare fraternal society in Long Beach, Calif.
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"Future World" is a miserable, idiotic sci-fi trifle, threadbare in both the imaginative and production value categories.
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But in practice, with threadbare budgets and little technical expertise, they are the weakest link in enforcing regulations.
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He had a gaunt, distinguished face, but his clothes were threadbare and his teeth looked brown and rotted.
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"I was shocked at how threadbare and how little actual discussion there was in the meeting," he said.
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Like the apartment's pervasive, undomesticateable dust bunnies, the threadbare feeling grows and grows simply because it already exists.
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Asia is rising, and when people get richer and social safety nets remain threadbare, demand for insurance rockets.
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But this afternoon, I've passed threadbare yards with Confederate flags aloft, limp sentries in the cold gray air.
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Clinton would largely fail, the notion that the Libyan intervention was among her successes had become steadily more threadbare.
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The other problem is that unlike with credit checks, the legal framework for people search engines is fairly threadbare.
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The developer announced the news today with a threadbare teaser that still tells us absolutely nothing about the game.
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No one in the alliance expected CarbonWA to succeed, with its threadbare budget and lack of big institutional backers.
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That points to what many in Colombo see as the root cause of their headache: a threadbare tax system.
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The funds earmarked to recapitalise the banks, which now have the most threadbare equity cushions in Asia, are insufficient.
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"He had two kinds of clothes: threadbare, translucent from wear, and things that he had never worn," she said.
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Instead of confessing error, Acosta on Wednesday gave only the most threadbare acknowledgement that he might have made mistakes.
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Mr. Thompson's set brings to mind a threadbare traveling circus, with its fading striped bunting and quaint peeling trailers.
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And America's threadbare social safety net and worker-retraining programs may struggle to support a mass retooling of skills.
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Inspired, she founded the Golden Dome to help other artists rediscover the threadbare weaving together of soul and creativity.
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The Russian military, threadbare after the Soviet collapse, lacked rescue equipment and waited days before appealing for international help.
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Already, we are seeing the disastrous consequences of America's threadbare social safety net on the severity of the pandemic.
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Don't come for the story, because it's threadbare to say the least: Stop the evil things, using guns, basically.
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The threadbare flag and littered lawn don't measure up to the story Americans told about themselves and their heritage.
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Whether the songs are threadbare or full of epic arrangements, Olsen proves she is an auteur through and through.
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He has run a threadbare campaign from his plane and employs a tiny staff with no strategists, consultants or pollsters.
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If he succeeds, Credit Suisse returns will look less threadbare compared to the 13.6 percent sported by perennial rival UBS.
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There's a threadbare story, sure, but the point of "Doom " is to massacre demons, often in the goriest method possible.
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Eleanor, his American socialite mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh), was threadbare from years of abuse—of alcohol and from her husband.
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It is this, rather than a trio of fine words in an increasingly threadbare document, that should trouble the federalists.
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"When I moved from Scotland to Australia, I wore a couple of my dad's shirts until threadbare," Sutton wrote. Why?
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With the release of the House deposition transcripts from key witnesses this week, those defenses look more threadbare than ever.
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The News, for instance, reduced its sports section and photography team to threadbare crews and fired many of its reporters.
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Given Amazon's $41 billion cash on hand, it's surprising how threadbare and poorly thought out this effort seems to be.
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As I discovered squeaking through the city, my chain is rusted, the gears need grease and the seat is threadbare.
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The clothes were simpler, riffing on Raf shapes of the past: tunics and big coats, threadbare sweaters, abbreviated pullover vests.
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With trust among people already threadbare, AI risks shredding it further, allowing dead-easy forgery of audio and visual material.
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The soles of his shoes were worn flat, the seams frayed and threadbare, the color faded to a dull gray.
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The towels had been washed, yes, but they were so old and threadbare that they'd forgotten how to be towels.
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Security researchers have even found that hackers were setting up threadbare websites that claimed to have information about the coronavirus.
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What's more, imports from countries with cheaper labor, weaker worker protections and threadbare environmental standards will be seen as unfair.
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If you really want to get thrifty, forget the luxury purchases and replace those threadbare bedsheets and lumpy bed pillows.
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In mid-August, the mauled body of Vaghuji Kanadhari Raut, a threadbare cattle herder, was found near a rural highway.
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Teachers are dipping into their threadbare pockets for money to pay for pencils and crayons and paper for their students.
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Or if it won't, Congress can act and intervene to expose the FCC's threadbare logic for the sham it is.
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Cousins has been in foul trouble, but the real problem comes with the rest of a threadbare New Orleans squad.
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"This is our Jackson Pollock workroom," Mr. Thomas said, a reference to the dried paint splatters on the threadbare carpet.
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These afternoons of intimacy and friendship will be with me long after the clothes have become stained, threadbare and unwearable.
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Mr. Palmer can envision the day when the threadbare old houses like his are replaced by condos with fitness centers.
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It plucks people and moments from obscurity, hurls them into the mainstream, and tugs incessantly until they grow threadbare and exhausting.
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And really seeing this sort of ... you know, the fact that those promises are increasingly threadbare on both counts. Mm-hmm.
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" In contrast, the Jongas' dark, fifth-floor walk-up apartment has a "threadbare living room sofa" and is "full of cockroaches.
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Both Southwest and Spirit have built reputations on offering threadbare fares at much lower prices than the larger, legacy U.S. carriers.
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The base game was really a bit threadbare and honestly may not convince new players that it's worth it to pay.
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You stop in your tracks and comment on the threadbare vintage Yes T-shirt I've tucked into my high-rise jeans.
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One of the best decisions I ever made was to replace my threadbare old t-shirts from college with nicer loungewear.
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The Bolshoi toured, of course, but some of its excursions became threadbare affairs, its programming at times chained to ideological themes.
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Amran Kasim Ahmed, 153, was at the top of her class and nurtured dreams of revamping Somalia's threadbare health care system.
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Liverpool would rarely have faced a United team with such threadbare resources, with quite so many square pegs in round holes.
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The affected forest had been left threadbare by the cull while an adjacent ELC was just empty hectares of khaki-coloured dust.
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It matched the mood of the city: a fatigued capital with an increasingly threadbare air, trapped in an interminable season of war.
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" "Don't repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a threadbare health insurance plan that puts insurance companies back in charge.
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"A threadbare legislative program from a government that has lost its majority and apparently run out of ideas altogether," he told parliament.
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All the clothes are threadbare, with missing sequins and broken straps, and the makeup is old and has a tendency to clump.
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So did Wanda Lincoln, 67, a retired college administrator still working to make ends meet in a threadbare mill city in Maine.
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Republicans would render the safety net threadbare, providing aid with significant conditions to groups of Americans in more and more specific circumstances.
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Often sequels are threadbare retreads of old ideas that slavishly replicate the original in hopes of catching lightning in a bottle twice.
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Entering March, he was only the sixth biggest spender in the Democratic field, after running a relatively threadbare campaign during the primaries.
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Long gone are the days when minor leaguers subsisted on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with threadbare coaching staffs to guide them.
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But if a shrinking number of workers must support a growing elderly population, even our threadbare social safety net will be strained.
