Word: tropes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder The shrinking of our horizons is perhaps the most common trope of modern travel writing - and no wonder. The Antarctic ice is traversed by tour groups; permanent guide ropes help you up a litter-strewn Everest; and even space travel (if Sir Richard Branson's recently unveiled ambitions are anything to go by) will one day be within the financial grasp...
...somewhere underneath is a shimmer of humanity aching. Songs are titled “In the Cold I’m Standing” and “Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun.” Gonzalez blinked when I asked him about the new trope, the sadness, and the morbidity...
Team America applies the innocent make-believe of puppets to numbingly real issues: the use of military power to fight insurgent forces and the vision of the U.S. as a superstud nation beset by terrorists abroad and liberal actors at home. It pulls off this brassy trope in the guise of an action movie in the Jerry Bruckheimer mode. Imagine Armageddon starring Pinocchio...
...good-intentioned as they may be, the most frustrating aspect of this narrative trope is the suffocating bathing of allegory many of these characters receive. The most recent example of this problematic trend is Dreamworks’ Shark Tale, which has a prominent character so metaphorically drenched in sub-meaning that it pinpoints with accidental exactness what is wrong with the contemporary Hollywood political praxis...
Like University President Lawrence H. Summers’ trope about the woefully ignorant undergraduate who cannot distinguish between a gene and a chromosome, professors are identifying particular issues which they believe any informed citizen ought to know...