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Перевод: hoary

[прилагательное]
почтенный; седой; древний; покрытый белым пушком; покрытый инеем

Тезаурус:

1. Roget's Thesaurus , a classic English text which seeks to arrange words "according to the ideas which they express", describes old age by such nouns as "senility, grey hairs, climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation, second childhood, dotage, decline of life" and, even more graphically, by the adjectives "senile, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime, grey, hoary, venerable, time-worn, antiquated, doddering, decrepit, superannuated, stricken in years, wrinkled, having one foot in the grave."
2. What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of "the hoary, the tedious, the disagreeable," as did other critics who saw Gainsborough's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema, was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before, and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility.
3. They still will fit her, even to hoary Age.
4. "BY DAYLIGHT, the bower of Oak's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture, and of a proportion which tells at a glance that, as is frequently the case, it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate
5. At the slightest sign of originality in approach or technique a director might well be regarded as a menace and any departure from the hoary formula adhered to by the executives could be considered highly presumptuous.
6. The more inglorious aspects of Morrison's life and behaviour, and the undignified myth-making indulged in by his "followers" aren't concealed, but then Jones doesn't exactly run the hoary old rock conceit of romantic self-destruction out of town either: "Humility was a trait which didn't sit well with Morrison" is about as heavy as the criticism gets.
7. Naff plebeian drugs, junk food, hoary sexism, a love of trash culture hip hop and hardcore share all these, but where hip hop still has a guiding notion of cool (both music and style are minimal) neo-hardcore is prepared to LET IT ALL HANG OUT horribly; the corset of cool has been ruptured and all manner of banished and forbidden rock memories have sprawled free grotesquerie embraced as a defiant gesture against the sound track of yuppie culture - sleek, chic, designer pop-soul.
8. For You, ascend the Pray'rs of hoary Age,
9. He is expected to use his address to the Diet (parliament) during his visit - the first by a Soviet head of state - to try to get a commitment from both the Japanese government and its businessmen to back a hoary old proposal: the formation of an economic group among the countries surrounding the Japan Sea, that is, the Soviet Union, the two Koreas and Japan.
10. I may now consider myself significant, even of importance, I may now feel strong and reassured by those who have helped and loved me, but for inner strength, the strength when I am alone or awake in the night, or when old feelings rear their hoary heads, I turn to what is beneath my feet.
11. But more often they took the little leafy lane which led from Thrush Green to Upper Pleshy , Nod and Nidden, the lane that threaded half a dozen or more sleepy thatched villages, like hoary old beads upon its winding string, before it emerged upon the broad highway which led to Stratford-upon-Avon.
12. Jimmy Dean, that hoary old Fifties icon, became a necrophiliac fantasy for 14-year-old Malteser chompers everywhere as some bobby soxed nymphette did a gravity-defying dance with a Dean look-no-a-bit-like in a recreated picture palace.