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Example sentences for: shtick

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I don't like Richie Aprile, the new thug on the block, precisely because he's such a malevolent thug, at least so far (yeah, he's a bit New Agey, but his whole yoga shtick feels forced, as if the writers decided that each and every character had to be a member of the sensitive, slightly feminized postmodern mob).
The half-cynical spin: They intend to launch a ground war and are just using the "contingency plan" shtick as cover.
But the paranoid rantings of an East Hampton photographer are said to transcend shtick.
Shame has become his shtick.
Part of the shtick is that she hasn't got time to talk to reporters.