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Example sentences for: clichés

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But it is also too rigidly imprisoned in sardonic literary references, or in the movies, or in popular clichés, ever to penetrate its own deepest emotions--which, in any case, are too shameful to be acknowledged.
But she can't summon up much curiosity about Owens, who rarely rises above portentously ironic clichés.
Professor Norrick might be offended to find a review of his book so closely associated with what he might consider to be trivial, but he does expend a great deal of text describing the various forms of humor--sorry, I cannot resist the punctuation-- that come from one-liners and clichés (many of which, after all, are quotations).
Aside from an absurd premise that "most TV medical dramas would wrap up in 20 minutes" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ), the film is riddled with overwrought hospital scenes and numbing car chases--"clichés that mount like fallen bricks" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ).
More than four pages are devoted to clichés (under the guise of “Lo and behold, it's man's best friend.