How To Use Cliche In A Sentence
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This list of talking points that Rush told you to spew is old and cliched and so stupid it is an embarassment to have to address this moronity AGAIN.
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Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way.
The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
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The World Is Flat" & Co. were cyclones of breeziness, mixing metaphors by the dozens and whipping up slang and clichés and jokey catchphrases of the author's own invention.
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Traitorfish said: I know that’s clichéd, but I really never liked Captain America - a superhero that nationalistic is nothing but creepy.
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In this domain it serves, to use the unavoidable cliche, merely as a rubber stamp.
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In his provocative work, Clichés To Live By And The Death Of The Sixties, Anaxamander O'Flaherty, a necro-ethnolinguist at the University of Altamont, suggests that the expression, "Everything is everything," succumbed to a natural death brought on by such factors as over-utilization, deterioration of relevance, and lack of adaptability to altered states of reality vis-à-vis the American experience.
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I applaud the author for avoiding the first time novelist's trap of resorting to cliches and stereotyping.
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Allen also captured something in Keaton which can't be described except in cliches: kookiness, wackiness, ditsiness.
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Tedious and predictable, it employs obvious situations and clichés instead of genuine suspense-building elements.
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Cliche is symptomatic of an entropic democracy where meaningless statements are repeated unconsciously by the masses.
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That it works at all is largely down to the enthusiasm of its cast, who set about making the most of a tired and mostly cliched scenario.
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Both can turn that most tedious of old rugby clichés on its head; that forwards win matches and backs decide by how much.
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Otherwise, you will much more readily find your way to boilerplate and cliche.
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It is one of a torrent of jargon words, phrases, clichés and bureaucratic gobbledygook that have grown to clutter our language.
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I needed more than just overused cliches to pick up my sprits by then.
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It may sound trite, cliche, corny, even, but I would like to thank my parents.
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In "Austerlitz," W.G. Sebald performs a small but significant miracle: he wrests the Holocaust out of the clutches of stale cliche.
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Most Hollywood films, particularly science fiction films, are these days a mass of overfamiliar and uncredited cliches that have been ripped off and merged together, usually not very intelligently.
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This is cheesy, containing every cliche that we can imagine from 1970s Country.
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They have been drained of meaning by their lazy overuse, dangerously sharp and potent concepts reduced to kitsch cliché.
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Both genres, so formulaic, overdetermined by clichés and stereotypes, are eminently accessible for parody.
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It's the old cliche that you don't think anything like that will ever happen to you - but it did.
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This hideously overworked cliché alone is enough is enough to bar you from membership of the young-old club.
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It is hard to judge a cliche so far away in time, but ‘racing lambs’ strikes one as a non-description, and with ‘fair their fling’ you wonder if anastrophe is just a trick he kept attempting, like dice.
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Gatz - I didn't think to save my entry before submitting it ... but it was to do with the thrill of discovering new music (and Tinariwen set me off on a monumental world music quest so felt legitimate to say something so seemingly cliched) then being accused of 'ululation' by the wife when caught singing along to it ...
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Sonically overwhelming throughout its eight tracks, the album affirms the enduring significance of alt-rock's most pervasive clichés.
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The film starts with one of the hoariest devices in the screenwriter's book of clichés.
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But he insists on painting a picture with the same old hackneyed images and rancid cliches about salt-of-the-earth heartlanders and morally vacant or cowardly coastal cosmopolitans.
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I was waiting with bated breath for him to say something, anything, that wasn't a cliché.
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Repenting there would come across as a cynical cultural cliché, suggesting he expects women to forgive him because he's genuflected to TV's high priestess.
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The album is content to rely on the old hip-hop cliches, piling on the swear words and overloading each track with references to whores, pimps, hookers and drugs.
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It's unfortunate, however, that he has to rely on jaded Irish clichés of booze and blarney to enliven a story that is powerful enough to survive on its own merits.
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As the old cliché goes, working with people like that does make you up your game.
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Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain.
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Instead of laying the love thang on the line, Neil gets tangled up in clichés at every turn.
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All the clichés of the form are on display in ‘Plague in the Heartland,’ worn down every bit as smooth as the teeth of a longtime meth fiend.
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There's plenty of clichés about Paris in the springtime that are true.
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Joining the Irishmen on the island is another group of clichés.
