| 单词 | cliched |
| 例句 | I’d heard all the cliched warnings about the perils of falling for someone you only knew online, but I ignored them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And mine to him are no less cliched. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I mean, Lewis’s family is a total cliched joke. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 Of course the warmest reception from the crowd went to "Time to Pretend" from the first album that mocks the cliched sex and drugs rock star lifestyle. MGMT give French fans peek at new album 2010-03-24T19:52:00Z In Week 1397 cartoonist Bob Staake drew four of the most cliched settings for magazine cartoons, and we asked the Loser Community to freshen them up. Tooning up: Refreshed cartoon tropes from Style Invitational Week 1397 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z And like many books or movies about the financial world by arty civilians, this rhetoric is strained and redundant and cliched, and Packer's supposed connoisseurship of the yuan and the baht just sounds preposterous. Cannes 2012: Cosmopolis – review 2012-05-25T11:16:33Z Even then it was a bit too cliched for many fans to be comfortable going along with. Mr Robot or Mr Woebot? Why the hacker drama might need a restart 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Created jointly with Opera Philadelphia and Minnesota Opera, the production is monotonous, ugly and cliched. Review | Pared down and dumbed down, ‘Don Carlo’ still dazzles at the Kennedy Center 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z He tells us he wants "to build cities, to build amusement parks, to change entertainment" and that this vibrant, cliched showcase of talent buoyed by technology is the start. Kanye West's Cruel Summer screens out for attention at Cannes 2012-05-24T12:44:17Z I know this writing sounds like I’m working towards some terrible cliched love story but I suppose that’s what happens when you’re trying to create a narrative for two people when there just isn’t one. Asymmetric love, part one: I'm going to tell him how I feel 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Disappointingly, it all becomes somewhat incredulous and there's a dull, cliched finale; villains need to learn not to talk so much, even if it does tie the plot together. TV highlights 24/05/2013 2013-05-24T05:59:01Z “It’s corny and it’s cliched as hell, but I definitely stopped having a lot of fear after this experience. I used to second-guess every decision I’d make, but I just wasn’t scared any more.” The Big Sick's Kumail Najiani and Emily Gordon: 'In America, the idea of a cross-cultural relationship is still controversial' 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z When it is explored, it’s often through cliched cliquiness, enacted by mean girls, or with an eye roll in the direction of how dramatic teenage girls can be. How "Big Mouth" pushes back on the angry teenage girl stereotype 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z His real talent is to bring the irrational wildness of fandom to stories and subjects that in other hands feel exhausted, cliched or just dated. Perspective | The ugly underside of Brad Pitt’s cool car in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z But there's also an unnecessarily noir funeral - complete with casket and a cliched umbrella - as well as a moving and excruciating monologue by Louima about his attack. Review: Tom Hanks shines in messy 'Lucky Guy' 2013-04-02T02:16:03Z Sometimes, predictability can arise because of cliched, ham-fisted writing. The Walking Dead: season 8, episode 12 recap – The Key 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Just as his lyrics have effortlessly avoided the cliched lexicon of rock'n'roll, so Gruff Rhys has upped the stakes of how to work with a band. This week's new live music 2013-02-16T06:00:00Z When I started doing press for them, it was the same cliched rock critics saying, 'Well, you didn't play CBGB's in '78 ...' '80s stars Hall & Oates back in spotlight 2010-03-28T23:31:00Z The movie has been criticised by some of its practitioners, who have called the film's portrayal of dancers cliched. Black Swan set to soar 2011-01-14T09:51:08Z But other films that pass the test contain troubling representations of race, whether that’s the faceless violent Arabs of American Sniper or the cliched gangbangers of Crash. How to fix Hollywood's race problem 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z This performance seemed bracing in 2013, but a second look reveals how repetitive and cliched the script is. Review | Shakespeare’s ‘Caesar’ and Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’ miss big 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z One of Levy’s friends tells her to write a cliched script so she can afford her “grand old house,” but that’s the last thing she wants to do. Review | In ‘Real Estate,’ Deborah Levy contemplates the structures that define us 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The adventures are adventurous, and the sonic and visual approaches are almost never cliched or stale. Nearly Nirvana in ‘Journey to the West’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The scenes between Robb and his doctor were well acted but it doesn't disguise the fact that the relationship itself is pretty cliched. Game of Thrones: season two, episode eight ? The Prince of Winterfell 2012-05-21T12:36:49Z There are the now mandatory shots of Olympic Park and the Olympic Stadium: scenes which are in danger of becoming as cliched in London films as shots of the Gherkin building were a decade ago. Ill Manors 2012-06-07T14:30:01Z A few pages later, Prose nails why cliched descriptions are so hopeless at conveying experience, explaining, for instance, why the sentence "Tom bit his lip" is a pointless banality. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose – review 2012-05-26T23:07:19Z “Sometimes the obvious choice is obvious for a reason,” Beviglia argues in support of his cliched top pick. Review: Blogger tallies Springsteen’s Top 100 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z The cliched image of salad as it once was – soggy leaves, a husk of dry cucumber and a whisper of tomato – is a rare fixture of pop culture. From sidekick to superstar: the rise of the salad 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z More complex, more sophisticated stories and representations need to replace the simplistic, outdated and cliched tropes that have been consistently rewarded at the Oscars. On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z That said, the female characters are depressingly cliched. Your next box set: Men Behaving Badly 2012-11-15T15:30:02Z The writing was trite and cliched, as were the situations, with the exception of the scenes dealing with Jamie's trauma. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z It's funny, shocking and thrilling all at once, but it is also completely and utterly ridiculous and cliched. J.Lo takes charge in Netflix's gruesome action-thriller "The Mother" 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z I was pretty cross about him throwing away a 25-year relationship in such a cliched fashion – but a part of me was singing with joy. 'Out of nowhere I felt really sad': readers on how they felt at 47 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z West has no problem with Quvenzhane's nomination: "People throw around all the time that someone is an old soul packaged in a very young body, and as cliched as that may be, it's true." Wallis a beast of an actress, but is 9 too young? 2013-02-13T13:44:11Z He said people are choosing uplifting music and music of solace rather than "overly jingoistic, cliched patriotism." New York state of mind: listeners pick 9/11 soundtrack to mark anniversary 2011-08-26T20:53:53Z None of these images is crude or cliched. Review | With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Among them was a teenager who offered a quietly devastating critique of the “cliched” scripts full of “running up and down corridors and silly monsters”. The diehards of doom! Why Doctor Who is the show fans love to hate 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Trite and cliched as the sentiment may be, this is a contest in which everyone wins. Eurovision Is the World’s Greatest Music Contest 2013-05-24T04:10:53Z It's time to throw off the stifling, cliched, banal covers of dark drama and step confidently into the light. Down with dark: why screen drama needs to lighten up 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z No fault of the writers for doing their jobs but its an unfortunate phenomena of our times that the cliched "quaint" little spaces are ruined almost as quickly as they are discovered and shared. 6 Places in Europe Offering Shelter From the Crowds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z These may seem pedestrian or cliched questions, but read Harry Crews's memoir and see if you don't consider such questions more deeply. Glenn Taylor's top 10 books of the American South 2011-04-13T09:41:42Z The Express called it "misconceived", while the said the plot was "cliched" and the dialogue "leaden". Spice musical leaves critics cold 2012-12-12T10:39:20Z Even though I have had a grudging respect for Sparks's knack for ingenious popular fiction in the past, this latest gushing, smouldering love story is just too ridiculously cliched. Love Arbitrage? Tell us about the films you've seen this week 2013-03-04T15:18:39Z The National are such a special group and are amazingly gifted in voicing all those human emotions without resorting to the capital letters and cliched sentiments so many bands can't help but use. Six Songs of Me: Andrew Evans of When the Gramophone Rings 2012-08-23T10:10:40Z "James doesn't allow anything to be conventional or cliched." Hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway talk Oscars 2011-02-25T01:00:29Z There is no descriptor that can cage his style, let alone as cliched a category as the "Western." Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The cops investigating the motorcycle crash are particularly well drawn, and, refreshingly, they’re not cliched antiheroes. ‘Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?’ review: An antic story of scams and gangsters 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The young people themselves are likable – but the film sticks to a cliched template, derived from a thousand TV reality shows. First Position – review 2013-04-11T20:40:01Z USA Today’s Kelly Lawler called the finale “a disaster ending that fans didn’t deserve,” adding that it was “hacky; it was cliched.” 'Game of Thrones' leaves fans sad, mad and wanting more 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Asianness is mere window dressing, satisfied by cliched heaps of familial guilt, food shots, and gossipy society ladies. Crazy Rich Asians is no racial triumph. It's a soulless salute to the 1% 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z This restraint has stood him in good stead ever since as the youthful bravura of some of his better-known contemporaries has congealed into somethingempty and cliched. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z For his part, Beck confirmed his survivor status minus a need for cliched tumbling walls. Weenie Roast 2014 simmers with Foster the People, Beck, Avicii, more 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z It's a heavily fictionalised version of events, complete with a full, corny complement of cliched characters and situations. Red Tails – review 2012-06-07T22:00:01Z For Maoz, making his film turned out to be, cliched though this sounds, healing. My hopes for peace 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z Quotations from professional athletes and team executives are usually insipid, vapid and cliched, and we have come to expect that, even to demand it. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Guess what? Newspapers have published fake news for ages. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Are the curators attempting to overturn the cliched view that Scandinavian art is, um, exciting? Christian K?bke: Nordic exposure 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z Resisting cliched characterisation, Wang fought to centre her own perspective without justifying or explaining it, even if that risked alienating audiences. The Farewell's Lulu Wang: ‘I would love it if white men were asked the same questions as me’ 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z She isn't focusing too much on cliched teen roles, she said, but chooses her parts based on the story. Former "Sunshine" star Breslin yearns for horror 2010-03-17T21:12:00Z Even for tokens, these women tend to be pretty cliched: They wear leather and heels, even though neither are conducive to fighting. More Female Heroes in Hollywood? Yes, But Not Nearly Enough 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z But important scenes are beginning to sag, notably in a listless first act, and there is too much cliched choral thigh-splaying and gypsy knife-waving for comfort. Carmen 2010-06-09T20:45:00Z What happens on the novel’s next page is just as cliched: four former school friends-who-share-a-terrible-secret-from-the-past are notified about the discovery and reunite. Does Ruth Ware’s new spine-tingler live up to expectations? 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit This is such a cliched choice but a huge moment all the same. Six Songs of Me: Andrew Evans of When the Gramophone Rings 2012-08-23T10:10:40Z We got together in the most cliched way – getting drunk at the work Christmas meal. No sex, please, we’re colleagues – the new rules of office romance 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z The plot twists will give you whiplash, the cliched dialogue occasionally deserves an eye roll, but, in the end, “The Black Book,” is an engaging read that feels ready for a prime-time cable-TV movie. James Patterson says ‘The Black Book’ is his best novel in 20 years 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z "That generation of kids born after 9/11 are so much better at being themselves. It's so cliched, but they are unapologetically Muslim." "An Act of Worship" is one Muslim American's "counternarrative of our last 30 years" 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z 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 The episode's fixation on cliched signifiers of "childhood innocence" feels nearly as creepy as the perp's assaults. Meet the worst new TV show of 2011: "Suspect Behavior" 2011-02-16T15:01:00Z We all knew, to a certain extent, that Perry was doing a pastiche of James Dean, but that made him seem classy – classic, even – rather than cliched. Luke Perry: forever the thrillingly cool teen pinup 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Where solitary reading drives us into ourselves – producing the cliched image of the couple reading their own books in bed before rolling over and turning out the light – reading aloud is a shared experience. How reading aloud can be an act of seduction 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z Hokey, cliched, all that, yes, but he produced a little catch in the throat every time, and that optimism, that sense of community, is what kept people coming back. As radio and pop culture splintered, Casey Kasem was keeping it together There is this cliched idea of poshness that crops up in television: you know, someone's posh cousin in a sitcom, Tim Nice But Dim. Laura Wade's posh | Interview 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z This would be fine and dandy, were it not that the movie is so horribly cliched and formulaic that it looks as if it was written by a computer programme. Trouble with the Curve – review 2012-11-29T21:30:04Z To dismiss it as cliched and sentimental holy minimalism is simply wrong. A guide to Arvo Pärt's music 2012-06-18T16:10:26Z The rest has been a litany of rehashed storylines, cliched characters and lazy directing. The Karate Kid thrashes The A-Team at the US box office 2010-06-14T11:50:00Z These women support each other through rough times, and the show largely steers away from cliched tropes and oversimplified drama. Best Instagrams From the Cast of Orange Is the New Black 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z I may be a happily cliched rom-com loving, yoga-doing Wine Mom, but I refuse to be typecast as a salad person. I used to beg for creamy cucumber salad — but this version's even better 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z NBC’s short-lived sitcom Outsourced got nuked by critics for its reliance on cliched characterizations of Indian people working in a call center. Bloodthirsty terrorists and duplicitous spies: does TV have a Muslim problem? 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It seems no matter the arena, the most cliched move in corporate and political combat is to co-opt an opponent’s message, expecting nobody to notice or care. Corporate America’s newest union insult 2012-08-24T14:51:00Z Eight years have since passed, and time has done its cliched but excellent bit in terms of healing. ‘We're very close. We couldn't not be’: the secret to a friendly divorce 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Though somewhat tongue-in-cheek, Starship Troopers does adhere to most of the genre's most venerable cliched traditions. Joe Queenan's guide to sci-fi cliches 2010-10-21T11:00:00Z So far, so cliched, and if this were a film its familiar themes and archetypal characters would hardly be noteworthy. Red Dead Redemption 2010-05-17T17:05:00Z The cliched thing to say about Exile on Main Street, the 1971 album from the Rolling Stones that has just been reissued and gone to No 1, is that it is timeless. In praise of ? Exile on Main Street 2010-05-25T23:05:00Z The real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly cliched that The Casual Vacancy is not only disappointing - it's dull. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z I last looked at reader-submitted poems after 9/11 and wrote about them — their technical awfulness, their cliched, saccharine sentimentality — but ultimately about my lump-in-the-throat reaction to them. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Capturing the pandemic and protests in poetry 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Breaking Through' falls into cliched musical traps at Pasadena Playhouse 'Bootycandy' adorns itself with flamboyance, ribaldry, hilarity and unsettling poignancy 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z It's a cliched ideal, but it really is about music bringing people together, and it's happening. Electronic dance music has its spring awakening 2012-06-08T14:49:04Z I will — and I am using lamentably cliched sports language — “take it to the next level.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Pickin’ up where the Apostrophe Protection Society left off 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z That's not a message kids need to hear, a cliched trope where the queer character is more likely to die than the straight ones, especially if they have finally found love or happiness. Will no one think of the tweens? Kids need more queer stories than just "Heartstopper" 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Its success may modify the somewhat cliched critical view of Asian cinema at Cannes as something affectless and opaque. Cannes film festival 2010: a triumph of politics over art 2010-05-24T13:13:00Z I find myself starting to pull at my lip and do eye-rolls, Dana-style, every time the drama falls into this familiar, cliched pattern. Home time 2012-12-13T15:29:18Z If the star shape of the fountain feels reflexive and cliched, the visual seduction of fire dancing on a calm pool of water is mesmerizing. American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial has impact larger than its size He introduced “Rock Star” as about being really wasted and trashing your hotel room, the cliched fantasies of half a century of guitar-god rot coming home to roost in rap. Review | Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That’s not a compliment. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z There was a general consensus among the production team that the cliched "man in a suit" look be avoided in favour of something more otherworldly. Raymond Cusick 2013-02-24T18:19:55Z They arrive in the hick town full of scorn and superiority, making all the cliched jokes about the locale and its folky inhabitants. Schitt's Creek: the five things that make it such perfect, Emmy award-winning TV 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Although the acting is uniformly excellent, the love story is soggy, the humor predictable and the direction by Hollywood veteran Sam Wood utterly cliched. The truth behind the legend of Lou Gehrig 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z "An explosion of cliched fetishism not seen outside the cheap Halloween costume aisles," wrote EW.com. Steamy 'Glee' GQ pics have many, well, steaming 2010-10-21T23:16:00Z And while Austin Powers played off the cliched Britishness of James Bond, it still poked fun at works and references our parents and/or grown-ups were familiar with. Scream of laughter: how today's best-loved pop culture grew from parody 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Already this feels cliched and tiresome; one yearns for the day when an author from outside can approach Africa without invoking the "heart of darkness" mythology. The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Her "best black friend" Missandei, who in that moment is fulfilling the cliched role as the emotional surrogate for a white woman. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z The production avoids cliched pitfalls and embraces the humanity that drives Williams’ symbology-ridden study of the eternal clash between spirit and flesh. A smoldering 'Summer and Smoke' at Actors Co-op 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Because while this kind of show can offer more than an opportunity to guffaw at its participants, when the results are so cliched, it seems an intrusion that's very hard to justify. Posh vs Poor 2010-06-17T12:18:00Z Rather than following the rather cliched well-trodden path of travelling to India to find himself spiritually, the singer immersed himself in the fast-moving, cacophonous buzz of the city which is home to 20 million people. Bombay Bicycle Club unveil new album 2013-11-08T07:45:51Z Shakespeare coined this now cliched line and it appears repeatedly in his plays. Murdoch could learn from Shakespeare 2011-07-12T19:00:01Z This man's agenda may sound horribly cliched, but he's not quite as predictable as this makes out. Jonathan and Julie Myerson on Blue Valentine: almost too painful to watch 2011-02-06T00:08:49Z Upon the possibility of hope one always tastes the possibility of sorrow: the violin looked like my cliched concept of a refugee, silent, unstrung. How to be hopeful: Colum McCann on the broken violin that played in a refugee camp 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z There is, however, some shockingly cliched dialogue: "I love him, you know," says the sleazy brother's girlfriend. TV review: DCI Banks; Great British Food Revival 2012-10-10T21:00:01Z "A concern was avoiding the cliched path of lyrics," he says. Deptford Goth: defo not a goth, and graduating beyond the bedroom 2013-03-15T14:00:00Z The surface gloss of the family album images, their cliched dead-centre compositions and forced facial expressions are translated into highly painterly works, paintings in which the organic matter of the fluid medium is fully evident. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-29T00:06:24Z Elsewhere, great titles such as The Priest and Used Cars aren't always best served by adolescent, cliched lyrics about religion. Letlive: The Blackest Beautiful – review 2013-07-04T20:25:01Z Turns out, a game at Yankee stadium is the kind of cliched Americana dream experience I always hoped for. 10 top tips from our New York correspondent 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z "Unfortunately, the real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly cliched that 'The Casual Vacancy' is not only disappointing — it's dull." Rowling's adult novel lacks magic, some critics say 2012-09-27T10:54:26Z Yet within its ambition to convey the meaning of life, The Tree of Life is also boring, cliched and banal. The Tree of Life ? review 2011-07-09T23:05:43Z All the familiar rites of passage are here, but presented evenly, without the cliched narrative beats – partly a function of the project's necessary open-endedness. Boyhood review – one of the great films of the decade 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z If one of them steals the show, it’s Bellisle; her characters include the cliched victim of a TV police procedural and a woman convinced that her friend’s ex is a murderer. Review | Second City returns to Washington with familiar gifts in ‘She the People’ and ‘Love, Factually’ 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z "I believe that part of it was that the style of the shows was still that cliched magician," he says. Saturday interview: Dynamo, the magician who walks on water 2012-07-06T23:05:33Z This is disappointing enough, but Gibb's account is also marred by an obtrusive style, with most sentences bursting with cliched adjectives. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-06T08:00:36Z She created this weekend-long event to celebrate a movie genre that is often beloved for being relatable and uplifting while criticized for being cliched, far-fetched and retrograde. Welcome to Rom Com Fest, a haven for fans who never stopped believing in happily ever after 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Amongst the long winded passages that do not always pay off, there are flatteringly loose and effective arrangements on cliched standards. Readers' reviews: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Riversea 2012-08-29T14:07:29Z Each time I would ask to take his picture, and each time he refused with a cliched joke: “I am wanted by the FBI,” “I might break your camera.” Pride and pain in Trump country: 'We all grew up poor, but we had a community' 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z An inspirational film often feels soupy and syrupy, schematic and cliched, faintly coercive and reactionary. From Groundhog Day to … Raging Bull? – films to inspire and uplift 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z People say street photography is somehow old-fashioned and cliched, but, if that's the case, so is portraiture or sports photography; you might even say so is photography itself. Moment of truth 2010-04-17T23:05:00Z We are left with a supercharged soap opera, a view of CIA work that is distant and incurious, and a portrait of a marriage that itself is insultingly shallow, cliched and unconvincing. Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z It's so cliched, but they are unapologetically Muslim. "An Act of Worship" is one Muslim American's "counternarrative of our last 30 years" 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The cliched local TV newscast promo, "Film at 11," seems as outdated as cooking without a microwave oven. Rodney King beating helped drive video revolution 2012-06-18T20:48:08Z Skins has become the thing that it despised: middle-aged and cliched. TV Hall of Shame #4: Skins 2011-03-09T14:37:19Z “He makes me whole, though, as cliched as it sounds. He’s funny, annoying –” How we met: ‘I rang her doorbell at 2am, but she didn’t wake up because she was drunk’ 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Not to just throw these slightly cliched phrases at you, but there's a Henry Ford quote: "If you always do what you've always done, you will get what you've always got." Daniel Radcliffe: 'I'm not a one-trick pony' 2013-06-02T18:00:01Z The cliched flapper: In order to keep more than one century in our brains, humanity edits it down to a beaded flapper dress, rolled-down stockings and a horizontal headband with a feather in it. The Carpetbagger: Clothes and Character: ‘The Great Gatsby’ 2013-12-31T19:00:37Z Though we hear or read the words “Iran” and “Iranian” on a daily basis, we are starved of any but the most cliched images of this country of 83 million people. Review | It’s time we looked at Iran through the same lens as its best photographers 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The parade of cliched "sea" adjectives in the fourth stanza mocks Whitmanesque celebration, emphasising the point with a finely judged pause before naming names. Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z The role wasn’t a cliched coming out story, he said, but instead someone who “happened to be trans” and had already transitioned. 'Third-class citizens': trans actors see stereotyping and exclusion in Hollywood 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Fashion and romance – two rather cliched aspects of French life that is deemed acceptable to Emily the American. "Emily in Paris" brings all the ugly American tropes to the dining table 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z He managed to plumb Beethoven’s depths without evoking the cliched sense of a tortured psyche that often features in interpretations of his music. Herbert Blomstedt illuminates Beethoven, joyously, with the NSO 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z But the subjects are all a bit tired and cliched. TV review: Agony & Ecstasy: A Year With English National Ballet; Caroline Quentin: A Passage Through India; Horizon: Predators in Your Backyard 2011-03-08T22:05:01Z Unveiled in 2017, the ballet is like a bound, glossy postcard collection that captures tourist sites in cliched beauty. Review | Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Paquita’: Glittering dancing but a skimpy story 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The character is a refreshing reminder that Stephenson does not believe in cliched evildoers, but in parties with varying degrees of ethics and competing WorldViews. Review | Neal Stephenson’s ‘Termination Shock’ is another prescient page-turner 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z So I am that cliched middle-class creature with an Ocado habit. Nigella Lawson: ‘Instagram can make a cook despair’ 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z “Mmm, listen to this Frank Sinatra record. That ol’ Frank sure could sing,” said Big, who thought that saying things such as this made him look suave and classic rather than cliched and tedious. With Carrie and Samantha’s spat, we finally get to watch the real Sex and the City 3 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Brutal, too, to watch Kasim witnessing the death of his mother from afar – that reflected image was a little cliched, but still effective. The Honourable Woman recap: episode seven – The Hollow Wall 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z For centuries, the cliched "bedsheet ghost" — consisting of a plain white sheet with two cutout holes for eyes — has been a classic representation of dead spirits, especially in entertainment and pop culture. Why do we wear bedsheets as a ghost costume? A closer look at its creepy, yet practical origins 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Cheer thus deepens and inverts an archetype so cliched and steeped in Americana it’s practically baked into the national apple pie: taut-bodied, pretty and popular girls, almost always white, necessarily affluent. Leading the way: how Cheer became a Netflix megahit 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z But even though this is really about Australia, it's not cliched and 'Aussie' – there are no kangaroos, no desert, no beaches. Jane Turner: 'It's a love story ? with no kangaroos' 2010-05-02T21:00:00Z In that cliched injunction they show, rather than tell. Marry Me by Dan Rhodes – review 2013-02-08T11:00:01Z It was a performance that made real that cliched term “magnetic”, her face so completely captivating that Rolling Stone hailed it as “more than acting, it’s a gathering storm”. Jennifer Lawrence: whip-smart and witty star who likes a good fight | Observer profile 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Minor roles are cliched caricatures, peppered with pointlessly distracting star cameos. Why 1917 should win the best picture Oscar 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z No doubt, it’s cliched to end the day with a sunset, but don’t miss it here. Visiting the nation’s newest national park: Indiana Dunes 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z DW: I can't think of a lot of visual imagery for these songs that wouldn't put it right in the cliched category. Interview with Adult Swim's Tim Heidecker and Davin Wood 2011-03-21T12:21:00Z I found it dull and visually cliched, but the crowd cheered it like a homecoming battleship. London film festival second week ? review 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z I think his record will be a game changer, it's really danceable club music but without ever becoming boring or cliched in the way that I find so much current dance music to be. Hudson Mohawke: beats, rhymes and lasers 2011-08-12T23:11:01Z A speech thanking his audience for sticking with him sounds candid not cliched. Seal – review 2012-12-10T18:05:19Z That sort of cliched term, the American dream. "The Terror: Infamy" twist ending: humanity wins, as long as we don't forget our sins 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z It's a shame, too, that the story is so cliched. Review: Sci-fi cliches mar beauty of 'Crysis 3' 2013-02-21T13:53:08Z I didn't believe in Lights' character in the temper-tantrum scenes of "Lights Out," so his actions seemed more like cliched movie tough guy affectations than credible psychological flaws. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z Cannavale — struggling with vocal problems on the night I saw the production — tempers the cliched notion of the imperious author with a deeply felt portrait of a frustrated visionary. Review | Daniel Radcliffe a stickler for the truth in buoyant ‘Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Despite having a Spanish wife and spending years living in Spain, Foster speaks the language only in “limited and rather stilted” form, and is continually mocked for his cliched idea of Spain. Lost script reveals what Orson Welles really thought about Ernest Hemingway 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Nordli’s Miss Adelaide blossoms, as the play unfolds, from a cliched bimbo to a complex and endearing person. 'Guys and Dolls' at the Wallis: Pared down but still full of punch 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z The script crams in every cliched old-timey joke the writers can think of, even referencing the movie Patton, which is, of course, every child’s favorite movie. Space Jam at 20: 'The perfect movie' or one of modern cinema's biggest follies? 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Some of Wain’s best touches are in the filmmaking: subtitles that are sneezed away, blatantly cliched apartment decor, a ridiculous zoom in on Rudd’s face. Review: ‘They Came Together’ a parody party 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z 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 To add insult to injury, the little dialogue these movies offer are trite and cliched. "Scream 4": a blind review 2011-04-18T22:36:00Z "Call It What You Want" is as cliched as its title implies, and the collective wrecks Neil Young's "Heart of Gold," which disastrously resembles Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy." Lollapalooza Day 1 in review 2011-08-06T06:57:00Z JR Narrated by Stephen Fry, this series is marred a little by its cliched percussive soundtrack and the too-brisk pace at which it traverses aeons of history. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 12-16 November 2012-11-12T08:09:51Z They turn cliched language into lively dialogues with lasting consequences. Paul McCarthy at Hauser & Wirth: A horror show on a grand, exquisite scale 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z And if he were to sign up, Logan doesn't see the franchise slipping back into cliched ways. Skyfall writer wants Bond Oscars 2012-11-07T06:22:00Z Generational divides, aside from being cliched, accomplish less than nothing, as the last general election in this country proved. It’s easy to dismiss boomers as know-nothings – but they got some things right, OK? 