It was the best of hoary tropes, it was the worst of cheesy cliches

Wherein remember that time in middle school we read that paragraph
from Dickens wasn't that cool

• It was the best of weeks and it was the
  worst of weeks for hip-hop star Lil' Wayne this week
  
  
• It was the best
  of Weeds and the worst of Weeds-all in one episode.
  
  
• It was the best of times, it was the worst of
  times..."
  
  The opening line of Charles Dicken's classic about the happenings in
  London and Paris during the French Revolution is a perfect summary for
  how a sports fan in San Francisco felt as they tuned in to the pain and
  joy that was Sunday.
  
  
• blame the headline writer, not the author: It was the best of lines, it
  was the worst of lines
  
  
• As the book says, it was the best of times and it was the worst
  of times.
  
  
• June Casagrande is author of It
  Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences.
  
  
• It was the best of halves, it was the worst of
  halves
  
  
• 
  It was the best of TIFFs, it was the worst of TIFFs.