Word: clichã
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...nine-to-five job trying to make your dreams come true. I wrote a play every year when I was in school, sometimes two, and I was determined to leave with more than my diploma under my arm. The other thing is to just be nice. That sounds so clich??, but you will meet the same people going up as you will going down. So treat the guy who has a lot of money you want to invest in your project the same as the pianist who may have gigged your show, because that...
...pretty sure it is ironic, but can only guess to what extent. Whereas “Time to Pretend” presented an obvious pastiche of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, “Congratulations” confronts the hubris on the other side of this clich??. The group is now successful and, having been through their years of pretending, are receiving the praise they deserve. If this image of the band is invoked ironically, then what does that say about them? Apparently, that they hate what they’re doing and what they?...
Greg Brown, Co-CEO of Motorola, likes to compare his company's recent performance to the Dickens classic A Tale of Two Cities. Yes, that's got to be the most clich??d literary reference in Western history, but Brown is not a wordsmith. He runs a gadget company. And that's the problem: Motorola was once renowned for manufacturing ultra-chic mobile phones. Yet since 2006, that business has been in free fall, and the company's overall revenue has dropped by half. The recession didn't help much. Keeping the $22 billion firm afloat were its less glamorous...
...It’s a completely embarrassing clich??. It’s been critically embarrassing for the last 30 years...
...Jackson’s “We’re Almost There,” illustrates this musical progression perfectly, displaying a subtlety and refinement that distinguishes “Wu Massacre” from the mass of hip-hop currently circulating. The album still includes the typical clich??s of misogyny, shameless bravado, and violent fantasy—it wouldn’t be a Wu release if it didn’t—but it manages to quite successfully navigate the fine line between aggressive and elegant. This culminates in a soulful, uplifting and rather...