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Even with their threadbare and unpopular policy agenda, Republicans would be favored to keep the House and maintain their state-legislature advantages.
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About a third of "A Carnival of Losses" is threadbare and meandering, memories of dead relatives and journeys abroad and anthologies past.
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I listened to them miss the toilet as they pissed, collide with the hallway door that always stuck on the threadbare carpet.
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Ideally, both Washington and Beijing would pledge aid to assist Seoul in the mammoth task of rebuilding the threadbare North Korean economy.
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But the production, directed by John de los Santos, felt threadbare, as did much of the orchestral playing led by Sean Kelly.
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I used to go a few days without shaving because I always felt like my stubble was so threadbare as to be unnoticeable.
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She'd thought nothing of greeting the movers in soft terry-cloth short shorts and a threadbare tanktop, but her curves felt exposed now.
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You can see the glittering spires of Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Towers from the threadbare football pitch that the Rohingya Football Club calls home.
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In the years leading up to the festivities, Ms. Carpenter nearly fell through the holes in the threadbare safety net of social services.
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The gentle padding of bare feet on carpet, the ominous creak of a floorboard as the threadbare rug gives way to dark wood.
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All the more reason to strip those stale sheets, replace your threadbare towels, and hit up The Home Depot's online-only Spring Savings.
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His threadbare campaign issues page doesn't discuss the issue and his campaign staff hasn't provided details on the matter to local media outlets.
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Coutard needed to adapt as well as catch the mad energy of the creative process, and somehow transfuse it with a threadbare narrative.
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Mr. Astor wanted to attract wealthy families to the Far East Side of Manhattan, once a threadbare area of walk-ups and factories.
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The cultural content is just local color, though, in a threadbare story that would have been stretched thin in a 90-minute movie.
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And Bill Clinton has learned that his threadbare routine of maudlin self-pity and casting blame on everyone but himself doesn't work anymore.
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Without that kind of control and pictorial fluency, the story loses its sensuality, and all that's left is a fairly threadbare, clichéd melodrama.
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On her signature issue — filling the state's lunar-looking potholes and repaving its threadbare highways — the governor has failed to broker a compromise.
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We've seen this story before, as health authorities working with threadbare data try to walk the line between epidemic readiness and needless panic.
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On her signature issue — filling the state's lunar-looking potholes and repaving its threadbare highways — the governor has failed to broker a compromise.
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Players are more concerned about the rank-and-file free agents who have struggled to find jobs as several teams field threadbare rosters.
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Perhaps the greatest casualty was the already-threadbare claim among conservatives that Trump had a good-faith interest in squelching corruption in Ukraine.
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On Saturday morning, the men stood around shivering in threadbare thrift-store suits, which they said were their team's official warm-up duds.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) doesn't believe his threadbare majority can agree on a budget, a requirement for deploying reconciliation procedures.
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As with the other wall panels, this one suggests a tapestry, threadbare in parts, as well as a partially eroded fresco or mural.
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The image is strained, threadbare, so worn-out that it creates the feeling that we are following a ghost in a dream-like state.
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The excuse that the mobile web isn't fast enough is threadbare, and the solution of a special Google-designed sub-web transparently self-serving.
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But with a threadbare pitching staff and farm system, the Marlins' new ownership revived the franchise tradition of slashing payroll and trading for prospects.
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The season premiere and finale both attempted to reinvent The X-Files' alien conspiracy and only revealed how threadbare that whole story had become.
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The Warriors came in desperate to win for the fallen Durant and exit their threadbare but cherished home arena of 47 years in triumph.
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The people, the women in brightly-printed zani and ragged winter jackets, the men in flowing riga and threadbare scarves, seemed oblivious to it.
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But it is also threadbare elegant with its hint of sherry, and you could call the gravy a French sauce suprême if you liked.
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Either they shoehorn otherwise compelling brainteasers into a threadbare story, or they're so bent on drawing you into their world that the puzzles suffer.
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So the threadbare 2001 authorization, which those of us who voted for it believed was limited by time and place, remains in effect. Why?
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Administration critics contend slow permitting, which administrations from both parties have called problematic, stems from threadbare federal funding and staffing rather than onerous rules.
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But the threadbare analysis was able to come to that conclusion only by assuming that Congress passed other legislation, such as an infrastructure bill.
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"The Iranian government and nation do not care in the least for the worn-out and threadbare remarks made by the American officials," Jahangiri said.
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RHONY fans will remember, Radziwill frantically flipping the cushions to hide the threadbare parts of its tiger-striped fabric from her cast mates during filming.
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IT MAY be sinking ever deeper into slump, misery and corrupt dictatorship, adorned only by threadbare revolutionary rhetoric, but Venezuela has retained a surprising stability.
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Be honest, you too have a white t-shirt that is now threadbare and covered in stains because it's still too comfortable to give up.
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A basic appreciation for the American state's machinery is threadbare among those with the greatest power in this country, as well as the broader electorate.
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Mr. Trump's aides had assured him the race would by done by March, but his threadbare organizational team lost delegates in a number of states.
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When the United States failed to qualify for the World Cup in 1986, the New York Times ran a threadbare four-paragraph Associated Press report.
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France was threadbare at center back because injuries to Raphaël Varane and Jérémy Mathieu ruled the two defenders out before the Euros could even start.
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A boyish 35, he was dressed that morning in a threadbare T-shirt and a crumpled Lacoste cap that had been worn nearly to death.
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Over the last couple of years, the threadbare curtain that shields the inner workings of the seafood industry has been pulled aside bit by bit.
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Activists fear the court's decision to allow linking welfare schemes with Aadhaar will continue to exclude people from what is already a threadbare safety net.
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Except for the dozens of eye-popping outfits Mr. Mackie gorgeously recreates for the occasion, it's all gesture, no craft: dramatically threadbare and surprisingly unrevealing.
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The students peered at the polished marble floors from the women's balcony and examined a threadbare, hand-drawn map of the synagogues in the neighborhood.
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Some airlines will give you a threadbare blanket to "warm" yourself if it gets really cold, but I've never regretted bringing a hoodie or pullover.
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International health officials worry that the virus could spread out of control and overwhelm the threadbare healthcare system in one of the world's poorest countries.
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International health officials worry that the virus could spread out of control and overwhelm the threadbare healthcare system in one of the world's poorest countries.
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The dark forest of the tale is a farm in rural Indiana, where a little family in a humble dwelling leads a joyless, threadbare life.
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It is typical of the threadbare housing where workers live rent-free near the barns, a part of the backstretch unseen by most track visitors.
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It does indeed recast bohemia in a convincingly up-to-date guise—in Brooklyn, of course, where thousands of the art world's threadbare strivers reside.
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Trump's defense Trump may also be playing an internal Washington game with his State of the Union calls for unity and compromise already looking threadbare.
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Rather than belittling their preference for the "domestic struggles and joys" of their cozy yet threadbare lives, the film makes it OK -- even embraces it.
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Threadbare as it was, it was still more than they were learning from American officials, who, while polite, were making no headway, the family said.
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The player controls Bobbin Threadbare, the youngest member of the Guild who is the key to bringing on the apocalypse but doesn't quite know it yet.