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Quite the opposite, in fact: the gags have been sharper, the characterisation stronger and the few missteps of the first series - Howard's shift from singular oddball to cliched geek, for example - have been corrected. Catch-up TV guide: from American Horror Story: Asylum to Limmy's Show 2012-11-24T00:05:27Z “He’s doing a better job of that, controlling his emotions in the inning and taking it, as cliched as it sounds, one pitch at a time,” Kershaw said of Miller. Emotional control: How Bobby Miller's rookie growth earned Dodgers' playoff trust 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z It had "all the cliched attributes of a mid-life crisis," says Ms Buck. Picasso’s twisted beauty – and the ‘trail of female carnage’ he left behind 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z The sound of nearly 50,000 Australians singing Down Under by Men at Work after that spot-kick may have been cliched, but it also raised goosebumps. Australia gripped by penalty drama on historic night 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z "Winning starts with not losing. That is very cliched but it is very much true," said Pauw. Can the 'horrible team to play against' shock Canada? 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z "I've tried to block everything out and focus on the next match. But as cliched as it sounds, it's surreal, it's unbelievable. I can't believe this." Eubanks punching above his weight in 'insane' Wimbledon run 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z "I know it sounds cliched but I have no words to describe how proud I am of her," said Jodie. Meet Lauren Filer - England's Ashes debutant 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z And, as many a cliched reminder will tell us, when good men do nothing, evil has a better shot at prevailing. Why Steve Bannon and Alex Jones love RFK Jr. 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Unlike most science books that touch on sci-fi, “The Possibility of Life” does not trot out cliched references to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. Review | In the search for extraterrestrial life, we are the real aliens 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z It’s hard for scenes like these to entirely avoid seeming cliched — after all, we’ve seen them countless times — but they’re vitally staged and performed. Review: Ray Romano tackles familiar terrain in disappointing 'Somewhere in Queens' 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Especially those of us who can’t take any more Dead Girl TV in which the deceased is a beautiful cipher whose function it is to spur disillusioned sleuths into cliched epiphanies about other bad men. Review | Has ‘Yellowjackets’ bitten off more than it can chew? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z And even within that, when you choreograph a thing, there’s cliched pitfalls you’re always trying to avoid. In 'Yellowjackets' Season 2, Juliette Lewis says Natalie is seeking 'redemption' 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z It might be tempting to place the blame on Bonds’ book, which has some cliched dialogue, predictable plot points and familiar confrontation scenes. Review: 'The Lonely Few,' a Geffen musical about lesbian rockers in love, is full of old-fashioned heart 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Those are awfully broad and cliched assertions, especially coming from authors who have spent the previous 425 pages eviscerating the overreach of those on the other side. Review | Big Business’s relentless push to equate the free market with freedom 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Despite following all the rules for sonnets, the poem is cliched and predictable. Perspective | AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine. 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z “It sounds a bit cliched, but the opticality of being out there is pretty extraordinary,” he said. Perspective | A very light touch: The National Gallery’s subterranean bright spot 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z At times, lines that are meant to be conversational or colloquial feel rote or cliched. Review | ‘The House of Eve’ is a triumph of historical fiction 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z When it comes to concerts, some platitudes and superlatives are cliched to the point of being an expected part of the communion between performer and audience. Review | Rap newcomer BabyTron brings postmodern take on hip-hop to Union Stage 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Its clumsier and more cliched moments — and there are many — are perhaps meant to be passed off as the kind of stuff Gary and his pals like. Review: COVID-19 gets the horror treatment in "Sick"; "Kids vs. Aliens" is sweetly scruffy 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z But her songs were never so straightforward to be cliched. Christine McVie: The songbird behind some of Fleetwood Mac's greatest hits 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Even in the 1930s, the cliched depictions of national dances in the second act came under fire. Perspective | Cracking open ‘The Nutcracker’s’ dark Russian past 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Storylines dealing with school dramas feel cliched, with thinly drawn characters and “in” groups and “out” groups that play into stereotypes. What to watch with your kids: ‘Strange World’ and more 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z That literal life-or-death question becomes mired in cliched encounters with figures from Silverio’s past, as well as vaguely self-congratulatory natterings about the wages of wealth, ambition, artistic respect and public acclaim. Review | ‘Bardo’: Impeccably staged and shot psychobabble 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z It sounds cliched but that is where I went wrong before. Vunipola savouring international 'rebirth' 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Max Verstappen cliched a second title in extraordinary circumstances after dominating a Japanese Grand Prix truncated by heavy rain. Verstappen seals title amid confusion after Japan win 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z It’s “The Day of the Locust,” and we, the audience, are the biggest pests, a conceit that’s not only facile and cliched but unearned. Review | Dumb ‘Blonde’: Ana de Armas plays Marilyn Monroe in misguided biopic 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Dead bodies, spooky imagery in cliched, darkly comic drama. What to watch with your kids: ‘Strange World’ and more 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z This sumo wrestling is not the cliched images of 600-pound men in nothing but top knots and loin cloths. 'It keeps you young.' A mother and son take up sumo wrestling, defying stereotypes 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z And when Evie’s cliched romantic fantasies seem to be coming true, she — along with many viewers — actively questions them: Can we allow ourselves to give in and enjoy the moment? What to watch with your kids: ‘Gigi & Nate’ and more 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Meloni said she had no intention of ditching current support for Ukraine, saying the cliched image of Italy being a lightweight nation of "spaghetti and mandolins" had to end. Italy's Meloni promises to defy Chinese and Russian expansionist ambitions 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z It's a variation on the cliched mobster threat: "Nice place you've got there. Shame if something happened to it." Trump gives the FBI the Jan. 6 treatment 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z My marriage had ended just like every cliched L.A. love story, with my ex running off with his assistant. L.A. Affairs: I went on dates with L.A. losers. Would an Orange County man change me? 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Impressionism can seem the most benign, the most complacent, the most cliched of art styles. Perspective | Monet’s towering obsession “Although Hall never resorts to a cliched impersonation, his suggestion of Nixon’s physiognomy is frequently uncanny, especially in profile.” From 'Seinfeld' to 'Magnolia,' journeyman character actor Philip Baker Hall dies at 90 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z It embraced a cliched op-ed design, that of deploying public figures to braid their personal experiences with policy prescriptions. Opinion | Depp-Heard case hinged on the world’s worst #MeToo op-ed 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z They can match a range of styles, from oil paintings to CGI renders and even photographs, and — though it sounds cliched — in many ways the only limit is your imagination. All these images were generated by Google’s latest text-to-image AI 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z It’s cliched to compliment an actor by saying they’re nothing like the characters they play. Terrified of Gen Z? Sydney Sweeney and HBO can take some credit for that. 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z The story may be cliched, but it’s an all-ages affair with an exploration of the eccentricities of family loyalty and the importance of friendship underlying the entire supernatural shenanigans. ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ 4K Ultra HD movie review 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Above all else, and although it may seem vague and cliched, I think being African is more of a conscious decision than anything else. Algeria and a question of identity: Who counts as African? 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z The play to its credit resists the more cliched route of a rescue narrative. Review: 'A Hit Dog Will Holler' tackles the private toll on Black women activists 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Besides, cliched as the notion may be, Baker actually had reason to expect the bounces would start going his team’s way: The Astros generate more bounces than most teams, and they have all season. Astros bounce back to beat the Braves in Game 2, send the World Series to Atlanta tied 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Unlike that fact-based film, however, “The Starling” never really rises above the treacly, somewhat cliched handling of the couple’s difficulties. New movies to stream this week: ‘The Starling,’ ‘Heval’ and more 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Analogies between football and battlefields have become cliched, but to Mr. Bowden, who died Aug. 8 at 91, the link was a vital and defining part of his Hall of Fame career. Bobby Bowden, who made Florida State a perennial football powerhouse, dies at 91 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z That sounds cliched, but there are simply no words to convey Nigerians’ horror at the endless cycle of national grief. Opinion | Nigeria’s school kidnapping crisis is even worse than you think 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Gillian Anderson used to get asked this cliched question all the time and she would offer the same response: That I am a complete goofball. Why 'The Crown' star Gillian Anderson is probably not the hard-ass you think she is 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z “Voyagers” has lofty ambitions and big, cliched questions about purpose, but one of the main problems is that it doesn’t do a great job of establishing its own characters. Review: YA sci-fi thriller ‘Voyagers’ doesn’t quite take off 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z In the most simplistic, cliched and binary narrative of recent events, this would be the moment when the script flips. The pandemic has been hard on us extroverts — and it's not getting easier 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z But these cliched trappings are set in a dystopian future, on a distant, Earthlike planet some 6o years’ journey from our own. Review | Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. Space western ‘Chaos Walking’ explores gender dynamics, to mixed effect. