Word: clicheed
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One could argue for these as further ways to disrupt the audience's confidence in the sentimental nature of events. They are just more strangenesses in a loosely structured film. But Polonsky's descents to cliche and sentiment finally interfere with our perception of the event in itself, instead of...
IT has become something of a cliche to note that Biafra's rebellion confronted Nigeria with the same issue that the U.S. faced when the South seceded more than a century ago. The great difference is that the American Civil War had few immediate repercussions outside the U.S.; Nigeria...
Coco spent many lean years in New York "living in $8-a-week rooms on West 57th Street and appearing in one flop after another." In between were "all the cliche jobs actors do for money: I sold tops at Gimbels, was a waiter at a milk bar under Grand...
The most notable fact in religion today is that ministers of all denominations are trying, somewhat desperately but with immense energy and imagination, to find new ways to carry God back into the everyday life of society and to make him, in the prevailing cliche of the day, "relevant." This...
Alienation, that cliche. But it is a far more plausible explanation for the inhumanity of technocratic capitalists than the supposed social deficiencies of technocratic capitalism. And it is the only explanation for the unconcern of all of us as science undertakes the objectification and mechanization of everything human: intelligence, moral...