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The WTO's rules provide particularly threadbare cushioning for trade in services—31% of Britain's trade with the EU and 35% of its trade with the world.
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Her patrician mother, Adora (Patricia Clarkson), shares their opinion: she can barely muster threadbare civility when Camille turns up, unannounced, and is appalled by her mission.
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So much of what frustrates me about the Man in Black is driven by how the storytelling around him seems threadbare and intentionally lacking in focus.
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Chart Position: #245 Spotify Streams: 0003 millionJax Jones sampled Booka Shade and M.A.N.D.Y's 2000 Ibiza classic "Body Language" for this threadbare secondhand fedora of a single.
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The plainness of Kutsukake's prose can verge on threadbare, with patches of earnest research peeking through, but these lapses are balanced by moments of indelible poignancy.
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But then that worldview also seemed threadbare — a concatenation of clichés so rote and unconvincing that its abandonment by Trump's voters looks almost inevitable in hindsight.
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Christie said the campaign was too disorganized and threadbare 'to run a Tom Clancy operation,' and said he never saw evidence of collusion with Russian officials.
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What was surprising was that the feat was achieved on Wimbledon's rather threadbare lawns as the Ukrainian's game is more suited to the sport's slower surfaces.
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There is a silver lining here, however threadbare: even though telecom complaints rose 44 percent over the last year, that's actually a slowdown of the trend.
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They warn that if those subsidies shrink, some poor families will have to pay more out of their own threadbare pockets or be forced to move.
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It is often not until people are themselves thinking of starting a family that they realize how threadbare the safety net for working parents really is.
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I'm worn threadbare dealing with the oppressions that men who look like me endure, from racially skewed mass incarceration to being the targets of police violence.
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In the novel, she gives herself a tattered, dissolute glamour — she's wearing a rakish rose-brown man's fedora and one of her mother's threadbare silk dresses.
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The other is a tepid father / son drama that Gray and his co-writer, Ethan Gross, don't even try to elevate above the most threadbare clichés.
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The strike impacted an already threadbare health system in one of the world's poorest countries, leaving its biggest and busiest hospitals in disarray and the sick unattended.
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Accordingly, there are bleak depictions of the threadbare household of Bob Cratchit, Scrooge's overworked and underpaid clerk, who suffers miserably at the hands of his parsimonious paymaster.
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Mr Shyamalan may think that the threadbare plot will be forgiven because he is willing to be solemn and thoughtful about something as inherently childish as superheroes.
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That may explain why policies to compensate the losers were insufficient—especially in America where the social safety net, such as for health care, is so threadbare.
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This week, front and center, is the love story between Jack and Rebecca, and the moment when the love that tied them together became the most threadbare.
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At fault is a threadbare, irritatingly vague script (by the director and artist Ben McPherson) that simply strings together a series of generic setups and forgettable characters.
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The threadbare abstraction of these panels frustrates any attempt to read these works too biographically, but Al-Hadid's wall pieces, even at their most rootless, remain intricate.
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Apart from the dispute over the number of civilian deaths, the notion that targeted drone strikes are an adequate answer to the terrorist threat appears increasingly threadbare.
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My bathing suit, wilted there, in a threadbare pile slowly saturating the end pages of a dog-eared paperback, seemed suddenly despicable: lifeless, damp, maybe even diseased.
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A threadbare serge suit hung on the wall near an eggshell-blue kitchen table on which sat a bowl of fruit, an unwashed teacup and a spoon.
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The Islamic State, also called ISIS and ISIL, claims that it is building a new caliphate — or unified Muslim land — a claim that has become increasingly threadbare.
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At the time, the organization's personnel was so threadbare that Mr. Blind himself had to pump the balls, referee some games and escort injured players to hospital.
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At the meeting I attended, dozens of people crammed together on plastic chairs: Muslim women in hijabs, African men in dashikis, skinny teens in threadbare T-shirts.
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Numerous reports have indicated that North Korea's state-sponsored hacking operations are quite sophisticated, despite most of the nation's threadbare at best connection to the global internet.
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At the end of the year — a crucial time for retailers — Sears' threadbare Black Friday catalog signals it's going to have problems getting shoppers to its doors.
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Mr. Christie said the campaign was too disorganized and threadbare "to run a Tom Clancy operation," and said he never saw evidence of collusion with Russian officials.
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Despite the setbacks it suffers in transitioning to print,Threadbare isn't going to let us forget them, or the industry that marched them penniless to their graves.
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But while it's true that Jaws 4 has a threadbare script, clunky Michael Caine one-liners, Mario Van Peebles sporting a terrible Jamaican accent, and shark revenge, Jaws 21950-D also has, in addition to a threadbare script, a bevy of frolicking teenagers, an evil corporate conspiracy, an evil showboating scientist, obnoxious happy dolphins, and, oh yes, a shark terrorizing Sea World because Sea World killed its baby.
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When the set-piece came to nothing, Belgium broke forward on the counter, exposing Japan's threadbare defense, and scored the winner with the last kick of the game.
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Buy them in bulk for cheap from the dollar store, wear 'em out and wash 'em regularly, then restock when they start to look a little threadbare. 33.
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Victor Massiah has grown weary of talk that the Italian banking system is so threadbare and stuffed with terrible loans that it threatens Europe with another financial crisis.
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Yet even the biggest fans of the antihero drama would probably admit it's feeling a little threadbare right now (see Matt Zoller Seitz for more on this topic).
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Downtown is threadbare and lightly populated — everyone is either in their temperature-controlled offices or sitting in their cars, windows up, AC blasting, immune to the outside world.
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In the indictment unsealed on Thursday, federal prosecutors laid out a somewhat threadbare case against the Australian anti-secrecy activist for his work with Chelsea Manning in 2010.
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NBA League Pass ($28.99 per month)League Pass is the NBA's version of RedZone or MLB Extra Innings, though it's a little more threadbare in terms of features.
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Sanders's basic point about the threadbare nature of the American welfare state is clearly true, as is Trump's basic point that the nature of American society is changing.
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This once-abandoned Parisian stage was given new life in 1974 by the British director Peter Brook, who declined to renovate it to preserve its intimate, threadbare allure.
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The book by Diana Gabaldon that provides the source material was published in 1996, before the last several years of cultural discussion about threadbare and dismissive plot devices.
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The display was whimsical and fun, but it would not have been used much, anyway — no player on this threadbare roster hit more than 13 homers last season.
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Catholic voters there turned out at the highest rate of the three states Mr. Trump won by a threadbare margin of 77,000 total votes, according to exit polls.
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A threadbare farmer tending to charcoal embers in the shadow of the fifth century battlements yells at the angry dog to shut up and flashes me a toothy grin.
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Instead, border agents appeared to be targeting people with "the dark skin and threadbare clothing that is typical of many Central American migrants" — in other words, potential asylum seekers.
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Nobody in Washington — and few people in Moscow — seems to have heard of him when Trump started naming him as a member of his then-threadbare national security team.
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Trump's allies, donors, and other Republican operatives have expressed concerns about his campaign operation, which has been dogged by internal battles, a threadbare campaign infrastructure, and thin fundraising apparatus.
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Most will be spent on items that will grow obsolete within a short time — sweaters soon to be threadbare, electronic devices soon to be replaced, kitchen tools never used.
