Word: clicheed
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Because juvenile execution evokes such strongly conflicting values, it greatly intensifies the moral import of the debate over capital punishment. To borrow the cliche, it "raises the stakes."
Adapting Russell Hoban's novel, Playwright Harold Pinter creates his own kind of suspense by setting up one trite movie situation after another, then making us wonder how he is going to avoid cliche resolutions. It is the same with his characters. They come to life as familiar figures, but...
Protesting wore out its welcome. And activists seem to be on the defensive--ever conscious that taking to the streets has become something of a cliche.
The victory of a small Hawaiian school named Chaminade over a previously undefeated and picked-to-win-the-national championship University of Virginia squad a few years back has become somewhat of an annoying cliche, but that's all I could keep thinking about when I got the news.
Rambo delivers the conclusive cultural death blow, once more reducing to cliche the well-worn notion that violence on TV and in the movie theatre is bad for kids. Sly's Rambo is a bull in the china shop of a young child's mind. Naturally, toy stores are packed...