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The sagas attracted huge audiences, hooked on every clichéd twist and turn of the predictable plot.
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Annie Wagner in the Stranger: As a movie, Diggers is affable and lazy - its purpose obscured by a swarm of clichés.
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He talks uninterestingly in boring cliches.
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By singling out the single family home as a conveyor of individual wealth we have inflated its value as a social connector when in fact it is a social disconnector - separating the physical distance between strangers, alienating the wealth class from the poor, and creating "neighborhoods" that enforce stereotypes and social clichés.
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The film holds a few surprises - not in clichéd twists, but in unexpected plot developments that make the film more compelling.
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I thought the "thawing" cliche referred to W-Martin. 10-15 years, I don't know about that.
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That sounds clichéd and corny, but she was the one who got me into vintage from such an early age.
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Marvellous actors have to deliver stilted, arch and laughably clichéd dialogue.
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The story is mostly a retread of clichéd material and does not offer any new or significant plot developments.
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Who can deny Stephen Lang was one fantastic bad ass however 'cliched' he might have been and I loved Sam Worthington's gentle, subtle style of acting.
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This is the essential function of a cliché, and of cant and jargon; to neutralise expression and ‘vanish memory’.
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A bright light was shining on him, and all he could think of was how stereotypically cliché this was.
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It's a cliché, but also a truism, that love and hate are not opposites but, rather, intimately entwined.
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The writers have dispensed entirely with the usual gangster clichés of rap and hip-hop.
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The Saxons are gemütlich and welcoming to visitors, so the cliche runs (as, to be fair, does my experience of them).
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His accustomed role has bred an industry of clichés.
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It may be a cliché, but that does not make it less true.
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It has the reeled-in pyrotechnics and the muted pacing of an intelligent spy film, but it doesn't have the smarts of one, and instead opts for a clichéd scenario and cast of characters.
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One linguist notes that the essence of an eggcorn is that it takes a stale metaphor or trite cliche and breathes fresh life into it.
Eggcorns: Folk Etymology Creating New Meanings Every Day
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Barnes accurately captures the cliches, lack of punctuation, and poor syntax that reveal his derivative mind.
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The female incapable of intellectual purpose, governed by her whims and humours, is a misogynistic cliche not only of the time, but very much of his writings.
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Thinking that a few motivational platitudes and clichés will save them, the rest of the band plod on, uninspired and surrounded by yes men.
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Despite his ability for discernment and honesty, you still come away thinking he is stuck in a life of cliched fixations.
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It has every predictable, nauseous feel-good film cliche in it.
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Let me take just one example of the incredibility low standard of economic immigration clichés.
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As he strummed the song, with its hushed chorus that dwindles into a whisper by the end, the crowd knew it was one of those special cliched moments.
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The style is simplistic, clichéd and overly sentimental.
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The rest of the album meanders about in cliché depressive lyrics that fails to convey any real emotion.
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Of course, the name game is just one aspect of the melancholy fact expressed by the cliche ‘fame is fleeting.’
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This is grand strategy by vacant syllogism and cliche.
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You can forget all the cliches about fair weather and sunny days ahead for the founders of Intrallect.
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That's a better way to keep the old cliche from turning into a phrase like ‘jumbo shrimp’ - a contradiction in terms.
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This approach may not break any new ground, but it seems entirely appropriate to the subject, a modern day songwriting savant and restless genre-hopper who once wrote in a manifesto on formulism in music, "Cliché is dead, long live the cliché!
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But those are clichés only to those of cynical persuasion who assume that an ulterior motive lurks behind every altruistic act.
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Embrace exist in a world where these clichés are acceptable - not sick-making or trite but accurate and airtight.
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You should always try to avoid the use of cliche.
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What keeps this series from drowning, not only in its squalid setting, depressing dynamics, and cornball cliché is this bucking of convention.
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The rhythms and basslines are smooth and inventive, never cliched.
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Sam Waterston has been doing his high-sniffy rectitudinous grandstanding for so long it's as if he expects some soft of Atticus Finch statue; Elisabeth Rohm is no worse than Angie Harmon, but no better; and Fred Thompson is a pompous pork chop whose cliched Southern homilies wouldn't be listened to seriously for ten seconds in NY (whereas Steven Hill, with his crusty cut-the-crap irritability and desire to get out of the office before bad news could follow, was the authentic article).