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Style it with mud-kicker boots and a threadbare denim jacket on your tougher nights, or pair with a flared skirt and baby bag for a flirty daytime jaunt.
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Had the latest regulations been in place in 2009, estimates Autonomous, a research firm, Deutsche's ratio would have been a threadbare 2.4%, and just 20083% even in mid-2012.
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It's tasteful and cultured in an unfussy kind of way; the bookshelves are laden, the walls crammed with paintings; there's a dog lying contentedly on the threadbare Persian rug.
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He often starts with what seems to be a classic threadbare plot: the runaway wife in search of herself ("Harper Regan"), or high school kids in conflict ("Punk Rock").
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My wardrobe consisted of jeans, T-shirts, and threadbare Converse high tops for everyday, and one pair of heels and a selection of prostitute-y rags for special occasions.
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The track is far more threadbare than a lot of the band's other work, creating a delicateness in its verse before launching into a more emotive and heavy chorus.
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MILAN — Victor Massiah has grown weary of talk that the Italian banking system is so threadbare and stuffed with terrible loans that it threatens Europe with another financial crisis.
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I've always had a soft spot for this park, though its 12 hard courts at the Brian Watkins Tennis Center are cracked and slippery and the nets are threadbare.
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The European Union — its unity threadbare, and itself struggling with members, like Poland and Hungary, dominated by strong leaders increasingly tempted by authoritarian impulses — may be losing its bloom.
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And the nation's threadbare social safety net remains the weakest in the industrialized world, providing only the most meager insurance to working families undercut by globalization and technological change.
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Chase religious ideas out one door and they inevitably come in another — because the human mind naturally rebels against a worldview as incomplete, as manifestly threadbare, as pure materialism.
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Chase religious ideas out one door and they inevitably come in another — because the human mind naturally rebels against a worldview as incomplete, as manifestly threadbare, as pure materialism.
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Here's the thing: If you were a renter and your assets consist of a commemorative spoon collection and some threadbare "Star Wars" bedsheets, your "estate" doesn't need to be probated.
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We were probably living on family money from a couple of generations ago, so there was an air of not having anything – a threadbare quality to our way of life.
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While voluntary charitable organizations doled out most of the social insurance before the New Deal, they constituted a threadbare network that quickly snapped under the pressure of the Great Depression.
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But the administration's intervention to bolster the nation's welfare programs made a decisive difference for millions who otherwise would have fallen through the cracks of the nation's threadbare safety net.
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The flooding last October from Hurricane Matthew killed 31 people in North Carolina, displaced thousands and poured water in threadbare towns dotting the flat green landscape of Eastern North Carolina.
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Some of the students said they were brought to small, cell-like rooms with threadbare furniture and mattresses, and were not told how long they would have to stay there.
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"Today's threadbare joint statement shows Republicans continuing to flounder instead of inviting bipartisan progress on real tax reform for hard-working Americans," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said.
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But in areas as diverse as food stamps and housing assistance, education for the disadvantaged and Head Start, it could further fray the rest of America's threadbare social safety net.
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In "The Shadow of a Gunman," Donal Davoren (James Russell), a would-be poet, and Seumas Shields (Michael Mellamphy), a threadbare peddler with I.R.A. sympathies, share a grungy tenement room.
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" The tweet drew hundreds of responses from friends and supporters of Mr. Coates, including the New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb, who picked apart what he called Mr. West's "threadbare commentary.
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Sessions famously became an early Trump supporter over their shared interest in immigration, and Miller moved onto the Trump team as a key early staffer in his somewhat threadbare operation.
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First, it is an attack on America's threadbare system of campaign finance regulation; one of the few remaining laws on the books bans corporations from giving gifts to a candidate.
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The threadbare tax plan the administration released this week does not look like a first step towards the kind of comprehensive, bipartisan reform that could grease the wheels of the economy.
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The government's domestic agenda is so threadbare that there will be no Queen's Speech (which traditionally lays out the government's agenda at the beginning of the new parliamentary session) this year.
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The rules governing the taxation of multinationals are a threadbare patchwork of national laws and bilateral treaties, dating back almost a century and designed for an age of manufacturing, not multimedia.
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The sumptuous space, which couldn't be further from the threadbare realities that its title summons, has over the last five months been restored by the interior and architectural designer Shalini Misra.
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Mosquito control in the United States is a crazy quilt of jurisdictions that includes powerful independent districts with their own taxing authority and threadbare county health, environment or public works departments.
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That tree, a Norway spruce that immediately lost its needles, had been nicknamed Spelacchio, or Mangy, for its threadbare appearance, and had been mercilessly, and humorously, derided throughout the holiday season.
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My recipe, for turkey à la king, is a model of nursery food in the tradition of threadbare luxury hotels and Cheever-reading home dining rooms, soft and creamy, salty-sweet.
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She humbly reminds you, however, that what you consider a threadbare and smelly old blanket may be, for others, a treasured memory that they are now lovingly passing down to you.
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In a glassed-off room next to the bar, before an audience composed primarily of comics waiting their turn, a young man in a threadbare gray T-shirt had the stage.
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The richest passages of this novel are mostly just long lists of nouns, fine paintings and antique furniture and threadbare Oriental rugs that build on each other in long, voluptuous passages.
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Grandpa is extremely active on Ring Neighbors, the social network that the company calls "the New Neighborhood Watch," and which is tearing at the already threadbare social fabric of his suburb.
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Rihanna wears emotion proudly on "Love on the Brain" and "Higher," selling threadbare longing by flexing the upper end of her register, shredding on the latter cut like we've never heard before.
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Erik and the baby manage to escape into the woods, where he sets up a threadbare home in a cave (as opposed to the log cabin in the movie, complete with encyclopedias).
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Now Greece, left with threadbare public services, eye-watering tax rates, weak institutions and appalling demographics, is supposed to run large primary surpluses (ie, before interest payments) for the next four decades.
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While the still-threadbare island may not have been able to provide many Hollywood-style perks, the Cuban crew offered the Americans trays of sugary coffee and croquetas, savory fritters, between scenes.
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The safety net provided by trade-adjustment assistance, a federal programme, is threadbare—which is why many displaced American workers opt for more generous disability benefits and leave the job market altogether.
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The GOP sold the threadbare item known as its soul in exchange for this exact moment when they have a chance to gain complete control of the top court in the land.
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Ken and Angela had kept up a bright appearance of enjoying themselves, but it was threadbare, and the strain had told: they had quarrelled more tensely than usual over directions and plans.
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But as long as Abe is committed to trying to butter up Trump, it's unlikely the Japanese prime minister will tell the American president that his historical references are threadbare and crude.
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I haven't felt this mellow since the days of smoking joints on my threadbare couch at uni and before I know it, I'm buying my own bottle of Tubi to take home.
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No one doubts how serious the problems are from the disastrous state of the schools to the threadbare transit system to the challenges of adding enough jobs to fuel a sustainable recovery.
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The planners behind the project have a difficult task: trying to win over locals who love the Jackson Park courses for what they are, which is uncrowded, simple and a little threadbare.
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Now he is sketching out what a far more toxic YouTube politics of ressentiment might look like, under the threadbare cover of ironic bigotry, the recent history of which is worryingly instructive.
