(1) Each of them is an apocalyptic retread of Lord Of The Flies, but with all hot GQ-model Ralphs and no myopic Piggys.
(2) Good day: retread minister David Laws fondly recalled his first Lib Dem conference in 1994 when rampaging delegates called for legalised pot and an end to the monarchy.
(3) After 20 minutes of this well-designed and passably kinetic, albeit utterly humourless and derivative retread, I began to feel those two words like some kind of goading, pulsing taunt, as if they'd been implanted in my brain like the bespoke memories you can buy in the movie.
(4) "It was just a retread of the same old policies that have been sticking it to the middle-class for years," Obama said.
(5) The bulk were retreaded Old Labourites who, together with people who voted Green at the election, gave Corbyn his victory.
(6) Critics complain that the ranks of ex-Westminster retreads and former police authority chairmen that dominate the lists so far, despite the best efforts of Lord Prescott, are hardly sprinkled with stardust.
(7) Some are decent films, but are simply retreading narratives that we are fed again and again: our particular favourites are when White-People-Solve-Racism (The Help) or Arabs-Are-Up-To-No-Good (The Hurt Locker).
(8) He may even manage to hang on for a time by surrounding himself with a retinue of loyalists and retreads, among them the former Tory spin doctor turned Labour MP Shaun Woodward.
(9) Their relationship has played out in the press as a tinny, 21st-century retread of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton – the Hollywood insider and the Welsh upstart, with the gender roles reversed.
(10) The readability debate is in fact another retread of various arguments that beset what has become known as literary fiction – a woolly genre that encompasses books that don't sell very well, books that aren't "genre" fiction and anything with a taint of modernism or experiment.
(11) It is the Blairite retreads in his own party that censor his passion.
(12) Even the movie that was supposed to herald the return of the genre more than two decades ago, Clint Eastwood 's Oscar-winning Unforgiven , was a brilliant retread of familiar themes rather than a plunge into fresh waters.
(13) And younger MPs have indeed shown some interest in new ideas and imaginative policies that aren’t simply retreads of the previous government’s initiatives.
(14) albopictus, an investigation of tire retreading operations was initiated to determine the source and mode of introduction of Ae.
(15) However, it could not repeat the first film's positive critical reception, with reviewers complaining that the storyline amounted to little more than an unimaginative retread of part one.
(16) But he kept the boat afloat with a handful of retreads and wannabes, and most of all, well above average pitching .
(17) In an aircraft type retreading plant environmental samples taken at several departments showed mutagenic properties.
(18) Maybe this means a few more Christmas retreads, but who cares?
Rework
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
(2) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(3) Previously a cover-up and reworking of a tattoo beneath, when she was performing across the UK with Girls Aloud in February , you could see the bold work in progress poking above her backless stage costumes.
(4) And then there's a long, long process where you can keep refining and reworking.
(5) If the large-scale, comprehensive abstracting and indexing services were based on enumerative classifications with assignment of documents to logical hierarchical categories at the time of initial indexing, then many of the specialized information centers (50) and the 1300 abstracting and indexing services (3) would be unnecessary, and much of the reindexing and reprocessing of documents, the repackaging and reworking of abstracts and index data, and the resulting overlap and duplication characteristic of current information processing could be terminated.
(6) This paper focuses on the choice of a sexual partner and pregnancy issues as symptoms of reworking established conflicts around self-valuation and abandonment by sibling and grieving parents.
(7) Armitage's stage version, commissioned for the in-the-round Royal Exchange in Manchester, a space that can encompass both the intimate and the epic, reworks The Iliad , adding an ending Homer never wrote.
(8) A radical reworking of Douglas Sirk with Julianne Moore's 1950s housewife married to repressed homosexual Dennis Quaid, the film earned Haynes an Oscar nomination and confirmed him as a major talent, and one who'd outgrown the role of poster boy for New Queer Cinema.
(9) The proposed rework was a “seriously retrograde step” – “a colossal mistake, and a dangerous one.” The opposition leader validated arguments Jewish groups, including the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, have raised this past week against the proposed RDA changes.
(10) Harry Moran's Pizzabot, a reworking of Space Invaders, also drove down a release from the Call of Duty series when it debuted on the chart, leading to the Irish boy being dubbed the youngest successful app developer in the world.
(11) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends (£2.99) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends is a reworking of Eric Carle’s classic book and illustrations, in the form of a digital “pop-up app” modelled after printed pop-up books.
(12) This "first-cut" ration can then be reworked in the spreadsheet mode to meet the needs of the individual farm based on other biologic and management considerations.
(13) Today, a fully restored, boldly extended and slightly reworked St Pancras proves that we can have our boiled beef and our oil-drizzled fettuccine and eat it.
(14) Other contributors include Bat For Lashes, Tove Lo and Chvrches, while Kanye “reworks” Flicker.
(15) He thinks it's complicated – though in the case of Shylock , his reworking of the Merchant of Venice , he is prepared to be specific.
(16) In optimal circumstances, the identifications out of which the child's character is built become reworked and modified so that it becomes increasingly unique and independent of its sources in others.
(17) It also recommended a reworking of proportionality tests.
(18) Parliament rises on Thursday, with only two further sitting weeks scheduled before the summer break, providing limited time for the multinational bill to be reworked before 1 January.
(19) We also seem to be heading increasingly towards a directors’ theatre, where the ability to rework standard classics takes precedence over new writing: look at the fervid excitement created by current productions of The Crucible and A Streetcar Named Desire .
(20) There was fine work from the Dardenne brothers – their Le Gamin au Vélo was a modern reworking of Oliver Twist and Bicycle Thieves .