New Guy in Town: James Wolcott
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Karen's not the only person capable of thick-witted cultural cliches: Andrew applies his own deep analysis to Australians.
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The conceit could sound clichéd.
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The earnest performances of Ford and Pitt are finally overshadowed by the cliches of the genre.
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While a movie like The Scorpion King has mythic pretensions, it merely parades lifeless mythic cliches that lack the timeless gravity of moral tales.
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When you combine that with bombastic music and visual clichés it makes for an exhausting hour.
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The fascinating thing about him is he's not the cliched cynical and hard-boiled war photographer portrayed in Hollywood movies.
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I don't want to wear a tux because it's so clichéd.
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These kinds of applications - promised for more than a decade - have almost become clichés of futurist hype.
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The well-worn cliche of the writer starving in the garret is so much more picturesque than the bitter reality of living in poverty with a child.
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But to get back to the question of a gay sensibility: cliche has us believe that amongst its ingredients are flamboyance, showiness, excess and extravagance.
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Trapped, suffocating, and every other clichéd word one can look up in the thesaurus to describe being stranded in this small terraced island in the Pacific.
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It is perhaps a cliché, but it is the mark of a great writer that he succeeds in creating a recognisable world, a micro universe which carves out its own space and insists upon its siren like singularity…
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It's easy to dismiss Peake's visual output as indulgent gothic fantasy; and indeed his images set the tone for so many subsequent cliches of the genre: the emaciated pallor of his somnambulistic protagonists, the obsessive detailing and filigree patterning of his graphic mannerisms, the too easy reliance on grotesque distortions.
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A puckish irreverence, calculated to upend the cliché of the tortured master builder, is integral to his impressive resume.
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The clichés of bad boy attitudes, guns and gangs are infused with a sense of these young people as the victims of a society that fails to value their spirit and potential.
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In the old days, a "doobie" was lit to honor the cliche "burn one.
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As we chatted, it was refreshing to hear a player taking a bit of an interest in education rather than just spouting the usual clichés.
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Cliche is a feature of bad journalism.
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It sounds so clichéd, but we were a really happy family.
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Not that I would mind selling millions of books to people with impalpable senses of humor, but I've actually been reading his column to find out which clichés and bad jokes to avoid.
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It has become a cliche to say that presidential candidates are being marketed like bars of soap and boxes of cereal.
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Arnold Zwicky of Language Log has reported on a long-needed investigation into the history of the cliché or, to a Language Logger, "snowclone" What is this X of which you speak?
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Yes, there's the common cliché about the Catholic church and bingo, for example, but that money's going to the church, so it's more like a tithe.
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In his afterward, he describes the importance of addressing cliched plots and perdurable stereotypes, stating that in order to ‘set pen to paper’ he had to ‘break the back of the story’.
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" No man is an island ", warns the cliché, though Bob Quinn has affected a studied insularity since his first films in the 1970s.
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If there is more storyline than this, it is but secondary to the Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta myths that Malick has conflated concisely without their untidy cliches.
G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man
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The article collapses under the sheer weight of cliche.
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It has become almost a cliché to murmur wisely that cutting public spending significantly will be much easier said than done.
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It felt like a cliché, an unimaginative script and a role in its production that she might find hard to recover from quickly.
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Too many of the jokes seem obvious and over-used, while most (if not all) of the characters struggle to rise above the cliches foisted upon them.
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The press release is cliche ridden: Young people want to express themselves, seek personal conal content and want to play an active part in brand experience.
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This is not supposed to be a list of clichés or solecisms.
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The decor is tastefully minimal, largely reliant on dark woods and subdued upholstery, though it avoids lapsing into the prevailing cliches of the self-conscious boutique hotel with some appealing idiosyncratic touches.
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Old Jane, never at a loss for a cliche, said: "The word 'quit' is not in my vocabulary.
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As you might expect, his words do not approach cliche, describing the pain in the conscience-stricken priest's feet, for example, as ‘his daily stigmata’.
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This handy-dandy cliche is generally attributed to Simone de Beauvoir in her book The Second Sex – this translation is from Wikiquote:
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Life is not composed by aphorism,how can we decorate it with pompous cliches? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence.
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It means that the old cliche about history repeating itself until its lessons are learned should be taken seriously.
