| 单词 | cliche |
| 例句 | Avoid cliches like the plague—it’s a no-brainer. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The class laughed along with him, but I always thought cliches got a bum rap. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z What I kept forgetting, of course, was that high school was home to infinite cliches for a reason, and that Ocean was, in some ways, still inextricable from his own stereotype. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The cliche of time passing slowly usually has to do with idleness and inactivity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There isn’t a thing Tara says that isn’t a cliche. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Audrey would have appreciated the cliche, but now wasn’t the time. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The truly merciful don’t resort to cliches. far be it from me. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a way of turning cliches inside out like that. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And you’ll often be surprised, and your writing will be livelier, if you take a few seconds to look up the original wording of a cliche. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She had grown quite accustomed to die cliches of other people’s lives as well as her own increasing dissatisfaction with Medallion. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z This is what you do when you run out of cliches. each and every. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Last year in the language arts class Audrey and I were in together, our teacher campaigned against cliches so enthusiastically that Audrey started using them on purpose. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z You’ve probably noticed that death is a favorite playground of cliches. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s what I want to do with my paintings, find a unique language, obliterate the cliches. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Their faces seemed so old, so dark, calling forth overworked cliches about the earth and the sky and the wind. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This cliche stays alive because, regrettably, there are always enough wars to go around. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It all swirls together, cliches mixing with your own emotions, and in the end you can’t tell one from the other. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In a discipline in which athletes bored newsmen to death with cliches and blandly politic statements, Pollard was a singularly fresh interview, articulate, irreverent, and self-deprecating. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then are all cliches and familiar turns of phrase to be summarily executed? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I have studied objectively the anthropological arguments, the accepted cliches about cultural and ethnic differences. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And when they get there, they use cliches. foregone conclusion. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And if you must use a cliche, why not word it in a way that makes physical sense? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Strangely, as bored as I was with cliches, her inflection gave them something new, and set me thinking for a little while at least. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliche wishes.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “I guess I’ll start with a bit of a cliche,” he said. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z We smiled sadly at each other, realizing that cliches weren’t as entertaining without Audrey. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, My mother always uses little cliches like, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s cliche, I know, but if I had to listen to one song for the rest of my life, it would be “Jolene.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It’s a cliche, all right, but it’s better than spinning your wheels. get the show on the road. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It would take a roomful of Shakespeares to replace them with fresh figures of speech, and before long those would become cliches too. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her logic was a combination of half-truths and cliches, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is such a cliche conversation. I don’t know what else to say.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about cliches: “Avoid them like the plague.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z That’s why some people will tell you that the Bible and Shakespeare are full of cliches! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a stock cliche: No news is good news. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The use of an old-fashioned word for an old- fashioned garment helps date the snapshot for us, without the cliche faded photograph. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Their manners and miens reflected the Spartan personal discipline the organization demanded, and none of them would utter anything but Nation of Islam cliches. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I gagged up a big, hateful laugh for that lame biblical cliche. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z McCandless was hardly unique; there’s quite a few of these guys hanging around the state, so much alike that they’re almost a collective cliche. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We smile at expressions like these out of relief, because were braced for the numbing cliche that fails to arrive. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “And don’t say you suck at math and science. That’s such a cliche when girls say that. Even if it’s true, just lie.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They have destroyed the cliche that whenever Negroes move into an area the property values go down. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach after coach paid him the highest possible praise: they pulled out every possible time-worn cliche to describe him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The best thing to be said about this cliche is that it’s better than being taken to the cleaners. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She’ll say that she likes my drawings, but she’ll roll her eyes because my ideas for our film are “too cliche.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That she used a cliche was a good sign. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z An even worse cliche, Generation X, is already degenerating. get nowhere fast. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked slowly and spoke slowly, and almost everything he said publicly was bland, or a cliche, or just plain stupid. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Or to the cliche of lovers staring endlessly into each other’s eyes? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z But think of cliches as condiments, the familiar ketchup, mustard, and relish of language. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the aptness of the cliched saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliche. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Given the controversy over whether the Israel lobby is merely undernoticed in American foreign policy or nefariously all-controlling, the meaning of the first cliche is a commonplace; the meaning of the second, incendiary. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was then that I first understood the cliche of feeling the cold in one’s bones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But it seemed like such a cliche after what we’d just done. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And so began her heady days full of cliche: she felt fully alive, her heart beat faster when he arrived at her door, and she viewed each morning like the unwrapping of a gift. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z With an allergy to abstraction and a phobia of cliche, Wilkerson trains a magnifying glass on the historical blob called “the Great Migration” and reveals the humanity of the people who compose it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But most gangsters were, as the cliche assures us, two-bit gangsters. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And she didn’t even care if that was a cliche. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Here is another cliche my creative writing teacher would have scoffed at; like father, like son. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “What do all of these lachrymose cliches mean?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You dismiss it as a cliche, but the problem is it’s true. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Delivered with a cheeky wink of the eye, the 29-year-old's songs completely avoid the guns'n'girls cliches of hip-hop, something she puts down to her Chicago roots. Sister Act 2010-04-27T07:13:00Z And although it is something of a cliche to refer to lagom when talking about Swedish culture, it’s still a good place to start. Working less to live well: Work-obsessed Americans should take a cue from Swedes 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The cliche is true – the first year is literally shocking, but the second is harder. How to survive the death of a loved one 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z And it's big enough to admit that some northern cliches may actually be true. A Wondrous Place – review 2013-05-28T17:12:37Z The recipe shatters many of the cliches about cooking kale: It isn’t massaged with olive oil or sautéed with bacon. The surprisingly simple Thanksgiving side dish that plays well with others 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Beneficent hosts bestowing great gifts upon tearful recipients is now a cliche across the TV landscape and a nauseatingly self-serving one at that. For some, Oprah's exit is good riddance 2011-05-23T13:01:00Z Perhaps that could explain the cliche that tells us that men dream of threesomes with sisters. From the Hadids to the Kardashians: the awkward truth about ‘sexy sisters’ 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z “Preacher” struggles to depict the challenges of ministry, relying mainly on cliche — which is disappointing, given the show’s title and central idea. ‘Preacher’ has some thrilling, quirky action — but its spirit soon grows weak 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Not all of it: eating weird Chinese food is a cliche by now. TV review: An Idiot Abroad 2012-12-15T08:00:01Z A colonial seaport midway between New York and Boston, Essex embodies every Hollywood cliche about small town New England but does so in the most winning way. 10 of the best small towns in the US: readers’ travel tips 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z As I drive into the downtown area, it’s a gray, drizzly day; the kind of day that cliches suggest are great if you’re a duck. In Havre de Grace, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay, a rich maritime history — and ducks, lots of ducks 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z First-class production design and Kenneth Fink's smooth direction can't make up for a script that is mostly a hodgepodge of cliches. "Miami Medical" suffers from anemic storytelling 2010-03-30T00:50:00Z It isn’t a more “real” America – a glib and offensive cliche – it is simply a different one. Outside coastal bubbles, to say 'America is already great' rings hollow 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z By both of their accounts, the conversation flowed well and beyond gay cliches. Date Lab: They talked about cats, Gettysburg and Pussy Riot 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Not helping ambitious models with genuine acting talent is that the cliche about their peers' lack of substance often is true. Brooklyn Decker's model-to-actress challenge 2011-02-15T21:25:42Z Nor was he happy with the traditional cliche of the musician with the dwindling audience: that he was making music for himself. Paul Weller: the upsetter 2010-08-26T20:30:00Z A foul-mouthed, bull-headed academic, he vilifies everything from pear juice to his son's girlfriend, but takes special pleasure in denigrating northerners, deaf people and other writers, particularly those who succumb to cliche. Nina Raine: a great ear for anger 2010-10-11T21:00:00Z The movie starts interestingly, but resorts to cliches, and the narrative becomes a familiar violent thriller that drifts into Nick Love territory. In Our Name ? review 2010-12-09T22:10:00Z This is a “patio pounder,” a “table pounder,” whatever cliche you want to use for an exciting, inexpensive wine. At just $11, this fruity South African white wine is a true ‘patio pounder’ 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Without resorting to cliches, the space relies on carpet that suggests tile, displays of Moroccan urns and plates and splashes of turquoise to help diners forget they’re in Washington. Review | Mike Isabella’s newest restaurant, Arroz, shines the brightest 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z A moving and original story of the Holocaust, based on fact and avoiding cliche. Oscars 2012: Foreign film nominees 2012-02-22T08:32:55Z It's tempting to say cliches, but these cliches were poetic enough to be used by Shakespeare, from the melancholy of love to the rage of jealousy. Is Shakespeare Britain's greatest contribution to world culture? 2012-08-28T12:54:58Z The cliche is that you go crazy and party, but you have to devote yourself to it. Sister act 2011-05-24T07:08:40Z Everett Collection/Rex Features It's a celebrity profile cliche to describe an actor's central gift as the uncanny ability, honed in childhood, to try on different personas, but in Moss's case it's particularly apt. Elisabeth Moss: 'How I found my inner tough guy' 2013-07-02T17:12:01Z For him, this cliche has its roots in the racist hysteria of the “yellow peril”, which for decades presented east Asian immigration as a danger to the western world. The new heart-throbs: how Hollywood embraced east Asian actors, from Henry Golding to Simu Liu 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Is that stylistic laziness or is it a super-sophisticated act of mimicry, Rushdie’s success at capturing the voice of a cliche thinker? Salman Rushdie launches a novelistic attack on Trump 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z What I forgot was, “sensitive maverick” is as much of a Hollywood cliche as “chronic shagger who blames it on sex addiction”. Oh, how I loved you, Johnny Depp. Now I see the purple-tinted truth 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Still, the conversational prose would have benefited from being pruned of cliches. ‘Lonely Boy’ review: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones riffs on an era of theft, drugs and punk 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z I think, also, coming from Ireland – it's a huge cliche but I think we have a different vocabulary and we structure our sentences according to the rhythms of the old language we used to speak. Marian Keyes: 'I thought I'd never be able to write again' 2013-04-21T08:00:17Z That makes it all the more exhilarating to watch Cuomo turn those cliches on their heads, much as his father, former New York governor Mario Cuomo, did at his most scholarly and statesmanlike. Perspective | Andrew Cuomo’s star turn is part of a long cinematic tradition 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z After all, I’ve been listening to me play for 31 years and, quite frankly, I bore myself to death with some of my old cliches. Buddy Emmons, innovator on pedal steel guitar, dies at 78 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z In the end, it’s not whiteness and blackness that Key and Peele are spoofing, but the cliches that have grown calcified around those notions: White people are stiff and soulless; black people are violent criminals. Key and Peele’s ‘Keanu’ uses the story of a cute cat to challenge racial stereotypes 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The late Frank Deasy's script may begin with one of crime drama's default scenarios, but what follows largely leaves genre cliches behind as the story twists and turns. On the Money With Robert Peston 2010-06-07T05:45:00Z Every police procedural cliche is trotted out for him to ignore; weapon on person? check, blood of girl on hands? check, defensive scratches on back? check. ‘The Night Of’ Series Premiere: Fate at the Wheel 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z I learned of the race riots of 1919, and I discovered that the pulp-fiction cliche of the Limehouse opium den persisted only because such shadowy hideaways were expected of the Chinese in London. Perspective | How one writer shook up the Golden Age detective novel 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Contact weaves one of dance music's biggest cliches – the sampled voices of astronauts communicating in outer space – into an awe-inspiring closing track. Daft Punk: Random Access Memories – review 2013-05-15T12:59:08Z But this version of the show that contains these cliches may ultimately be the more stereotype upending. “Am I being punished for being gay?” 2012-06-05T16:37:00Z The untrustworthy hunchback could well become a revered cliche in the fullness of time, but it is not a bona fide cliche yet. Joe Queenan's Guide to Movie Cliches: Action 2010-10-19T11:00:00Z The first images that came to mind when she was thinking about female detectives were all cliches, she says – because all her references were other TV detectives. The Killing: Sarah Lund's jumper explained 2011-03-10T11:34:30Z Q: It is such a cliche question, but millions of women would probably want to know what it's like playing opposite Jon Hamm. A Minute With: Actress Lake Bell on going from indie to Disney 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z One begins to realize what a cliche hell has become. NBC’s ‘Constantine’: The devil you know a little too well Ratcheting up several cliches to maximum warp is its runway strategy. "Pose" kicks off its final fabulous walk by ratcheting up the nonsense as well as its optimism 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z No country cliches here: Her look combines rustic farm tables, lanterns and antique weather vanes with contemporary lighting and white marble bathrooms. How to get farmhouse style, without the country cliches 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z It needs you to believe that there is no history to the ideas and influences that Bjork appropriates, because it functions by presenting everything, especially cliches and pretensions, as eternally new. Why is MoMA featuring an exhibit showcasing Bjork’s pretentiousness? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s a misleading cliche about the genre — like so many misleading cliches about your fabulous trailblazing life. Perspective | Hillary, please don’t reject romance novels — you are a romance novel heroine 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z "This island isn't big enough for two cliches," the man says. New Yorker cartoonist Leo Cullum dies at 68 2010-10-26T03:25:00Z Black Dynamite assembles all the familiar verbal and visual cliches, mixes them with a heavy hand and ends up with an occasionally amusing, extremely dated brew. Black Dynamite 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Hey, now — let’s not all reach for the cliche buzzer at once. ‘Shades of Blue’ may not be perfect, but it shows how broadcast networks want to get better 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z They would not be convinced by the thought that the cliches of rock and its sentimental support system now form the oppressive orthodoxy. The Rolling Stones will reign supreme until there is a new counterculture 2013-03-31T00:06:28Z Well aware that many other photographers and writers have been here before him, Hugo still succumbs to the same photojournalistic cliches his work tries to escape. The Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012-07-10T16:51:34Z Its influence was felt most immediately in the look of summer blockbusters that followed, which mimicked its gothic sheen and made a cliche of its “bullet-time” effects. The Matrix at 20: how the sci-fi game-changer remains a talking point 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z This is not because of the usual cliches about Arab or Ottoman cities – that they are "timeless", "medieval" and so on. Algiers: a city where France is the promised land – and still the enemy 2013-01-27T00:06:03Z This portmanteau piece by a new company called Northern Spirit aims to challenge the cliche that it's grim up north. A Wondrous Place – review 2013-06-08T23:05:21Z “From that moment it was the whole cliche: Super 8 films; camcorder films; AV club at high school; torturing my sister by making her be in my films.” The Florida Project’s Sean Baker: ‘I wanted the kids to be the kings and queens of their domain’ 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z But in these respects, Burnt Island anticipates its effect on the reader, commenting on its own carefully detonated cliches and impeccably rendered dream logic. Burnt Island by Alice Thompson – review 2013-05-29T14:02:55Z My personal favourite among action film cliches is when the villain, asked what to do with the thronged hostages/peasants/rebels, sneers: "Kill them all." Joe Queenan's Guide to Movie Cliches: Action 2010-10-19T11:00:00Z McGraw's songs may be constructed from cliches but they seem to contain an intensified experience of the world. Country to Country – review 2013-03-22T19:11:38Z Despite its indie-movie cliches – road trip, phone sex, lonely writer – this youthful debut has a few emotional tricks up its sleeve. This week's new films 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z Presumably they use another cliche here as well to justify their persistence: that when you get married, you also marry the family. Carolyn Hax: No explanation needed when shutting down a discussion 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z In other words, Luther is another piece of highly stylised nonsense, pitched somewhere in that territory between fantasy and cliche that commissioning editors find so irresistible. Luther, Chris Ryan's Strike Back and Jamie Does? Venice 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z The Runaway ... hair-raising stuff Photograph: Sky Most of the indispensable cliches of gangster exist for a reason – shows that ignore them do so at their peril. Gangster dramas: the cliches fly like a hail of bullets 2011-04-07T13:11:36Z Not another cliche super-hawkish general ready to commit what a character calls "treason". ‘Designated Survivor’ Series Premiere: Glasses Off 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Izzie was a cliche in a way of that kind of girl, but yet, here she was doing something extraordinary with her life. Katherine Heigl unfiltered: "I know my value. Beauty ... is the least interesting thing about me" 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Or will they, as the trailer suggests, offer only cliches – loud sex heard through thin walls; jokes about swallowing. Sex and the sequel 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z With so many story lines and characters, there is always the risk of melodrama and cliche, but Haigh is never reductive in her plotting or characterization. ‘Heat & Light’ is the best fracking novel ever 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z But the truth is, the show was fantastic: smart, funny, warm and wise, a far cry from the "middle-aged women having embarrassing sex with various unsuitable partners" cliche that the above writer used. The death of Sex and the City 2010-05-23T23:11:00Z And maybe in that sense, Beyblade and other such games offer an opportunity — the cliche, but nevertheless valuable “teachable moment” that marks an opportunity for parents and educators to spring into action. Here’s why kids love Beyblades 2012-07-11T13:46:00Z "Attacking me for using cliche in an opera about opera is absurd," says Wainwright. How I fell out of love with opera 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z Despite the cliche, it was like something out of a fairy tale, touched by magic and mystery and mushrooms. Hello, Dolly. A visitor finally gets to West Virginia’s ‘bit of Canada gone astray.’