Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet THREADBARE

Definition av THREADBARE

1. luggsliten, trådsliten
2. (bildligt) utnött, som har använts för mycket

Exempel på hur man kan använda THREADBARE i en mening

• “Faultline's heady combination of electronic avant-garde classical/dance is, thematically, about complicated as it sounds but Kosten's vision translates, aurally, as a series of threadbare, hauntingly programmed compositions, each simplistic and engrossing”.
• IGN wrote "Even the threadbare appeal of hot chicks in little clothes is botched, as these plastic maidens look as dead-eyed as blow-up dolls", and Modojo said "Missing personality is bad enough, but terrible gameplay is even worse".
• " In another favorable critique, Fandoms Drew Dietsch praised the series saying, "The plot itself is a little threadbare, but it clearly gives Arin and Dan a chance to showcase their unique comedic chops.
• A threadbare and uninteresting plot holds together 100-some minutes' worth of weird but mostly non-threatening spooks.
• Neither of these requisites can be considered wanting in those who are engaged in the task of reproducing Lamarck’s theory of organic life, either as altogether new, or with but a tattered threadbare cloak, thrown over its original nakedness.
• almost entirely for the Irish trade" Frieze was to be seen, Jubb noted impassively, worn so threadbare it was reduced to "the merest expression of threads crossing each other at right angles.
• The dullest commonplaces of mainstream economics are here transformed into a strange and threatening "neo-liberal" conspiracy, while pimply economists in threadbare offices are endowed with an occult power they never knew they possessed.
• In his book Film as a Subversive Art, Amos Vogel writes that the threadbare plot belies something "far deeper and funnier in Morrissey’s unsentimental, accepting attitude toward life, embodied by Joe Dallesandro’s brooding, disaffected performance".
• Three men have been designated to remain behind with pack animals to serve as a rearguard and secure the retreat: Adaon, the warrior son of chief bard Taliesin; Taran; and Ellidyr, Prince of Pen-Llarcau, who is arrogant, wiry, strong, and threadbare.
• In contrast to his slickly attired opponents, Altieri is dressed in a threadbare cardigan and slacks.
• Reviews of the film included comments such as "threadbare concoction", "narcissism flourishing like ragweed" and "unctuous".
• Writing for the Newhouse News Service, Stephen Whitty described the film as being "crammed full of threadbare fairy-tale imagery" and that "the plot has as much energy as the old Gephardt campaign".
• ' Scott, however, tells a half-pitiful story of a dinner which Archibald Constable gave to 'his own circle of literary serfs,' when 'poor Allister Campbell and another drudge of the same class' ran a race for a new pair of breeches, which were there displayed 'before the threadbare rivals.
• " Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film "suffers from such a threadbare screenplay and tentative personality that one can't help marveling at its shlumpy appeal.
• The story tells how a very young girl in rags and threadbare shawl came to his door in bad weather and begged him to come take care of her sick mother.
• And while Lara with the bat, and Bishop with the ball - if he could keep fit - were undeniably the class of the next generation, and there were other fine batsmen who had to be left behind, the cupboard was beginning to look a little threadbare for other replacements with the ball and particularly with the keeper's gloves.
• Leslie Phillips holds this threadbare piece together, as the furrier up to his neck in girlfriends and cheap minks, but it's all rather tatty.
• For once it is sheer zest and invention which count, for they are the qualities – far more than the jamboree of topline "pop" artists taking part – which have succeeded in turning a basically threadbare, trashy plot-line into a genuinely comic occasion.
• Matt Glasby of Total Film stated that 'Neil Jones threadbare Brit thriller short-changes all comers, particularly lead Martin Kemp, who plays a government hitman blackmailed into going rogue, and co-stars Nick Moran and Patrick Bergin, who add some undeserved class'.
• After press speculation that he was disappointed not to have achieved high office, Welsh wrote an article explaining that as a council leader he delivered "real service to constituents, rather than the threadbare and raddled soundbites of politicians who promise everything and deliver nothing".

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