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The cover-art and blurb seemed evocative, but the novel was not, with cardboard-cutout settings and forgettable characters.

The Ten Best Science Fiction Books… Ever « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010

There are so many shows with cardboard-cutout characters now that's alliteration where the jerk guy is always giving someone a hard time or where the protagonist always does the right thing whether people think she's crazy or not.

I Love Lost Bryce L. 2010

Even the saintly examples seem like cardboard-cutout gynoids, the ancient equivalent of Stepford wives.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

There are so many shows with cardboard-cutout characters now that's alliteration where the jerk guy is always giving someone a hard time or where the protagonist always does the right thing whether people think she's crazy or not.

Archive 2010-03-01 Bryce L. 2010

The novel's principle strength is its ability to avoid presenting cardboard-cutout archetypes and, instead, to lend each person a compelling particularity.

Generations Of Liberation By Gabriella Stern 2009

I hasten to add that Catholic clergy are not alone in this predicament--they are exceeded only by the cardboard-cutout "Christian fundamentalist" as objects of Hollywood vilification.

Texas Faith: Hollywood and religion | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

You've created some kind of cardboard-cutout caricature of what you think of their beliefs.

Darwin's God 2007

You've created some kind of cardboard-cutout caricature of what you think of their beliefs.

Darwin's God 2007

This is the perfect opportunity for Bush to prove that he's really the War President he says he is and not just a cardboard-cutout fraudster.

Bush to Putin: "Get out now!" Putin to Bush: "Nyet!" 2008

I found it trite, shallow, stylised and empty, with cardboard-cutout characters posing and posturing through stark, empty scenes reminiscent of the empty stage sets of modernist theatre a genre of which I am significantly unfond, if this were not apparent.

How Soon They Forget… « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2008