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Here, though, the cliched, flimsy story is a shame. Review: 'Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection' updates everything but the sexist tropes 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z So far, so cliched – but Jimmy is also homeless, and that’s how he becomes the witness to a murder. From Moomins to murder mysteries: the best books on life outdoors 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z But the cliched, teasing rich kids in the background have been joined by a stereotypically portrayed gay teen who’s on the verge of acknowledging his sexual orientation. What to watch with your kids: ‘Animal Crackers,’ ‘The Kissing Booth 2’ and more 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The real Brazil never corresponded to the cliched image of a gentle giant, projected for export. Jair Bolsonaro has trashed Brazil's image but he hasn't broken its soul | Eliane Brum 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z An attempt, in the cliched language of sporting redemption, to “tell his story”? “I don’t really know,” says Zenovich. In a new documentary, Lance Armstrong shows plenty of rage but little regret 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Tobin was Tiffany’s manager, and an almost hilariously cliched one: a dominant, abrasive, controlling know-all. Tiffany: 'It's awesome to see my music liberate middle-aged women' 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z It would have been easy for The Magicians to continue on as the wildly cliched story of one loner white guy, forever believing he’s special, learning that actually he is. The Magicians is ending after season 5, but it’s raised the bar for fantasy shows 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Often hilarious, the play takes pointed swipes at familiar Shepard stalking horses: cliched American ideals of cowboy masculinity corrupted by conformity and mediocrity. Review: The Odyssey rustles up the spirit of early Sam Shepard in an irreverent double bill 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Those cliched hashtags on Twitter and Instagram – do the important things, tell people you love how you feel, focus on the positive – are probably right. The race to grieve: how social media has made professional mourners of us all | Max Rushden 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The Ghent Altarpiece deliberately avoids cliched images of Christ. Why laugh at the humanoid sheep in the Ghent altarpiece? It is majestic 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Finally, it may sound awfully cliched, but if the duke and duchess and their bouncing royal baby are keen on understanding the lot of the common Canadian, there is one shortcut: ice hockey. Welcome to Canada, Harry and Meghan! Here’s how to fit in with us Canucks | John Semley 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z As 60 approaches, I do have the sense of time running out, or at the very least becoming more precious, which is the most cliched of all cliches but nevertheless true. My 60th isn’t ‘just another birthday’. It’s a turning point | Kit de Waal 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z “Great for Scottish football” is the cliched cry. Europa League progress for Celtic and Rangers should not bring wild celebration 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In response to the French taxes, Trump is now threatening to tax “all the most cliched French goods like wine, cheese and handbags”, Noah explained. Trevor Noah on Trump: 'He's like the world’s worst superhero' 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Painfully cliched as it might be, there is an essence of the American Dream to Wright-Phillips’ MLS story. Did Bradley Wright-Philips' success show MLS's weakness or its strength? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z As cliched as it sounds, there’s no reason to reinvent the wheel. Review | ‘Abominable’ is adorable. The story may be standard, but the film is a visual delight. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z He suffered a “cliched case of twentysomething anxiety”, of not really knowing what he wanted to do with his life. David Nicholls: ‘Could I write a book that had no love story? I don’t know if I’d want to’ 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z So how do you answer the question honestly and effectively without coming across as cliched? 'What's your biggest weakness?' 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Although if sincerity is what Johnson is looking for, this one might come across as a bit cliched after years of overuse. Ezekiel Elliott's apology wasn't sincere enough? Here's some help 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z I was the West Coast national writer for an East Coast newspaper, and I arrived with a New Yorker’s standard suitcase-full of cliched notions about my new home. Exploring L.A.’s big issues through its intimate stories 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z A few characters are stereotyped as “mean girls”; they do the bad guy’s dirty work and talk in a cliched way about boys, hairstyles and makeup. What to watch with your kids: ‘Uglydolls,’ ‘Ultraman’ and more 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z “Lifelong learning” became the mantra of all, and the cliched answer from politicians and scholars to the deepening problem of inequality. Capitalism is failing workers. People want a job with a decent wage – why is that so hard? | Richard Reeves 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z White speaks so endearingly it prompts a cliched question. Jimmy White: ‘I'd have died if I’d beaten Higgins and won the world title in 1982’ 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The cliched truth is if that we listened and talked more about it, we could all save ourselves a lot of trouble. Want a larger penis? Then your problems may be upstairs, not downstairs | Tom Usher 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z It may sound like a cliched interview question, but the National Education Union says that the answer is evidence of a "culture of fear" in schools. I'll quit before my job kills me - teacher 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z It would be nice, if cliched, to report that even a curtailed Pulisic appearance was worth the price of admission, but value for money is an open question. It is more expensive to watch the US than world champions France. Why? 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z As such, they find the assumption that they squabble over the kitchen table cliched and sexist. Mother-daughter duos: the new power couples of fashion 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The cliched image of hyperinflation is of people rushing to the shops with cash in wheelbarrows. Barter and dollars the new reality as Venezuela battles hyperinflation 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Schultz’s claim to be colourblind drew immediate criticism on social media as a cliched and implausible sentiment that undercuts the reality of racism by implying a post-racial society and erasing the identity of non-white people. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz criticized for saying 'I don't see color’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z But it’s equally as cliched that everyone will break their vow immediately – or at least spend the whole time scrolling under the table. Yuletide log-off: are people really taking a break from Twitter over Christmas? 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Behind the big plays and big contracts, beyond the caricatures and cliched sound bites, are men with families, trying to perform at a high level. Review | What makes quarterback football’s most important position? 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z A dense, cakelike brick that has become a cliched comic trope. Our favorite Christmas arguments, from eggnog to ‘Love, Actually’ | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z There is no nervous backstage footage from before showtime, shots of Springsteen’s hometown of Freehold, New Jersey, or artificial interludes, techniques Zimny dismissed as cliched. Hours after Springsteen show closes, film drops on Netflix 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z I’m often frustrated by the cliched representation of the south in the media. What you know about the American south and climate change is wrong 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z No one expects anything that dramatic, but even just a few rounds of voting would court a return of the cliched headline the party loathes: “Democrats in disarray.” Opinion | The supreme test of Nancy Pelosi’s wizardry 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Rock stars becoming painters remains one the most cliched career transitions in showbiz, however. Chrissie Hynde: ‘It's hard work being alone. Paintings are an outlet' 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z “It’s almost cliched for a man to be noncommittal, and Bobby was always a conundrum for me. I understand the character much better now, because the stakes are higher for women who wait.” 'Print that!' Broadway legend Patti LuPone sounds off 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z For the most part, “Kusama — Infinity” tells its unconventional story rather conventionally, beginning with the artist’s almost cliched childhood: Her mother disapproved of art-making, scarring her daughter. Review | If you liked Kusama’s ‘Infinity Mirrors’ exhibit, you’ll love this new movie about her 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z "To say a telescope will open up new windows on the Universe sounds kind-of cliched, but with James Webb it's really true." Could Nasa's next big thing see alien life? 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The Magic Gang are the first band on Felix's label to move on to the cliched "tough second album". The Magic Gang: The band set to 'keep getting bigger' 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z “Last Curtain Call” may lament the emptiness of its protagonist’s hedonistic and selfish lifestyle, but the film itself offers few pleasures with its poor pacing and cliched script. Review: Indie drama ‘Last Curtain Call’ struggles to make you care about tragic rocker 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Even beyond the cliched embrace of “failing better”, a tolerance for things not going quite right is baked into the tech industry. The undertakers of Silicon Valley: how failure became big business 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Say what you will about their results, about the cliched nature of Martinez’s nightly assertions that this team doesn’t give up, but they certainly do not roll over. Gio Gonzalez struggles again, and the Nationals are a .500 team after 120 games 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Every word became businesslike, every answer cliched, particularly as his performance led to question after question about what might be going wrong — and never seemed to mention what went right. Perspective | At the Home Run Derby, Bryce Harper and D.C. fell back in love — at least for one night 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z It is no longer the cliched “Hermit Kingdom,” either. Perspective | Reporter’s notebook: Covering North Korea, daring to hope for change 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z His sentences are dotted with cliched phrases such as “Houston, we have a problem” and “Folks, I can’t make this stuff up.” Review | Keith Hernandez’s hijinks in life and mastery on the baseball diamond 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The Capitals and Golden Knights are not underdogs in the cliched “Cinderella” sense, even though the Golden Knights did not exist a year ago. Stanley Cup Final sees ratings bump thanks to two unique ‘underdogs’ 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z It’s one of the most cliched pieces of relationship advice, immortalized in Etsy signage and a ’90s R&B ballad by Silk: Don’t allow an argument to go unresolved — even overnight. Perspective | Five myths about marriage 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, another character is caught up in a spy novel full of unbelievably cliched caricatures. Opinion | ‘Judge Parker’ has become incomprehensible 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z In fields such as driverless transport, virtual reality and blockchain technology, new inventions may eventually transform our lives, and fulfil the cliched big-tech promise about making the world a better place. Ignore the hype over big tech. Its products are mostly useless | John Harris 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z In the popular imagination, the region is defined by cliched Wild West tales about Billy the Kid and UFO conspiracy theories about Roswell. Joshua Wheeler aims to put overlooked southern New Mexico on the map in 'Acid West' 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Erdogan is a master of repetitive and cliched metaphors and themes. Sermons and Shouted Insults: How Erdogan Keeps Turkey Spellbound 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z “That is a way that I see me redeeming the fact that I’m a cliched white, cis-gendered homeowner. That is my justification to be a white homeowner in a gentrifying neighborhood.” Homeowners welcoming needy renters to fix housing crisis 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z They are susceptible to cliched metaphors of “soft” and “passive” femininity, “hard” and “active” masculinity; they are nostalgic for a time when men did not have to think twice about being men. The crisis in modern masculinity 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Here are some candidates for cliched roles we'd like to put out to pasture. Commentary: Some stereotyped women's film roles we'd like to do away with 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Gaylin ladles the poignant “If I Die Tonight” with surprises while never succumbing to the obvious or cliched. Alison Gaylin’s ‘If I Die Tonight’ tells poignant story 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z The cliched and supposedly high-minded distinction between “a politician” and “a statesman” was always wrong. Opinion | We’re witnessing a war on public life. This is the cost. 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Indeed, the classic Nintendo Entertainment System was great for games in which overdramatic and cliched Italians hurled turtle shells around subterranean drainpipes, but real bad for golf. The top and bottom 7 golf video games for the original NES - Golf Digest 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z “I think that we have a very cliched way of looking at race,” she replies. Leïla Slimani and Afua Hirsch: ‘People have a cliched way of looking at race’ 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Even the Mission fig flatbread, accented with Gorgonzola, prosciutto and reduced balsamic, manages to pump new life into this cliched combination. Review | This pizzeria in Bethesda isn’t Mia’s anymore. It’s even better. 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z He then referenced the cliched link between their one Jewish friend and his position as a lawyer. Late-night hosts to Roy Moore: 'Hello you and the horse you rode in on' 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z So it’s hard to fault Wills for some cliched reassurances. Educating Americans to defuse Islamaphobia 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z I don't want to be a cliched person in love; but I kind of am turning into that. Meet the singer Taylor Swift calls 'little sis' 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z That sounds totally cliched, but it really is.” Lindsay Czarniak on leaving ESPN, Jemele Hill and what comes next 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Thirdly, there are traditional stereotypes in use about the jobs that men and women perform, both in the household and outside, as well as cliched social expectations and traits assigned to each gender. 'We can't teach girls of the future with books of the past' 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z I had just graduated from college that May, and as the cliched story goes, I was in pursuit of the tech dream. Bunk beds, roaches and nerdy geniuses: my year in a Silicon Valley hacker house 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z His reading list was “really, really, totally cliched, like if I was writing ‘Crazy Man Living In the Woods,’” says Bettany. Playing the Unabomber, Paul Bettany's goal was empathy, not sympathy 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Something about his makeup, the cliched “bulldog mentality,” meant more than just the stuff. Nationals’ Erick Fedde aggressive in debut, but Edwin Jackson is up for the challenge 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Punting on the river Cam may be a cliched activity, but it is not an obvious crime. As touting for punt trips becomes a crime, is tourism overwhelming Britain’s cities? 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Battlegrounds uses a cliched premise because its familiarity is foundational — similar to the way a sport uses a ball and a goal. Best games of 2017: Splatoon 2, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and more 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The words are cliched but true: Baseball is a game of failure. Perspective | The Washington Nationals’ comfort atop the NL East should make fans uncomfortable 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z The popular image of the surgeon as the egomaniacal maestro conductor figure dominating the orchestra that is the hospital he practises his arts in is both cliched and wrong. A matter of life and death: William Boyd on the rise of the surgeon-memoir 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z “Check your privilege” and “Your privilege is showing” are by now nearly cliched attacks against those deemed insufficiently aware of accidental blessings. Review | The last thing on ‘privilege’ you’ll ever need to read 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s an observation that feels cliched at this point. Opinion | Does our complacency threaten American greatness? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Not everyone seems to have such qualms, and there is a sense that many rooftopping images are in danger of becoming cliched. The lure of tall buildings: A guide to the risky but lucrative world of ‘rooftoppers’ 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z So enduring – or cliched – has the symbol become that some directors have dispensed with it altogether. Alas, poor Yorick! The shocking life of theatre's greatest skull 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z As a man, Clinton seemed like a cliched and sleazy politician, overly polished, making grand promises. If Trump were a woman: play swaps presidential candidates' genders 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z “No, because she has an opinion quota based on this pure ability to shock and offend, which I find pointless, quite cliched and increasingly very nauseating.” Piers Morgan: ‘I’m just putting opinions out there. It’s my job’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Anyone who already has their back up, suspecting yet another cliched story about a fun-loving dad who cures his careerist daughter of her workaholic ways to find love, laughter and true happiness can rest assured. Actress Sandra Hüller triumphs in the father-daughter tale ‘Toni Erdmann’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z But “City of Dreams” is not a cliched celebration of multiculturalism. It’s not just a political line: how immigrants made this country 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The review seemed to laud this tired, cliched and demeaning archetype by saying the character “quickly digs her way out of Latina-housekeeper stereotypes.” Sweep this stereotype off the TV, please 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z This theme was taken up last February by Los Angeles Times writer Hector Becerra in an article headlined “A film brownout – Latinos largely left out of even cliched supporting roles”. Hollywood’s hidden Hispanics: why LA’s Latinos are invisible on screen 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z For example, cognitive reasoning platform Rainbird has decided not to give its company's chatbot a personality or avatar, having seen first-hand the offence that can be caused by cliched female personas. Attractive, slavish and at your command: Is AI sexist? - BBC News 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Cue sweaty palms, racing heart, all the cliched signals of frayed nerves. The scariest thing about marriage? Coming clean about my debt | Allison Landa 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z He added: "As cliched as it sounds, I work for my patients... no matter what happens I will do my utmost to deliver the best care that is possible. " 'I can't imagine being a doctor for five more years' - BBC News 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The young actor steers the character between two cliched poles: the sullen, inaccessible teen and the precocious indie-film child smarter than his parents. The thoughtful teen star of '20th Century Women' shows a knack for surprising adults 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z “We’ll accept responsibility for what happened and get ready for our next opportunity,” Tomlin cliched in the moments following his masterpiece. For a smart team, the Steelers do a good job of wasting a talented roster 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z It was a noble, if cliched, gesture by an emergent young man. Longing for the Male Gaze 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z But activists in southern India, home to the country’s largest Tamil communities, now argue that plotlines such as Raanjhanaa’s are not just cliched: they are dangerous. Tamil film industry glorifies the stalking of women, activists say 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Asked his advice for other couples, he said: "Just keep talking I guess. I know how cliched that is. Too much silence is definitely not a good idea." Ten Hollywood couples with more staying power than Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - BBC News 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Pull the women directors out of the cliched place they have in society, because only then will it change for women. Q&A: The Night Manager director Susanne Bier - BBC News 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z He also said he had been offered "cliched" roles by ITV. John Cleese 'in talks' over BBC sitcom return - BBC News 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z Well, it is, with some cliched language and predictable plot twists. Review: Jay McInerney on love in the time of Cialis 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Nationwide searches for school superintendents are stupid, cliched and usually do not work. An open letter to the mayor: Please cancel national search for new D.C. schools chancellor 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z The game is hard enough without following cliched or incorrect instruction, whether it's well intentioned or not. 5-Minute Clinic: Don't Fall For These Swing Misconceptions - Golf Digest 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z To some extent, all these characters are cliched archetypes, but they’re each given depth. Voltron: Legendary Defender feels like a return for Saturday morning cartoons 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z That informs more or less what not to talk about and maybe