How To Use Cliched 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.
Think Progress » Indiana’s ‘sovereign citizens’ renounce their U.S. citizenship, claim to secede from the Union.
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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.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Death of Captain America
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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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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 ...
Word Magazine - Comments
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The sagas attracted huge audiences, hooked on every clichéd twist and turn of the predictable plot.
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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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That sounds clichéd and corny, but she was the one who got me into vintage from such an early age.
The Sun
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Marvellous actors have to deliver stilted, arch and laughably clichéd dialogue.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
Avatar: The Good and The Bad
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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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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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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.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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The conceit could sound clichéd.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
Times, Sunday Times
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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 sounds so clichéd, but we were a really happy family.
The Sun
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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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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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They tend to look cheesy and have corny plots that slink toward clichéd payoffs.
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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.
The Sun
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The message of the movie -- and its makers admit it sounds "corny" and "cliched" -- is one of connection.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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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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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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As the rather clichéd but very true saying goes, there are no jobs on a dead planet.
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At times the characters seem clichéd, but they are bearable all the same.
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They found Chinese painting cliched and lacking vitality.
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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.
Will You Go See Avatar?
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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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Unfortunately DSB has one of the most cliched plots IMO (what I call generic anime #2).
Anime World Order Podcast
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If we choose one of the good contestants it's going to be too clichéd and boring.
The Sun
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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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The work is free of the tired clichéd issues surrounding and weighing down most conceptual installation art.
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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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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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This sounds clichéd, but it isn't.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course, he refuses to end things with a clichéd and sappy Hollywood ending.
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Of course, I was only displaying the ultimately cliched boomer trait, a tortured denial of my own advancing years.
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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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If, however, your definition of ‘thriller’ is wafer-thin plots and clichéd style, then Responsibility probably isn't for you.
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Scorsese drenches Shutter Island in madness but not in the clichéd ways of overt, distracting symbolism or epilepsy-inducing camerawork and editing.
SHUTTER ISLAND Review – Collider.com
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But the term I'd add is "cliched," because the most ridiculous piece of "journalism" on offer is this article, cited by Chittum, penned by "reporter" Tom Seslar.
BP Sends PR Professionals To Gulf Coast To Pretend To Be Journalists
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The problem is in the execution, which feels incredibly derivative and cliched.
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But the minute the police chief as mayoral candidate, the fast-talking power broker, and his misfit cast of drunk and clichéd socialites show up, the movie goes painfully askew.
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I'm dog-tired of being accused of trotting out clichéd terms.
Sarah Schmelling: Dan Brown, Annoying Facebook Friend
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It didn't actually unveil it - that's just cliched journalese - but it is 14 per cent faster than its previous series.
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The unusual characters 'simplicity makes their interactions fresh and endearing, not at all stale and clichéd like the "romcom" moniker might imply.
UltimateDisney.com and DVDizzy.com
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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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Remove the hooks and the energy, and substitute it all with a clichéd, sappy break-up theme, and the results are nothing short of embarrassing.
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It sounds so clichéd, but we were a really happy family.
The Sun
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Downers? How could there be downers? But maybe the clichéd plot, the tedium, the mind-numbing sameyness about the whole game could be considered a downer.
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No amount of attention to signs can undo the impact of cliched words or banal sentiments.
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Not because they're cliches, although one may see them used in cliched ways.
Stumbling Blocks
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It may sound clichéd, but the team becomes the star.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ironically, his writing about Jews is shallow and cramped, as with this post about Brooklyn Jews, which is as cliched and outdated as is possible without using the words plotz or shmear.
The Volokh Conspiracy » HRW’s Whitson Defends Fundraising in Totalitarian Countries:
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Enjoy the moment I know it sounds very clichéd but it's true.
Times, Sunday Times
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Escape the clichéd casinos, cabaret shows and floating hotels.
Times, Sunday Times
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A neat but obvious final twist makes amends for a horribly clichéd finale set on a rickety balcony.
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Marvellous actors have to deliver stilted, arch and laughably clichéd dialogue.
Times, Sunday Times
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It may sound clichéd, but the team becomes the star.
Times, Sunday Times
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The conceit could sound clichéd.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is probably just as well, given the extent to which some titles - particularly the most cliched ones - get over-used.
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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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Enjoy the moment I know it sounds very clichéd but it's true.
Times, Sunday Times
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Friday Night Lights is superbly uncliched storytelling.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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AVATAR is a work of clichéd, boring, hakuna matata crap.
James Cameron Tells Peter Jackson He Would Rather Use CG Instead of Building Titanic’s Set Today | /Film
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Cliched platitudes about derby matches may be easy enough to pick up, but there are still occasional communication difficulties between player and manager.
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As it is today, this is pure sit-com material and most respectable sit-com writers would shy away from such clichéd and hackneyed situations.