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Some people might describe that as well-honed natural flow, whereas I think of it being cliche-ridden, paint-by-numbers rubbish.
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But a pub in Brigg is saying ‘humbug’ to the old cliche - and hosting an early festive season in the middle of August.
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Indulge your weakness for romantic clichés by taking your significant other for a canoe ride on the Glenmore Reservoir or into the wilds of the adjacent Weaselhead area.
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So much business has been conducted over a round of golf that it's almost cliche.
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Nor, conversely, are the photographs tired clichés of class defiance.
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It has become almost a cliché to murmur wisely that cutting public spending significantly will be much easier said than done.
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The story of a nun and a marine could have easily become a cliché, but in their hands, it comes across with sensitivity and delicacy.
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We're fortunate that MoMA was from the start collecting richly from this new and diverse generation, comprised as it is of imagists whom in being less dissident and cliched than their forerunners, show and explorative aptitude for the more nuanced and varied aspects of queer life.
G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday"
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I let out a cackle of laughter I could not contain and felt like I was in a movie and all I needed was snow floating around me to make this one of those perfectly clichéd moments.
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I always thought I was a colorblind reader," she writes, "until I read this novel, and that ultimate cliche of black life that is inscribed in the word soulful took on a new weight and sense for me.
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They tend to look cheesy and have corny plots that slink toward clichéd payoffs.
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Though heavily saddled with cliché, Pure Mule exhibits at least some of the commendably defiant instincts of a bucking bronco.
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Xavier - A perfect example for me of how the film avoided or subverted cliche is the development of the love story.
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Hot-tempered is cliche for someone that later develops heat-based powers.
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Experiences are so often described as ‘life-changing’ that the adjective seems clichéd, almost valueless.
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If we choose one of the good contestants it's going to be too clichéd and boring.
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The cliché is: go home and return stronger.
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The message of the movie -- and its makers admit it sounds "corny" and "cliched" -- is one of connection.
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Quite simply, this is a catchy, well-timed shot of futuristic retro, sans cliché or endless mirror-ball gazing.
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It is a scene too brimming with filial trust and desire to be dismissed as cliché, which is why it is played out in myriad households around the world.
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Did I approve of this fulsome enactment of the cliche Nil nisi bonum de mortuis est?
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If only they had used biblical language at least it would have sounded less trite, hackneyed and cliched.
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Dessert was apple strudel, which is often a cliche, like when it is served at fake German-themed restaurants in the Dandenongs; but is a genuine delight when made properly.
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The old cliche, ‘a game of two halves,’ describes this one between Bury and strugglers Blackpool perfectly.
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The pulp fiction clichés that mar his portrait of Young's mother are typical: ‘A tough old dame, yet beneath the bulldog exterior lurked a sensitive soul’.
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With its range of tonalities and mobilities, Niedecker's work explodes the standard cliches of minimalism as quiet or modest.
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The production throughout the album in fact almost never succumbs to the easy crunk / dirty south clichés. Like the album itself, this is an interesting listen.
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On the air since January 2, it is, to use the cliched phraseology, a television show with a difference in the sense that it has Ruby playing a double role in all the episodes.
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Those shopworn clichés that had been repeated day in and day out had no place in this celebration.
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As the rather clichéd but very true saying goes, there are no jobs on a dead planet.
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Yes, some of the dialogue is cliche and a few of the characters are fairly stock types that we've seen over and over again before.
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The writing is often superior to most one-hour dramas. the extremely snappy and witty dialogue can elevate even the most cliché sit-com moments into pomo gems.
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The word thus invented is both a neologism and a cliché.
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Yeah, in defiance of the hoariest cliche in the Big Bumper Book of Onscreen Melodramatic Cliches, have your characters wander into the House of DeathFilled WithPossible Anomaly Monsters, unarmoured, unarmed etc etc.
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At times the characters seem clichéd, but they are bearable all the same.
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He trades in heartland clichés, elevating the rural, religious and homogenous parts of America above the godless and corrupt coastal establishments.
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Thanks to this Photoshop job of a “real-life” Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtleby binome on Worth1000, I find my usually-indomitable vocabulary reduced to the most painful and trite of exclamatory internet cliches.
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No small part of Joyce's genius was his ability to use cliches creatively, imaginatively, knowingly.
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He didn't want to buy into that cliche, although jazz did originate in rather sleazy places.