inadvertently allows me to see what feels cliched or dated. How to write a banger for Beyoncé 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The numbers also confirm one of the nation’s cliched fitness divides, with East Coast residents being less active than their counterparts in California, Oregon and Washington state. Is 10,000-steps goal more myth than science? Study seeks fitness truths through our phones and more 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Instead, in this story — and many others — we are bombarded with the same cliched insights about hard work, following your passion and the like. What makes work meaningful? Answers from 53 people across the country 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z An attempt at combining a real-time thriller with a shot across the bow to a deceptive financial system, “Money Monster” never achieves plausibility, settling instead for cliched situations and uninteresting characters masquerading as contemporary relevance. George Clooney and Julia Roberts get mauled by 'Money Monster' 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The cliched and ineffective “don’t feed the trolls” argument is presented. #MoreThanMean highlights harassment women in sports endure | Shireen Ahmed 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z As with the portrayal of Marshall as a young man, Koskoff said the movie avoids cliched treatments, and promises audiences will find complexity, doubt and ambiguity. New film recounts Thurgood Marshall’s role in Greenwich case 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z ‘I wanted to help protect people’s human rights and dignity’ Tegan Brazier, older people’s social worker, Australia As cliched as it sounds, social work is something I was just drawn to. Why I became a social worker 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Its location near 14th and U streets, formerly the home of Jin, has a classic if somewhat cliched look: high ceilings, exposed brick, industrial lighting and large booths. 6 new bars to try around D.C. right now 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s so cliched to drink out of your Grammy, but I did send out a silly tweet. What's it like to win a Grammy? 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z “This must sound incredibly cliched, but it’s a dream come true for me,” says study co-author Brent Hendrixson of Millsaps College in Mississippi. New 'Johnny Cash' Tarantula Uproots Spider Family Tree But for many of us, the best thing about this time of year is neither the hyped prix-fixe dinners nor the cliched bunches of flowers, but the chocolate. Where to get great chocolates for Valentine's Day 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z It's cliched to say they're the 12th man but it's true. Leicester City: Reasons why they should win the Premier League 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z True, trans people are not immune from the cliched view of gender. Jaden Smith laughs in the face of gender stereotypes in Louis Vuitton ad 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z That was more important to me than "Oh, we can't show leg warmers because it's too cliched." You all should be reading Brian K. Vaughan's 'Paper Girls' comic series, now 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z It also veers from the cliched lone gunman to make team-based play integral. How Blizzard turned a costly failure into the highly anticipated 'Overwatch' 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Hating Christmas means you are pure and above it all, that cliched lowbrow enthusiasm. Forgive me, trendy holiday cynics: Christmas brings me great joy | Mikki Halpin 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Sure, it was maudlin and cliched, but it was familiar, a fixed point over many years of visiting the gallery. An eye-catching menorah brings a smile for the Festival of Light 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z “It’s becoming so cliched that they think they have to have it.” Take a tattoo for the team _ An interview with Aaron Sanchez 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Leach does sound like a cliched coach talking about that game. Mike Leach is so busy at Washington State he didn’t know Edsall was fired 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z But Perfect Dark Zero was, in game design terms, incredibly dated, with shallow gunplay, poor AI and a cliched setting. The 30 worst video games of all time – part two 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z It might not be at the point of closed-door team meetings, but it’s never a good sign when the cliched lack of desperation is evident, especially this early. What we learned from the Ducks' 4-0 loss to the Coyotes 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Yet even the briefest flick through any one of these volumes is an invitation to enter a world so quintessentially "60s" it would be cliched if it were not so cool. The short life and swinging times of London Life Magazine - BBC News 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The more original and surprising the reworking is, the more tired and cliched the original almost certainly was. Gender-swap Twilight should expose the flaws in the original – I can’t wait | Mathilda Gregory 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z I don't want to be cliched but Buckingham Palace is beautiful and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. Alessia Cara interview: Here and now - BBC News 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Familiar tropes like the knurled scroll wheel of a volume knob, the tire-tread grip around the edge of the case, and the gold and red accents all contribute to a stylish — if cliched — aesthetic. Hands-on with Marshall's rock'n'roll Android smartphone 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z “It sounds cliched, but when he walked into a room, you knew he had arrived, and you’d tell people, ‘Get ready to laugh.’ Ex-colleagues of Virginia gunman say many tried to mentor and support him 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z It’s something sportswriters learn from good editors: You don’t need so many quotes to tell your story, especially when they make little sense or reek of cliched coach-speak. Remembering the Redskins’ good ol’ days 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Instead, if martial comparisons are de rigeur when discussing doping claims, then Coe looks to have miscast himself in that most cliched of roles in modern war metaphors: the Iraqi information minister. Sebastian Coe can conquer cynicism again but misplaced war analogies must go | Marina Hyde 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z James says the cliched view of Jamaica tends to be "plantation and ghetto". Author shows off the real Jamaica through Bob Marley shooting - BBC News 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z A cliched example, but say I’m an accountant. Rupert Friend: I thought acting wasn’t for me 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z It sounds so cliched, but I’m serious: The fact that he is not a politician is refreshing. Ben Carson, riding a fresh surge in the polls, braces for his close-up 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z While the performances and cinematography set an appropriately eerie mood, the gameplay itself merely involves solving cliched challenges, such as word search and slide puzzles. Review: ‘Her Story,’ ‘Contradiction’ revive motion games 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z A vague, cliched version is simply going to be glanced at and tossed aside. How to Make Your Résumé a Diamond in the Rough 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z It was now 1991 and Dan was living in New York and had become one of the most cliched gay men in literature. Best summer reads digested: The Girl on the Train, Napoleon, Go Set A Watchman and more 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The film starts with a strong psychological/sci-fi premise but degrades into a cliched patchwork of fights, chases and gunplay. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Minions’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z But “Self/less” bears not a trace of Singh’s signature visual richness, quickly devolving into a tiresome game of cat and mouse, padded with cliched fight scenes, car chases and shootouts. ‘Self/less’ could have been a head trip. Instead it’s a by-the-numbers thriller. 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z We always say we wish athletes would be more honest in their answers instead of giving cliched replies about doing their best for the team and taking it one game at a time. Ignorance is bliss when it comes to athletes: they must be kept off Twitter 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z He started to win me over by not making the standard, cliched education tech enthusiast’s argument about student engagement and “meeting the children where they are.” Why Successful Classrooms Build a 'Game Layer' Into Lessons 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Yet, Americans persist with cliched biases against royal trappings, royal airs and the like when it comes to their own politics. Why Hillary Clinton Should Emphasize Her 'Royal' Devotion to Duty in 2016 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z There aren’t many surprises in “5 to 7,” unless you count such startlingly cliched bits of dialogue as “Life is a collection of moments” and “There’s no free lunch.” The unabashedly romantic ‘5 to 7’ is modestly funny, if not believable 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Investigating the veracity of that cliched phrase was done in the humorous spirit of April Fools' Day, but the data and findings are no spoofs. Apple eaters visit the doctor just as often as everyone else, study finds 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z It features many of the same scenes that made us gawp, chuckle, and rejoice at the first one, but now fills a whole three minutes with extra action and awesomely cliched dialog. Second Furious 7 trailer expands on the insanity of the first 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “Deflategate” might set a new low standard of wrongdoing worthy of a cliched “-gate” label - interesting mostly because the rule-breaking remains unexplained after nearly a week. A look at wide world of cheating across sports 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z This title is so cliched it’s surprising that it hasn’t been used by more politicians. The Revealing Titles of 7 Upcoming Books by Presidential Contenders 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The misbehaviour of egotistical studio executives, petulant stars and dictatorial directors seem almost too cliched to be true. Sony hacks: Sorkin says media are 'morally treasonous' 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The exterior design of the new Murano goes beyond cliched terms like “forward thinking” or “cutting edge.” 2015 Nissan Murano: Distinguished By Design 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Ayoade proved able to present young romance in a way that feels neither cliched nor overblown, and when things fall apart in his films it’s genuinely heartbreaking. Richard Ayoade: ‘Shyness can be interpreted as a kind of aggression’ 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z The game’s plot sounds awfully cliched: an unwitting detective, a ghastly murder, a phantasmagoric asylum and an unstoppable supernatural force. The 25 Biggest Video Games of Fall 2014 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z I now listen to much more classical music than I do pop or rock and on the surface that might seem like a classic, cliched, late-life move into a conservative, grown-up and increasingly remote world. Paul Morley: ‘Pop belongs to the last century. Classical music is more relevant to the future’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Likewise, the cliched “grizzled veteran detective who doesn’t like his new young punk partner” schtick gets old really fast in a series of scenes that are almost comical after a while. Review - 'Gotham' Brings Batman To TV With Mixed Results 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z High-schoolers may scoff at the easy predictability and lack of spine-chilling moments in this cliched thriller, but it’s appropriate for most to see. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘The Identical’ and more At first, the balance of power seems starkly cliched: here gather the supplicants desperate for shelter; behind those glass partitions sit the local authority representatives deciding their fate. Enfield tears up rules in radical attempt to ease housing problem 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z People who ask questions, talk and dream about a club’s future — forecasting lineups even less than two months away — eventually get the cliched staple from a Matt Williams, Buck Showalter, insert your skipper here: Mike Wise: Stirring the pot for a Nationals-Orioles World Series Sarah Palin doesn’t inspire him with her “cliched responses to difficult questions.” Some evangelicals in Republican Party are feeling left out, see no standard-bearer Heroin users do not necessarily begat heroin addicts; Paula Yates had four daughters, not one, and Peaches was a real human being, not "the bad girl who dies first" in some cliched horror movie. Peaches Geldof deserves no censure. Save that for her critics 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Critics panned the production's "stereotypical" depiction of black America, calling it "painfully cliched" and "clunky". 2Pacalypse on Broadway: Tupac musical flops after six-week run 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z They perform a cliched pantomime of a fumbling gait and flailing arms. Fuzzy feminism: Same old girl power, but without the glamor or the fantasy Figuring out how to communicate to visitors that they are in the "Surfing Capital of the World" without relying on cliched props has proved daunting. Huntington Beach's Pacific City complex aims to draw locals, tourists 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z She concludes that this seems like a "cliched movie plot": "a shady foreign oil company co-opts the vice president's son in order to capture lucrative foreign investment contracts". Hunter Biden's Ukrainian gas connection 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z They have a tense, if not cliched, story line in American history. For Bacardi, detailing its efforts at landing a political rum punch comes up short on form 2014-04-21T23:42:09Z Arguably this approach has itself become somewhat cliched, and may eventually come back to haunt the charities because of their earnest positivity. Formerly known as the Spastics Society 2014-03-31T02:38:12Z "In spite of the simplicity and embarrassingly cliched nature of most of it, it was a good speech," it reported. Merkel's UK speech: The exclusive club she is joining 2014-02-27T00:56:31Z He wasn’t dull and cliched the way almost everybody else is. Cutting class: Sherman rant good, clean fun 2014-01-20T14:46:00Z And it is debatable whether the cliched signifiers of the middle-class lifestyle really are an accurate picture of the middle class. The evolution of the middle class 2014-01-16T03:04:47Z Meanwhile, the papers' verdict seems to be that England have been drawn in the dreaded - and cliched - "group of death", to face Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica in Brazil next year. 'Mourning after' and World Cup draw 2013-12-06T22:50:54Z The producers stayed away from cliched representations of Anonymous and computer hackers. Dance Production Brings 'Anonymous' To The Stage 2013-11-18T22:41:00Z Sharp adds: "Without meaning to be cliched about it, I see the same things on the train in every morning, but it felt different today." Financial clout: the city slickers trading blows 2013-10-30T23:21:45Z It’s become so cliched now in Silicon Valley. Will No Dual Class Structure Create A Bidding War For Twitter? 2013-10-04T16:01:00Z It inspires the most cliched of descriptions – "paradise on Earth", "the world's best island" – yet for the Atis, who claim to be the original inhabitants of Boracay in the Philippines, life is a daily struggle. Boracay islanders fear for their lives in battle with Philippine tourist trade 2013-06-02T15:24:29Z It must always be invented so that it does not shrink from view, or get turned into a gutted plaything, a cliched provincial setting mostly controlled from the still ignorant, indifferent south. Sir Alex Ferguson: The man and the city 2013-05-12T11:30:01Z I know it sounds a little cliched but we have got a lot of games and we don't know who the manager's going to be next year as well. Roy Hodgson's John Terry dilemma: Is he good enough? Will he fit in? 2013-04-26T22:00:03Z It’s an adage so cliched that it is not really clear what sport it was meant to reference. Off the Dribble: How Much Does Defense Matter in the N.B.A. Playoffs? 2013-04-26T17:33:39Z South Korea saw the demands as "regretful" and "cliched" and it called on North Korea to withdraw them, a government official told reporters, the South's Yonhap news agency reported. North Korea demands end of sanctions if U.S. wants dialogue 2013-04-18T08:07:04Z Despite their players' illustrious pasts and the cliched assumption sides with big-name footballers are too good to go down, Redknapp hinted they have been too bad to stay up. QPR likely to be stuck with their overpaid failures if they are relegated 2013-04-14T22:00:02Z It does sound a bit cliched but that's what I truly believe. Ade Akinfenwa: 'My arms are probably the same size as John Terry's legs' 2013-03-22T15:11:00Z The film for those who haven’t seen it and perhaps for some that did, is a concoction of cliched film moments. Oscars 2013, Please, Anything But Argo 2013-02-24T12:22:40Z It sounded like the usual cliched statement, but we meant it. Should Lance Armstrong's readers get a refund? 2013-02-04T00:28:04Z Today is widely seen as the company’s last shot at relevance, a cliched Hail Mary Pass. Live Blog: BlackBerry 10 Launch 2013-01-30T14:17:14Z My bugbear with the UK industry is that women's fiction is usually branded in a cliched way: men don't want to be seen reading anything in a pink cover with glitter on it. Publishing cheer as buyers seek out interesting reads 2013-01-21T00:56:27Z The cliched idea about rating agencies seems to go like this: a deal to rate a complex financial instrument came in, we stamped it triple A and collected our check. Ex-Moody's analyst: 'By 2006 it was toxic everywhere' 2012-12-17T15:00:01Z What is the nominal, cliched but mostly far-fetched goal for every team — win all the games on the schedule — is now a full-bodied prospect one week after dispatching Oklahoma on the road. Irish's biggest challenge: Avoid letdown 2012-11-03T01:13:00Z As the aftermath of the Aurora shooting shows in such hideous detail, this is America’s funereal requiem in the soul-sucking Information Age – a cliched spectacle that substitutes screeching noise for some desperately needed silence. Muzzled by a disaster 2012-07-23T16:23:00Z It sounds cliched, but it's the stuff of childhood dreams really. A childhood dream comes true – now it's got to be Games gold 2012-07-22T21:06:23Z But is this cliched content doing real damage? Is Social Media Destroying Your Self-Esteem? 2012-07-11T14:18:42Z But in the world world, there was news at least as big, but without the cliched metaphors. While Colorado burns, Washington fiddles 2012-06-29T20:11:00Z If anything, they demonstrate the opposite, an embrace of the most cliched of all footballing looks in the mistaken belief that "cliche" is French for "classic". Yes, footballers wear ponytails, but they shouldn't 2012-06-18T20:00:01Z "This sounds cliched but there are things that simply must be done," she says. Russians volunteer for election monitoring 2012-02-26T01:23:43Z They revealed their nature gradually, over the course of many episodes, and were never cliched or one-dimensional. HBO?s ?Luck? immerses viewers in the authentic, dark side of horse racing 2012-01-26T18:34:29Z At least, so say students at Michigan's Lake Superior State University who released an annual list of words they deem so misused, overused and cliched they should be banished in the year ahead. "Occupy" makes annual list of most overused words 2012-01-01T00:48:07Z That’s it, right — boxing’s cliched ending, nothing to something and back to nothing again? Freddie Roach got off the boxing mat and triumphed 2011-12-10T01:28:09Z “One of the cliched parts,” he said, “was, plus ça change.” City Room: In a Dusty Drawer, a Trove of Theatrical Voices 2011-12-08T12:00:00Z Her theater work, either unintelligible or profoundly cliched, survives because other people set it to music or choreographed it. Gertrude Stein in full form at Portrait Gallery 2011-10-21T22:06:01Z But you stayed away from anything that looked too cliched? ArtsBeat Blog: Behind the Poster: 'Venus in Fur' 2011-09-19T11:00:08Z On his journey, Steinmetz quickly found that even in the driest sections of the country, the cliched idea of the bowl of cracked earth and dust was neither common nor representative of the crisis. An Insidious Disaster: Picturing the American Drought 2011-08-11T20:48:49Z Dismiss it as cliched talk if you will, but to those threatened by a grave illness, every day of just being takes on a new light. Cancer and Me 2011-08-09T14:41:00Z I really don't want this to sound cliched but we want to establish an England team culture that is very strong and stands the test of time. Why shouldn't England aspire to be the world's No1, says Andy Flower 2011-07-18T14:56:21Z "I am not bothered about what my cliched role is," he said. Craig Kieswetter hails Alastair Cook as England's 'captain fantastic' 2011-07-07T19:57:16Z It sounds a bit cliched, but it's true. Pop 'til you're dropped: The Hoosiers' major label woe 2011-03-24T22:29:00Z It's a bit cliched but everybody is friendly. Looking for a top job? Try down under 2011-02-19T00:01:05Z Even the most hardcore gaming dad will find himself enjoying helping his child through some cliched yet enjoyable fantasy locales. Disney Tangled ? review 2011-01-19T13:26:07Z Given they are the defending French champions, it is an extraordinary reversion to cliched Gallic type. Heineken Cup double-headers are always singularly difficult to predict 2010-12-07T13:40:00Z Suy's odyssey reads like a cliched Hollywood movie, but it's a real-life drama, starring a serious and charismatic young Haitian who owes his life to strangers from Chicago, now friends. Haiti quake survivor returns home after 6 months 2010-09-07T04:04:00Z The marketing men may even be tempted to peddle Predator-style wigs and tinted glasses; the possibilities, however cliched, are endless. Dominic Fifield: Why Davids makes sense for Palace 2010-08-18T11:11:00Z "Get in the hole!" he sneered under his breath at an errant iron shot into the par-3 seventh hole, repeating the cliched phrase so often yelled by the loudest of his fans. Woods can't find range off the tee 2010-08-06T20:25:00Z The mantra that good governance is the best antidote to extremism seems cliched. Pakistan Vies With Islamists to Aid Flood Victims 2010-08-02T20:16:00Z The cliched way of complimenting key voters in the New Labour years was to call them "hardworking families". The ants march on, but we'd be happier as grasshoppers 2010-08-01T20:00:00Z The cliched image that it is difficult for thieves to sell famous artwork is a deliberate lie. Stolen Paris Art: Where Will It End Up? 2010-05-20T20:50:00Z The style guide advises against using such lazy and cliched units of comparison. Mind your language: Wales, Belgium and other units of measurement 2010-05-17T10:26:00Z The message is a touch more high-minded than, say, Popovich giving a cliched pep talk about ending the series. Mavs seize series momentum heading back to SA 2010-04-28T17:55:00Z When the cliched few Goan icons were confined only to football players and its organisers. Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press |
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