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After that, plunge back into the cobbled streets for those clichéd images that still look great on film.
Times, Sunday Times
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LaVere writes darkly atmospheric, uncliched Americana, plucks the upright bass and looks like Judy Garland would have at 30 if she'd jogged instead of drank.
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And as sappy and clichéd as it sounds, I don't think I will be able to stand seeing Abby cry.
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It's all organic, Moss says, shrugging ruefully at the almost clichéd expression, but in the end, amongst the schizoid existence, the fear and the joy, Moss is a foot soldier in a war.
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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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It is an intelligent, well-informed film that refuses to touch up the story to suit the clichéd conventions usually imposed on movies about artists.
Times, Sunday Times
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This sounds clichéd, but it isn't.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their actions land them in one situation after another that manages to be contrived and clichéd at the same time.
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The style is simplistic, clichéd and overly sentimental.
Times, Sunday Times
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Joey is worth watching for the cast, but you will be let down by the predictable and clichéd style of humour.
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My twenty-year career in alcoholism is a clichéd bore, but sober for most of sixteen years, I can live more intensely the ever-sordid hunger for booze that marks all classic noir.
December 2006
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Paddy Cunneen's music, screechily inapposite Irish jigs scraped out on one or two instruments, is as unhelpful as the by-now-clichéd Edwardian costuming.
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The samples on their albums sound fresh and vibrant, not like the tired and clichéd samples so many rappers resort to.
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Well, we found yet another awesome guy who took it upon himself to photobomb a tourist's cliched "holding up the tower" picture.
ANOTHER Awesome Photobomb At The Leaning Tower Of Pisa (PHOTO)
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It's tasteless and superfluous, but not clichéd.
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Sad Eyes, played by him makes the most out of a clichéd and stock Manga character.
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After that, plunge back into the cobbled streets for those clichéd images that still look great on film.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, when this band started, for various reasons, we'd become very disinterested in what we found to be the, you know, kind of cliched ways of playing guitar and playing drums.
Vampire Weekend: Beyond The Blogs
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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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It sounds clichéd, but our relationship was perfect.
The Sun
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I agree with James: "Friday Night Lights is superbly uncliched storytelling.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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The samples on their albums sound fresh and vibrant, not like the tired and clichéd samples so many rappers resort to.
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Actors being typecast and movies becoming clichéd are not peculiar to Bollywood or Gandhinagar.
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The texts make for fascinating reading, and provoke some good discussions of the cliched, "Where were you when it happened?
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This movie is a master class in clichéd dialogue.
Christianity Today
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Basically, you have a clichéd hero fighting stereotyped terrorists with a plot you can see through.
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And the art the lottery winners make of themselves is gauche and clichéd.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sagas attracted huge audiences, hooked on every clichéd twist and turn of the predictable plot.
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No - it sounds ridiculously clichéd, but making a difference is a much bigger motivator.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the one hand, there are plenty of places where, along with the clichéd flock wallpaper, the menu starts at chicken tikka masala and ends at prawn vindaloo.
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Of course, I was only displaying the ultimately cliched boomer trait, a tortured denial of my own advancing years.
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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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The leading story, "Moon Race" by Ben Bova falls into the "cliched" category.
Lots of Cliches and Some Very Poor Pacing
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Aside from the stylish Huma Abedin, there's definitely something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign -- sometimes to her detriment, as with the recent ham-handed playing of the clichéd gender card.
"Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
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I put that in quotes because I actually find him kind of cliched, but he is very talented.
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The actual story is fairly clichéd, and the final twist can be easily ferreted out by observant viewers, but the fun in The Ghost is in getting there.
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The dialogue and acting in Indecent Proposal are tired, cliched and corny.
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Beyond the evil, pin-covered voodoo dolls and scary zombies of clichéd movie lore lies the complex tapestry of real-life Haitian Vodoun or Voodoo.
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As clichéd as it sounds, by learning to like yourself and building up some self-esteem.
Times, Sunday Times
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These guys aren't your clichéd leather-clad bogans.
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This is not simply a clichéd clash between Islamic monotheism and Hindu polytheism as is made out in standard accounts on the subject.
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This is not simply a clichéd clash between Islamic monotheism and Hindu polytheism as is made out in standard accounts on the subject.
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The blown out highlights and cliched desaturation effect. flagranthero
John Gaeta Shows Off Ninja Assassin | /Film
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By the mid-1960s, straight-faced Westerns seemed clichéd.
Hollywood Frontiers: Outer Space and the Wild West
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In my humble opinion the trailer was a little too cliched for this very uncliched movie with the teaser trailer (which was based on a 1963 trailer for Jean Luc-Goddard's ...
JoBlo.com Upcoming Movie Previews
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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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So here I am, writing a weblog and I feel like the cliched ham actor - ‘What's my motivation here?’
