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Example sentences for: clichés

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Excellent performances from the two leads, Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, lift this movie above the thicket of clichés it veers toward.
If he had dedicated time to studying Argentina, he would have found out that Eduardo Duhalde is desperately trying to gain votes, relying on old clichés that he expects will still be appealing to Argentinians, and trying to show how different he is from Carlos Menem--in part because he is different and in part to avoid the opposition attack.
Time 's Corliss writes that the film's nice, if "you look past the gaffes and clichés."
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.