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z That conversation, Sheridan says, encapsulates so much that is true and contradictory about the modern west: not just its stubbornly lingering cliches, but the sense that something is, inevitably, slipping away. With ‘Wind River,’ Taylor Sheridan continues to smash western stereotypes 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Oasis Britishness stripped down to its worst and most cynical cliches: arrogance without due, rhyme without style, sarcasm without wit, pose without prose, booze without tolerance, chav without street, repetition without foundation, Wonder without Wall. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z Her 50 percent contribution sounds like a tour de force of stereotypes, cliches and need. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: If your friend could do so much better than him, why doesn’t she? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z This rarely performed compendium of virtuosic cliches found Wunder at his most relaxed, allowing him to indulge in splashy displays of technique and bel canto bombast. Pianist Ingolf Wunder gets carried away with his fearless approach 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Plus ça change, you might say – unless you were the interviewer, who misses the sole justifiable opportunity to wheel out a French cliche. The ballad of Pammy and Julian Assange - her poor, mournful sea lion 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z To that end, the Lonely Island’s songs aren’t punning parodies, but keen dissections of a genre’s cliches. This Ain?t Weird Al 2011-02-20T05:00:19Z “His photos were artful and his writing smart, eloquent without being cliche — the total package.” On Love: Glenn Hennessey & Steve Kogut 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z But with the help of an ensemble that wisely includes some older dancers, Ashford avoids leaping coffee breaks and most of the other cliches of office choreography. Look Ma, Harry Potter's dancing 2011-03-28T00:19:45Z Again, to fall back on another news cliche, the press release “raised more questions than it answered”. Is there a way out of the Epstein mess? Prince Andrew hasn't put his fat finger on it 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Much more than postcard cliche, Lowry was a social commentator and a painter of haunting land and seascapes, as well as of the mad and the miserable. 2013 visual art preview: Manet's portraits and Lowry reappraised 2012-12-30T19:45:02Z My beef with Keef, as it were, is that he has allowed himself to succumb to the worst fate fame can bestow – that of never growing up, thus becoming just another crowd-pleasing sex-drugs-and-rock'n'roll cliche. Is Keith Richards a 'good thing'? 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z The scene is, among other things, Fey’s satire of the Hollywood cliche of genius squiggling on glass. Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don't add up 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z "I like your pants around your feet," he wails, amid more musical cliches. Nickelback – review 2012-10-07T15:25:29Z The writing is famously awful, just a compendium of the Great British cliche. TV review: Penn and Teller: Fool Us; Law and Order: UK; and Mildred Pierce 2011-07-10T21:05:01Z It's a transatlantic cliche that we Americans are obsessed with our ice, while Europeans proudly prefer their beverages decidedly cube-free. Will record heat make Europe embrace the American ice cube? 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Forgive me for employing the world's worst cliche, but I laughed and I cried. Who's afraid of the big C? 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z Maybe the new cinema cliche is parents who care too much. Scary toddlers and super creeps – helicopter parenting and the rise of 'kindergarten horror' 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Articles complaining about the “most important election” cliche are now so common that they are becoming cliches themselves. Do you really believe this is the most important election of our lives? Because we’ve heard that before. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z It was, however, one of the very few cliches from which Andrew Davies spared us in his frenetic yet leaden adaptation of Winifred Holtby's novel set in Yorkshire in the 1930s. Rewind TV: South Riding; The Model Agency; Friday Night Dinner; Silk 2011-02-27T00:05:40Z The “60 Minutes” bad guy is his own sort of cliche. Perspective | ‘60 Minutes’ and SNL have been on our TVs for decades, but we still look to them to tell us what’s what 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The cliche of the actor, particularly the comic actor, is of someone who hides behind masks because they can’t bear to be themselves. Robert Webb: ‘Jokes are important for men – we think we invented them’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z The film tries to avoid cliches about Native Americans while examining the settlers' mistrust in the stranger. 'Meek's Cutoff' shows women's view of West 2010-09-05T15:46:00Z With masterly comic timing — Mr. Elliott with a nasal deadpan, Goulding with booming authority — Bob and Ray mocked the cliches and banalities of newscasts, politics, sports and advertising. Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z It’s a film that steers clear of cliche – and the need to filter the atrocities through a white viewpoint. Black films matter: why Chi-Raq and Beast of No Nation are game-changers 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Her takes on the cliches of rugged masculinity are amusing, but a bit meek. Very well hung: the ICA's Keep Your Timber Limber exhibition 2013-06-19T06:30:03Z Oh wait, I forgot, this is totally an Internet cliche. Sorry, “Fat People Hate”-ing Reddit trolls: Ellen Pao is serious about curbing harassment 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z By avoiding narrative cliches, Skibsrud is able to reinvigorate the history her novel rests on, so that events hit us, as they hit these characters, as shocks. Review: ‘Quartet for the End of Time,’ by Johanna Skibsrud 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z I knew the cliche about grandmasters being able to look a dozen moves ahead. The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Not helping matters is that Cutler "relies on a stable of formal cliches." Chloe Grace Moretz drama 'If I Stay' is lifeless, reviews say 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z I’d never been to the city, and my only ideas were a batch of mostly gay cliches pulled from Armistead Maupin novels, the story of Harvey Milk and the opening sequence of “Full House.” My gay art-porn debut 2012-06-23T02:00:00Z Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who has positioned himself as the tech candidate, leaned into the stylistic cliche of the tech world. Perspective | Kamala Harris embraced black. That was both unremarkable and theatrically powerful. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Hawley has more than proved that he’s a worthy foe of tropes and cliches, but here, his vision can at times feel detrimentally self-indulgent. Review | There’s a little too much ‘Fargo’ in the new season of ‘Fargo,’ but the trip is still worth taking 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The treacly narratives of such novels as The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes have been excised but the cliches remain. Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z Don't get me wrong, it's still a dreary action movie cliche. White House Down trailer: we've seen this somewhere before, surely? 2013-05-07T12:15:18Z A final, brief epilogue invokes the usual cliches of the horror film: A few stray pieces of Ventril Dease’s work are still circulating, sold on a street corner to a couple of unsuspecting hipsters. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z "The old cliche says that if you can remember the 1960s, you weren't there," the singer once recalled. 'Moon River' crooner Andy Williams dies at age 84 2012-09-26T14:41:23Z Aren't you taking at face value what is, in fact, a bit of a media cliche? Do today's TV chefs have to be sex symbols too? 2013-03-23T18:00:01Z "It's funny," says Albert, "you don't want to live in cliche but it's just like, 'Nope, that was it'." The Strokes: no Spinal Tap 2011-02-27T00:03:00Z Then part of it is finding ways to ask questions that maybe aren’t the usual cliche questions. Q&A with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols: Life in the NBA bubble, taking on Floyd Mayweather and the time the Caps players defended her 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z It has become something of a cliche, when a young person dies, to talk of the terrible waste of a life. Britain's hidden homeless and the death of Michelle Conroy 2013-01-20T08:00:00Z Stand by for every Robin Hood cliche going, a few gentle digs at Doctor Who’s structure and tropes, and you have a rather gentle episode of Doctor Who. 'Doctor Who' Series 8 Episode 3 Review: Robot Of Sherwood 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z At least one of the characters in City Island – a flighty young aspiring actor, living an elaborate lie – certainly conforms to the cliche. Andy Garcia: the outsider 2010-07-19T06:59:00Z The good news about Mount Rushmore is that despite being a cliche of Americana, it’s genuinely breathtaking. South Dakota: wild beasts and Badlands make the silver screen come to life 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z That might seem like an overused cliche, but when it comes to Chef Compton, it's the real deal. A travel writer's guide to eating New Orleans 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z "Yes," says Gråbøl, "but we had to fight against it because that would have been such a cliche." The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z It’s exactly this mix of precise reality and obtuse cliche that allows the film to flourish. My streaming gem: why you should watch The Distinguished Citizen 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z All these modern cliches are trotted out in an effort to encapsulate an intricate tale of an urban scheme mired in greed and disrespect. ‘You Don’t Have to Live Like This’ review: Trouble rebuilding Detroit 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The death of Sex and the City is not just a shame for fans, but for all women with higher expectations of movies about women than a compendium of cliches from the Daily Mail. The death of Sex and the City 2010-05-23T23:11:00Z The result is that casting types exist, most probably reinforced by the cache of Hollywood cliches. The 'wrong' casting can be so right 2010-04-26T13:41:00Z It is set in Spain, but really it is totally French, full of parodies, cliches and innuendo. Glyndebourne's odd double 2012-08-09T19:00:12Z It's a very iconic gun and there's lots of cliches you could easily do with a gun. AK-47 rifles to be 'refashioned' 2012-07-12T16:00:38Z Yet even cliches can have longevity: "Red-letter day," "baker's dozen" and "devil's advocate" have been around for centuries. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z That might sound like a cliche but Karen was not a two-dimensional do-gooder. Karen Woo: a tribute by her brother 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z But, while I applaud Boyd's avoidance of romantic cliche, I still feel he undervalues Shakespeare's ability to create a whole world through heightened poetic language. Review|Theatre|Antony and Cleopatra, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon|Michael Billington 2010-05-10T23:18:00Z It had a novelist's sharpness of language and gaze, and almost never resorted to cliche. Young Arts Critics 2010: critical conditions 2010-05-24T20:30:00Z The plot unfolds in a series of unashamed cliches; its themes, of isolation, escapism, familial violence and national pride, are well-trodden and overtly deliberate, too. The Beauty Queen of Leenane ? review 2011-07-27T17:30:05Z It's another cliche: "Look at me, I'm so relaxed because I don't put my hair into a bun." What Britain's ballet stars made of Black Swan 2011-01-05T21:31:00Z Itani resists the cliches that tend to cluster around World War I trauma. ‘Tell,’ by Frances Itani 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z But for National Cliché Day, let's celebrate how useful cliches can be, as a ready tool for conversation or a starting point for new phrases — which may well become future clichés. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z The usual sonic cliches of the “quiet-storm” sound aren’t much in evidence: the unctuous saxophones, the stacks of synthetic keyboard goo. Album review: Rhye, 'Woman' 2013-03-04T05:46:00Z Just as the Impressionist paintings reproduced on my old dentist’s ceiling were enduring artworks reduced by overfamiliarity to kitschy cliches, the best nature documentaries deserve to be rescued from overfamiliarity. Perspective | Are nature documentaries the greatest art of our time? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Van Gogh, more than any other artist in history, embodies the cliche. Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z I cringe at that thoroughly cliche thought now, but looking back, it seems only marginally more absurd than any other excuse I provided myself. The victory I never thought I’d see: How the Supreme Court just saved young gay lives 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z This is an indie comedy that seems dead set on repeating every dishonest movie cliche about psychiatric hospitals. Peter Mullan's Neds heads London film festival's most-awaited list 2010-10-21T16:37:00Z I am a bit torn, it did fall into a lot of typical cliches representing ballet dancers as neurotic and bulimic. Alice in dance 2011-02-28T12:36:10Z The classic cliched romance: Dirty Dancing Dirty Dancing is an exquisite tapestry of film cliches. Joe Queenan's guide to romance cliches 2010-10-16T11:00:00Z This is a very lazy movie, featuring every ballet cliche going. What Britain's ballet stars made of Black Swan 2011-01-05T21:31:00Z But his is a familiar one, an exasperating cliche. Perspective | The women surrounding the Weinstein trial are using their clothes to redefine who has power 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The cliche about actors is that they need constant reassurance. Samantha Morton: ‘Maybe I was the first person to publicly answer Weinstein’ 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z They go so well together that it's become something of a cliche. Music to murder to: crime writers on their killer soundtracks 2013-05-08T06:30:00Z The beauty, pride and common purpose that oozes from the performance make mincemeat of the cliches of chaos and hopelessness that burden the Congo. The scratch orchestra of Kinshasa 2013-05-09T17:29:43Z On the fictional side, spirit-lifting tales of underdog teams overcoming adversity to score on the court are a dime a dozen, though classics have emerged from the cliches. Streaming: great basketball films to watch after The Last Dance 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z But the play avoids any intrusive measure of cliche, because Braden never permits Bessie to be seen as anything but an original. Review | Bessie Smith lives again in the moody blues of ‘The Devil’s Music’ 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z One implication of this is that cliches are fine if you don't notice them; there is such a thing as prose that is too laboriously original. Rules for writing: block that metaphor! 2013-05-23T14:40:46Z This Berlucsconian cliche is ostensibly in town, along with other world leaders, for the funeral of his British counterpart. London Has Fallen: can city siege movies survive the age of terror? 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z As a female film critic watching Incredibles 2, I was thrilled to see an animation that bucked tired gender cliches even more than the first film had. How Incredibles 2 goes to work for the feminist superhero 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Despite the common cliche of the fast food-guzzling, fat person, my favourite meal used to be a large mixed salad with salmon. I lost 13 stone – now I know the truth about obesity 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Still, the frontman has a wry sense of humour and his knowing, deadpan lyrics subtly poke fun at the genre's usual cliches. Bring Me the Horizon – review 2013-04-03T17:45:54Z This is no collection of cliche musings about the bond between horse and human. Review | What does it mean to be a ‘horse girl’? It’s more than a silly kid who wants a pony. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z “Use it or lose it” is an annoying cliche. Time to try harder – James Bond has no licence to kill the film industry | Peter Bradshaw 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z "Sometimes all that happened was that the misleading old euphemisms were replaced by the misleading new cliches." Good sex in literature: why is it so hard to find? 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z “The first thing I thought about was that cliche: You don’t know what you got until it’s gone.” A Cannes (sans kisses) to reawaken our romance with movies 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Apology for recycling tedious punk cliche has not been forthcoming. Sleeve notes: Gaddafi's musical taste hangs over the world of pop 2011-03-04T12:43:47Z Of course, I’ve come up against plenty of the predictable tropes I anticipated as an HBO-watching teenager, but I’ve more often found that men defy the cliche of superficial, unemotional wanting. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z I will never hear the phrase “white knuckle driving” as a cliche again. In northern Arizona, ups and downs in the land of canyons 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Though it's a cliche to talk about child actors as wise beyond their years, Moretz is quickly making a name as the go-to young performer for heady material. Teen actress flexes muscles in "Kick-Ass" 2010-04-20T00:22:00Z The David and Goliath storyline has not become an Oscar season cliche by accident. Academy Awards: season's splits pave way for the Mr Potato Head Oscars 2013-01-30T18:10:01Z Many travel dreams are created by the tourism industry, which tend to pump up the cliches of each country. Finding ‘back doors’ in today’s Europe 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z And yet here they are, apparently falling for one of the great cliches: the double concept album on which hugely successful rock stars explain at length how awful it is being hugely successful rock stars. Biffy Clyro: Opposites – review 2013-01-24T15:29:01Z “I am learning there is the cliche for a reason ’cause there is a lot of overlap,” she said in an interview last week at her home in Nashville, Tennessee. Singer Joy Williams gets acting bug after Showtime role 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z In one reading, the latter might be worn like a badge of honor; here, it can feel like a sarcastic dig toward someone living up to all the bad cliches of fame. Revisiting The Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock N Roll Star" 55 years later, from the Monkees to REM 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Specifically, Hong and eight other Asian American actors fed up with being offered “cliche roles” formed their own acting troupe in 1964. Actor James Hong back in spotlight with Hollywood star push 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Breaking the rules is such a common theme in Park City, Utah, that it long ago became a Sundance cliche. Sundance 2015: Focus turns to mavericks from the not-too-distant past 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The phrase “now more than ever” has become a tiresome cliche in the past few months, but so what: “The Handmaid’s Tale” is here and it demands our attention, now more than ever. Review | ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ isn’t just timely, it’s essential viewing for our fractured culture 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Our writers are full of cliches, just as old barns are full of bats. Rules for writing: block that metaphor! 