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• “However, unlike Legend of the Seeker, the series does not become overly mired in cliché.”

  09 « July « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy

• “They wear cowboy hats, ride horses and talk in clichés.”

  Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat

• “The bad news is that The Losers also embraces the worst aspects of the action film since the genre's heyday during the 1980s, or if not its worst aspects, then its most derivative, using techniques that were groundbreaking when John Woo and Ringo Lam made their Hong Kong bulletfests but, since The Matrix, have wallowed in cliché.”

  MOVIE REVIEW: The Losers (2010)

• “Or as a more quirky, less cutesy, more original way of wearing a waisted silhouette without doing the full cinch-it-in cliché.”

  The Guardian: How to dress: Paper bag waists

• “I grew up hearing a certain cliché about Nigeria being “the giant of Africa”.”

  Global Voices in English » Ghana: Global discussion of Obama’s visit to Ghana

• “CONS: Bogged down in clichés and repetition at times.”

  REVIEW: Spellwright by Blake Charlton

• “The finale of Dr. Horrible was upsetting, not just because Penny died in clichéd fashion, but because it was just one instance of the way women around the world throughout history are caught in the crossfire of the endless male struggle for power.”

  Rescuing Penny What's-Her-Name

• “In the voice of a character - people think and talk a great deal in cliché - use sparingly, who wants to read the horrid stuff?”

  Using clichés

• “It might be emotionally true for Mr. Walcott that a fearful shiver wiggles through him as he looks at the blank page, but even a true emotion, when expressed in cliché language, ends up sounding less than true.”

  i check “rogue” : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

• “A true study in cliché, a perfect example of what not to do.”

  May 2006

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