The people of Rao's neighborhood had resisted the waters, throwing up walls of hoary tradition to turn the flood away.

It is place with hoary traditions that takes its name from Pragjyotishpur, the ancient capital of Assam.

Intellectuals, too, were preoccupied with replacing hoary traditions and religious practices with rational logic and science.

Beneath that appearance lay the hoary traditions of Gowachin Law - The guilty are innocent.

Even its hoariest traditions give pleasure, as in the delighted faces of audiences young and old at a good account of "The Nutcracker."

The checker game of the new engineers with Paul was one of the hoariest traditions, now in its seventh year.

According to hoary tradition, orchestra parts, especially among the brasses and winds, may be written in one key but actually sound in another.

Or it may simply mean that hoary political tradition dies hard.

Science has a hoary tradition of exaggerated and false promises.

If the name suggests an entertaining, energetic jumble of hoary tradition and showbiz cliché, then it was well chosen.