2013-05-23T14:40:46Z “I check off all the boxes of that cliche,” he reflects, with disarming candour. Richard Dreyfuss: 'I was a bad guy for a number of years' 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z I also worried that the book might too often slip over into cliche. Not the Booker prize 2012: The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by JW Ironmonger 2012-08-22T15:06:29Z “It may be a cliche, but a number doesn’t really convey it in the same way.” A year into pandemic, some in media tell individual stories 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Regardless, I cannot bring myself to call him my best friend; it feels terribly cliche and I haven’t used the term “best friend” to describe anyone in my life, even my closest friends, for years. Marrying your best friend is a cliche, but a good one for women 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z This is another “patio pounder,” a “table pounder,” whatever cliche you want to use for an exciting, inexpensive wine. Perspective | The 12 best bargain wines of 2018 cost as little as $9. What are you waiting for? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z As a drama it’s brutal, devoid of cliche and unflinching in its depiction of human frailty and savagery. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z In driving, we find stop signs in many places, but it would be silly to call a stop sign a cliche: Its predictable shape and color make it immediately recognizable. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z It just is a cliche, because it’s basically FDR or Lincoln. Journalist John Dickerson: ‘The major problem is that we look to the president for too much’ 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z I wanted the movie to be an experience, but not a cliche. Why ‘Beautiful Boy’ director Felix Van Groeningen is fascinated by the fragility of families 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z It is a piece of received wisdom – the old yin and yang cliche – made devastatingly literal. From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D Daskalopoulos Collection – review 2012-12-23T00:06:37Z To say that playing at Glastonbury is a great way to "connect with the real fans" has become as much of a rock star cliche as going out with Kate Moss. Glastonbury 2010: Meet the celebrities 2010-06-28T07:00:00Z If "Lights Out" had committed to B-movie cliches and served them up with relish, it wouldn't have mattered that its supporting characters had, at best, two dimensions. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z It sounds kind of cliche, like a thing you would say for the press. "How to Fix a Pageant" director on 2022 Miss USA scandal: "It was clear something was not right" 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z “November Road” could easily have descended into sentimental cliches, but — thanks largely to the character of Charlotte — it never does. Review | John F. Kennedy’s assassination sets a thriller in motion in ‘November Road’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Hardcore fans of musicals probably won't like the songs, whose on-the-hoof composition means that all they really amount to is a sudden flurry of musical cliche, pummelled together and slathered about. Radio review: Showstoppers 2011-01-20T07:59:01Z Thirty-six most-important elections later, in 2012, an Atlantic writer requested the trope be retired because “pundits and political observers invoke the cliche so reflexively and so often that it no longer has any meaning.” Do you really believe this is the most important election of our lives? Because we’ve heard that before. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Writers of state of the nation books face two big perils: the temptation to stray into cliche and the flatness that can come from an eagerness to depict the average life. The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope? 2012-02-12T00:06:17Z The whole remarkable venture combines memorable original themes with striking ensemble-writing for horns and strings, dramatic brass and percussion sounds, and a faintly disconsolate beauty that nonetheless avoids all the usual north-European, windswept- cliches. Verneri Pohjola: Aurora ? review 2011-02-17T21:32:01Z The supporting characters didn't transcend cliche I liked Lights' good-hearted trainer father, Pops. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z There is a well-worn cliche that standup comics tell jokes to mask their internal pain and dysfunction. Tiffany Haddish: on Girls Trip, saving the Hollywood comedy and the Dickensian horror of her life story 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z “Forget the cliches. The director behind the new ‘Beetlejuice’ musical is known for breaking the rules.” So long, Michael Scott. Here comes Steve Carell, Serious Actor. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “I don’t want to be cliche and say my favorite movie of his is Anchorman, but it’s Anchorman,” she said. Will Ferrell bar owners: 'It had to be something really stupid' 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z With every marriage-related cliche and clanger used up in the first instalment, though, does this show only have one direction? TV highlights 22/03/2013 2013-03-22T07:00:07Z The truth is, I just love that our hero isn't some silly, macho cliche. Brad Meltzer's new thriller gets Oval Office insight 2013-01-14T21:54:04Z Must we start with the cartoon, the cliche, and rewind from there? Review | One rivalry changed the landscape in English art 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z There are few action scenes and fewer laughs in this tense, brooding Aussie thriller, which sidesteps the gangster cliches to study the volatile dynamic of a cornered criminal family. This week's new films 2011-02-26T00:07:42Z "I suppose it sounds like a cliche, but poetry came and got me," Ryan said. Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners 2011-04-19T00:29:08Z That sounds like a cliche, but it’s just one of those cliches that has a lot of truth in it. Terry Gross of ‘Fresh Air’ talks about the art of getting personal 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Outsiders tend to reduce the city to a cliche, invariably “Rocky” — seven sweaty variations on a single theme that makes Philadelphia appear relentlessly dark, dated and monosyllabic. It’s Philadelphia, hon, so relax! 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But Saint Frances is a film that earns every single emotional beat, overcoming its well-worn formula with wit and warmth, O’Sullivan’s unfiltered yet generous script selling every character and action, avoiding cliche at every turn. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Crammed with creaking theatrical cliches – superstitions and la-di-da luvvies – it treats theatre with patronising contempt. Have you been watching … Playhouse Presents? 2013-05-23T10:56:37Z And the bad ones pile cliche on cliche until they're as throwaway as a stack of romantic novels at a railway station. Readers recommend: Valentine's Day songs 2012-02-09T21:59:01Z Biffy are a band who spurn cliches – and, talking to them, it seems the travails they encountered making the new album feel almost irksome. Biffy Clyro interview: 'We care too much to be cool' 2013-01-26T22:00:01Z So it says a lot for both Hawke and Bernstein that the resulting film manages — barely — to skirt cliche, and that you emerge liking both men at the end of it. An introduction to the artiste as a terrified performer 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Cramming late 60s psychedelic, glam and baroque pop cliches into songs and twisting them with garage-rock edginess and spontaneous combustion, the throwback collective resembles a nightmare parody of the Doors on their worst night. Pitchfork Festival Day 3: Tree, Foxygen, Killer Mike kick things off 2013-07-22T00:56:00Z It was another damaging cliche, one that’s been forever used to sweep minority women to the perimeter of every room. In revealing new memoir, Michelle Obama candidly shares her story 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The chances of your son's first serious girlfriend becoming his for ever are unlikely, but why not use this as an opportunity to upend the cliche of the overbearing mother? Ask Molly Ringwald: my son's dating the wrong woman 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z In 1996, the original film combined mystery, violence and comedy to mock the cliches of horror movies. MTV brings a social-media-savvy 'Scream' to the small screen 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z One of the oldest cliches in personal finance advice – “pay yourself first” – is a cliche because it works. Why you should invest your time as wisely as your money | Oliver Burkeman 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z And just a few movie seasons later, what was once a cherished rarity has either become aural wallpaper or a trite, eye-rolling cliche. Perspective | Filmmakers are making their soundtracks do all the work, and it’s getting a little lazy 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z So in the name of transparency, I feel it’s imperative I point out that it might be my predilection for plot holes and cliches that gripped me in the indie horror film He’s Out There. Hidden horrors: our writers on the scariest movies you (probably) haven't seen 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z I loathe it when people refer to writing as therapy; it's such a lazy cliche. David Vann: 'I was filled with rage.' 2011-01-02T00:02:02Z But there is a deeper discomfort than simply reiterating a cliche about the intangible value of human creativity, and it’s more troubling than any polite squeamishness about reducing everything to money. Perspective | How record-setting art auctions are ruining the old neighborhood 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Often that means treading a fine line between clarity and cliche. Lez Brotherston: design, dance and Diaghilev 2012-10-14T19:00:05Z Particular words may be a cliche for small groups. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Despite Midler's Oscar-nominated performance, it's full of rock film cliches: pushy manager; bumbling handling of her bisexuality and drug use; and clunky dialogue. Is the Janis Joplin biopic finally going to be filmed? Don't hold your breath 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Such speculations verge on cliche, but it’s always good to challenge assumptions about a piece as often-played as “Messiah.” Review | A fleet and fleeting ‘Messiah’ showcases fine chorus 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z "There were a lot of us doing that - it became a bit of cliche in the end," he smiles. Singh: Panto's loss is music's gain 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z That show was traded throughout the Internet, to the point where it's almost a cliche to say that it influenced you. How rave music conquered America 2012-08-02T19:00:00Z It seems like a cliche, as perhaps with everything with Swedish House Mafia, but it's no less daftly enjoyable for that. Swedish House Mafia: 'We don't travel on jets every day' 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z Even aged hip-hop cliches such as "Throw ya hands in the air" sound relatively sprightly in his zodiac of sound. Cee Lo Green ? review 2011-03-28T20:29:01Z Yes, it was confusing in the house, too; and yes, it demonstrates one risk of these short-format works: they become especially subject to cliche. Review | Dogs, snakes and piccolos: New operas take WNO stage 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z The notion shared by all of them is that in between the cliches and the snobbery is a possibility of a more intellectual reading of the county. Essex: the only way is up 2013-01-23T18:15:27Z To describe Wood as a paradox might be almost as much of a cliche as to call her a national treasure. Victoria Wood: 'I feel at the BBC I'm not trusted, not valued, not needed' 2010-09-27T06:59:00Z "I like America because it feels — not to sound cliche — but it feels like anything's possible," Sharp said. Actor Alexander Sharp's curious beginning to a promising career 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z The cliches are all readily applicable: the tortured artistic genius whose human failings we forgive, the American dreamer who started in his garage and conquered the world. Michael Fassbender on playing Steve Jobs: 'Was he flawed? Yeah! We all are' 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z There's also a Wag skit, which – unusually – avoids the cliches, and exaggerates to absurdity these women's total acquiescence to their partners' lives and careers. Katy Brand 2010-04-23T21:00:00Z She avoided all country music cliches with a dramatic performance combining stomping riffs and balladry with songs inspired by her visits to China. Womad ? review 2011-07-31T16:03:48Z The idea was They Came Together, a spoof of rom-com cliches. They Came Together: Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd and David Wain Champion A New Era of Spoofs 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z He went on to call the programme "criminally unimaginative", "unintentionally amusing" and full of "tired" cliches. Mixed reviews for BBC gymnastics show 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z For all Lord Coe's abilities as an athlete and administrator, he is not a natural raconteur, but the bigger problem is that this programme has become cliche unto itself. TV highlights 24/08/2011: 2011-08-23T22:00:00Z It’s not a shallow, lazy set of cliches — it’s a powerfully imagined, fully inhabited set of cliches. Review | A family saga with bounding heart, poetic delivery and plenty of swagger 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Indeed, horror is the one genre in which the absence of cliches would ruin everything. Joe Queenan's guide to horror film cliches 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z Tell me about yourself, Sugar's former right-hand woman cajoled, "but try and say it without cliche". The Apprentice won by non-stop ideas factory Tom Pellerau 2011-07-17T22:01:00Z Who knew that if you put together every Brit rock star cliche in the book, you got Russell Brand? This week's new films 2010-06-25T23:05:00Z The first painting I ever loved was probably a cliche. Perspective | What do Thomas Jefferson, a mastodon skeleton and Alexander von Humboldt have in common? The answer is locked inside the Smithsonian. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z But the novel stays focused on the lives of these four band members — stereotypes of the genre redeemed from cliche by Mitchell’s insight and sympathy. Review | In David Mitchell’s splendid ‘Utopia Avenue,’ a ’60s rock band finds its groove 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z It is an old trope, a hollow phrase, often a poetic cliche. Perspective | Joe Biden warned of a ‘dark winter.’ Why does living in it feel so . . . unreal? 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Of all the cliches associated with rappers, one with more truth in it than most is their fondness for epic entourages: staff, sidekicks and assorted hangers-on designated a token menial role in the group. Pitbull: 'I would be hypocritical to perform there' 2011-08-25T21:00:01Z There are quite a lot of cliches about the older men who come from news backgrounds and women from a softer background to get to radio. Women make up only 20% of solo radio broadcasters, research reveals 2013-07-11T23:05:01Z Heading into next week, it will be worth watching if the Capitol riot affects a phrase so commonly used during a presidential inaugural to be almost a cliche: peaceful transfer of power. Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z We’re accustomed to seeing films present sisterly loyalty soon ruptured by jealousy but instead, Hustlers shows something far less cliche. How Hustlers shows the importance of female solidarity 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Its aim is to go behind the cliches and show the realities of life in San Quentin, without judging the inmates or bashing the system. Ear Hustle: unlocking the truth about San Quentin 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z The drawings currently show tents and banners on the terraces, worn cliches of public festivity. Southbank Centre revamp: at last a plan that deserves to succeed 2013-03-10T00:05:28Z In his Northern Exposures series, he reveals this subculture of ferreting, grouse shooting, whippet racing and pigeon fancying to be something deeper than merely a series of flat-cap northern cliches. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-15T00:06:09Z The Clintons have worn out the cliche of a "right-wing conspiracy" so the big bad Russians are now the flavor of the month. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z In fact, the outside world was already wavering between the reality of the Chicago politician — ethnically diverse, relatively fit — and the cliche. A Rich tradition: Can Chicago shake political stereotype with new mayor? 2011-02-22T00:45:00Z Godwin says, “It’s a war against cliche for classic theater today,” noting that he’s “tired of 40-year-old guys shouting at their mother” as Hamlet and, as Malvolio, the “overweight, sweating man in yellow stockings.” Shakespeare Theatre Company names U.K.’s Simon Godwin to succeed Kahn 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z “I always like to avoid the cliches of fall,” she says. How to elevate your autumn decor beyond the cliches (no scarecrows or haybales allowed) 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The cliche he's fighting, it turns out, is the one that suggests that a young actor in possession of a publicist, may come across as a tiny bit bland. The devil inside 2011-08-06T23:04:04Z Bankers and models, why is that such a cliche? Once a fixture of downtown New York, Weinstein is now a ghost amid scandal 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z It depends on that collision between Yiddishisms and cliches of pulp fiction and so on. S.J. Perelman was a master of comedy. Nearly a century later, his work still delivers laughs. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Phelim O'Neill A suburban tale evidently shooting for a Desperate Housewives-style comedy-drama angle, Mount Pleasant seems to have decided that comedy is what you create when you combine the cliche with the offensive. TV highlights 24/08/2011: 2011-08-23T22:00:00Z You walk into Guitar Center, and you hear guys playing cliches. Wooden Shjips sail psychedelic oceans 2013-10-24T14:05:45Z And, infuriatingly, it bolsters the cliche that those cheeky men are always mistreating their women. Slapping down the film cliches 2011-07-28T20:01:04Z However apt, the phrase "parents' worst nightmare" became an instant cliche. As Conn. story unfolds, media struggle with facts 2012-12-15T21:49:08Z The ambiguous, inconclusive ending may be the biggest cliche of all. Joe Queenan's guide to sci-fi cliches 2010-10-21T11:00:00Z I’m ready to become part of a new kind of cliche — a household where boys eat beef jerky. Yes, beef jerky can be healthful and easy to make 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z But first, the producers felt we needed to hear all 12 acts spout cliches indicating that — surprise — none of them wanted to be eliminated. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X-Factor' Watch: Paula Abdul's Predicament 2011-11-04T04:02:59Z The medium is the message seems like a timeworn cliche, yet in recent years it has flipped and become one of the most germane of statements. Why McLuhan's chilling vision still matters today 2011-07-20T18:00:15Z On Gravity, there are more cliches, this time about overcoming obstacles and "making it" in a harsh world. New band of the day ? No 859: Talay Riley 2010-09-02T16:01:00Z Paris in Hollywood is not the real city, it's a cliche. C'est l'amour: Exhibit shows Paris in the movies 2012-09-17T18:11:08Z Any new writer who tries to join the ranks of these authors risks tripping over their feet or, worse, being set upon by the cliches that scamper after them like mangy dogs. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z In her early Untitled Film Stills, Sherman, always her own favourite muse, appears as B-movie cliches – as sex object or domestic drudge. Cindy Sherman 2011-03-08T00:05:33Z The narration is homely and full of cliches. Great British Food Revival 2011-03-23T08:00:02Z “It’s an abomination. It’s just one cliche after another,” said Debbie Millman, who chairs the branding program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Analysis | Red, white and blah: Why are all these 2020 campaign logos so boring? 