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You're writing -- the kind of characters you write about, the tones of your sotries -- your writing is different than Holly's and Kelly's and all the other people in "the crowd you run with" (actually, that agent is reminding me more and more of of one of those nightmarish high school counselors who don't actually like kids unless they are all cleancut and no trouble).

mroctober: Having some story envy today mroctober 2010

These two young standups have done this by presenting images of themselves looking as similar as possible to the audience you'd expect them to attract: perky, cleancut young people who are having the time of their lives.

Paste masters: the art of the Edinburgh fringe poster 2010

I assumed that Biden meant cleancut or clean meaning honest as opposed to dirty meaning dishonest.

Obama Defends Biden After Moderator Smacks Him On Race 2009

He is young, handsome, cleancut, squeaky clean, moderate, from contested Midwest region, a former governor and has 10 years Senate experience including spots on the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees.

Poll: Obama And McCain Tied -- In Deep-Red Indiana! 2009

When Michael released "Thriller," it seemed to speak yet again to my sub-generation, 20-somethings still grasping for a common identity in the bitter aftertaste of the Pepsi generation, sandwiched in between the grumpy elders and cleancut teens who were both trying to herd us into the Age of Reagan.

Will Bunch: The Love You Save: Michael and the Rear-Guard Boomers 2009

He's our token "respectable" extra, who looks cleancut and has a steady job.

Archive 2008-11-01 e 2008

He's our token "respectable" extra, who looks cleancut and has a steady job.

Sunday afternoon e 2008

He may only be prodding his audience to think for itself, but his smart-aleck dismissal of any movie too popular, cleancut, or "harmonious" (a slur in his vocabulary) denies some of cinema's deepest pleasures.

Manny Farber's Rough Criticism 2008

THEY WERE 14 WHEN THEY MET -- A handsome, cleancut athlete and a pretty, dark-eyed honor student from a nearby town.

Young, In Love, In Jail 2008

In Miami, Orlando and even Tampa (!), middle-aged men in tee shirts and wife beaters had their cellphones confiscated and given to cleancut guys with collared shirts and cowboy boots, while busloads of rock concert fans were systematically diverted to rockpits during the course of the TV season.

Jim Lampley: An Even Bigger Story, I Guess 2008