Word: clicheed
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Willis has an infinite capacity for sentimental self-deception. He can persuade himself that his mean dealings are really high-minded, that his sales-convention humor is funny, that his cliche-laden speeches are profound. He has the most dreadfully patronizing mannerisms that ever drove a wife (or a reader...
In his inaugural speech Ave Harriman. 63. beginning his first elective job after 20 years of top appointive offices in Washington, promised "a bold and adventurous'' program. His speech was anything but; even for a ceremonial event, the cliche count ran high (around 50) "The problems ahead are...
In Hollywood's version of Mission to Moscow, the purge trial prosecutor has a black beard, black, beetling eyebrows and a wolfish snarl. When the film got a private screening in the Kremlin in 1943, the real prosecutor at those strange and gloomy assizes, a clean-shaven man with...
No haunch man himself, Wilson may nevertheless be caught some day with his homilies down. If he is, there are a few other ways he can solve the nation's ills and still retain the dog-cared image. You can't teach an old dog new tricks might apply to...
The Boy Friend cannot help seeming a little thin and repetitious in spots. But for the most part it is not only amusing but appealing. Playwright Wilson, who is too young to have seen what he writes about except from his pram, plainly loves the thing he kills, fondles every...