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z The characters all work against cliche, exploitation and political correctness. Eve Ensler: trans people have been caricatures for too long 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z It reads like a series of unedited Wikipedia entries, larding received wisdom with matey cliches. The A-Z of Mod by Paolo Hewitt and Mark Baxter – review 2012-06-01T10:00:01Z Proclaiming Cheever's strangeness should be a cliche, but for each generation the WASPiness of his settings seems to shroud his work in a phantom conservatism. A brief survey of the short story part 45: John Cheever 2012-11-16T11:05:54Z So, we lapse quickly into reflexive ideas about how images work, and cliches about what they mean. Perspective | The photos of Greece on fire are shocking. But shock doesn’t always lead to change. 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z A cursory examination of Fire Emblem: Awakening reveals a title so steeped in the cliches of Japanese role-playing games that it seems it would be of interest to only a niche audience in the west. Fire Emblem: Awakening – review 2013-04-27T23:04:06Z There are strange gaps in the plot, and the prose sometimes slips into antique cliches. Review | Nuruddin Farah lost a sister to terrorism. His new novel shows the pain left behind. 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z But I felt that here his style is in danger of becoming a collection of mannerisms, even cliches. Cannes 2012: Paradise: Love ? review 2012-05-18T13:18:31Z I was standing in the middle of a cliche, and it was a great cliche. Beyond Stonehenge, searching for Britain’s stone circles And there are occasional lapses into cliche – "the past is a foreign country", "double whammy" – that would barely register in a radio script, but rather spoil the flow of a book. The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records 2013-06-13T06:00:00Z Waiting backstage to walk out and sing for the judges, he says all those X Factor cliches about "seizing the moment" and "transforming your life" were the last thing on his mind. Rylan Clark on The X Factor, death threats and being seen as a fame-hungry diva 2012-12-16T20:00:00Z Not that it was entirely immune to cliche. Last night's TV 2010-06-08T07:00:00Z “It shows the character exulting in her awareness of her own sexual power – one of those rare moments when the cliches about nudity as empowerment take on some real meaning,” he said. Cinema trains lens on role of nude scene: artistic, erotic or gratuitous? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z It was at this point that you began to suspect that the choices were being made on the basis of demographics and future story lines — Mr. Haygood is the down-and-outer-who-gets-one-last-shot cliche — rather than talent. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: Let's Vote on the Judges 2011-10-19T14:52:20Z Like any cliche, the image of the tyrannical film-maker with riding crop, jodhpurs and loudhailer has survived in our cultural currency because it has a strong component of truth. The end of the auteur? 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Of course saying "aha, it was limbo all along" is just a marginally more profound way of saying "aha, it was a dream all along", a trope which became a cliche through overuse. Screen burn 2010-05-28T23:41:00Z Each story is told with a grim honesty that manages to veer from cliches about India's poverty and corruption. London Indian film festival shows subcontinent cinema in confident mood 2013-07-22T16:58:10Z The show is built as a kind of pastiche of all these cultural references and genre cliches. Joel McHale on the Latest Revival of 'Community' and Being O.K. With 'Reference Humor' 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Certainly Sherlock avoids the boring cliche of other TV shows where guns are waved around as a threat but never actually fired. Sherlock recap: series four, episode one – The Six Thatchers 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z One of the silliest cliches in American politics is that the country is divided between two types of places: rural and urban. Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z There’s an old beauty industry cliche about how, in times of crisis, lipstick sales hold steady as women buy little luxuries for cheer and paint on a brave face for fortitude. ‘Remember to smile with your eyes’: how to stay safe and look great in a face mask 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z The CD she played to end the class was whale song, that cliche. Joe Dunthorne short story: The Shapes We Made 2012-12-23T00:06:34Z There is an overused cliche which suggests that the winners write history. Gone With the Wind and the damaging effect of Hollywood racism 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Turns out it was also the dawn of a new cliche. Analysis | Red, white and blah: Why are all these 2020 campaign logos so boring? 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Spacey's spaced-out LA therapist takes a sledgehammer to your irony buttons as he dishes out advice to a motley crew of neurotic cliche clients and promotes his latest self-help bestseller, the wryly titled Happiness. Film review: Shrink 2010-06-03T22:25:00Z "There are very few moments when the drama is driven by the music," Clements complains, "when the cartoon-like scenes, with cliche texts and schoolboy humour, are given shape and purpose by Turnage's contribution." What to say about ... the Royal Opera's Anna Nicole 2011-02-21T14:11:26Z What limitations there are lie in the original, with its clunky, dated characterisations and writing that never lets Anatoly or any of the Russians move beyond cliche. Chess ? review 2011-07-27T17:49:00Z “You must all be brain dead. Maybe you are. I didn’t know so many cliches existed until the last half-hour. Have fun. Goodbye.” Groundbreaking composer Harrison Birtwistle dies at 87 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Better to start a conversation than a war — and surely they of all people can find thoughtful ways to expand on their views beyond a reflexive cliche. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: ‘Working with your hands’ is bad? Let’s see how they think on their feet. 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Q: How did you avoid royal family cliches in the film? 'King's Speech' director's biggest fear: Giving a speech 2011-01-20T19:15:34Z Recognising this complexity might also be a way of avoiding the most obvious cultural cliches that attach to the idea of "honour" crimes. Shafilea Ahmed's murder is a crime meshed in migration and modernity 2012-08-05T19:30:06Z Fortunately, it appears to be an attempt to get the cliches over with quickly, because what follows is one of the fresher, funnier Vanyas of recent memory. Uncle Vanya ? review 2011-04-07T17:07:53Z I think using that phrase is incredibly cliche, and I am anti-cliche in general. Marrying your best friend is a cliche, but a good one for women 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Sometimes Simon seems to embody an inversion of a well-known NME cliche: "I just do what I do, and if nobody else likes it, it's a bonus." The Wire re-up: season five, episode eight ? the Dickensian aspects 2010-04-05T23:15:00Z “It was our dream to change the narrative of Afghanistan, because we were tired of those cliches about Afghanistan,” she said. Afghan filmmakers at Venice fear loss of identity, culture 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z We often tend to reduce composers to cliches of their last years: Brahms is bearded; Haydn is grandfatherly; Beethoven is deaf. From fact to fantasie: discovering the real Schumann 2013-05-18T08:01:32Z The aggressively gossamer plot plays with the cliches of vacuous flapper-era musicals. Sandy Wilson, composer of ‘The Boy Friend,’ dies at 90 The notion that we are still that sort of power-dining town, Villamora says, is “an easy cliche about the Washington restaurant scene.” In the hot D.C. dining scene, the allure of the power restaurant is waning 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z And yet, as the cliche goes, cliches are cliches for a reason. Review | Feeling moody? One author shares wisdom about halting those downward spirals. 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Yet Wonder Woman is not a film about empowerment so much as a checklist of all the cliches by which women are disempowered. Why Wonder Woman is a masterpiece of subversive feminism 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The cliche scenes of big-city mob violence are interspersed with lovely shots of stove flames and mouth-watering sautees, but the show’s sizzle immediately fizzles. AMC’s ‘Feed the Beast’ is served with a vintage Schwimmer, but still overcooked 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Clever movie but all motivation in it were cliche. ‘The Shape of Water’ Wins Best Picture as Oscars Project Diversity 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z If you take my playlist as the starting point, you will wrest some small vestige of emotional truth in a day of cheapened sentimental trinketry and secondhand musical cliches of lurved-up hormones. Heart strings 2013-02-14T15:21:00Z He's not trying for nuance or depth in these portrayals, which verge on cartoons if not cliches, and some of them are more amusing than others. Winning back the girl he left behind at 'The Pavilion' 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The musical is frosted with punch lines and cliches that never would have cut it in the austere movie, which was largely shot on Dublin’s streets. ‘Once’ again bares the soul of a Dublin busker, this time on stage 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z At the time, it was rare to find anything similar on any television network, without the inclusion of character cliches such as the sassy best friend or thuggish hood rat. How Insecure made TV gold with ‘a show about regular black people being basic’ 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Where Creed surpasses Star Wars is in its sparing use of convention and cliche. Rise of the reboots gives new life to Rocky and Ghostbusters 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Unless, that is, you count the home-baked Christmas cookies he has brought into the office, which may be as much of a giveaway cliche as that incriminating bottle of Perrier in the black comedy Heathers. From Sean Connery to Harrison Ford: actors who secretly played roles gay 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z White, neutrals and metallics serve as wonderful Christmas colors without falling into a cliche, Meyer says. 5 tricks for an elegant holiday display to make your home shine 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z It implies a cliche or a rut and yet all humans are dysfunctional to some degree, whether it's the raging alcoholic or the guy who's just a bit self-defeating. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z This brings me to the libretto’s other great sin, which the opera was never able to transcend: It is rooted in cliches. ‘Yardbird’ sings but fails to fly at Opera Philadelphia 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z And those cliches about warnings wash up just as they always do, against the old, imperturbable fortress of complacency, denial and greed. Perspective | The photos of Greece on fire are shocking. But shock doesn’t always lead to change. 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Disco had fun playing with cliche: 'You shot that arrow through my heart!' How the midwest won over the dancefloor 2011-03-03T22:10:01Z They’re mostly cliches, and in the Viagra era, it’s hard not to snicker at a guy who goes “limp as a glove” every time he looks at his belovèd. A Brief Tussle with the Great American Songbook 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z So what’s the explanation for the longevity gene? The old saying about laughter being the best medicine may not be a complete cliche. Why Do Comedians Live So Long? 2014-02-13T00:44:10Z That sounds less like a song than a bid to break the world record for cramming current pop cliches into three minutes. Rihanna: Unapologetic – review 2012-11-15T15:30:00Z “I know what the deal economy can do to tarnish a guest experience. The truth is — at risk of cliche — that you get what you pay for.” Perspective | Got a complaint about the travel industry? It’s got one about you, too. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Themes and cliches plucked from countless country lyrics fuel a thoroughly unconvincing show business story about a larger-than-life, crash-and-burn star and her unruly entourage of self-serving personalities. "Country Strong" a Nashville nightmare 2010-12-22T23:47:51Z The title track, meanwhile, starts with a sampled nod to Moby and is soon bogged down in another tar pit of cliche and portentousness. Aiden Grimshaw – review 2012-08-25T23:05:57Z Armitage was a lovely, deft presenter, zipping between chat and card-pondering, writing poems and making phone calls with none of the usual Radio 4 documentary cliches. Rewind radio: London's Oldest Prison; Oblique Strategies – review 2013-06-15T17:00:03Z No current rigid cliches of sex parlours or human cloning here then. Julius Caesar; Siegfried – review 2012-10-06T23:08:03Z The city center straddles the Salzach River and is clean and quiet and beautiful in a way that’s almost a cliché of a picturesque European town. My week at the naked mountain hut 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Avoiding the cliches of the Brit urban drama, this handsome tale of immigrant brothers set on different paths feels more authentic and less flashy than most. This week's new films 2012-11-10T00:05:50Z It's a cliche that usually involves a reference to Marmite, but Florence and the Machine divide opinion. New music: Florence and the Machine ? What the Water Gave Me 2011-08-24T10:12:30Z Avoiding cliches of Victorian London proved hard, however. London gets star billing in new Sherlock Holmes series 2010-07-25T09:00:00Z It's a cliche to play music now or what? Metallica: 'War has its purpose' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-06-06T16:18:00Z However, it’s on well-trodden ground with some storylines, like the doctors and nurses falling for each other and one of the doctors getting addicted to pain medication, as close to cliche as possible. Mercy Street: PBS civil war hospital drama is ER version of Downton Abbey 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z "Today crime fiction depicting Italy has the task of escaping the stereotypes of good food and beauty on the one hand but also the old-fashioned mafia cliches on the other hand," said De Cataldo. Italian authors' invasion is set to conquer the crime fiction lists 2011-01-09T00:06:39Z To reclaim a cliche, circus in Montreal is a big tent — and right now, it’s the big top of the world. How circus-loving Montreal has persisted as the big top of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “I hate to use the cliche, but it’s all about learning moments,” she adds. Pamela Adlon: how Louis CK's sidekick became the star 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Rather irritating and prose and half-baked stories that are as cliche as.. er.. sliced bread. Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and the books you are reading today 2012-11-06T16:20:02Z Chowdhry revels in creating an uncomfortable tension on stage: the biggest laughs tend to come as a release, from audiences unsure about whether they should be laughing at heavy accents and ethnic cliches. Paul Chowdhry: 'I just want to make people laugh' 2012-12-18T19:00:01Z In many ways, the piece is full of characters who have become cliches: the officer suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder; the quietly heroic school teacher who is the best of Englishmen. Journey's End ? review 2011-03-16T19:15:00Z The difficult second album is a cliche with truth on its side, and at times here the difficulty is all suffered by the listener. Klaxons: Surfing the Void 2010-08-19T14:29:00Z The initial "wisdom" Shadyac receives falls into the category of cliches. Documentary suggests sky not falling after all 2011-03-10T01:59:52Z All enter the novel festooned in cliches, as in this description of the hostile housekeeper, Mrs. Duffy: Review | John Banville’s new novel begins, like a game of Clue, with a body in the library 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z If the size of the display were a true measure of depth, then “If you really loved me, you’d put me on the side of a bus” would be a cliche. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A big display isn’t the only way to say ‘I love you’ 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z I avoid cliches like posing with sedated tigers, and I send messages tailored to shared interests. Early thirties and newly single: it's the worst time to be dating, right? 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z And he believes it is a good thing Hollywood is moving away from the "hackneyed cliche of the sneering British villain". Super-Brits invasion 2011-02-01T14:37:48Z If the measure of a genre writer is how well he handles that genre's mandatory cliches, then Hobbs is up there with the best. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-02-22T09:01:00Z Occasionally, Composed sounds indulgent, when Bischoff succumbs to syrupy, symphonic cliche; even so, its ambition and singularity are intoxicating. Jherek Bischoff: Composed – review 2012-12-20T22:00:05Z People can say it’s inappropriate all they want, I guess, but it won’t stop it from happening, and talk about a thought-stopping cliche. Finding your kid’s porn 2012-09-30T01:00:00Z In part, the singer is wary of falling into cliche. Dig for success 2010-03-11T08:16:00Z “The road picture is like that — going from place to place, meeting all sorts of people. It’s a cliche, but it’s true — it’s about the journey, not the destination.” What road movies tell us about travel — and ourselves 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Nina's mother was beyond the cliche of a ballet mum – she was a psychopath. What Britain's ballet stars made of Black Swan 2011-01-05T21:31:00Z The “sassy best friend” trope has been a TV cliche for years; OITNB, an ensemble drama telling stories of women in prison, firmly rejects those stereotypes. Laverne Cox: 'Now I have the money to feminise my face I don’t want to. I’m happy' 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z There’s a difference between following a formula and becoming cliche, however, and Gilbert easily skirts that line with his songwriting, his sonic choices and a more varied vocal approach on the Dann Huff-produced album. Review: Brantley Gilbert’s star-making album 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z No cliche is left unturned, no dialogue thought too clanging, no music too intrusive. Have you been watching ? Marchlands? 2011-03-03T11:43:27Z Its strength is that it leaves you with a sense of the inadequacy of simple formulae or cliches to describe the richness of real life, here, there, everywhere. Light from the Middle East offers a true reflection of a complex region 2012-11-13T15:42:22Z Thankfully, Yellowjackets is here to finally kill this cliche' and devour it whole with an anti-yule log as unsettling and hilarious as the series itself. Exclusive: "Yellowjackets" spills Easter eggs for Season 2 in an ominous Yule log video 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z While it is a cliche to say the rolling topography of the Yorkshire Dales looks like a patchwork quilt, this production ingeniously presents a patchwork quilt that resembles the Yorkshire Dales. A Blood Wedding in Wensleydale 2010-10-05T20:29:00Z I checked so many boxes I felt like a textbook cliche. I was my dad’s caregiver through his fatal illness. I had no idea I’d be at risk for PTSD. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Leading a team of dedicated officers with nothing but his lack of charisma, Kane searches for new recruits to replace the dead buddies from his team that cliche now dictates he must avenge. TV highlights 04/07/2012 2012-07-03T18:59:01Z It’s an old cliche that if Shakespeare was alive today, he would be writing scripts for Coronation Street and EastEnders. Charles Dance: 'Thank God the BBC didn't make Game of Thrones' 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z It is well known, to the point of cliche. Review | You might think you know Frida Kahlo, but you’ll never understand her pain 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z To its credit, Great Ormond Street avoided the sentimentality and emotive cliches that tend to accompany camera crews to children's wards. Great Ormond Street; Panorama, Spoilt Rotten; Young, Autistic and Stagestruck; The World's Strangest Plastic Surgery and Me; Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z That is too often American TV’s answer to what white poverty must look like, rife with yokel cliches. What’s the best show about poverty, crime and crazy sex? It’s ‘Shameless.’ 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z A bad novel is written in prose that’s consistently witless, colorless and pocked with cliches. Perspective | Mr. President, you don’t know a poorly written novel 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z So is the Mason jar a multifunctional classic or an overdone cliche? Alternatives for the Mason jar cycle She does and the two tribes are united as one, which, despite efforts, requires a dance rife with cliche if now absent slurs. NBC's Peter Pan Live!: Recap 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z “There’s something to be said for friends being the family you choose, as cliche as that statement is,” says Alexander, now 31. Friendsgiving, a new tradition to be thankful for Clearly, Carson is a believer of the old cliche that all press is good press. Ben Carson’s critics weigh in — at Ben Carson’s invitation Another common complaint is that NaNoWriMo devalues writers’ talent by indulging the cliche that everyone has the potential to be a great writer if only they’d sit themselves down and actually write . NaNoWriMo: Is National Novel Writing Month a Literary Threat or Menace? 2012-11-07T13:00:11Z The script was heavy handed with cliches and foreshadowing. Review: In an Obama Biopic, the Audacity of Hagiography? