The problem is in the execution, which feels incredibly derivative and cliched. |
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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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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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The three youngsters on tape appeared awkward, repeating cliched ballet moves insipidly rather than exploring new territory with vigor. |
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There's a touch of charm, but the cliched storytelling lacks that vital spark to send it soaring above the obligatory half-term movies. |
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Canales is at ease within a flamenco vocabulary, but his choreographic forays into contemporary dance are sadly cliched. |
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In the supposedly witty world of Anarchy TV, there are white hats and the standard, cliched black ones. |
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Well, sure, cliched and formulaic is pretty standard for disaster movies generally. |
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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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But Rosette waxes rhapsodically a little too much with his sugary, cliched conclusion. |
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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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In its less stellar moments, the songwriting can be a bit of a yawn-fest with cliched choruses that are repeated ad nauseam. |
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I've still got the original 1983 ghetto blaster that I got for Christmas, I know it's cliched but it's a way of life and I like it. |
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No amount of attention to signs can undo the impact of cliched words or banal sentiments. |
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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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Alas, it is becoming as tiresomely cliched as all the others, with its share of scheming women. |
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This stuff is served up in such a mundane, cliched way that even if there is a truth in there, it blew right by me. |
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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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I would say the plot hung together, the dialogue was not too cliched, and there was just about enough characterisation. |
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Poppy, a girl suffering from anxiety is constantly going on about how cliched her life is. |
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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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It's totally hokey and cliched, but there's something reassuring about it all the same. |
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Take that cosy, cliched history of black Britain that begins with the Pathe newsreel of Empire Windrush docking at Tilbury. |
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The thing that intrigues me about this book is how really cliched it is for a protagonist that's so conscious of it. |
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I think the words supposed to say what they mean but in a way that's not cliched. |
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The rhythms and basslines are smooth and inventive, never cliched. |
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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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The film refreshingly avoids the easy out of a cliched ending. |
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Stiff cliched characters, unreal situations, and a bit too much autobiography. |
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On network news, terse and cliched summaries of Thompson's career were accompanied, in equal time, by news of the passing of a pair of two-bit actors. |
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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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Overcoming the traditional cliched views of civil servants remains a challenge if the body is to attract the best talent in the marketplace away from the private sector. |
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No one trumps Beethoven in transforming simple ingredients – repeated notes, scales, an almost cliched military trumpet call – into prized originality. |
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I've been asked if I don't find it hard to photograph in New York, if I am not afraid of taking images that are cliched since it's one of the most photographed cities in the world. |
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Though Nicole's character is somewhat cliched, she holds an underdog appeal and most teen readers will find commonalities with her. |
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Vacancy Visually stylish but scare free cliched horror as a couple find themselves stars of a snuff movie. |
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I'm disappointed to see the reemergence of cliched rhetoric about how wrong it is to have a clear and defined identity. |
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It's not just the rebarbative pseudo-thought, the cliched political sloganeering, the minatory, all-knowing tone. |
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He performed the piece remarkably, offering novel interpretations to its nearly cliched passages. |
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More than merely have the somewhat cliched views of a beautiful city, we wanted something original, inspiring and eye-catching. |
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In 1968, she costarred with Clint Eastwood in the feature film Coogan's Bluff, bringing three-dimensionality to the otherwise cliched role of a hippie. |
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At the risk of making your toes curl with the cliched corniness of this statement, it was the kind of sparkling morning that makes one glad to be alive. |
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Carelessly slapped together slops in cliched Nora Roberts potboiler. |
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Why does the whole development seem so cliched and inflated? |
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