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But first, in the key areas of foreign and economic policy, he surrounded himself with the old crew, the deadest of heads, and the stalest Washington thinking around.

Tom Engelhardt: Handicapping the Global Midterms: Winners and Losers Tom Engelhardt 2010

But first, in the key areas of foreign and economic policy, he surrounded himself with the old crew, the deadest of heads, and the stalest Washington thinking around.

Tom Engelhardt: Handicapping the Global Midterms: Winners and Losers Tom Engelhardt 2010

A-listers like Robert Downey Jr. who - after being introduced by Gervais with the stalest of Betty Ford gags -- stole the show when he asked the ballroom of borrowed rags and gems:

Ricky Gervais Globes-hosting kerfuffle does not move ratings needle Lisa de Moraes 2011

Still, the two stalest items were a huge relief to finally do.

Getting things done da_lj 2008

Why waste another precious hour of your life watching all those inside-the-Beltway bozos compete to see who can offer the most ossified observations, the stalest sound bites?

Kerry Trueman: If It's Friday, It's Meet the Bloggers 2009

Widespread conviction can be false, of course, which is why the method of the School of Common Sense was thought suspect by many, described by Kant, for example, as a stratagem by which “the stalest windbag can confidently take up with the soundest thinker” (Kant 1951: 259).

Ted Marcel Inhoff 2009

Too bad their leader prefers to sell the party down the river in order to throw her support to the Liberals, the oldest of the old-line parties, the stalest of the stale, precisely the type of old-guard, cozy institutionalism against which the Greens stand firmly opposed.

Archive 2008-10-01 ALW 2008

Too bad their leader prefers to sell the party down the river in order to throw her support to the Liberals, the oldest of the old-line parties, the stalest of the stale, precisely the type of old-guard, cozy institutionalism against which the Greens stand firmly opposed.

Attention Greens: Liz Is Selling You Out ALW 2008

A catamite appeared, the stalest of all mankind, well worthy of that house.

Satyricon 2007

The rowdies laughed themselves sick, so moved were they by that ludicrous scene, for here was I, mounted by the stalest of catamites, involuntarily and almost unconsciously responding with as rapid a cadence to him as Quartilla did in her wriggling under me.

Satyricon 2007