Word: clicheed
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All three roles have a taint of cliche: petty crook, idiot savant and mobster. What saves Orphans itself from cliche is the level of emotion that is maintained throughout. Playwright Lyle Kessler builds momentum nicely by shifting alliances and unearthing painful memories within this throwntogether family. A satisfyingly dramatic ending...
A PRE-WORLD WAR I AMERICAN CLICHE HAD IT THAT "the Marines have landed, and the situation is well in hand." About 1,800 U.S. Marines begin landing in Somalia this week, the advance guard of a United Nations force probably more than 17 times that size, and the situation...
Doubtless such jargon has some use, if only to justify the employment of people whom previous centuries would have regarded as socially expendable. But the conjunction of cinemaspeak and jargonese can lead only to the gradual separation of the hemispheres of our brains, and an aching descent into complete madness...
"It's like the old cliche--we accept students not schools," Fitzsimmons said.
"Our institution probably coined the word 'diversity,' which has become a watchword--almost a cliche--in college admissions," he said.