Word: clicheed
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Among the modern followers of that tradition, Welsh-born Augustus John gives his portraits of the great a romantic dash and bravura air that raises them far above the cliche level of most Royal Academy official portraits. Dublin-born Francis Bacon with his eerie studies has introduced into portraiture the...
Your story on Rockefeller read like the officially approved biographies of Henry Ford and Mary Baker Eddy. TIME used to be an organ of sharp, witty criticism rather than a cliche-ridden apologist for a spiked version of the American Dream.
Mr. Hofeld's attitude and in fact the general dubious methods of the entire campaign only confirm a previously held conviction that the Student Council at Harvard College is nothing more than a band of low, cheap, conniving pirates totally unprincipled in its savagery of extortion, a tight cliche (sic...
Like her elders, Anne sometimes lets the animals get out of hand. Her title story is a well-polished but thin cliche: the blue dog, an outcast, dies happy in the cold because the snow lets him pass for white. But Anne is rarely that gushy, precious or explicit. Indeed...
Subject of his observation: the beautiful, slightly mysterious "woman with a past" who appears, unannounced, amid the pastel parasols of a fashionable resort, bringing with her a whiff of evil−that exquisite cliche beloved by turn-of-the-century authors from Tolstoy to Henry James. She has now been...