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z It’s cliche at this point to note that you win elections by campaigning to your base in the primary, then “tacking to the center” for the general election. Did I Just Say That Out Loud? Romney Adviser?s Unerasable Etch-a-Sketch Comment 2012-03-21T19:29:58Z While smuggling their sorcerously animated marionettes into the United States, Canadian puppeteers Deux and Quatre Mains laugh off the cliche questions from customs officers. Who’s pulling the strings in Keith Donohue’s fantastical new novel? 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It sounds so cliche, but you could cut the tension with a knife. ‘The moment when it really started to feel insane’: An oral history of the Scaramucci era 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Overturning cliches and misunderstandings, this show is the most sustained and intelligent exploration of the subject yet. Perspective | In a year of upheaval, the best art was also the bravest 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z That McCann manages to overcome the necrotic cliche of that premise is a sign of his technical skill; that he makes the story so emotionally compelling is a sign of his genius. Sleeping giant Colum McCann awakens with new collection 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z He was excellent on screen, bringing to an unexpectedly wide audience a vision of Africa far from the usual famine-and-corruption cliches that annoyed him so much. Basil Davidson obituary 2010-07-09T16:52:00Z The message was much aided by a boyish bob which, in its angular minimalism, posed an affront to cliches of femininity. Clip joint: the Louise Brooks bob 2010-09-22T16:21:00Z "It's a cliche to say this but roles for women like this don't come along very often." Cannes 2012 diary: Cate Blanchett to star in lesbian drama Carol 2012-05-18T14:35:44Z Julia Raeside Moving, as the rightly repeated cliche has it, is one of the most stressful things a person can do this side of getting divorced. TV highlights 06/07/2011: Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance 2011-07-05T22:00:01Z But you could see in the victim's eyes that, even in the days before movie cliches, it was a special sort of shock to arrive home and find a Gestapo officer stroking your cat. Rewind TV: Mr Selfridge; Spies of Warsaw; The Polar Bear Family and Me – review 2013-01-12T22:45:01Z "Iraq, to use the old cliche, was the elephant in our sitting room for a long time," said Loach. Ken Loach returns with an angry look at Iraq 2010-05-19T21:25:00Z The drama benefits from being based on real life, circumventing the cliches and set pieces mainstream TV would demand. Isle of MTV 2010-09-04T05:45:00Z ‘Flowers and chocolate are such cliche gifts to show you care about someone’ Oh my God, a cliche gift, kill it with fire and throw it in the sea! Why you're wrong to hate Valentine's Day: a short list of rebuttals 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Viva and her friends are bland and indistinguishable; everyone else is a cliche. Viva Forever! – review 2012-12-16T00:05:46Z In the process, says the musical’s director, Michael Greif, the actresses help to dispel yet another cliche. The fight between cosmetic legends Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z While playing a video game one day, his character got hit, and he blurted out, “That’s gotta hurt!” — then wondered why he would utter a dumb cliche he had never spoken before. Spending the pandemic talking to yourself? If you live alone, you’re not alone. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z As I got older, I explored my spirituality with devotion, respect and enough cliches to float Noah’s ark. Mortified: Reading old diary entries in front of an audience is only part of the challenge The writing and bantering dialogue never fully escape a cataclysm of cliches. Stephenie Meyer swaps vampires for Jason Bourne in ‘The Chemist’ 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z I also was also taken aback by the response of a middle-aged man I spoke to who said that Kamp contained "every cliche about the Holocaust". Adelaide festival 2013: week two 2013-03-14T08:39:42Z In the recently released third season, it continues to traffic in cliche, presenting a teen drama that is one-part soap opera and one part after-school special. 13 Reasons Why: what the controversial drama gets wrong 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s becoming a cliche to portray performing artists as just folks who happen to have this remarkable gift on the side. Perspective | A star violinist rebels against what she’s supposed to play — or wear. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The cliches mount as the journey leads to bloody standoffs and drug dealer confrontations. Capsule reviews of new movies 2013-01-16T20:59:09Z He is also the last writer to trot out liberal cliches. National Theatre to stage play about phone-hacking scandal 2013-07-18T15:48:19Z They became cliches in the first place because people liked and remembered them. Gene Weingarten has the trite stuff 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z What approaches cliche in a lesser-spotted comedy show becomes something rather sublime in other hands. Poet, comedian, or both? 2010-08-27T16:10:00Z Brown speaks with a gravitas that could lend emotional weight to even the emptiest cliche. Yass queens! Queer Eye’s Fab Five on how they are changing men – one makeover at a time 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Crazy pregnant lady, screaming giving birth, demanding things, eating like a pig, waters breaking everywhere… But cliches still abound. From Rosemary's Baby to Bridget Jones: a quick scan of pregnancy on film 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Scoff at those hoary cliches if you must, but King, now 71, is on the side of the angels. Review | Stephen King’s Halloween book is shockingly . . . heartwarming? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Comic book movies are often criticised for churning out superhero cliches. Leaving New York: why Marvel is right to send Spider-Man far from home 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Professional jealousy, tortured artist blues, Spinal Tap-ish excess and other cliches abound, but nobody seems to notice. This week's new films 2011-08-26T23:06:05Z If Michelle Dockery’s latest role had been written in the last 12 months, the part might look like a lazily drawn cliche. Michelle Dockery: 'I consider myself a widow' 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Yet somehow the idea has been reused classily enough to avoid the putrefaction into cliche. Culture flash: heatwaves 2011-08-03T20:45:01Z It is less apparent, however, when you smother it in cliches so richly strewn that even a mathematical genius would lose count of them. Old Earth – review 2012-06-17T15:46:45Z Seven months on, the cliche about people getting on with their own lives is true and I do find people actively avoiding me sometimes. A letter to … my wife, whose death has left me struggling to make sense of life without her 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z The problem is the programme's reliance on hoary old sporting cliches. In Pete Versus Life, the winner is Woody Allen 2010-08-06T11:22:00Z Dec. 11: Even by the low standards of the genre, this book’s sociological background — “what science knows” — is a dog’s dinner of shopworn management cliches, hacky quotes and dubious pop science. Review | Can a new self-help book cure procrastination? I tried it and here’s what I found. 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z A: The original script started with what I felt was a cliche. 'King's Speech' director's biggest fear: Giving a speech 2011-01-20T19:15:34Z The 24th Street Theatre's production last year of "Walking the Tightrope," a play for children about death, successfully challenged that cliche. A man, a bird - and the winsome pair who play them - yield a useful message 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z But the songs lack individuality: The texts are so general that they become the stuff of cliche, which is exposed when you put them on a stage and try to offer them as drama. Little’s ‘Soldier Songs’ at Atlas offers strong music, Morrison film, but emotional cliche Its first sentences, in which the copywriter narrator introduces himself, bombard us with cliches of revelation and metamorphosis. Black Vodka by Deborah Levy – review 2013-02-18T19:00:02Z The phrase 'it went with a bang' is a pure cliche: its metaphorical sense does not exist any more. The search for the funniest Christmas cracker jokes 2010-12-19T00:06:25Z “I don’t like to emphasize my age,” he told the Times, “not out of vanity, but I don’t like to reinforce the cliche that opera is for old people.” Peter Allen, stalwart host of the Metropolitan Opera’s radio broadcasts, dies at 96 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The same story said they'd been staying together -- cliche alert! -- "because of the kids." Allies of Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner spin the divorce backstory 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z He's a cliche of a gay … It's not homophobic. Cemetery Junction's gay-baiting is not funny 2010-04-21T14:49:00Z Six years ago Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" showed up late in the release calendar and walloped enough fans of boxing melodrama cliches to send it straight to the Academy Awards. 'Fighter': Boxing film with reality in its corner 2010-12-16T16:17:00Z This is a great coming-of-age movie that manages to avoid most of the cliches of the genre by presenting all of its characters as flawed but lovable losers. If you liked 'Water For Elephants,' Scarecrow suggests other carnival films 2011-04-21T22:07:17Z After all, he discovered the Libertines and the View, who did nothing if not offer obvious thrills and rock'n'roll cliches. New band of the day – Coves (No 1,452) 2013-02-14T16:56:48Z Before it’s all over, long-buried skeletons will be exhumed and cliches overturned. Glenn Close is a six-time Oscar runner-up. Will she finally clinch the statuette for ‘The Wife’? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z In painting this appleyness, Cézanne, wrote Lawrence, “was also deliberately painting out” all that seemed false to him: “the so-called humanness, the personality, the ‘likeness,’ the physical cliche.” Review | The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z While “Find Me” is very much an exploration of age-old drivers like love, lust and romance, it never falls into cliche. October must-reads: "Call Me by Your Name" sequel to memoirs galore 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The space is handsome but predictable, with Edison bulbs, reclaimed wood and — you guessed it — Mason jars, the visual cliches of contemporary dining and Pinterest. Mason Social, where a community hungry for service meets and eats 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Like "Happiest Season," Hugo and Patrick's love story is front and center, but the tension in the film comes from more decidedly more benign, if cliche, conflicts. TV's first crop of queer Christmas movies range from saccharine fun to superficial flops 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z The myriad cliches include snake charmers, sword swallowers and a bed of nails. Not licensed to offend: a new Bond museum will cut the sexism and casual racism 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z But in its wholly original, quasi-poetic prose style that shifts between memory, the hospitalised present and Josie’s hallucinations, this is a book that eschews the cliches and, in doing so, touches a wider truth. To the Bone confirms there are (almost) no good movies about anorexia 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z It's playing with a whole range of music video tropes and cliches and stereotypes.” Director Mark Romanek defends Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' video 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The parody is amusing but not deep: Kvarnström pops the cliches, but only by inflating them to start with. Danza Contemporánea de Cuba – review 2012-06-01T15:40:27Z Lasting for one seemingly endless season, it ladled policier cliches on top of New Orleans cliches, creating an almost toxic mix. Down but not out 2010-04-09T23:11:00Z He wanted to acknowledge a certain solidarity but not fall into the cliche of groupthink; he wanted to connect but not self-segregate. Fashion needs more powerful black voices — so Ethan Miller created a new way to help 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Turning the play's most famous lines into metaphysical graffiti is certainly one way of avoiding cliche; but it emphasises Shaw's tendency to work through the soliloquies as if solving an equation. Hamlet ? review 2011-03-03T22:00:04Z Schiff's book is not the first to attempt to dispel these cliches. Angelina Jolie's Cleopatra will show Egypt's queen as more than a sex kitten 2011-01-09T00:06:49Z But director Christopher Janson’s production too often wields cliches, plot contrivances and clunky dialogue while taking aim at the topic. Rainbow Theatre Project’s ‘Blue Camp’ is a well-intentioned misfire 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z It's uncomplicated fare, overly spiced with 60s cliches, right down to the louche fashion photographer who lies on his back to snap his pics. Made in Dagenham 2010-09-20T23:36:00Z The cliche outline of her predicament is something of an embarrassment to Hazel. The world has a really bad hair day in ‘The Blondes’ 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, he's also in his most annoying geezer mode as he struts around the city streets to a Coldplay soundtrack pulling one-liners from his bag of cliches. Dermot Meets 2010-04-28T07:00:00Z The gay public figure coming out to great sympathy and applause is almost a British cliche now. The David Laws story is nothing to do with gayness. It's about money 2010-05-29T23:06:00Z "It's a cliche, but he is an American icon and he's often been ahead of the culture in the movie choices he's made, the acting choices he's made," said Democratic ad-maker Bill Carrick. Eastwood: A maverick who does politics his own way 2012-02-07T22:28:08Z Such nonsense aside, Mackrell's biography of Lopokova was a thrilling one, deeply researched and scrupulously avoiding the cliches that tend to appear whenever "Bloomsbury" is lodged in the title. Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell – review 2013-06-01T10:01:01Z He might be a cliche, but he's an undeniably enjoyable one. Clip joint: Kisses 2013-02-13T17:00:10Z The cynical cliches about Washington bureaucracy laced through “The President’s Daughter” weren’t even fresh in the previous century when Clinton was lying to the American people about “that woman.” Review | Bill Clinton and James Patterson are back in action — and still ridiculous 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z According to a surfeit of poor reviews, however, the film is tripped up by leaden jokes, lazy cliches and a general lack of craft. 'Hot Pursuit': Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara land in review jail 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The cliche of autism is that it impedes the ability to love. What is it like to live with parents very different from you? 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z The old cliche about flashy cars being an extension of the male ego is truer than ever in this universe. How the Fast and Furious franchise used cars to symbolize the American dream 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z But Nesteroff did not want to immerse readers into what he calls the “poor Indian” cliche. From Charlie Hill to the 1491s, ‘We Had a Little Real Estate Problem’ gives Native American comedians their due 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z I never thought I would play a damsel in distress, but I am a horror cliche in parts here - it's very Hitchcock, to be running through the woods, screaming. Arterton and Reynolds find horror voice 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Made in New York by people who lived there, "Law & Order" never trafficked in Gotham cliches. New York's faces: `Law & Order' showed 'em all 2010-05-15T21:01:00Z The freshest takes these days find new ways to subvert, escape or toy with the familiar cliches. 'The American epic': Hollywood's enduring love for the western 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Russell is that rare writer who can make cliches seem new-minted and, in Shirley Valentine at least, has a direct conduit to the bruised but hopeful heart that we all carry around with us. Shirley Valentine/Educating Rita 2010-04-12T20:30:00Z All of those cliches that have surrounded menstruation since the dawn of time. Endometriosis: hidden suffering of millions of women revealed 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Much has been written about Portman’s role as one of the first modern incarnations of the manic pixie dream-girl trope; these days the role looks like a compendium of the most irritating cliches possible. Natalie Portman's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z It's the exact opposite of the movie star cliche: Gladys refuses to get into her trailer. Are goats the new weed whackers? Plenty of people want them to be. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Harris might at least have freshened up repeated cliches such as "the adrenalin was flowing" and "there was one final twist". The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z “And it’s a cliche,” chips in Stone, having a bit of an epiphany, “because they’re written by men. Mostly, women in films are fighting over a man …” 'Awards chat makes me sick': Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz on new film, The Favourite 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z For Le Dépanneur, Weekends set about again to construct a place that felt like home while avoiding California cliches. | Paris Restaurants, Cali Vibes 2013-08-08T15:17:16Z But this version of the show that contains these cliches, may ultimately be the more stereotype upending. “Push Girls”: Cocktails, guys, wheelchairs 2012-06-04T21:00:00Z Q: It's a cliche, but it's true that a lot of comedy comes from pain. Q&A with Dana Carvey: Doing Johnny Carson getting pulled over, his ‘Fantastic’ podcast and whether there will be another ‘Wayne’s World’ 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z The San Francisco Chronicle described the film as "three cliches in search of a bloodbath". Letters to Juliet is corny as Kansas. Great! 2010-06-14T09:45:00Z Her lack of obvious motive challenges one of the cliches of thriller fiction, the one where the villain comes conveniently equipped with an evil mother or something equally nasty in the woodshed. U Be Dead's inconvenient truths 2010-09-01T20:59:00Z On Night 2, they made bingo cards filled with anticipated Democratic convention cliches like “White person speaks Spanish” and “Someone tries to reference a meme.” Democrats, make some nooooise! Wait, you’re muted. Hello? 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Afroblighty is a show about multiculturalism, but it is one that avoids preaching and cliches and is packed with plenty of laughs. This week's new comedy 2011-02-05T00:05:43Z It certainly doesn't help that the two main figures are cliches. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2012-05-09T17:31:04Z They had this movie running like clockwork — each cliche carefully counterbalanced with an incisive comment on the absurdity of the genre and carefully meted-out doses of action and gore. Spoiler Alert: Why Everyone Is Talking About The Cabin in the Woods 2012-04-16T10:45:53Z It’s a case of cliches run wild but not thought through. ‘Dead Man Walking’ is a new opera for old audiences 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z No sign here of the Woolf wistfully imploring women in the concluding chapter: "It's a cliche, but we are stronger when we are together." The Ministry of Thin by Emma Woolf – review 2013-06-01T14:45:03Z Following on from his hard-hitting crime drama A Prophet, director Jacques Audiard tackles a very different subject matter while applying his usual method of eradicating every trace of cliche. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-02-23T06:00:16Z It's such a California cliche, but I do a little meditation every morning. Claude VonStroke's favourite tracks 2012-11-24T00:05:40Z This is a cliche too, but the British weather really depresses me. Alessio Natalizia of Walls: 'What does Italian music sound like anyway?' 2012-07-11T12:03:14Z Even on the , where novelty settings are now almost a cliche, there is something delightful about perching between courgettes, strawberries, beetroots and raspberries for Jules Horne's new play. Nutshell Theatre's Allotment: Bring your own veg to the show that's a grower 2011-08-07T21:46:00Z It’s fashion putting truth to the “Project Runway” cliche about fortunes shifting in a day. Perspective | Virgil Abloh made a lot of noise when he began his Off-White womenswear. Things have gotten much quieter. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z We wanted to avoid jazz cliches, even though our music has elements of jazz. Brandt Brauer Frick say you can get (slightly) jiggy with it 2011-08-04T21:30:03Z “Wonder” has been so thoroughly photographed that visual cliches have emerged: people popping through the holes in Dougherty’s nest, or silhouetted in front of or behind Dawe’s rainbow. The Renwick is suddenly Instagram famous. But what about the art? 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z What it really is: A collection of Hollywood action cliches packaged as a movie. The 'world's worst director': are Uwe Boll's movies really that bad? 