Sentences with phrase «old cliche of»

To base significant public policy on the age old cliche of consumer protection, on the basis of 169 people's questionable knowledge of the industry?

We can do better than the old cliche of Istanbul as «East meets West.»

It strengthens the age - old cliche of perfectly blending comfort and engaging driving dynamics - it is a textbook application of that principle and the result is a swift cruiser that is rewarding to drive fast but won't rattle your spine out of alignment on bumpy roads.

Despite the tired old cliche of this one being their «last mission» (a sequel is well into production), McQuarrie manages to wrangle some genuine tension throughout in this installment.

Not exact matches

The old Wall Street cliche «sell in May and go away» hasn't applied in recent years, and futures were pointing to gains ahead of the first session of May 2017.

I have spent thousands of years surrounded by millions of sycophanty people like Frederica and HeavenSent, all doing nothing other than brown - nosing me endlessly and repeating the same old cliches over and over.

All of us have heard of the old cliche» where the CEO has his

Definition of PLATITUDE an idea or expression that has been used by many people Synonyms banality, bromide, chestnut, cliché (also cliche), groaner, homily, platitude, shibboleth, trope, truism Related Words conventional wisdom, party line, routine; inanity; generality, generalization, simplification; adage, proverb, idiom, saw, saying; old wives» tale, stereotype Near Antonyms profundity

Brown's defense of this «history» gives fresh meaning to the old cliche about «blind faith.»

You often hear the old football cliche that managers and players learn more from a defeat or a tough game than an easy win and if this is the case then Chambers should have learned a hell of a lot on Monday.

It sometimes seems as though the old football saying that there are no easy games is bit of a cliche, especially for Arsenal fans in recent years.

@blastgunner the silence from my part is not due to a lack of arguments but to the simple fact that i, m tired of trying to explain how unfounded, weak... your comments are the same way i, m, tired of reading the same old invalid arguments being used, rehashed, borrowed from some sites like caughtoffside or some lazy pundits who love to use the same old cliches without anything to back it up!!

There is a very old football cliche that you can only beat what is put in front of you, but when you consider that Arsenal's opponents yesterday had made TEN changes from the Hull side that played Everton on New Years Day, should we really be so pleased that the Gunners only managed to kill off the game in the 82nd minute?

Of course we will hear the same old cliche about luck evening itself out over the season but I am not so sure, especially when you consider what happened when we faced Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

That old doubt about the Gunners lacking leaders raised it's head again and we all know how the press love a bandwagon and a cliche so it was a big talking point for a couple of days.

We are in danger of having a demanding season, simply because everyone in the league (pretty much) has strengthened, so the old cliche «there are no easy games in football» will become truer than ever.

By: Meika Rouda I didn't think much about getting older, all the cliches about midlife crises and affairs and sports cars and a deep reflection on how happy one is and whether life would be better if (fill in the blank)... So I was blindsided last weekend when one of my closest friends called me in -LSB-...]

One of the things I always recommend to people who aren't from LA is to check out our museums and street art installations when they're here — they're such a good non touristy alternative to some of the old tourist cliches like Hollywood Boulevard and the walk of fame!

Of course, this odd - coupling is the oldest cliche in the Hollywood book.

And yet, amid all that overdue and well - deserved scorn, the lone aspect of Deadpool 2 that is treated with gravid, wet - eyed sincerity — the thing the film wants us to care most deeply about, that acts as the plot's triggering action — is itself the biggest, oldest, dumbest and most useless superhero - genre cliche of them all.

Susan Wloszczyna: All hail Shirley MacLaine, who nearly single - handedly saves «The Last Word» from the contrived and potentially maudlin cutesiness of its premise by being her usual indomitable self while refusing to succumb to old - lady cliches.

This is a slovenly pieced - together, lazy movie of tiresome cliches, which rehashes that old chestnut of «one last job».

Seamlessly adapted for American audiences by Donald H. Davis and Cindy Hewitt Davis, this spoof / pastiche of old - movie cliches also soars as a paean to the redeeming power of friendship and loyalty.

Or the playful, tongue - in - cheek appropriation of the sexist cliche of the spent, hysterical state which glamorous actresses fall into as they get older.

While this tale of three newly - empowered women taking control of their love lives and careers may itself play into some old cliches — there's plenty of footage of Graham's wannbe screenwriter half - naked, for example, — and characters can behave in ways that service the story, rather than reality, it's still worth a watch.

This piece has a whiff of that tired old reformer cliche — if only those horrible lazy public school teachers simply CARED enough to challenge their students, the achievement gap would go away.

So perversely, of the three Corvette models on sale today, it's the new mid-range Grand Sport — with its extreme tires, aggressive aero, and un-enhanced powerplant — that most accurately lives up to the old «street - legal race car» cliche.

Thus, the old and cliche phrase «Don't judge a book by its cover» seems to be of little to no significance in the...

Thus, the old and cliche phrase «Don't judge a book by its cover» seems to be of little to no significance in the present times.

the old and cliche phrase «Don't judge a book by its cover» seems to be of little to no significance in the present times.

I think some of my «literature class» commentary in No Man an Island addresses how it's over-used, but how subverting it can create something new from the old, or at least redeem it from cliche.

The old cliche, «Don't put all your eggs in one basket,» is very applicable to the realm of investing.

The Evil Within is the perfect example of the old cliche «If it ain't broke, don't fix it».

It is a piece of received wisdom — the old yin and yang cliche — made devastatingly literal.

Photo-wise, it's the old cliche about Impressionism as the secret child of photo, and Pointillism being the forerunner of process color in printing: Sigmar Polke's dots, Bridget Riley's psy - ops, camouflage, the pixel, inkjets and spray paint.

The rest of us are Talking the Talk, but not Walking the Walk, as the old cliche goes.

Even the tired old cliche that environmentalists all hail from the political left is a little hard to swallow these days — with Wal Mart's Lee Scott talking about rethinking the way we consume, and T Boone Pickens investing in wind, Exxon backtracking on man made climate change, and plenty of Republicans talking green, the argument is rarely whether we should care for the environment anymore, just how we should go about doing it.

It's rare that an advertisement gets deemed controversial because it plays into a cliche, but that's exactly what has happened with Nissan's new TV ad for it's all - electric LEAF: The spot has sent a ripple through blogosphere by featuring the (seemingly) age - old story about how polar bears are losing their habitat to a melting Arctic as a result of climate change.

AKA the problem of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, to use an old cliche.

To use a couple of old cliches, leave no stone unturned and cast a wide net.

You hear the old cliche, «This is not about your being green, because some of my best friends are green.»

Your attempt to appear «cool» and «with it» by invoking an old and worn cliche» of dubious humorous merit (at the expense of relatives and friends of deceased, easily led souls who perished at the hands of a true sociopath) leaves much to be desired when it comes to buttressing your opinion.

This is one of those rare circumstances where something which appears too good to be true actually is true, and WebsiteBox proved that old clich isnt always true, Phelan says.