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They found Chinese painting cliched and lacking vitality.
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Alliteration abounds, pithy epithets are the order of the day, the cliches of journalese are flowing till we're all blue in the face.
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I get entertained by a talent who dangles outsider clichés without any idea what to say.
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And about 90% of them say Avatar is a rousing spectacle with a vapid, recyled plot, thin characterizations, and cliched dialogue.
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The article collapses under the sheer weight of cliche.
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It won't be to all tastes, but it does make you view what can become a cliched media story in a fresh way.
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She trotted out the old cliche that 'a trouble shared is a trouble halved.'
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Unfortunately DSB has one of the most cliched plots IMO (what I call generic anime #2).
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I was getting hyped watching the trailer until I heard the gay ass modern type coldplay music and seeing it has a very cliche plot
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If we choose one of the good contestants it's going to be too clichéd and boring.
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Like riding a bike, as the cliché goes.
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Life is not composed by aphorism, how can we decorate it with pompous cliche & 1 & s? I send you my most sincere greeting in silence.
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Sorry to use a cliché but it can't be a weight around our neck.
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This is the Cornwall of myth, a clichéd caricature version of the county complete with exaggerated eccentrics, loony local lore and mystical happenings.
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In this maelstrom, more of a hypertrophied present than a near future, certain timeless truths, or tropes (or clichés) endure.
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The other, Alexandra/Tatiana, is a tortured cipher who nevertheless shows glimpses of a specific person/ality buried in the cliché.
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The work is free of the tired clichéd issues surrounding and weighing down most conceptual installation art.
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She finds this supremely ironic and thinks that her obsession with language is probably a way to escape the fact that she herself is a tired cliché.
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Full marks for honesty and full marks too for the age-old cliche about matchplay golf being the graveyard of expectations.
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The word thus invented is both a neologism and a cliché.
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I can't really talk about it without spoiling it, but the Big Suprise Twist Ending is idiotic and cliched and I'm almost tempted to spoil it just on principle.
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The word amatuer will be such a cliche by the end of this incompetent, stupifying narcissists 'tenure.
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My favourite saying is a bit of a cliché: what goes around comes around.
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Kunzru is unable to give his India any sense of substance or reality, trading instead in cliché and stereotype.
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A genre mash-up no greater than the sum of its expensive, largely second-hand, parts, this summer spectacle corrals its cast and cliches into a plot loopier than an 11-dimensional lasso – though the title gives you a fair idea.
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Many said they considered such cliché images to be harmful objectification.
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Anna stopped laughing abruptly but she really couldn't hold back a little smile at the batch of clichés she'd just walked into.
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The article was full of the usual cliches spouted by fashion editors.
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The so-called loyalties, sense of belonging and togetherness are revolting cliches.
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The world of sport is a breeding ground for clichés and for long Waugh has been seen as a cussed old fiend, fighting till the very end.
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Offering a slice of Bollywood craze to people here, she says teaching Bollywood dance is not just about passing on the cliched steps.
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Another war movie cliché is the love triangle, involving a conveniently-placed nurse.
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When you are facing something like cancer some of the old clichés suddenly make sense.
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Presidents n-- do not necessarily like new ideas, because they can rattle the cages or rock the boats; but they like old cliches reminted to sound like brilliant insights.
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Did I approve of this fulsome enactment of the cliche Nil nisi bonum de mortuis est?
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The film may be ripe with clichés, but it embraces that concept.
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At least they can comfort themselves that one cliché is true: they will always be better dancers.
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Sub specie aeternitatis the Colombian hamburger is ... well, pardon the cliche, but it is sui generis.
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The article collapses under the sheer weight of cliche.
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Being mere insiders, uncritically, may often result in the production of mindless celebratory writing, rhetorical flourishes, and populist clichés - so easy to imbibe and so banal.
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Is that a cliche from the bar down the street about running tabs or something?
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A poignant but erroneous cliche has made its way into journalism over the past few years.
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My point is simple: In the competitive world of dog-eat-dog (forgive the cliche) agentry, cyber trumps snail every day of the week and twice on Sunday (and Friday the 13th).
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Like the hoary old cliché, ‘Oh, I only watch the documentaries on TV not those dreadful soaps!’
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Like so many aphoristic cliches, it collapses after a moment's scrutiny.
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This sounds clichéd, but it isn't.
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