When dealing with the moral behaviour of adults, however, Samuel Croxall asks, with reference to political alarmism, " when we are alarmed with imaginary dangers in respect of the public, till the cry grows quite stale and threadbare, how can it be expected we should know when to guard ourselves against real ones?

Schonberg surmises that had Bizet lived, he might have revolutionised French opera ; as it is, verismo was taken up mainly by Italians, notably Puccini who, according to Dean, developed the idea " till it became threadbare ".

His attire is somewhat threadbare and shabby.

A case officer said that the Central Intelligence Agency did little to hide knowledge of its paramilitary invasion of Guatemala from the American public, “ The figleaf was very transparent, threadbare .” The New York Times celebrated the Guatemalan coup d ’ état as “ the first successful anti-Communist revolt since the last war .” Moreover, in the same newspaper, Milton Brackersan misinformed readers, that “ there is no evidence that the United States provided material aid or guidance ” to the anti-Communist freedom fighters, and that “ the overturn meets only part of the problem of Communism.

In Allmovie's contemporary review of the film, the website wrote, " The plot is threadbare, the acting is on a par with the clumsiest of high school plays and the direction is static and uninvolving.

The unattributed and undated review in the Time Out Film Guide 2009 describes the film as a " hit and miss affair " which is " good fun sometimes ", but suffers from a " threadbare " plot.

When Socrates and Phaedrus proceed to recount the various tools of speechmaking as written down by the great orators of the past, starting with the " Preamble " and the " Statement Facts " and concluding with the " Recapitulation ", Socrates states that the fabric seems a little threadbare. He goes on to compare one with only knowledge of these tools to a doctor who knows how to raise and lower a body's temperature but does not know when it is good or bad to do so, stating that one who has simply read a book or came across some potions knows nothing of the art. One who knows how to compose the longest passages on trivial topics or the briefest passages on topics of great importance is similar, when he claims that to teach this is to impart the knowledge of composing tragedies ; if one were to claim to have mastered harmony after learning the lowest and highest notes on the lyre, a musician would say that this knowledge is what one must learn before one masters harmony, but it is not the knowledge of harmony itself. This, then, is what must be said to those who attempt to teach the art of rhetoric through " Preambles " and " Recapitulations "; they are ignorant of dialectic, and teach only what is necessary to learn as preliminaries.

The artificial turf on Owen Field had literally become threadbare before its replacement in 1981 ; it is possible that the poor condition of the Superturf, prior to its 1994 replacement, contributed to a crash of the Sooner Schooner during a 1993 game against Colorado.

Rioch is held in the highest esteem by fans of Middlesbrough as, following liquidation, he took a threadbare squad of local players and turned them into a team the town could be proud of.

After taking the job, Gannon said that he hoped to bring in up to six players, most of them from England to bolster a squad threadbare after summer exits.

Its jokes were threadbare and the repetition of the same characters made them seem no more than stereotypes.

Pratt would appear in “ threadbare coat ,” “ battered tall hat, seedy attire, and imperturbable solemnity of countenance ” and deliver his talk, “ characterized by a dazzling faculty for word-creation, a complete mastery of the non-sequitur, and a lambent humor .” Afterwards, if there had been no admission price, he ’ d pass the hat.

These trumps were more touching than they were anything else, and seemed to imply that the nights were long, her children ungrateful, and her marriage bewilderingly threadbare.

The " naive scenarios " that " limited " his acting, according to his Czech biographer, Jaroslav Švehla, " did little more than group together and repeat traditional, threadbare, primitive, and in many cases absurd situations and mimic gags ( cascades ), insulting to even a slightly refined taste.

Vale eventually finished 17th in a frustrating season where many players suffered injuries leaving the squad threadbare on more than one occasion.

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 ".

In the most confidential whispers ambassadors told of techniques they had tried to bring Rooney around -- friendly persuasion, groveling abasement, pressure subtly exerted through other powerful congressmen, tales of heartbreak and penury among a threadbare diplomatic corps.

Long after the photography for the solo dance number " I Want to Be a Dancin ' Man " was completed for the 1952 feature " The Belle of New York ," it was decided that Astaire's humble costume and the threadbare stage set were inadequate and the entire sequence was reshot.

Plutarch later wrote that Agesilaus was a king of the traditional Spartan ideals, often seen wearing his traditional cloak which was threadbare.

Meanwhile, there was speculation that the club would fold, but a threadbare United team completed the 1957 – 58 season, with Busby's assistant Jimmy Murphy standing in as manager ; he had not travelled to Belgrade as he was in Cardiff managing the Welsh national team at the time.

The Fleischer milieu was grittier, more urban, sometimes even sordid, often set in squalid tenement apartments with cracked, crumbling plaster and threadbare furnishings.

