Word: clichã
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...James W. Fuerst’s debut novel, has more than his fair share of adolescent angst with which to deal. “Huge” uses a fairly familiar archetype as its foundation—the bildungsroman—but the storyline quickly diverges from clich?? to downright bizarre. The novel, narrated from the young Genie’s perspective, struggles to maintain a balance between reliability and believability, and, in satisfying the former, sometimes compromises the latter. Genie is a precocious preteen with a high IQ and a whole host of anger issues. He was held...
...housewives who say things like; “’What’s cool about drugs and murder?[....]Sometimes what’s cool is actually doing the not-cool thing.” In approaching these tropes honestly, Boice holds them to a light that transcends clich??.Grayson’s friends are obsessed with women, pot, music, Nintendo, and SAT-prep, and are constantly “teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown because their hemp necklace might be gay.” Boice deftly illustrates the psyche of the teenager...
...were only awarded de facto) and the glitzy sheen of pop production that denoted it. “Not Without a Fight” aspires to a grittier, harder sound. But while this approach is not without some success, ultimately the album sags under the weight of its overused clich??s and utterly insipid lyricism. Right from the start, the album smacks of NFG’s new sound. “Right Where We Left Off” barrels forth with heavily distorted, amped up guitars and dizzying cymbal crashes that don’t seem to actually...
...estimation of the songs’ monetary worth. Thus the question of music’s value is still unsolved by this scheme.Of course, a Mastercard commercial would tell us that music is “Priceless,” and as far as emotional value is concerned, this clich?? is right on the money. Perhaps monetarily, though, the correct phrasing consumers are looking for is “without price” or “FREE!” When Beethoven debuted his Ninth Symphony 185 years ago, there were several things of which...
Obviously, newspapers should strive for intellectual diversity on their opinion pages. But the old Pat Moynihan quote, “Everyone is entitled to his opinion, but not his own facts,” is a clich?? for good reason. By printing and defending George Will’s lies about climate science, the Washington Post has deceived its readers, and undermined its credibility as a journalistic enterprise...