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z In the end, Burr says, "'Fury' wants to lead us to a fresh consideration of 'the good war' while simultaneously celebrating the old bromides and cliches. No wonder it shoots itself in the tank." 'Fury': Brad Pitt tank drama carries out its mission, reviews say 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Each post is given literal points “for lack of basic spelling and punctuation skills; bad sexual innuendo; reliance on cliche; terrible taste in books, music or movies; use of twelve-year-old-girl text-slang; and creep factor.” The world’s worst online daters 2012-12-06T01:00:00Z Stewart plays a fake anchor, tirelessly skewering the absurdities of US politics while Oliver plays his fake Senior British Correspondent, a walking compendium of British cliches. An Englishman in New York 2011-07-23T23:04:11Z And yet while that capsule description neatly sums up "The Wife," the film scrupulously avoids those very cliches. Glenn Close is a six-time Oscar runner-up. Will she finally clinch the statuette for ‘The Wife’? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z With other orchestras, this would be a cliche. The secret of Berlin's shine 2011-02-27T17:00:01Z For Sally Hawkins, the cliche proved painfully literal when she attended the premiere of her new film, Submarine, last autumn. Sally Hawkins: 'You think adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be capable' 2011-03-13T00:05:19Z That's why the current satirical onslaught against politics as a whole, which amounts sometimes to monomania and increasingly to cliche, ought at the very least to be a proper subject for discussion. Heard the one about the corrupt, lying politician? 2011-08-25T21:30:03Z Plucking comedy out of the air is what leads to cliches and well-worn themes. How Horrible Histories became a huge hit 2011-03-17T20:00:01Z It was one that made a virtue of turning all the traditional cop cliches up to volume 11. Luther; The Fairytale Castles of King Ludwig II – TV review 2013-07-03T05:00:05Z Even in the smaller first piece, Noseda’s Mozart had some tautness but was also warm and full: a contemporary orchestral approach that disregards some of the hallmarks, not to say cliches, of historically informed performance. Review | Homage to the Classical: NSO offers Mozart, jolly Stravinsky and Josefowicz 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Q: In that film, you critique the cliches of the movie musical by staging a song-and-dance number in a diner with seemingly ordinary people. ‘Colossal’ director on his lifelong fascination with creature features 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z They were – and excuse the cliche, but it's what they trade in – born to rock. Anvil: 'Don't worry, we can go a lot louder' 2011-07-21T14:04:17Z Overwrought with rap cliches, “Fan of a Fan” is a formulaic heaping of bouncy bangers primed for the strip clubs that likely inspired it. We count every rap cliche in Chris Brown and Tyga's 'Fan of a Fan' 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips is less impressed, calling "Fury" "a mixture of sharp realism and squishy cliches that combat movies don't really need anymore." 'Fury': Brad Pitt tank drama carries out its mission, reviews say 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z It’s earned accolades for its gritty representation of teen life without cliches or the sort of amped up controversy than came with shows such as Skins. Small screen queens: how teen angst took over the TV scene 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Not another cliche super-hawkish general ready to commit what a character calls "treason". ‘Designated Survivor’ Series Premiere: Glasses Off 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z What we said: There are a few journo cliches – but it has the sinew of a really good procedural, underpinned by genuine moral outrage. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Likewise the list of cliches they perform in the style of Kelly Clarkson. Frisky and Mannish – review 2012-10-28T18:30:12Z As a cliche, unpleasant men with their faces painted blue runs a close second to bloodthirsty slobs with horns on their head. Joe Queenan's Guide to Movie Cliches: Action 2010-10-19T11:00:00Z It was the celebration of ignorance and rock'n'roll cliche that was really galling. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z We only got here a few hours ago, and already I've turned into a cliche. Confessions of a Hay virgin 2010-06-01T06:59:00Z But even the most devoted fashion stylist realizes that at a certain point, when aesthetics start to overwhelm logic, when a flourish becomes a cliche, it’s time to retire it. Perspective | Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations are lovely, but that coat looks ridiculous 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z There’s an old cliche in the TV news business: People don’t watch the news; they watch the people on the news. Jim & Doreen: NBC4’s top-rated anchors are still leading the pack after 25 years These are well-worn cliches, although that isn't in and of itself a problem. “The Happytime Murders”: A sad excuse for grown-up comedy 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Plenty of cliches are not brought entirely back to life. Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed – review 2012-09-27T21:01:01Z It approaches cliche to say that Parisians live in bars and cafes, but there are elemental reasons as to why they do. Perspective | One last drink, maybe two? Inside one dive as Parisians say goodbye, for now, to their beloved bars and cafes 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Images of a grinning Putin soundtracked by nuclear activity and The Sugababes' Push The Button are the only real cliche, but his much-repeated theory of a "managed world" starts to become dulled by familiarity. Massive Attack v Adam Curtis – review 2013-07-05T00:48:25Z Nominated for: Best British group They say: "It's a cliche to say that nice guys always finish last - but Doves have perhaps never gained the recognition they deserve." 2010-02-16T08:37:00Z “Cliche is death,” she concluded, “and death is the most hackneyed of cliches. So to hell with death, and to hell with cliches. Except for this one: On with the show.” Review | A literary quartet: Emersons return to theater, Shostakovich 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The sentiment of wanting to pray may be genuine, Smudde said, but the strong backlash to the phrase has made it not only a cliche, but a taboo. As ‘the fathers of daughters,’ they were offended by harassment. But what did that really mean? 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Sadly, in this trite ragbag of cliches, they are nowhere to be found. Birmingham Royal Ballet – review 2012-10-29T18:31:00Z And Hitchens tended to be repetitive, depending on a small stock of choice phrases and cliches to solve the problems of composition. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z Thirty years ago, Nazi uniforms were a veritable cliche in works by Verdi and Wagner. Perspective | Opera plays its Trump card: Yes, the president is showing up in Verdi 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z "Gen V" sometimes lags in areas, but it breaks all young adult drama cliches introducing viewers to the bi-gendered superhero, Jordan, giving the audience an interesting new take on genderfluid representation in media. Meet "Gen V's" genderfluid superhero 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z And if I had to sum up my writing, I'd say it was a load of old travel cliches. Digested read: Jamie Does ... by Jamie Oliver 2010-04-05T23:05:00Z Plus, it features real club footage of that mythical time when MCs asking you to wave your hands in the air like you just don't care wasn't a cliche. The best hip-hop documentaries 2013-04-25T08:51:00Z For gay men, it's the predominance of the camp cliche. Gay roles on television need to be real 2010-10-05T19:00:00Z She is the model who married a rock star yet avoided the usual cliches. A supermodel recalls the glorious decade when no one cared if you gained a few pounds 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Overt self-love proclamations are in vogue these days, but THEESatisfaction’s warm space-funk grooves and infectious individualism subtly lit those candles without the cliches. 15 artists who defined Seattle music in the 2010s 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z In fact, all the well rehearsed cliches of our modern sensibilities towards nonhuman animals are present. Rise of the Planet of the Apes ? 'Human, all too human' 2011-08-19T12:55:33Z As it’s her, I can allow the cliche and even grudgingly admit it fits. How running cured my anxiety – and a broken heart 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z There’s a generation gap between the middle-aged Carol and her younger colleagues, but Heaton says there’s an effort to avoid the cliche jokes about old age. Patricia Heaton leaps generation gap in ‘Carol’s Second Act’ 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The following morning, I read over it: it’s full of cliches. How to write a novel this year: 'I'm surprised at how much time I find' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z “Hank is so sunny, so positive, so eager to please instead of the cliche of the dark, brooding, violent guy,” Berg says. The actor behind ‘Barry’s’ NoHo Hank, TV’s happiest mobster 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z “Love You To” exploded with a passionate sutra quality, but “Within You and Without You” resurrects the very cliches the Beatles helped bury: “With our love/We could save the world/If they only knew.” From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z I don’t know whether this is because of age, laziness or the feeling that photography has become a torrent of cliches. Snap happy 2013-05-19T18:30:00Z Over time, signatures become cliches and finally mannerisms. "Breaking Bad" 4x5, "Shotgun" 2011-08-15T06:01:00Z “For the first quarter, the first 100 days, to use a cliche, I will be listening,” he said. New Smithsonian chief takes the grand tour 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z He recalls Leary publicly criticizing him for using a cliche, which may reveal more than is intended about the psychedelic guru. Hey, hey, it’s the Monkees! 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The cliches wouldn't matter so much if the staging didn't so seriously undercut the music. Prom 55: Rinaldo ? review 2011-08-26T10:23:41Z To hear the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra play a program of Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich is tantamount to a cliche. The St. Petersburg Philharmonic moves beyond cliches 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z It is a modern cliche that painters have no place in a photographic age. Sculpture's lost in the third dimension 2010-05-12T20:35:00Z The "arts" conjures up images of committees of bores, worthily reverent exegesis, the horrors of dance, the misfit between opera and even a 42-inch screen, and ancient avant-gardist cliches – "ahead of its time", "ground-breaking", "controversial". Tony Hall, take a long knife to the parasites the BBC calls managers 2013-04-02T05:59:01Z But once it sinks in that there is no irony, the sheer cheek of Bell's persistent cliches begins to convince. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-11T00:15:00Z And that cliche is piling up, creating a storage problem. Perspective | How Dr. Seuss’s ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go’ became a graduation-gift cliche 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Part of the reason for cliche, I think, is the pervasive notion that opera singing is supposed to be, always, a cry from the heart. Review | Dogs, snakes and piccolos: New operas take WNO stage 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Assisted by beautifully animated renderings of illustrations from the era, Snow helps to prove that the history of rail needn't be the preserve of parka-clad cliches. TV highlights 15/01/2013 2013-01-14T20:00:02Z Elsewhere, he's too reliant on cliches: girlfriends obscuring the screen when Match of the Day is on, Britishness denoted by the urge to apologise, and so on. An Audience with Imran Yusuf 2010-08-27T14:22:00Z It is a cliche: a tired idea, but then I am tired, too. 'I got so sunburnt, I was like a piece of chorizo': comedians on their holidays from hell 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Yet visual cliches are given an obscure turn with dislocated titles: Fear Is The Mindkiller is a drawing of high-heeled legs. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z Too much of the material is lazily default, especially the pert and winsome ballet sequences: and the plot, such as it is, is a random jumble of cliches. Flawless/ENB – review 2012-06-04T15:44:33Z "So we decided to keep it very simple. And we felt that the silver-topped cane was again, a little bit too much of a cliche of that kind of genre writing." From Poirot to Pünd: How "Magpie Murders" evolved its outsider detective 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z What’s more disappointing, though, is the way the novel doubles down on the hackneyed cliche of the tragic, unattainable beauty. Review | In Richard Russo’s ‘Chances Are . . . ,’ a charming reunion unearths a chilling disappearance 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z “I’ve used that countless times. It’s lazy, but it does provoke an emotional response – and it’s only a cliche when people start noticing.” Where there's a horse, there's a neigh: why must we hear animals on screen? 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z As cliche as it may seem, these scenes are perhaps sending a necessary message to future historians: Not all of us fell quietly and passively into the screen. Perspective | These TV shows have figured out Gen X’s greatest gift to society: Grouchiness 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z It has become a truth, to the point of cliche, that once most female actors hit their 40s, the parts start to dry up. Tamsin Greig: 'I always think I'll never work again' 2011-03-03T21:00:01Z Sondheim makes his songs feel like a natural extension of real life and, as a result, I end up quoting them all the time, like the awful cliche that I am. Forget Cats: in a close-run field, Marriage Story was the musical highlight of my holiday 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z “Of course I feel some pressure, but that I’m here auditioning. Not to sound cliche but it’s a dream come true,” she says. Thousands come out to audition for NBC’s Hairspray Live! musical 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z But at its worst Cities Are Good for You is a pretty vulgar garment; an appliqué of Panglossian optimism and theoretical banality stitched together by stylistic cliche. Cities Are Good for You by Leo Hollis – review 2013-04-17T10:17:21Z It is ridiculous, preposterous even, certainly wrong, a sugary pudding of groans and cliches. TV review: Digging for Britain and Mistresses 2010-08-20T05:45:00Z Instead of exploring strange new worlds, "Star Trek" settles for rehashing the most exhausted cliches of sci-fi video games. Review: 'Star Trek' game sets phasers on dumb 2013-05-02T12:24:17Z From the start, he was a pop exception, a man of transcendence in a world of categories and cliches. Prince Was the Great Purple Genius of Paisley Park 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z It's almost a cliche to call the literary world elitist, but it's hard to escape the idea with lists like Granta's defining the best of the best. The best young sci-fi novelists 2013-04-15T11:51:22Z Alias, the comic book, is powerful, beautifully written/illustrated, and a perfect example of the cliche, “the book is better.” The Creator of ‘Jessica Jones’ Serves Up a Dark Mirror for Our Moment 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z In many ways, the film interrogates the cliches and caricatures of the cowboys-and-Indians movie, simultaneously acknowledging them even as it knocks them down. With ‘Wind River,’ Taylor Sheridan continues to smash western stereotypes 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z What was once a fine challenge has become a cliche. The Young Vic hits middle age ? and discovers some grey areas 2010-10-20T12:04:00Z Marrying far and close, large and small, Morell’s bewitching images are also a way of looking at the “Adams landscape” indirectly, thereby catching the cliche off guard, discovering the image anew. Review | I used to think Ansel Adams’s photographs were boring. This exhibition changed that. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z On not being part of a mother-in-law cliche: Carolyn Hax: When a loved one is dying, help them really live 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z "We still love each other but, cliche notwithstanding, musical differences have led to us moving on and of course we all wish each other well in the future." British band Supergrass announces split 2010-04-12T13:09:00Z It’s dreadful, in part because it is anathema to the creative process, prompting you to never travel to Tijuana write glib, mindless cliches. Perspective | How to turn your writing into an obstacle course 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z To use the available cliches, sexism is neither a "red line" nor a "deal breaker". Hate porn, sure, but be wary of banning it 2013-06-30T07:00:02Z Today, such a comedy would riff on carbon footprints and fair trade, but you would be wrong to assume The Good Life is all about 1970s cliches of earnest environmentalism. The Good Life 2010-04-09T05:45:00Z A few cliches - the hippy new age mum and some vaguely absent parents - offer little by way of explanation or justification for their crimes. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-16T20:23:54Z I Am the Narrator may dash busily through a string of sonic cliches – police sirens and the like – but its blend of warped fairytale strings, dub bass and antic Dr Dre swagger persuades the ear. Best albums of 2012: 20–11 2012-11-28T09:00:00Z Every ending is a new beginning, as the consoling cliche goes; but in this book, every mention of new beginnings is immediately qualified and drained of any potential for hope. Review | Louise Glück’s first collection since her Nobel gracefully captures our fragility 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Typically, they fall into the cliche category of “he’s just not that into you” or “he’s just not that into anything other than sex.” Does he like me? 2012-10-11T00:00:00Z Other ingredients, in addition to the obvious “Harry Potter” influence, include “Star Wars” and every cowboy cliche known to man. Review | In ‘The Dark Tower,’ Matthew McConaughey is funny — in a bad way 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z It makes for strangely fascinating and intimate viewing, with cliches of music taste based on appearance both confirmed and blown apart. Click to Download: What Are You Listening To?, Bands in Transit, Burberry 2011-08-17T14:29:01Z It would be easy for Hudson to slip into the well-worn groove of the misery memoir made good, and there are points at which Tony Hogan threatens to lapse into cliche. Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, by Kerry Hudson – review 2013-07-28T09:00:00Z Because as the cliche goes, if it's not on the page, it's not going to be there on the screen. “What is fair?”: Rosie Perez on the complexities of playing a federal prosecutor on "Your Honor" 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Each is a cliche: bespectacled geek, gentle giant, angry black woman, wise old man. Review: Lara Croft refreshed in new 'Tomb Raider' 2013-02-27T14:12:14Z For me, it's almost cliche to be recommending it. Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Country and western music not only recognises but celebrates its own cliches. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-19T23:09:33Z The song soon became a wedding standard for first dances and father-daughter dances — some even called it a wedding cliche. Appreciation: Natalie Cole’s everlasting talent 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z We all felt that we were doing something really important which sounds like a cliche but is true. Curious Incident counts out seven Olivier awards 2013-04-28T20:30:02Z Drummer Carey, along with being the most important guy in the band sonically, was the only Toolie willing to indulge the fans with rock star cliches. Review | It’s hard to see the members of Tool when the band plays live, but it sure is thrilling to hear them 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z They're both strong episodes -- very much in the "Futurama" spirit of high/low, charming/crass, and designed and animated with the show's characteristic love of marginal detail and affection for sci-fi geek cliche. The sci-fi vaudeville charm of "Futurama" 2011-06-23T18:24:00Z Quentin's introduction informs us that India is "ancient and modern", among other land-of-contrasts cliches, and explains her qualifications to guide this journey: a school project she did on the country when she was five. Tonight's TV highlights: Bible's Buried Secrets 2011-03-15T00:05:02Z He told BBC Breakfast that he wanted to avoid cliches about the conflict and to bring a fresh light on the subject to a new generation. 'No goodies or baddies' in WW1 drama 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z And so in a way Margaret Thatcher did create something which long after her time became a cliche and a buzzword: a legacy. Margaret Thatcher: the Iron Lady of British film 2013-04-09T07:00:06Z Like actors are definitely like actresses way more in the cliche ways we expect. Q&A: Mélanie Laurent on her love of directing and actresses 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Oddly, it is seldom “prayers and thoughts,” as though that formulation so violates the consensus cliche, the go-to banality, that it approaches syntactic sedition. