mustiness

The musty Conservative Party of Margaret Thatcher was in decline, to be replaced the following year by the sterile charm of Tony Blair and his New Labour project.

Colman Domingo, the actor and writer, lifts them out of the musty corners of his west Philadelphia childhood in “A Boy and His Soul,” an affectionate and aurally atmospheric one-man memory play.

The used-book department in the basement had that musty scent of dust and other people’s houses.

The coronavirus crisis has made things that normally excited college-bound teens, like socializing with peers and gathering in musty classrooms, potential health hazards.

Today, though, its musty depths speak not to local sustenance but global peril.

While many await discovery in musty warehouses, there is at least one piece whose absence is more difficult to explain.

Quickly climbing the musty stairs to the executive offices, I sought out an old acquaintance.

In the meantime, she is off to Egypt on assignment and he continues his research in the musty clime of an Oxford library.

After five years at Gucci, he got the call to come to Burberry and reinvent the British brand, which had grown musty and stale.

But the creatures did, it appears, spend their last days on a planet as hot and musty as a gym locker room.

Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.

It's an idle question, I know; wise men and musty philosophers say that regrets are foolish.

Isn't this free-booting spirit, now, better than leading a cowardly life of musty regularity?

Her decisions depended not upon the voice of inspiration but upon the musty parchments of the past.

The air was heavy and musty and the girls shivered as they tried to walk bravely forward.