Word: clicheed
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O'Coonassa bemoans the passing of Gaelic tradition in the same breath as he describes the "Gaelic misery" that that tradition mean. Such phrases of lament parody the writings of self-styled "Gaelic" authors, cliche-ridden and whining. The mix of serious statement, humourous presentation, and learned parody characterizes Myles...
"The awesome loneliness of the presidency," a time-honored cliche of the White House press corps, has fallen into disuse because it ill-suits Ford's style and personality. Several weeks ago, after a delegate-wooing expedition to Mississippi, he headed back to Washington on Air Force One. His...
Its most imposing symbol was the Eiffel Tower, erected when Robert Delaunay was four years old: now a venerable cliche of tourism, but to Parisians then the tallest structure on earth and a cathedral of modernity. "The Eiffel Tower is my fruit-dish," Delaunay liked to say, in a dig...
Before I left Rhodesia a farmer, who was obviously terrified of guerillas, told me "Give them an inch and they'll bloody well take a mile." Housewives sitting over the tea table echoed the cliche as they looked at their black servants.
The cast fails to bring to the production any of the vitality and bravado that one associates with jocks. Admittedly these are broken men, shells of their former selves as the cliche goes, but here there are not even any shells. Particularly lacking in the energy department is Laquidara. Romano...