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Will the President, seeing betrayal at every turn, launch a purge of officials he suspects may not be loyal to his political crusade, further thinning the ranks of a threadbare White House?
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He is, so far, running a threadbare campaign, with a limited staff and an operation that mostly consists of him flying to early states and attending events with his wife, Chirlane McCray.
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So, under this new plan, expect insurance rolls well-stocked with sick patients who are actively using resources, while healthy people, especially the young, have to choose threadbare plans or nothing at all.
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It was the first start in the majors this year for Martinez, who made 45 starts for Texas the last two years due to a wave of injuries that left its rotation threadbare.
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Fighting has increased in other parts of Syria in recent weeks as world powers struggle to revive a threadbare ceasefire in western Syria and after peace talks in Geneva this year broke down.
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The gravitational pull of the party is strong.) But they didn't, and neither did Mr. Jeffrey's ecstatic collection of "drunk" (scrunched and pinched) tailoring and threadbare knitwear, wild and wacky as it was.
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They preserved its threadbare charm, and while Mr. Brook handed over the reins of his artistic home to Olivier Mantei and Olivier Poubelle in 2008, he has continued to show new work there.
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The annals of documentary film are packed with movies that are formally rudimentary or even threadbare, but contain stories so compelling that they command a regard beyond what the film's presentation accords them.
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Hell, fast food is already one of the worst-regarded jobs because workers are openly treated with so little dignity, the benefits range from threadbare to nonexistent, and the wages are so low.
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Williams was a controlling aesthete, and in his stage directions, he specifies that the set consist of a threadbare living room on the ground floor of a grim St. Louis tenement around 1938.
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Meanwhile, Camille's threadbare relationship with her mother is almost worn through; after last week's ice-cold declaration from Adora that she never loved her daughter, this week mom wants daughter out of the house.
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And any attempt to point out a lack of facts or simply note how threadbare the "theory" actually is can be explained away easily: "So you're in on it too!" or something like that.
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What you get, is a seemingly endless parade of stories that tangentially involve nightclubs in some capacity and are linked only by one tenuous, battered, threadbare thread: all of them are incredibly, incredibly depressing.
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In the concrete dorms, which are managed by Xawax and other agencies, workers from Romania, Slovakia and elsewhere filed in from an afternoon shift and cooked a modest meal in a threadbare communal kitchen.
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In its report after the accident, Canada's Transportation Safety Board portrayed the company responsible, the now-defunct Montreal, Maine and Atlantic, as a threadbare operation at which saving time and cutting costs trumped safety.
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"We regret the Japanese side has joined anti-Russian speculation that is trendy in the West on the threadbare theme of spy hysteria," the Russian Embassy in Japan said in a post on Twitter.
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Even in remote Latvia — hardly a top destination for migrants, given its frosty winters and threadbare welfare system — a darkening swirl of fear has emanated from politicians, the news media and the wider population.
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I was particularly enamored of their choice to have Laura know her father's exploits mainly from X-Men comic books — a neatly underplayed bit of meta-commentary on how threadbare some superhero tropes have become.
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He figured, if he just did what Almena said, maybe Almena would calm down, find his banjo, settle into one of the many threadbare couches upstairs and fall asleep for the first time in days.
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It's more business-casual, anchored in oversized cashmere turtlenecks, billowing dresses, high-waisted trousers, market totes and minimal leather bags, threadbare tees, and impossible sandals, all in the various hues of the bulk-grain aisle.
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The style in which they are drawn is as deliberately threadbare ("clunky" is Chast's own word for it) as the scenes themselves, a thing of quick, broken lines, spidery lettering, and much uneasy blank space.
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Most impressive, though, is that "Grace" doesn't flog the threadbare conceits of fantasies set in a vaguely medieval Europe — you know, dragons, trolls, elves — but instead bracingly delves into the myths and history of Asia.
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Yes, the fire is less than blazing and a few of the cushions are threadbare, but the chairs are covered in a cheerful green, the rug looks soft underfoot and the lamps cast a warm glow.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Medics who rushed to help victims of a huge bomb explosion in the Somali capital Mogadishu that killed more than 300 people say the country's threadbare emergency services have been pushed beyond their limit.
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But for those of us who are neither expecting nor allowed to wear their threadbare sweatpants at their mother's table because you were raised better than that, young lady, Stove Top Stuffing has designed a solution.
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For Greece to be able to process and send back those migrants who continue to reach its islands would require a transformation of its threadbare asylum and justice systems with scant resources and uncertain EU assistance.
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Yet however fertile that might be as a marketing formula, the resulting movie plays like "The Bourne Identity for Dummies," a bland wannabe with a threadbare plot that -- the ample violence notwithstanding -- mostly misses the mark.
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But Trump, who once told Americans he would do so much winning on their behalf that they would be sick of winning, has been desperate for a win after a threadbare first eight months as President.
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That address was in the most threadbare corner of Oak Cliff, a Dallas neighborhood of bygone notoriety, containing both the boardinghouse in which Lee Oswald lived and the movie theater in which he tried to hide.
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Oh, and in case you were wondering, Mr. Trump, who has offered his own threadbare version of a maternal leave plan, was pants-on-fire lying when he claimed that his opponent has no such plan.
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" Sahota takes it further in "The Year of the Runaways": "What decadence this belonging rubbish was, what time the rich must have if they could sit around and weave great worries out of such threadbare things.
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In 2014, for example, the city of Tottori disowned an official yuru-chara, Katsue-san — a teenage girl in threadbare clothes, holding a frog — three days after her debut, amid complaints that she was too depressing.
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Mr. Lewis began the piece's "Eric Garner" movement by tracing out threadbare clouds on the Hammond B3; the guitarist Ron Jackson played high, melting notes as Jeremy Clemons established a molasses-like polyrhythm on the drums.
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She filed an asylum application for her son, but it contained "threadbare statements in support of C.J.'s asylum claim and much of what is written is borderline inscrutable and non-responsive," according to the court.
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The new characters didn't feel fresh, the new evils weren't particularly new, and despite El's earlier closing of the dimensional gate, that last-shot tag of Hawkins Middle School, Upside Down Edition felt like a threadbare promise.
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ADDIS ABABA/PARIS (Reuters) - At the headquarters of the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority, a paper sign balanced above room 12.53 and a threadbare square of carpet welcome a stream of foreign visitors to the Accident Investigation Bureau.
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Watch: A right-wing blogger comes to Washington Trump's document—an expanded version of a proposal teased in March—would reduce the budget by $3.6 trillion over ten years, mainly by shredding America's already threadbare safety net.
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Around the time of the FCC's vote to roll back existing 2015 rules and replace them with threadbare new ones, many senators and representatives were sending stern letters to the agency informing its chairman of their displeasure.
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Bruan Truitt, USA Today: Michael Gracey's directorial debut ... is a disappointing circus of thinly developed characters, overly earnest melodrama and song-and-dance sequences that are more like unrelated music videos sewn together for a threadbare narrative.
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Trump donors, allies and other Republican operatives continue to express concerns about his campaign operation, which has been dogged by internal battles, a threadbare campaign infrastructure of about 30 paid staffers, and a barely existent fundraising apparatus.
