shtick

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• Jersey political shtick stand-up at the Democratic National Convention; the arena that bore his name has gone through several different corporate sponsors since, and is currently a severely brand-infected assaultively unrelenting advertising-delivery module - in which basketball is still played, sometimes - sponsored by Izod. Can't Stop The Bleeding
• This time the duo's usual shtick of public school banter will not be enough. Times, Sunday Times
• One of my shticks is about why we need to do hard scientific research on religion.
• Meanwhile, more religions are ransacked for metaphor than Joseph Campbell ever shook his shtick at.
• Now, it's not like Johnny had some former great glory with The Swing Orchestra, but at least they had a shtick, something to work with.
• This jumbled exercise by Bulareyaung Pagarlava amounts to a shapeless sampler of miscellaneous moods and shticks, from the cloyingly cute to the utterly arbitrary. A Cautionary Tale in Dance
• This made him look silly, because the whole shtick belongs to a different generation.
• Although probably he doesn't: humorous exaggeration is part of Steyn's shtick. How Europe Goes Wrong, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• There is the classic, carefully crafted shtick of the old-fashioned nightclub comedian, routines and rib-ticklers cast and recast into perfectly polished pearls of witticism.
• The best bloggers develop hobbyhorses, shticks and catchphrases that they put into wider circulation.