Sentences with phrase «tired old trope»

And first on the chopping block should be that tired old trope that you, working mama, can have it all.

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

We Are Africa's vision is to unlock Africa from these tired old tropes, projecting a more modern and dynamic image outwards and bringing a plethora of new business in.

Cape Town About Blog We Are Africa's vision is to unlock Africa from these tired old tropes, projecting a more modern and dynamic image outwards and bringing a plethora of new business in.

Not exact matches

That trope is tired and old, and the Daily Trader Club is a cheap and lame scam.

Calling mehypocritical while simultaneously repeating the same old tired trope is worth a good laugh though, thanks.

Even the film's petty villains — a pair of fellow female students narcissistically absorbed in their own beauty in a failed effort to age up that tired high school trope — are mean simply for the sake of being mean, not driven by any pathos or motivation beyond Deanna being... older, I guess?

Screenwriters John Ronson and Peter Straughan (who very loosely based the character on Frank Sidebottom, the comic persona of the late U.K. performer, Chris Sievey, amongst other musicians) are aware of the thin line between madness and genius, but rather than exploit that tired trope, they use it as a jumping off point to explore issues as inherent to both art and life as identity, voice, creative output, and that age old question of what it really means to sell out.

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 has a lot of shojo manga tropes, but handles them in a way that they don't feel old or tired.

From the mind of UK - based indie developer Lawrie Games Ltd., comes a brand new adventure that may be orchestrating itself around that tired - old trope of recovering / regaining what one has lost (in this case, a remote control), but TRASH TV is not just another by - the - numbers side - scrolling indie platformer.