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Installed at roughly waist height, the sculptures present strange scenes, such as in "Dogfaced Boy," in which a watercolor of an apartment complex overlooks a 3D swimming pool where a threadbare figure floats casually reading a magazine.
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Once There Was Brasília's threadbare story (and given its thinness, it is still opaque) consists of an intergalactic traveler, WA4 (Wellington Abreu), hired to assassinate President Juscelino Kubitschek on the day that he inaugurates Brasília in 1960.
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And he's lucky—his old job pays his medical insurance, giving him access to top-of-the-line private healthcare, unlike most of the country's 50-odd million people, who have to rely on the threadbare public system.
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This paint-splattered ensemble might seem the easiest to achieve, but it's harder than you'd think to scour overpriced vintage stores to find perfect and somehow still available oversized men's trousers with a threadbare khaki colored cotton tee.
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This follows a successful vote in the House last month to repeal the threadbare, one-size-fits-all 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) for Afghanistan through an omnibus appropriations bill, also advanced by Congresswoman Lee.
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Zhou, who was previously the head of digital for the beauty company Glossier, and McGillivray, a digital consultant, had initially wanted to create a brand that would offer an upgraded version of Zhou's beloved but threadbare cotton nightshirt.
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Daily, after preschool, she met me at the door with a stack of cookies, and I would eat them, pre-dinner, nestled under her threadbare brown shawl, while we watched "General Hospital" and "Sesame Street" back-to-back.
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In the final match of the evening watched by a threadbare crowd, Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei thrashed Xu Chen and Ma Jin in an all-China clash for the mixed doubles bronze, but it was scant consolation.
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Yet this seemed so obviously threadbare, given the many Russia-related things Mr Trump had to hide short of a grand conspiracy, that it suggested the extent to which he remains fundamentally guided by extreme deference to presidential authority.
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The story of Teresa Mendoza (Alice Braga), a low-level dealer who, through pluck, tragedy and wild coincidence, rises to run "the biggest drug empire in the Western Hemisphere" — her words — is told and filmed in threadbare, routine fashion.
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This scene is a campy romp that feels like it was cut from the most recent Final Destination film and stuck onto the beginning of this one; it has only a threadbare connection to the rest of the film.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. special envoy for Syria called on Friday for an urgent meeting of ministers from major and regional powers to sustain the threadbare truce in Syria, as well as troubled peace talks and humanitarian aid efforts.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Mainstream Syrian rebel groups said on Sunday they would no longer abide by a threadbare "cessation of hostilities" deal unless the Syrian army ended a major assault on their positions in the suburbs of Damascus within 48 hours.
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A jersey one from Zara was basically a union suit, complete with a row of buttons, threadbare fabric, and a dropped crotch that made my midsection look like Mitch McConnell's chin from the front and his neck from the back.
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Lately, the idea that technology exists as a force for good — to connect people, to save the planet — has been looking rather threadbare, especially in light of recent revelations around the role social media companies played in the presidential election.
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With a threadbare White House staff and ever-multiplying investigations into his conduct, he may be quite happy telling rallies and Fox News that the Democrats are keeping the government closed to prevent him from fulfilling a signature campaign promise.
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Clinton refused to release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Wall Street, and made the threadbare excuse that she'll do it when "everybody agrees to do it," even though no one else has made such a business of speechmaking.
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There's no mandate to buy insurance at all, unlike Obamacare, and if you do buy insurance, you can pick from a threadbare plan that's cheaper because it excludes large categories of care -- like maternity care, reproductive care, or rehabilitation, for example.
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But as Mr. Obama's presidency enters its final months, the negotiations with Russia have become a threadbare exercise, leaving a president who has long avoided military entanglement with Syria backing a policy that he himself believes is destined to fail.
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It seemed as though the dresses themselves were enough to lift these women out of their daily grind, away from their painful memories, their threadbare lives, into what I imagined as clouds of fun — dances, parties; I had no idea.
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As I walked across the parking lot, contemplating the suddenly dubious idea of setting off on a hike up the volcano in a pair of threadbare Adidas sneakers, I happened upon a group of journalists from the Italian television network RAI.
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And from that priority arose the key question of how to characterize the impacted population — at the time (and now) Warren argued factors like medical emergencies and a threadbare social safety net were what led to overwhelming personal debt and bankruptcy.
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And from that priority arose the key question of how to characterize the impacted population — at the time (and now) Warren argued factors like medical emergencies and a threadbare social safety net were what led to overwhelming personal debt and bankruptcy.
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Millions will lose coverage; or they'll keep coverage, but it will become so threadbare it's almost worthless; or premiums will skyrocket for the most needy unless vast sums — hundreds of billions of dollars — are devoted to those high-risk pools.
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It's also possible that Biden might decide that the solution is to increase the individual mandate's penalty, costing people who've not earned any additional hardship more of their savings or leaving them little choice but to buy a threadbare, high-deductible plan.
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When he does face contempt — from Louisa's self-centered fitness nut of a boyfriend, a threadbare character in the hands of Harry Potter heartthrob Matthew Lewis — it doesn't approximate the world's ill treatment of disabled characters, which really isn't on display at all.
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But what's notable about "Time's Up" is the way it takes an already threadbare comedic premise — dummies don't understand that, for instance, looking at a woman's breasts is harassment and not a "compliment" — and rolls it through the 12 previous seasons of Sunny.
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Then, in his absence, you have to reckon with the kind of threadbare pay-per-view that the UFC would have had to Frankenstein together back in 2014, when it seemed like every fighter on the roster ended up getting ACL surgery.
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Clinton quickly turned the exchange to her advantage, replying with one of her most well-timed jabs of the night, highlighting the idea that Sanders has been reluctant to reveal who is advising him amid claims he has a threadbare national security policy.
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I remember sitting on the threadbare couch in the duplex my parents rented, the one with the green shag carpet that looked like Scotty had beamed it right from an M-class planet and onto our floors, and watching syndicated episodes with Dad.
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Our threadbare system of public support for child care and early education costs 0.4 percent of the G.D.P.; France's famously generous system costs 1.2 percent of the G.D.P. So we could move a long way up the scale with a fairly modest investment.
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All Sides Are Supposedly Violating Syria's Ceasefire — That Doesn't Mean It's a Total Failure In areas under regime control, the institutions of the Syrian state have remained mostly intact, but public services have become increasingly threadbare as the state faces a financial crisis.
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The exhibition's most arresting artifact is a threadbare 4-inch-by-3-inch, 180-page memoir and prayer book handwritten by Luis de Carvajal the Younger in colonial Mexico in 1595, where the Inquisition had extended its sinister reach of torture and execution.
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Back to top Xavier stood apart from the crowd, leaning against the concrete pillar, black knit cap pulled low over his ears and hands buried deep in the pockets of a threadbare coat, which still smelled of the St. Anthony's donation bin.
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Critics of the threadbare public reporting say it is striking that even in Silicon Valley, which is home to leading technology companies that thrive off the collection of data, residents are given very little information about the movement and dynamics of the virus.
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Friday's semi-staged performance (of select instrumental numbers from the Turkish, Persian and Peruvian parts, as well as the complete "Sauvages") showed how threadbare the music can feel in the absence of stagecraft and with only a sprinkling of basic dance steps.
