He knows hard rock can't fully outrun cliche, which means the Donnas can't either. |
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Otherwise, you will much more readily find your way to boilerplate and cliche. |
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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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It means that the old cliche about history repeating itself until its lessons are learned should be taken seriously. |
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The cliche trap picks up some characteristics of either theology or science, or both of them, and overgeneralizes and overstates these. |
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This sentiment will seem less of a cliche to us than to other classes, owing to the tragic events of the past year. |
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Between the patented Bruce smirk to the dancing with jet fighters to the high kicking Asian babe it was cliche a gogo. |
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Surely, you've heard the old cliche that the way to a guy's heart is through his stomach. |
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A workday abbreviated by siestas is a Spanish cliche, yet it is not necessarily rooted in reality. |
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I know it's a cliche saying that I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders, but I fully understand the root of the phrase. |
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So many of the characters and dialogue in this movie are just one cliche after another. |
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The film continues to strain credibility at every opportunity as well as lazily resorting to cliche. |
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As people left wearily after midnight, dragging their feet and looking stunned, the cliche of the previous week seemed suddenly full-bodied. |
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After a spectacular climax to the sequence, we are sucker-punched by a cliche. |
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So much business has been conducted over a round of golf that it's almost cliche. |
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The angry everyman is an old cliche in the news game, one that is alive and well in talk radio, on cable TV and on new Internet venues. |
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I've always felt some cliche and sappy emotional attachment to music in general. |
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This is cheesy, containing every cliche that we can imagine from 1970s Country. |
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It is not a cliche to say that the people on Islay are generous, hospitable and friendly. |
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Ordinarily, this is the kind of footballers cliche which raises much mirth among fans, but on this occasion he may have had a point. |
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In the same way that an overused phrase inevitably becomes a cliche, a recurring joke sooner or later loses impact. |
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The phrase, almost a cliche in the cult of American hip-hop music, whips the crowd listening to Malaysian rap duo Too Phat into a frenzy. |
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Although a cliche, the phrase reflects the chaos and frustration of relocation. |
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It is a true cliche that the modern world is a pre-eminently scientific and technological one. |
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The melodies, chill-out vibes and booming basslines that made it accessible to the masses quickly became a cliche. |
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I know it's a cliche but I thought the author really managed to get under Clara 's skin in a way which made us empathise with her. |
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It's a terrible cliche, but his surreal humour was often closely linked with his nervous breakdowns and bouts of depression. |
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It may sound trite, cliche, corny, even, but I would like to thank my parents. |
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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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Of course, ignominious ends for formerly beautiful actresses is a tale familiar to the point of cliche. |
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That old cliche of a blend of young bucks and seasoned campaigners was there in abundance. |
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She took those cliches and revivified them, and sometimes made them more than cliche. |
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It is a cliche and sounds pretentious and self-glorifying, but it is true that you can get a nose for danger. |
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The latest offering from Frenchie punksters Burning Heads seems to belie the cliche that punk is dead. |
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Noah, I'm afraid to say, is also rather boring, being that he is the typical cliche of a cocky, highly self-assured boy who is rather dull too. |
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After a couple of weeks out of the game I came out of the blocks like a prize fighter wielding a mixed metaphor simile cliche and battered everyone in my path. |
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She didn't go into higher education, leaving school at 16, but says, with a wink that acknowledges she recognises the cliche, that she attended the university of life. |
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It has every predictable, nauseous feel-good film cliche in it. |
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It goes beyond the cliche of the braces and striped shirts to expose a dangerous and compelling side to the world of international futures trading. |
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Or maybe both cultures got off on a glorious combination of cliche and novelty, even if they disagreed on which was which. |
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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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This is now such an established truth that it has already calcified into bitter cliche. |
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For most of my life the truism has seemed precisely that: so uncontroversial as to be a cliche. |
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I'm not sure that artist-chosen shows are of that much curatorial or art-historical use, and anyway they've become a cliche. |
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It's cliche to say, but a GOP that is not held captive to its radical wing is in everyone's best interest. |
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It may be a cliche, but if something seems to be too good to be true, it usually is. |
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Georges Seurat – Bathers at Asnières, 1884 It is a cliche to think Seurat is just a painter of pointillist dots. |
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Horrid cliche, hence perfect for David Cameron and the SNP – be careful what you wish for. |
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Engels has several standardized letters to make any text requested, or making a cliche with a company logo for example. |
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There is a cliche that those who forget their past are doomed to repeat it. |
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McGuigan opts for a fairly intrusive style, splitting the screen in half at key moments, panning around in 360-degree shots and over-using the old cliche of slow motion. |
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I mention the sheer scale of human beings on the planet because of a cliche that is constantly reiterated to teenagers especially. |
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When heart-stopping is a fact, not a cliche. |
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I go for a bifta. Contrary to the fags-and-black-coffee cliche, I'm about the only smoker in the division. |
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She's not a mopey vampiress nor is she a fashion cliche, and her music was never as passive as goth now implies. |
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When they made him, they broke the mold. lt was a cliche that had been spoken about any number of men, for any number of different reasons. |
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Land a Hungarian goose down feather on it the wrong way and it becomes beige, insipid fare that piles cliche on formula as someone in a big white shirt looks pensively out of a loft window. |
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The British people could speak in cliche till the cows come home. |
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I realize how cliche and seemingly insufficient that sounds. |
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It comes down to a single spin of the roulette wheel so like the cards, no cliche is left unturned. |
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It refuses to allow the term magical realism to be a cliche for South American fiction written in the last decades. |
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The show avoids cliche sci-fi McGuffins and tells rich stories in which such issues come up naturally. |
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This is a great opportunity to demonstrate to these new employees why the old McJob paradigm is outdated and cliche. |
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The nautical tropes of striped sweater, pea jacket and rigging squiggling across prints or burrowing their way through drawstring collars and hemlines are fashion cliche, and MaxMara did nothing to rock the boat. |
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Despite the showbusiness cliche of never working with children or animals, there is a long history of politicians risking everything to be photographed with beastly creatures. |
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There's an old cliche out there that purports to described the different relationship the citizenry has with police officers and firefighters. |
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Almost no cliche has been left unturned here and, even allowing for the intended demographic, these Adventures are more generic than ghostly. |
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Ode to the Cliche They have crucified the cliche, They've cut her to the quick. |
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The end of a quest that began in boyhood to play professional football came on 13 August in a bow worthy of the dream-debut cliche, as Lawrence scored in a 4-0 win at SK Strazske in the second round of the cup. |
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At first, I couldn't get a sense of her beyond the soccer mom cliche. |
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Long before it became cliche to have energy savings, I remember members of CAW Local 200, in particular, proposing savings at the plants in which they worked and these savings would be passed on to the company. |
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Hillier presents Deleuzean diagrams as agents of transformation and temporary fixities, as creative means of moving beyond habitus cliche. |
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There's no shortage of smarmy coming of age tales with the cliche events we all know. |
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Complete with some of the hammiest villains you'll ever see, The Spy Next Door rolls out every genre cliche you can think of. |
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To pinch a cliche from another sport, he was a bit of a flat-track bully. |
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Who but Mahler would have thought of opening with a horn call but transforming a romantic cliche into something fresh and disturbing by assigning it to a rasping tenor horn? |
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