Sentences with phrase «old trope about»

I often wonder, when I hear that old trope about the «image problem,» if maybe our image problem starts at the top.

I often wonder, when I hear that old trope about the «image problem,» if maybe bar associations» image problem starts at the top, at the president.

What first comes to mind as I write about this issue is the old trope about yin and yang, or the expression that opposes attract.

I'm pretty sure this old trope about letting your baby pacify at the breast will teach them to overeat is false and not based on any actual evidence.

Do not concern yourself with the tired old trope about jump - shooting teams in the playoffs.

But then he also drags out old tropes about excessive test preparation and the ethical issues posed by such practices.

Not exact matches

Many American Muslims said the show's premise «reinforces old racist tropes» about dark - skinned men threatening white women.

The horror - film tropes resurface only intermittently in their later films: a hand bursting out of the ground, recalling the final shot of Carrie, during the prison break in 1987's Raising Arizona (a shot also used in The Evil Dead); the wood chipper that in Fargo (1996) is put to the grisly use that Marty had intended for his incinerator; Anton Chigurh's slasher murders in No Country for Old Men (2007); and, most acutely of all, in Barton Fink (1991), a film about a writer's worst nightmare, writer's block, complete with sweating wallpaper, expanding plumes of blood, and a hellfire climax.

'' Red 2» took all the tropes that the audience wants to see (car chases, veteran actors joking about how old they all are, and good looking newcomers) and did them all well.

Blame and One Percent More Humid repeat the tired trope of female students having affairs with their older male teachers, a familiar storyline on just about every teen - oriented TV series, though their emphasis on the strengths and dangers of teen girl friendships was strong.

It's refreshing to see a film about an older man and younger woman that doesn't involve some sort of icky, Woody Allen-esque romance, because although «The Intern» isn't technically a romantic comedy, it features many of the same tropes reworked to fit Ben and Jules» platonic relationship.

One of the tropiest tropes about manga culture in Japan is the old chestnut about salarymen reading manga on the train while commuting.

This seems like an old JRPG trope that could have been left out in favor or giving the player a little more control about how they explore the dungeon levels being that it is here that you are most likely to be defeated.

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