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While there is no record of exactly where this room was, my grandmother, Flora Whitney Miller, in Huelva for the monument's unveiling, recalled it being simple, and was taken aback by its worn furniture and threadbare rug; her mother had no complaints though.
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But the threadbare, 20153-page document raised more questions than it supplied answers about what exactly the Trump administration seeks to conclude from the snapshot of data released to the public in the midst of a protracted immigration fight on Capitol Hill.
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"The garment industry employs between one-sixth and one-seventh of all of the women on Earth, and therefore is probably the single-most responsible entity for the global gender wage gap," writes Moore in Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking, published by Microcosm.
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Let me say, in case I forget to later, that many of the details are very nice: the hats and boas; the uniforms; a menacing knot of men in dark suits sitting around a table; two women gossiping upstage in threadbare skirts and hose.
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Many of the carriages that between them provide almost a million journeys a day wobble disturbingly along, with yellow-painted walls, dim lights, metal coat-hooks over threadbare purple seats, a crackling tannoy, doors that hiss, brakes that squawk like gangs of novice clarinettists.
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"Tacitly recognizing the weakness of their factual allegations, Plaintiffs seek to bolster their threadbare and conclusory claims by exploiting the #MeToo Movement and bootstrapping the accusations of sexual harassment made by third parties against Rose in articles published by The Washington Post," the motion says.
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The thinking behind the White House gambit, delivered by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and others on the Sunday talk shows, seemed to reflect an administration keen to rack up progress towards a central campaign promise after a somewhat threadbare first 100 days in office.
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"If these guys announce that they are speaking for the party, and they're going to take down the prime minister, and they can't get 15 percent of M.P.s to send in letters, then their legitimacy and authority begins to look a little threadbare," he said.
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We're supposed to see substance but we're left with a threadbare illusion of heft; an explanation, perhaps, for the bounty of thick-rimmed glasses in primary colors worn by attendees who are all trying to discern something that may or may not be there.
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The prologue tells the story of the city-states of the Guilds as an industrial activity while the Weavers retreated to their island, the transgression of Lady Cygna Threadbare in having her son Bobbin, which set up the unravelling that will take place in the game.
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For the New York store, they wanted a townhouse, uptown, not on Madison but off Madison Avenue, a list that Mary-Kate, dressed in a Row blazer and shirt over threadbare vintage jeans, ticked off from her perch on a sofa on the store's third floor.
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Misfires from earlier in the year included "Dark Phoenix," the latest in the threadbare "X-Men" series; Ang Lee's ill-advised "Gemini Man," starring Will Smith; "UglyDolls," an animated clunker based on a toy line; and a pop-feminist reboot of "Charlie's Angels," with Kristen Stewart.
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But there's a vibrant, fun spark that runs through the musical's threadbare plot — after all, it's based on a book of children's poems by T.S. Eliot — and despite the public's generally baffled reaction to this movie's existence, Cats had the potential to be joyous and light.
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There are still lots of critics, curators, and artists content to ally themselves with established viewpoints as well as assert for the umpteenth time that painting and drawing are things that have been used up, that they are old threadbare coats that should been thrown out long ago.
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With the UFC's first forays into PPV of 2017 looking threadbare and no title fights scheduled other than the odd contest between Holly Holm and Germaine de Randamie at UFC 208 in Brooklyn, New York, Nurmagomedov versus Ferguson is the most hotly-anticipated the UFC can make at present.
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The directors of this episode, Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman (whose work on the 2003 movie American Splendor remains some of my favorite directing of this threadbare millennium), hang back from the confrontation with a documentary-like detachment, which only makes the scene funnier and more desperate.
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A couple who had just begun to enjoy retirement, Richard Rodriguez, 453, a railroad foreman, and Therese Rodriguez, 66, who worked as a receptionist, will be buried on Saturday, the first in a series of funerals that will test the nerves of this threadbare town of about 400 people.
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The education bets by Lemann and Warburg underscore a sea change in how investors are playing the education market in Latin America's largest economy, where private primary school chains bolstered by a quest for alternatives to threadbare public schools are replacing for-profit universities as the smart-money bet.
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Whites were particularly outraged when Wells said in an incendiary editorial, "Nobody in this section of the country believes the old threadbare lie that Negro men rape white women" — implying that rape accusations that preceded lynchings arose from the discovery of consensual sex between black men and white women.
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Thanks in part to Dodd-Frank, America's banks are far safer than they were: the ratio of the six largest banks' tier-1 capital (chiefly equity) to risk-weighted assets, the main gauge of their strength, was a threadbare 8-9% before the crisis; since 103 it has been 12-14%.
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The 30th anniversary of the team's 803 championship is an ongoing reminder of both how good the Mets had it then and how shabby and threadbare they've often seemed since, and not just on those days this season when they've had both Eric Campbell and Ty Kelly in the starting lineup.
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And if the nation's coffers are truly so threadbare, perhaps the president would be willing to spare some of the $12 million he's planning to spend on a self-indulgent military parade (or the $12 billion he's spending to bail out farmers who theoretically will be hurt by his trade war).
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I gave the DOH hotline another shot, just to speak with an emotionally threadbare representative who told me that the case I had opened in the beginning was inactive and inaccessible, and that it sounded like I had the flu (despite my insistence that I had tested negative hours earlier).
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For someone who came of age with rock 'n' roll, he was a castaway from an earlier time to judge by accounts of his stuffy Munich apartment, with its threadbare sofa, its antique cart for schnapps, its Wagner collection and shelves stocked with Thomas Mann, porcelain trinkets and art books.
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He seems a more natural fit, certainly — where Valverde has always been a pragmatist at heart, his successor has spent his career, as El País put it, "in love with the ball" — though his credentials are oddly threadbare for a coach of the biggest and now richest club in the world.
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In the six years since, that wig deteriorated at a rate of knots, stagnating in length (locs, being hair, tend to grow), and getting increasingly and randomly sun bleached and progressively threadbare, until it exposed an alarmingly patchy scalp landscape, seemingly held together by prayer and a selection of oddly placed headbands.
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Tattered dresses, threadbare shoes, and other items of clothing damaged from the Hiroshima bombing are unsettling reminders of nuclear war, but Miyako photographs them in color against a light backdrop, allowing the flower prints and checkered patterns, with tears and threads running loose at the seams, to provide a sense of cheeriness.
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But it also means that the episode ends with a surprisingly optimistic call to arms, a gentle insistence that if we let women tell their stories and believe them when they do, we might find those stories are just as compelling as the old, threadbare ones we've been telling for too long.
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The ongoing coronavirus epidemic already illustrates their importance, and they'll be even more critical if the virus starts spreading more extensively in the US. Shamelessly re-upping: HHS is proposing cuts of $25M from CDC's Public Health Preparedness program & $18M from ASPR's Hospital Preparedness program PH Preparedness programs already operate on threadbare budgets.
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Still, "Life Is a Dream" features two of Ruiz's most accomplished films, "Three Crowns of the Sailor" (1983), a lush yet threadbare rondo of ghost ships, waterfront brothels and cavernous tango palaces, and the even more mischievously plotted "City of Pirates" (also 1983), a movie with neither a discernible city nor visible pirates.