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Here’s what you can do with your ‘thoughts and prayers’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z At least they're not recycling "Robert Johnson at the crossroads" blues cliches. Rainy start to day one of Lollapalooza 2013-08-03T10:20:00Z Do we have time anymore for the old cliche of the tormented genius? Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z For this reviewer even native american oppression is too cliche and stale news. Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z They tend to be supporting characters, and as the somewhat debunked cliche goes, they’re usually the first to die. Jordan Peele made a woke horror film 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z If there was a thread that tied together the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra program on Saturday, it would have something to do with Hollywood, and the ideas of surface beauty, little depth and emotional cliches. BSO at Strathmore: A well-balanced ensemble that hits right at the surface He said he was motivated to offset cultural cliches about the 1950s with his own very different experiences. Festival of Books: How authors tackle truthfulness in memoirs 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z There are as many hot-weather cliches as there are yearly dog days, but only one suits the summer-themed exhibition at Marymount University’s Cody Gallery: “So Hot You Could Fry an Egg.” Review | In the galleries: A sizzling exhibit crackles with creativity 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Mad Men, it’s a ’60s cliche to say but true, is a show about change–among other things about the changing modes of success and validation for women. Mad Men Character Study: Sympathy for Betty 2012-05-16T17:47:07Z There is certainly interest but it's back to the old cliche of what is interesting to the public and what is in the public interest. Judge in Hugh Grant 'hack' order 2011-07-20T14:04:58Z To start suggesting affinities between artists based on national or regional identity almost inevitably leads to cliches, categories that are exclusive, or ideas that are so capacious as to be meaningless. Perspective | Is there a difference between national art and nationalist art? 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z On the other hand, with all its well-worn time-travelling cliches, 11/22/63 does seem like an easier sell. Can Jonathan Demme give Stephen King's 11/22/63 a time-travelling twist? 2011-08-12T10:53:21Z “Good news rocket scientists, Americans will no longer use brain surgeon as a cliche for smart,” she said. Samantha Bee on Trump's cabinet list: 'deplorables, zealots and extremists' 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z It is hard, faced with a body of work so vividly devoted to the suffering body, the human become bewildered animal, not to resort to romantic or vitalist cliche. Triptych: Three Studies After Francis Bacon by Jonathan Littell – review 2013-07-20T11:01:01Z ER is, as the cliche goes, about the adults in the room, and unlike more recent medical dramas – Gray’s Anatomy, House – each episode is as invested in the patients as it is the doctors. I’ve been bingeing on a 25-year-old sitcom. It’s smart, modern – and definitely not Friends | Hadley Freeman 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z There is, however, a forlorn desperation that roils beneath all this — a chilliness worthy of the frostbitten winters that are themselves another weary Canuck cliche. “Logan” proves Wolverine is the comics’ most Canadian superhero — and not in the way you think 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z I think that's a cliche because the most famous "Frankenstein" version, which is James Whale's, had been done before as a silent short film by Edison. A Minute With: Guillermo del Toro at Comic Con 2010-07-22T14:28:00Z It’s an old cliche that if an actor wants to win an Oscar, he or she should consider playing a character with a disability. Entertainers discuss disability representation in Hollywood 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z It is a cliche, but he looked peaceful, as if he was sleeping, perhaps even dreaming of something pleasant. Khizr Khan: the patriotic American Muslim who called out Donald Trump 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Cosby can turn cliches into something more original, as in: “Andy was tall and lean like a sapling. Oscar was as wide as a refrigerator. Grayson thought they resembled the number 10.” Review | S.A. Cosby’s new crime novel is provocative, violent — beautiful and moving, too 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z In another, a patient visits a therapist who talks only in sports cliches. Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z What better location than the heart of Hollywood – where dreams are supposed to come true but so often don’t and where shining new stories turn out to be full of tawdry cliches? A museum devoted to the wreckage of lost love 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z This year is so bad We will need a new cliche To describe hindsight. Style Invitational Week 1405: Okay, once more around the track 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z I know it seems like the cliche of everybody's like a family, but there is such a closeness in this cast that I think is rare and special. "Virgin River" writer on small towns, twists and next season: "Cameron lives to fight another day" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Remember the cliche declaring that there’s an exception to every rule? The cake that taught Dorie Greenspan a lesson 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The cliche that actually serves as the infrastructure of the classic is that the female lead almost never ends up with the man she was originally supposed to spend the rest of her life with. Joe Queenan's guide to romance cliches 2010-10-16T11:00:00Z Tribune editors spoke glowingly of Schmich's ability to write with style and depth, avoiding cliches while identifying and pondering the emotions that drive people in everyday, or extraordinary, moments. Tribune's Mary Schmich wins Pulitzer Prize 2012-04-17T04:08:00Z The first thing you learn are the cliches. Wooden Shjips sail psychedelic oceans 2013-10-24T14:05:45Z Barack Obama’s campaign famously subverted cliches in 2008 with a simple, wordless logo: three rippling red stripes inside a blue circle. Analysis | Red, white and blah: Why are all these 2020 campaign logos so boring? 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z "It's such a cliche thing to say," he laughed. Derek Hough wants to expand career beyond 'Stars' 2013-05-20T15:40:15Z Q: In the same spirit, we've grown up watching athletes interviewed at their lockers who just resort to endless cliches. Q&A with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols: Life in the NBA bubble, taking on Floyd Mayweather and the time the Caps players defended her 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z He was, he smiles, blissfully unaware that deploying one's mother for cover was a well-known gay cliche. Lord Browne: 'I thought being gay was basically wrong' 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z It is common to the point of cliche that piano prodigies often run before learning to walk properly. Piano prodigy doesn’t miss a note in knuckle-busting program, but is there more? 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z With any luck, those dancers will offer some insight into what the ballet world is actually like — and keep Flesh and Bone from descending into cliche. Starz’ New Ballet Drama Flesh and Bone Sounds Exactly Like Black Swan 2014-01-28T22:34:16Z Two years after My Own Private Idaho’s release, the actor who desperately wanted to avoid every Hollywood cliche died the most cliched death imaginable, of a drugs overdose on Sunset Boulevard in 1993. Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss, those things don’t ever go away’ 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z I think I wanted to smash every cliche about Wilde. David Hare: 'Working in theatre, you're less at the whim of stupid people' 2013-01-20T00:06:22Z "The Affair" is ordinary stuff with all the cliches turned up to 11 and extra sex. Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The blowhard Southern judge — a character that would seem doomed for the rocks of cliche, yet which thrives in Brian Hemmingsen’s drawling comic turn — wants none of it. Forum Theatre’s ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’ It's one of the great cliches of travel writing: flick through any city guide and you'll most likely find your destination branded a "city of contradictions". Slackistan or City of Fear: which is the real Islamabad? 2010-11-22T13:09:00Z Heather seems a cliche of intellectual imprecision and entitlement, benumbed by comfort, a foil for her hard-working, highly skilled forebear. Review | How Queen Elizabeth’s wedding dress diverted war-torn England 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z So do I. But it's hard: how do you keep the body of the documentary and remove all the visual cliches? Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z In so doing, she also slammed the author and Springfield native as "racist" and "a bit of a cliche." Melania Trump calls Massachusetts librarian's comments on Dr. Seuss book donation 'unfortunate' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z “Forget the cliches. The director behind the new ‘Beetlejuice’ musical is known for breaking the rules.” Hotshot teacher-writer Paula Vogel is again at the head of the class 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z With his unerring eye for genre, Andy Warhol painted his own, rather good, Mount Vesuvius images in homage to this artistic cliche. Explosive art: my top five volcano paintings 2010-04-21T14:02:00Z How did you manage to not have the marriage that is the rock and roll cliche? And she was: Talking Heads' Chris Frantz on their "Twilight Zone" sound & his romantic rock memoir 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z "I feel like one big cliche: The writer and the legion of moms and their kids colliding at a coffee shop." A young playwright in demand: Rajiv Joseph 2011-03-31T19:46:05Z However, clomping cliches litter the play, making it sometimes uncomfortably reminiscent of the 1970s comedy series, It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Blood and Gifts: it's Afghanistan, Jim, but not as we know it 2010-09-20T11:04:00Z It was tremendously exciting as he was giving us all the cliches they had worked out in the 30s. Richard Williams: the master animator 2013-04-19T17:59:00Z It is a cliche, it is an old cliche, and it is a beloved cliche. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z Add some distant mountains, clouds, a few birds and trees, he wrote, “and you’ve just horrified a cliche!” Paul Coker, Cartoonist at Mad for Almost Six Decades, Dies at 93 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z But everybody ought to do them, because they became a cliche for a reason – and you could do them in a large toilet cubicle. Fit in my 40s: you may not be able to swing a cat, but you can still shape up at home | Zoe Williams 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Another cliche might be the answer: Only time will tell. Alternatives for the Mason jar cycle Horvath was frequently guilty of being entitled, obnoxious, pushy and delusional, but she wasn’t just a collection of cliches designed to make sweeping generalisations about an age group. Lena Dunham’s Girls: the show that turned TV upside down 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z I’ll quote a favorite cliche: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” Perspective | Ask Amy: ‘Kindhearted’ husband doesn’t mind seeing wife struggle 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z I was thinking of cliche when I did the work. 'The mystery is enough': Susan Lipper on the Grapevine series 2010-10-13T11:07:00Z There’s a cliche on Capitol Hill that Congress works at two speeds: lightning-fast and not at all. Perspective | The enduring moments of 2021, as told by Post reporters Hailing from different parts of the country, the bands constituted less a scene than a shared sensibility: synthesisers before guitars, outlandish ideas before rock'n'roll cliches. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z And it would be a profile cliche to say nothing was handed to him. He’s ready for his ‘Top Chef’ spotlight. And he wants to use it to talk about African food. 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z "This follow-up... starts out just as predictably - but around halfway through, the culture-clash cliches suddenly run out, and the whole thing swerves off in an unexpected and rewarding direction," he concluded. Marigold sequel gets royal approval 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z So perhaps one shouldn’t fault “Mozart in the Jungle” for falling back on cliches; plenty of people within the field are doing exactly the same thing. ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ and entertainment’s classical-music problem 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z It's a cliche to say that this was the role he was born to play, but it doesn't make it any less true. To Kill a Mockingbird: shadows on film 2013-07-25T10:27:40Z As the cliche has it, this is the Led Zeppelin song that every budding guitarist spends hours perfecting. Led Zeppelin: a beginner's guide 2012-10-11T14:30:00Z The story was not cliche ridden and didn't end in a neat package. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z "I just want to subvert the bad cliches of the genre." 'What If's' Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Dowse try to elevate the rom-com 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z "To say the only antidote to grief is work is one of the oldest cliches," he suggests. Nicholas Pileggi: the mob, Nora Epron's death and Vegas 2013-02-03T07:02:31Z This is beyond all the cliches of empathy. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z The Shepherd’s Crown is the 41st book in Pratchett’s Discworld series, a collection of fantasy works that rejuvenated the cliches of the genre by infusing them with comedy and an angle of social commentary. Terry Pratchett's Final Novel Published Posthumously 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z I love Creedence and their music was part of my life when the Vietnam war was raging, but it has been used so much in movies that it has almost become cliche. ‘Proud Mary’ has a ‘Proud Mary’ Problem 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Now is as good a moment as any to call time on Hollywood's newest and most annoying cliche. The Fighter ? review 2011-02-03T22:00:02Z "All these cliches and terms that are used for whatever we were are fine," Plant says. Led Zeppelin: 'There was a swagger – we knew we were good' 2012-10-11T16:35:00Z He sounds as sincere as ever, but the cliches become self-parody at times. The Gaslight Anthem: Handwritten – review 2012-07-19T20:30:01Z Blandly dressed, and about as far from the cliche of the flamboyant opera impresario as you can imagine, the new director general of the is thinking about the past, not the future. New BBC director general Tony Hall: 'It's about setting the conditions whereby artists flourish' 2013-03-02T09:01:06Z The move is as transparent as the cliche statements that dot his lyrics, big on earnest philosophical pronouncements and uncomplicated thoughts. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z Ali says that he is always conscious of those and the burden of representing his culture, especially when he’s playing a potential cliche like a drug dealer. From House Of Cards to Moonlight, why Mahershala Ali is having a moment 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Other great cliches: the strange little boy who seems to understand more than he is saying. Joe Queenan's guide to horror film cliches 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z Recycled moment: The football cliches skit, the rapper with low self-esteem: some of the material is a little musty. New Edinburgh Act of the Day: Sheeps 2011-08-16T13:26:54Z In his new book, “How to Fly a Horse,” Ashton takes on creation’s most pernicious cliches. The path from hard work to genius 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z "All that galley" is the professional publisher's bright revision of the cliche, "all that jazz." Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z Instead of regarding Jay as the comically pretentious and melodramatic cliche that he is, “Katerina” presents this young man as a singularly tragic hero. Review | James Frey’s ‘Katerina’ is a million little pieces of narcissism and may be the worst novel of the year 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z But why does the cliche persist even now that Japanese fans are associated with hip discernment rather than cluelessness? Big in Japan 2010-03-22T19:00:00Z Although it avoids the crude cliche of money as religion, the poem uses parallelism here, and skims a biblical lexicon in phrases like "got up and walked" and words like "faith" and "trust". Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z It is chatty, surprisingly direct, and unafraid of cliche. The war and the cliches: the sofa syntax of people-friendly Tony 2010-09-01T18:29:00Z Once, when a doctor resorted to the cliche “pins and needles” in suggesting a description of the pain in her leg, she corrected him. Lucia Perillo, poet who unflinchingly dissected mortality, dies at 58 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z “Mesmeric” is an awful cliche, and yet that is exactly what Streep is in this film. Who is the best Oscar-winning lead actress of all time? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z There is a cliche, which, like most cliches, is partly true, that the arts are a medium for self-reflection, in which we learn to hold ourselves to the highest standards. Perspective | In light of Plácido Domingo’s fall, let’s rethink naming things after the rich and famous 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z We adore her because, in her uncalculated, uncensored “realness”, she seems to present the antithesis of the kind of actress we love to loathe - that cliche of the neurotic, vain, self-starving starlet. Jennifer Lawrence: whip-smart and witty star who likes a good fight | Observer profile 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The emails will be written in idiot, tab-tab-tab Smart Compose cliche. Perspective | How to turn your writing into an obstacle course 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Alas, he's still prone to cramming too much into a song and leans on the occasional cliche. Pitchfork day 3: Off to a mellow start 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Stereotypes and cliches are skilfully avoided in this convincing London estate gang drama. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-03-09T06:00:09Z Here is an opportunity to revisit Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film, and to appreciate how the cliche does not do justice to a uniquely disturbing drama. Film review: Rash?mon 2010-06-17T22:30:00Z Peppered with cliches and predictable banter, “The Alienist” relies mostly on its atmospheric details to draw viewers in. Review | Long past its bestseller heyday, ‘The Alienist’ arrives late to a 19th-century crime spree 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Who do you think you are, a cliche from Sex and the City? Is it ever OK to dump someone by text? 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z "New Yo-o-o-rk: concrete jungle where dreams are made of", as Keys sings on the penultimate chorus, takes two cliches and mashes them into complete nonsense. Newport State of Mind improves on the original 2010-08-01T21:00:00Z Planting seeds, leaving breadcrumbs, pick your cliche, would let him think things over, at least. Carolyn Hax: Do I harbor feelings for my housemate? Forced to share office space in a taxidermy shop, Josh discovers just about every yokel cliche there is — some of it funny, some of it not even worth mentioning. Review | NBC’s ‘Trial & Error’ works with what little is left of the mockumentary genre 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Music was, he says, his saviour, and it would be easy to scoff at the cliche, but it probably was, wasn't it? New band of the day (LAC No 1,529) 2013-06-10T17:08:21Z Bluey Brattle, co-organiser of the convention, tells me not to believe the "tears of a clown" cliche, but it is hard not to. The wisdom of clowns 2011-03-17T07:59:00Z Characters can run out of it, be up against it or waste it, but the humble clock will play the lead in the cliche. Clip joint: Timepieces 2012-07-18T12:31:00Z It's a cliche, but it really is true. Ben Affleck prefers "Company" of ensemble casts 2010-12-27T06:07:43Z All of these things fed a voracious appetite for sensory, intellectual and emotional experience in a life of sharp sight and heightened receptivity, free of preconception and cliche. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z This album is a football cliche – it's a game of two halves. Readers' reviews: Muse, Kanye West Presents GOOD Music, Bloc Party 2012-10-01T17:17:06Z And it's perhaps this sort of unexpected intervention that the gorilla shot now needs if it's to avoid becoming a cliche of TV grammar. The Lib Dem conference and the return of the gorilla shot 2010-09-23T06:00:00Z The British quartet brings that same intensity to every song it performs, a severe, black-clad purpose that translates as presence, drama without resorting to theatrical cliches. Pitchfork Festival Day 2: 2013-07-20T23:51:00Z She described it as a “momentary indiscretion,” which called up a host of post-affair cliches: “I made a mistake,” “It just happened,” “I wasn’t thinking,” “It was a lapse in judgment” – and so on. Kristen Stewart’s language of cheating 2012-07-26T22:00:00Z Cliche, cliche, cliche, ignorance, insults, cliche, more insults. Millennials Answer the Call of Mexican Wine Country 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z I do a mental checklist and locate the cliches. American pie-eyed: Ed Fornieles's Animal House 2011-01-21T11:08:41Z Yet when McClanahan turned that cliche into a character, it was like a shot of HRT. Golden oldies: The Golden Girls was Sex and the City on HRT 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z There's a cliche of a pathologist who is eating a sandwich while dissecting someone. Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier build the perfect TV detective 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z Evidently this demon unleashes a plague of spy fiction cliches, leaden dialogue and tiresomely contrived twists, because that's what happens next. The Good Shepherd: Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon can't sex this up 2010-04-22T07:00:00Z And so even infinity lost its meaning in the space between two cliches. Analysis | ‘The buck stops with everybody’: How Trump twists cliches to do his bidding 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z An artist's biggest fear is of being unconsciously derivative, but Tory art-detractors proceed unburdened by fear of cliche. Who's afraid of the art boogie monster? 2013-06-13T05:07:38Z Gurba exposed the novel’s cliches, stereotypes and clumsiness, and then she went after Cummins for appropriating the story of Mexican migrants and exploiting their suffering. Perspective | Threats against the author of ‘American Dirt’ threaten us all 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Danny Boyle and Underworld, an inspired choice and a brilliant tracklist, Without them it could have been red buses, spitfires, changing of the guard and any other cliche about britain 50 years ago. Feedback loop: your reviews and comments 2012-08-06T09:53:38Z One cliche is to see him as a classical maker of smooth, urban myths. Venice: Canaletto and his?Rivals ? review 2010-10-15T20:30:00Z The cliche is that journalism is the first draft of history. Podcast revisits how the biggest stories unfolded on TV news 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z Here you can find wines that punch above their level, expand the envelope, or whatever other cliche you’d like to use. Here’s the price range in wine where you can find the best quality 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z There is no shortage of professed wisdom on getting through heartbreak: There are women’s magazines, advice columnists, self-help books and, of course, the cliche Sunday brunch proclamations of “you deserve better.” The breakup coach: Sometimes ice cream and Alanis aren’t enough 2013-05-05T00:00:00Z But with Sleepy Hollow, it began to feel like what had once made Burton feel distinctive was calcifying into a cliche itself. On the set of Dumbo with Tim Burton: ‘Like meeting up with your teenage boyfriend’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z It hurts to hear rock’s toughest chick spouting cliches or singing, “Look at me, I’m laughing like a child, and all of it because you’re the one.” Review: Chrissie Hynde falls short on solo debut 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z “And so it was just kind of an excuse to treat myself, to sound cliche.” Advent calendars are raking it in while counting it down 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Even for a cliche, “no regrets” is surprisingly ubiquitous. You’ve been told to let go of the past. But can regret be good for you? 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z The cliche about doing charity work is you're not supposed to talk about it. Why I'm backing Cage Against the Machine for Christmas No 1 2010-12-13T13:13:00Z And in the hoariest of cliches, she greets him in another scene “wearing an ankle-length maxi coat” — and nothing underneath. ‘The Mulberry Bush’ is enriched by Charles McCarry’s real-life spycraft 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z As cliche as it may sound, visualization works because it creates an alternate narrative. 4 Ways to Conquer Test Anxiety 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Until, that is, news broke this week that her family was about to endure the biggest Hollywood cliche of all. How Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt defined the 21st-century fame machine 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. At last action hero 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z Her other work, a cinder block wall topped by barbed wire, is a blunt use of an old cliche. Perspective | Venice Biennale: A vast, unwieldy, exhilarating spectacle 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Avoiding dehumanizing cliches, instead we’re presented with the minutiae of their day-to-day lives as well as court proceedings that prioritise authenticity over construction. 'I see myself in them': the documentary that humanizes sex workers 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Photograph: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock One of the most popular cliches for black characters, a wise, folksy black character with some connection to magical forces or spiritual insight. How to fix Hollywood's race problem 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Staged moments — characters eavesdropping like Polonius behind his arras, lovers exchanging vows — baldly recall the genre’s cliches. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z When it came to portraiture, he wasn’t going to fall into the usual cliches. Review | The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The drama is leaden; the dialogue is cliches; the sound quality is often terrible and the acting is frankly not going to be troubling the decision-makers at Bafta. Do Elephants Pray? – review 2013-01-31T22:45:01Z For Johnson, though, what's really interesting about that story is how unusual it is: although the eureka moment is such a cliche, big new ideas almost never get born like that. Steven Johnson: 'Eureka moments are very, very rare' 2010-10-19T19:30:00Z Everyone understands that reading Nicholas Sparks is a cliche. All of the romance and none of the thrills in Nicholas Sparks’s latest novel 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z "You may not be aware of this, but Dr. Seuss is a bit of a cliche, a tired and worn ambassador for children's literature," Soeiro wrote on Horn Book's Family Reading blog. Melania Trump calls Massachusetts librarian's comments on Dr. Seuss book donation 'unfortunate' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z It was that whole bloody cliche, that when you're most successful, your personal life is destroying itself. Portishead 2011-07-16T23:04:05Z This nostalgic currency, the temptation of cliche, is what made Cocker initially drag his feet. 'It's not about steel, it's the attitude' 2013-06-17T15:52:00Z But I have no issues with any of the singing, nor with Harson's nixing of the “On My Own” vocal cliches. A fresher 'Les Miz' for a new generation 2011-02-07T17:38:54Z You’re almost as big a cliche as anything on the pages of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” “50 Shades”: Not actually the end of civilization as we know it, guys 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The police work runs dangerously close to TV cliches. ‘City on Fire’ review: A vibrant, kaleidoscopic vision of ’70s New York 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z "Good lyrics often do what you are taught not to do in poems: cliches, cheesy rhymes, mixed metaphors." A defence of poetry at the Hay festival 2010-06-01T21:40:00Z Unusual second world war movie taking no sides but challenging few ethnic cliches either, as it switches between German, Italian and US troops in Italy during the final stages of combat. This week's new films 2011-01-15T00:05:55Z And so – like the origin of some ancient blood feud – the passion that fuelled the original hatred had decayed and fossilised into lazy habit and petty cliche. Unseen Swells: 'I come not to slag off Coldplay, but to bury them' 2010-06-15T11:31:00Z He told their stories with a scrupulous aversion to cant and cliche, and with an eye for detail not unlike that of fellow Irishman James Joyce. William Trevor, eminent Irish author of the darkly humorous, dies at 88 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z I think it’s interesting, but it will become a cliche in its own right pretty soon. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Good Wife' Watch: Did They Really Say That? 2011-10-03T05:11:33Z It is a cliche of how artists are supposed to behave. Love Is the Devil: the view from the art world 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z She has previously put down to a mindset of wilful naivity the fact that she sidestepped the cliche of the self-destructing child actor. Diane Lane: ‘It’s a relief to be the protagonist instead of the girlfriend’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Casual elegance, what she perfected at her restaurant, is missing in prose heavy on hollow bromides and wincing cliches. Alice Waters got us to eat healthy. What more can she teach us in her new book? 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z There's a longstanding cliche that only the music business needs genre names – everyone else either likes it or they don't. Genre busting: the origin of music categories 2011-08-25T21:04:01Z In the case of Haddish, that cliche is something of an understatement. Tiffany Haddish: on Girls Trip, saving the Hollywood comedy and the Dickensian horror of her life story 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z But are they afraid of falling into the trap of obvious cliches, or misrepresenting the city? Down but not out 2010-04-09T23:11:00Z I’ve experienced living in a city where I’m a walking cliche. Meet Judith Godrèche, the Surprise Comic Standout From The Overnight 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z It didn't bother me that Cox's new series, Wonders of Life, started with one of the cliches of primetime documentaries – ie, some amazing photography. Rewind TV: Wonders of Life; Jonathan Meades: The Joy of Essex; Derek – review 2013-02-02T22:45:01Z Knuckles and the other gay African Americans who invented house music began the process of rescuing disco from its own excesses by stripping away the cliches and reconnecting it with its subversive counter-cultural roots. Long live disco 2012-05-21T17:55:01Z There are a lot of tired cliches about Aboriginals - they seep into your consciousness. Adelaide festival 2013: week one 2013-03-05T12:39:38Z There are many cliches of the “inky darkness” variety, clothes and former lives shed “like skins.” Review | With ‘Real Life,’ Brandon Taylor twists the traditional campus novel 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Another alarm bell: Anderson’s alternative Japan also ticks off a great many tourist cliches. Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs: loving homage to Japan or cultural appropriation? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z However, to credit Kemp, he's putting all his TV cliches to good use, highlighting the systematic and perilous abuse of the South American rainforests. Great Ormond Street 2010-04-19T23:05:00Z It's a bit of a cliche to say he was unreliable, although he was totally serious about music. Django Reinhardt: music, mischief and magic 2012-08-19T21:00:00Z "When we started out we naively thought that one day all music would sound like this, and rock'n'roll cliches would be gone," Humphreys says wistfully. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z Perhaps – and this seems to be Phin's argument – boys are more apt to buy into sexual cliches without stopping to reflect. Teenagers, it's OK not to have sex 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z However, his approach to a TV genre barnacled with conventions and cliches is very similar. Can Jed Mercurio's Line of Duty resuscitate the police drama? 2012-06-20T14:33:12Z Reviews have attacked the plot’s cliches, but predictably, Downey’s self-assured restlessness has won raves. Robert Downey Jr. hasn’t just made it all the way back, he’s made it all the way to the top Its heroines suffer no fools, take no prisoners and leave few bonkbuster cliches unused. Shirley Conran's Lace is a feminist bonkbuster 2012-06-11T20:00:00Z And they don’t insist on speaking in the worst kind of fuzzy corporate cliches. Perspective | Embattled and in over his head, Mark Zuckerberg should — at least — step down as Facebook chairman 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Saying “Shawshank” is my favorite movie once felt like revealing an offbeat secret — before it became our collective favorite, and it felt like a cliche. The unlikely greatness of ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ 25 years later 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z A cliche, perhaps – but it found its way into the opera. Maps of the mind: The Lion's Face 2010-05-25T20:46:00Z “It’s a sports cliche, but I almost wonder if I wanted it more than the other two did,” he said. No rematch for ‘Jeopardy’ mega-champion Ken Jennings 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z What stymied Leonardo more than anything, perhaps, was also the source of his originality: Simply put, he was allergic to cliche. Review | Quiet, please. At the Louvre’s ‘Léonard de Vinci’ exhibition, you’re in the presence of genius. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z “Resign. Now.” are cold words, coldly spaced, and, sadly, they are a modern cliche in social media. Gene Weingarten: An error of comedies 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z You could call that more of an anti-sports movie, but given the cliches of the genreand a certain instability in ideas of American masculinity, there’s often a more interesting story. Pull no punches: how sports movies swapped triumph for truth 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s a bit of a cliche but, after a while, it leaves you feeling hollow. Mia Wasikowska: ‘After a while acting leaves you feeling hollow' 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z They would make a point of throwing to the station’s veteran political reporter, Tom Sherwood, with an intro line about how a campaign was “heating up,” knowing full well that Sherwood detested the cliche. What Wendy Rieger learned from Washington 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z I watched a documentary about a trans teenager and, excuse the cliche, it blew my mind. The gift of a lifetime: how trans 'top surgery' changed my life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The athletes, at news conferences, look left and right, and answer monosyllabically, or with a painful cliche, obviously praying that the torture will end after the next question, which is inevitably stupid. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: When it comes to sports interviews, don’t be such a silly ask 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Guru's 2001 solo album Baldhead Slick & Da Click found the rapper resorting to cliches. Guru obituary 2010-04-21T16:33:00Z I know it's a cliche, but it really is true that no two shows are ever the same. One Man, Two Guvnors: the tour de farce reaches Adelaide 2013-03-06T15:47:12Z Just like the cliches and ignorance of the initial post? Millennials Answer the Call of Mexican Wine Country 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The Quarry, nevertheless, is full of unsentimental, furiously exact unpickings of the cliches surrounding terminal illness. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z I figured if I find non-musicians, it would be easier not to have them play cliches. Wooden Shjips sail psychedelic oceans 2013-10-24T14:05:45Z This east London tale of a petty crim who turns to Islam had moments of greatness but could have done with fewer gangster cliches, thought Xan. Cannes 2014: all the films we reviewed – which do you most want to see? 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Hinman’s account is occasionally marred by lazy prose falling into cliche. Review | The glorious past of a long-gone Madison Square Garden 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z I confess I am an avid consumer and I have to wade through a sea of lazy cliches to get to anything genuinely illuminating. I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough 2011-02-05T21:30:00Z Originality is often a stumbling point, even in a genre that is particularly forgiving to both cliches and the derivative. Perspective | TV needs a really great space saga. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ comes close, but the longing remains. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z The cliche that breakfast is the most important meal – and one with very specific food groups – developed from those early days of cereal. Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Quiet cliche seemed the order of the day. What it felt like to be in Washington on Election Day 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Others delve into the dreams of multiple characters, parody serial killer cliches or are filmed in the style of a 60s sitcom. Your next box set: Medium 2012-08-23T15:00:02Z As always, Bourne takes the cliche and squeezes it until the pips squeak. Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures; Ballo della Regina; La Sylphide – review 2012-05-26T23:05:53Z But using sex as a signifier of female self-alienation is already hardening into a cliche, and hardly a universally true one. Let’s have more sex in the movies – but please can it be the fun type? 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z And perhaps, the days are numbered for a role burdened with such cliches. The flowing diplomacy of the first lady’s dress at the Japan State Dinner 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Laboring to be poetic, it was merely sophomoric, troweling on cliche with such abandon that I found myself wondering if the libretto was deliberately trying to evoke the banality of Marnie’s world. Review | ‘Marnie’ is all too insubstantial at Met Opera premiere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Q: How’s progress on the Post’s initiative to avoid using cliches? Style Invitational Week 1324: Chapter and worse 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z It used to be said as a cliche, it used to be part of the advice young boys were given.” Limbaugh threatened two months ago to sue the DCCC, so where’s the lawsuit? 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z But rather than old-fashioned witless xenophobia, his material is rooted in keen observational humour, which swaps hackneyed cliche for fresh insights. This week's new live comedy 2013-04-13T05:00:16Z That’s not just a cliche of geography, with the Mid-Atlantic halfway between Bordeaux and Napa. An international wine is fine, but I’d rather taste the place in Virginia 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z You know, the old cliche is that the eyes are the mirror of the soul. Perspective | Seeing ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ through a feminist lens 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z “It’s so cliche to talk about now, but two years ago, it was the beginning of social media exhaustion. There were things I’d say as a kid, ‘Why do my parents watch so much TV?’ Deep Sea Diver’s Jessica Dobson goes all-in on guitar 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Another cliche narrative that persists is the mystical Asian mentor who trains a white protagonist in martial arts. Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ jabs, flips Asian American film cliches 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It has become a cliche of the era to say we are getting what we deserve. George Foreman fighting Steven Seagal in Vegas? It’s the least we deserve 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Howard: I had always thought the idea of love at first sight was a cliche. The secrets of long-term love 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z My first thought is a cliche: music drawing strangers together in the depths. Maps of the mind: The Lion's Face 2010-05-25T20:46:00Z So I guess, for all those tech-upgrades, the old cliches remain. Hookups, sexting and unwanted threesomes: first-time dating in the age of Tinder 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Having influenced countless action films, video games and comic books with the "Mad Max" trilogy, Miller wanted to shake off the cliches of the post-apocalyptic aesthetic. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' rules: Keep it real and really wild 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Choices like these reflect Nixon's determination to find a contemporary style for the story ballet, to side step the easy cliche. Cleopatra - review 2011-02-27T18:00:25Z "It has only just occurred to me that the paradigm people have been using when they talk about the lack of anger is the cliche of the wife discovering the affair with a younger woman." Sharon Olds: Confessions of a divorce 2013-01-26T07:29:01Z It’s quite common for writers to transform their protagonists into painters to avoid the autobiographical cliche of writers writing about writers. Review | ‘You Again’ is a captivating mystery about a woman who keeps colliding with her younger self 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Visually impressive missing-child thriller that disappointingly ransacks the cliche cupboard for jumpy scares and plot twists. This week's new films 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z Taking things to the next level is one of hip-hop's great cliches, an achievement that West can comfortably claim. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) ? review 2010-11-19T12:35:00Z |
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