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Sorry to use such a clichéd phrase, but it's appropriate for talking about this film.
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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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Jim should be the compassionate heart of the film and instead all he is is a cypher, pushed into clichéd situations.
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The point is that this cliched suburban life of mowing the lawn, Humbert is a foreigner--into something you can laugh at, something you can enjoy, something that you can apply the knight's move to.
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Afghanistan has more substance than "X amount of people killed again in Blank-abad Province," and a cliched reference to Alexander the Great and the Soviet invasion.
Seema Jilani: Weaving Our Stories Into the Carpets of Afghanistan
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In fact, both the characters and the "humor" with which their stories are larded seem only more cloying for the obvious effort being made to use them to inflate an inherently cliched narrative -- a mother treks her way across the continent to be reunited with her child -- into something less sentimental and more "vivid.
Book Reviewing
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As clichéd as it sounds, by learning to like yourself and building up some self-esteem.
Times, Sunday Times
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For too many players on the pitch, the clichéd phrase of just trying to treat it like any other game had obviously been taken to heart.
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Of course, I was only displaying the ultimately cliched boomer trait, a tortured denial of my own advancing years.
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Well, sure, cliched and formulaic is pretty standard for disaster movies generally.
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Clichéd, stereotypical tales of the relative strengths of men and women always annoy me.
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On TV medical dramas, the clichéd sighs of relief come when the patient's heartbeat settles into a strong, regular rhythm.
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We need whatever music, no matter how corny or clichéd, to get us through our days and nights.
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It was a departure from the usual - different from the usual clichéd inaugurals.
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There are generically bad films, like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, where the plot is so cliched that getting to the end is like a checklist: Sub-villain dispatched?
A Quick Review - This Isn't The Film You're Looking For
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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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Bolton itself also belied any clichéd image of drab northern towns under sullen skies.
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That sounds clichéd and corny, but she was the one who got me into vintage from such an early age.
The Sun
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If I point out the fact that, hello, that's a big pile of cliched, racist, stereotyping, fuckin shite, well, I want to hear some fucking arguments as to why I'm wrong.
Duh, Tell Us About The Rabbits, George
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No - it sounds ridiculously clichéd, but making a difference is a much bigger motivator.
Times, Sunday Times
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Adrian cringed at the exact clichéd phrase that he didn't want to hear at all.
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Here is an unassuming straight-to-video-worthy horror flick which goes about its job with unimpeachable competence, never troubling to conceal how abjectly derivative and cliched it is.
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The cliched image of autumn is that it is a fine season of mellow fruits, golden leaves and cool, bracing sunny days, but this has little bearing on the lives of anyone who lives in a town or city.
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The film refreshingly avoids the easy out of a cliched ending.
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It's just so cheesy, corny, and clichéd you can't help but like the good old-fashioned story of the underdog overcoming the odds.
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Why do fools speak in trite cliched meaningless phrasing?
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The Stones themselves are arrogant, they borrowed heavily from the bluesmen who preceded them (though their recasting is far from clichéd), and they set a generally nasty tone with all the drugs, sex, infighting, and belligerent behavior.
Guilty Pleasures
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Do we think there's no such thing as bad art: poorly written novels, cliched and unoriginal paintings, unconvincingly acted films?
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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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However, I give credit to them for choosing to turn what could have been cliched confrontation scenes into smarter, more unusually human and complex situations - sitcom predicaments made realistic.
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It may be clichéd, and it's certainly hard work, but nothing immerses you in outback life quite like a jackaroo (or jillaroo) training course.
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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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While their plays are set in the same remote areas of Ireland and exhibit the same, almost cliched, ability to spin a good yarn, the characters with which the writers populate their worlds are starkly different.
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The problem here is not a patronizingly clichéd representation of an ostensibly primitive people; the problem is the movie's intellectually incoherent portrayal of its fictional heroes as both admirably precivilized and admirably hypercivilized, as atechnological and highly technologized.
'Avatar's' Debt To 'The Wizard Of Oz'
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From the forced smiles and chorus-like repetition of ‘American’ to the clichéd piano player, everything to do with the play oozed Southern charm.
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A bit clichéd, but the storm-lashed rescue scenes should fl oat your boat.
The Sun
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The texts make for fascinating reading, and provoke some good discussions of the cliched, "Where were you when it happened?
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This movie is a master class in clichéd dialogue.
Christianity Today
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It sounds clichéd, but our relationship was perfect.
The Sun
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All it is a balm from the relentless assault of cliched grimness we endure in SciFi.
Is a grim, dark, nihilistic view of the future in SciFi...groundbreaking?
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We write so often about South American street urchins turned brilliant footballers that it begins to sound clichéd.
Times, Sunday Times