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Flora had fled to, and for a time flourished in, Paris, with Versailles on its outskirts, and then wound up living in a seedy Los Angeles apartment building called The Versailles, where the camera dwells on its threadbare sign, and where David Mayo traipses down the corridor toward his mother's former door.
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Well, mutual enemies can quickly solidify even the most threadbare of alliances, which is exactly what happens in this episode, as the rise of the Faith Militant leads Cersei to propose that the Tyrells' army sweeps in and casts out those who are proposing to force Margaery go on her very own walk of shame.
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For want of anything of substance to occupy us as my dad, in his threadbare shirts, spent long periods of time moving closer and farther away from a piece he was considering, my brother and I would torment each other until these trips deteriorated into shouting matches that eventually penetrated his absorption in the art.
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China is joined at the hip with North Korea in a dysfunctional marriage of inconvenience, in which the Middle Kingdom provides its wayward younger brother with most of its food and energy supplies to avoid having an American ally on its border and preserve the last shred of its increasingly threadbare international Communist legitimacy.
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But after 16 years, and as life is getting harder for Russians, this is becoming an increasingly threadbare act and instead underscores the extent to which he is either not in command — or doesn't really care unless embarrassed on national TV. This dynamic even applies to foreign policy, traditionally the preserve of the head of state.
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"Occupied," a Norwegian political drama whose 10-episode first season began unspooling on the Pivot cable channel last month (and which has been streaming on Netflix since January), is a straightforward noirish thriller with a spare aesthetic that can occasionally feel a little threadbare (even though it's reportedly the most expensive series in the history of Norwegian television).
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In addition, if the artist wanted us to more fully sense the soul-deadening miasma of these kinds of places, In Polite English might have benefited from installing some old, threadbare carpeting (instead of using the bare concrete floor of the museum), and perhaps a few office chairs and other indications of that state of being.
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This dispiriting contentment is the sentiment you see from some of Trump's blue-collar supporters, who love his uncouth rhetorical war on his fellow coastal elites so much that they're willing to forgive him his threadbare policy agenda or else trust that gridlock and inertia will protect them from Republican bills whose actual contents they might probably oppose.
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Alien Zan is costumed like she's zapped herself straight from the set of Neon Demon and the love-focused plot ("I always make films about love, or the absence of it," said Cameron Mitchell) is so threadbare that it will come as no surprise to discover that the film is based on a short story by Neil Gaiman.
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Oh started acting when she was a teenager — you can dig up online bootlegs of her acclaimed early performance as a runaway addicted to drugs in the threadbare 1994 Canadian TV movie The Diary of Evelyn Lau — and in her decades-long career, she's certainly turned up in those kind of roles, ones in which a performer functions as, essentially, talking scenery.
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The claim is a bit threadbare now that the gag orders are mostly lifted — Judge Sandra Ikuta opened yesterday's hearing by asking if the entire case is now moot — but the two firms say the case must continue because they're still gagged from discussing some of the details of the NSLs, like the identity of the subscriber whose data was requested.
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The new album's earthy quiet blesses "True Love Waits" with its most breathless recorded incarnation—a skeletal, deconstructed piano chord fleshed out by bass notes and a splatter of countermelody—and in return, the threadbare directness of the lyric sharpens A Moon Shaped Pool's stark meditations on love to a point, lifting it to the pantheon of great Radiohead closers.
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When it comes to "realistic" contenders, there's really only one: Loving's Joel Edgerton, as one half of the interracial couple whose gentle persistence saw anti-miscegenation laws struck down in the US. But in a category this threadbare, crazy things can happen, which is why you probably shouldn't count out Deadpool's Ryan Reynolds, much as I hate to say it.
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It is possible the policy reversal may have been prompted by Trump's need to indulge his sons, both avid hunters of Africa's apex wild life, by bestowing on them an early Christmas gift, as we approach the December safari period in Africa, or the "killing season" for the minuscule number of the world's super rich, titillated by blood sports and driven by threadbare vanity.
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Clay Risen, a spirits expert and the deputy Op-Ed editor at The New York Times, will moderate the discussion with Meredith Meyer Grelli, a co-founder of Wigle Whiskey and Threadbare Cider and Mead; Leslie A. Przybylek, the senior curator at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh; and Paul Costa, a Pennsylvania state representative and the Democratic chairman of the House Liquor Control Committee.
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The famed interiors of the early 203s society decorator Lady Sibyl Colefax, a progenitor of today's cheerily jumbled aesthetic, were informed as well by the privations of World War I and the stock market crash in which she lost much of her fortune; she gave her imprimatur to the rising "make do and mend" decorating, which juxtaposed old, interesting pieces, often oversize, with threadbare textiles and finds from the East.
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And if America is tired of its time-worn, threadbare, stagnant, antiquated and paternalistic political parties that have been around since the Civil War and before — and that may be part of the problem — Bloomberg might even go long and create his own party; a party with contours to more appropriately fit the rising century; an equal and opposite counterforce to whatever it is that is happening today with the new Jacksonian Republicans.
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Read: Migrants say coming to the U.S. isn't their goal: "They see us as animals" On one hand, hundreds of Mexicans have lined the highways to give food, water and even coins to the Central American migrants making their way to the U.S. But the caravan has also exposed the threadbare nature of Mexico's asylum system and the racist attitudes many Mexicans hold toward Central Americans — views that can sound shockingly similar to Trump's depictions of Mexicans.
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Threadbare umbrellas shade vendors and their wares: live chickens tethered to cages made of twigs and twine; heaps of T-shirts and flip-flops; racks of soccer jerseys and flowing boubou garments; stacks of used tires in sizes from moped to tractor; mobile-phone charging stations consisting of power strips puzzled together atop card tables and electrified by portable generators; repurposed soda bottles holding gasoline-ethanol mixtures in hues from fruit punch to orangeade to apple juice.
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If House Cricks is a collection of dark folk, boogie drone, and threadbare rhythm and blues incantations that settle more like ashes blown from the pages of a lost Cormac McCarthy novel than anything resembling an indie record, "Hanging Mirror" is the moment the primitive shock of the Sun's reflection and human perception come to dominate all mental bandwidth, "when all moral and emotional inhibitions have left," said Evan Patterson, the brooding singer-songwriter force behind Jaye Jayle.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan highest in years 2020 forecast: A House switch, a slimmer Senate for GOP — and a bigger win for Trump MORE (R-Ky.) has already stated that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 7 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 2020 MORE will not be removed for the threadbare, inadequate articles of impeachment passed by the House.
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It's not just the clean, hard facts that you understood, in the car, and that were so threadbare and old hat that almost anyone could have recited them, beginning with the use of chemicals that sparked dopamine production and lodged themselves in organic compounds called receptors, and then from there took over what was originally a unique story—the Hudson River house, the art work, his stone-carved faces in the front yard, the view of the river from his back patio, his name, Frank, the minutiae of his story—and transmuted it into a clichéd tale that changed only in the terms that were used to describe it, so that those who were once known as mad, Skid Row bums, stumblebums and drunkards and junkies were now seen as diseased victims who might be treated.
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