| These strategies, I would argue, are entirely familiar and slightly shopworn. |
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| The thudding old-fashioned screenplay abounds with hearty slogans and mild avian puns mouthed by shopworn British stereotypes. |
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| The town itself is a wonderful example of a lived-in, somewhat shopworn, urban relic. |
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| But how often do they look closely at every shopworn assessment, and how often do they challenge every bit of published analysis? |
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| His bag of tricks is so small, and so shopworn, it's almost as if he's writing the same column every week. |
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| His drama uses the skeleton of a shopworn story to say very little about love and a lot about a rarely documented locale. |
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| Where Intolerable Cruelty is stylized and fun, Laws of Attraction is shopworn and flat. |
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| The problem with revenge stories is that they're a staple of American cinema and because of that, the genre is a little shopworn. |
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| The rhetoric that accompanies high-minded discussions of the deficit has grown shopworn. |
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| Yet in Iowa over the last few days, he has begun to appear more shopworn than stirring. |
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| But when they reached for substance, they tended to brandish shopworn proposals targeted at narrow and increasingly elderly groups of voters. |
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| Photographs taken in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1993 reflect Lawton's palpable empathy for his shopworn subjects, two years after the breakup of the Soviet Union. |
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| Now almost a decade old, Jay's brash brand of rap has become shopworn. |
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| Over and over, he would take over a shopworn company, install new managers, build it up, list it on the stock market, and make stacks of money for himself and his investors. |
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| As she observes, that shopworn notion has been complicated into near oblivion by artists responding to new social realities in the People's Republic. |
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| The author is convinced that the officers should be taught to think originally, to reject shopworn patterns and approaches, and to avoid bureaucratic quagmire. |
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| As a caper it leaves this year's other contenders, David Mamet's shopworn Heist and Frank Oz's flaccid The Score, standing. |
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| Gosling subtly allows Dean's eager, child-like charisma to become, if not soured, then shopworn, played-out. |
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| Mr. Speaker, I am afraid that Canada's new government is a little shopworn. |
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| They had been effective last week, but were suddenly shopworn. |
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| But as times and tastes changed, it needed a catalyst to move beyond the shopworn stereotypes of cops as either by-the-book straight arrows or rakish, rule-breaking mavericks. |
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| It is tarted up with shopworn absurdism, as when a moronic computer programmer jumps off that roof only to reappear without explanation to continue being moronic. |
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| Leave it to the Satanists to bring new fun to the shopworn church-state debate. |
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| Jennie does not learn that home is where the heart is or anything so shopworn. |
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| How does Perry go North with the shopworn baggage of Johnny Reb superiority and an unapologetic evangelical paternalism? |
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| But the idea that technology makes us free has now become a shopworn notion in need of drastic revision. |
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| Baldwin even found his names for rebel telepaths Boo Boo and Yogi on the rubbish heap of shopworn media. |
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| In either case all prints are shown on each display's header, and any display prints, or shopworn prints may be replaced, at no charge, with any reorder. |
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| There are to be found in Rassinier's publications the wherewithal to assemble an anthology of the most stupid and shopworn cliches of anti-Semitism. |
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| He also makes shopworn Paris into his kind of city riotously multicultural, as Paris these days is, colourful but a tiny bit claustrophobic and wallpapered with homages to past greats. |
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| This uselessness bestows on art a certain autonomy from the grim dealings in shopworn slogans and infoporn that characterize all other domains of the spectacle. |
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