Word: clicheed
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To Wouk, rebellion for rebellion's sake is an outmoded adolescent cliche. Friends find him a hard man to know, perhaps because he is without capacity for the sustained and often neurotic introspection in which writers often indulge. If all this makes him a conformist, he is willing to...
In Drole de Dame, also called "Bizarre, Bizarre," Director Marcel Carne dashes across the scene on his bicycle, gaily splashing mud on every English social cliche available. The hypocrite vicar, upstart servants and Scotland Yard all are thrown in to comment on the pitifully high state of English morals. Carne...
. Of all historical cliches, few have been more persistent than the notion that between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance stands history's Great Divide. From his new rostrum as professor of Medieval and Renaissance English literature at Britain's University of Cambridge, C.S. (The Screwtape Letters) Lewis...
The Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10 shows Debussy of 1893 still with frank ties to late Romanticism, and not yet obsessed by the mannerisms associated with that cliche, "impressionist." Sunday's performance epitomized the standards of the Paganini musicians. Besides their interest in absolute accuracy of rhythm and intonation...
The second category of religious programming he found even worse: "First of all, there are the popular skits about wholesome families, presumably model Christian families; some of them are the best argument for celibacy advanced since the Middle Ages. I would never have believed that anything could be stickier than...