It only had threadbare amenities, and fans were forced to use port-a-potties.

Later, Alcyoneus discovered Hellenicus, Pyrrhus's son, disguised in threadbare clothes.

" The Time Out Film Guide said " The stylistic intention, presumably, was old meets new with a Luhrmann-like flourish, but the modest resources on display result in a look somewhere between threadbare Jarman and school play.

Not a single national newspaper or columnist contacted found newsworthy that a best-selling, effusively praised ' study ' of the Middle East conflict was a threadbare hoax.

Most of these agencies refused to submit revised budgets to Governor Gibbons, citing already " threadbare " budgets.

The unexpected resignation of manager Graham Barrow and the departure of several key players in the close-season of 1994 left Chester with a threadbare squad, and they were comfortably relegated back to Division Three in 1995.

This commemorated the 57 years of continuous service by the 38th Foot in the West Indies from 1707 to 1764, and recalled the fact that their uniforms became so threadbare during their service in the tropics that they had to be repaired with pieces of sacking.

With a threadbare organisation they polled some 16 % of the vote, splitting the Labour vote and allowing a Conservative to be returned to the Commons.

* A torn, threadbare or otherwise inferior piece of textile.

Still, the notion of altruism is modified in such a world-view, since the belief is that such a practice promotes our own happiness: " The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes " ( Dalai Lama ).

Due to the similarities between the Chinese and Indian philosophies, the notion of chakras was quickly blended into Chinese practices such as acupuncture and belief in ki.

Early in the 20th century, the notion that belief had to be justified as such to count as knowledge lost favour.

The notion of elves thus appears similar to the animistic belief in spirits of nature and of the deceased, common to nearly all human religions ; this is also true for the Old Norse belief in dísir, fylgjur and vörðar (" follower " and " warden " spirits, respectively ).

The boldest, most radical notion in the book is [...] the belief that the individual can and should proceed toward truth by means of his own powers of perception and reasoning ; and that he can in this way discover truths previously unknown.

The notion that hell was below the earth is stated clearly in early Christian tradition by the belief, still recited by most Christians in the Apostolic and Athanasian creeds, that Christ " descended into hell " between his death and resurrection.

" Theodicies of misfortune tend to the belief that weath and other manifestations of privilege are indicications or signs of evil ... In contrast, theodicies of fortune emphasise the notion that privileges are a blessing and are deserved ".

Subjectivists, also known as Bayesians or followers of epistemic probability, give the notion of probability a subjective status by regarding it as a measure of the ' degree of belief ' of the individual assessing the uncertainty of a particular situation.

Putatively, the experience of either thought insertion / removal or unconscious memories of psychological symbiosis may have led to the invention of " telepathy " as a notion and the belief that telepathy exists.

* 431 BC: The Greek physician and philosopher Empedocles articulates the notion that the human body has four humors: blood, bile, black bile, and phlegm, a belief that dominates medical thinking for centuries.

* The Greek physician and philosopher Empedocles articulates the notion that the human body has four humours: blood, bile, black bile, and phlegm, a belief which dominates medical thinking for centuries.

Furthermore, neither group maintains a belief in the evilness or wrongness of the current order, only in the notion that we should desire to change the order for humanistic and humanitarian reasons, and as such, both groups are thoroughly dedicated to ensuring that the changes involved are decidedly non-violent, entirely optional, and beneficial to as many people as possible.

In a notion derived from Plato's dialogue Theaetetus, philosophy has traditionally defined knowledge as " justified true belief ".

Bayesian probability is the name given to several related interpretations of probability, which have in common the notion of probability as something like a partial belief, rather than a frequency.

Further to this notion, the belief is that the energy is " intelligent ", meaning that the Reiki knows where to heal, even if a practitioner's hands are not present in the specific area.

" Krishnamurti had denounced all organized belief, the notion of gurus, and the whole teacher-follower relationship, vowing instead to work in setting people " absolutely, unconditionally free.

Ideas of reference and delusions of reference involve people having a belief or perception that irrelevant, unrelated or innocuous phenomena in the world refer to them directly or have special personal significance: ' the notion that everything one perceives in the world relates to one's own destiny '.

* A belief in the notion that great companies could stand among humankind's noblest inventions.

They have struggled to discover and agree upon as a beginning any single notion of truth, or belief, or justifying which is wholly and obviously accepted.

Then though Gettier's cases stipulate that Smith has a certain belief and that his belief is true, it seems that in order to propose ( 1 ), one must argue that Gettier, ( or, that is, the writer responsible for the particular form of words on this present occasion known as case ( 1 ), and who makes assertion's about Smith's " putative " beliefs ), goes wrong because he has the wrong notion of justification.

This is to avoid a positivistic notion of Truth and belief.

The notion of a powerfully efficacious language of the spirit world is quite common in magic belief.