Sentences with phrase «using old tropes»

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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

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Our intrepid hero, also a she, an older Asian woman to boot (something one NEVER sees on TV) on a worldwide hunt / chase for this evil Bond using only her wits and no weapons, special gadgets, or any of the usual tropes one sees in these sorts of

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.

Amnesia is one of those old go - to tropes in gaming: an oft - used narrative device, conveniently paving the way for some nice scene - setting while also justifying drawn - out tutorials.

That subtle leaning on tropes but using them as springboards for substance as well as style is what gives Hap and Leonard its intriguing, engaging appeal; Purefoy's East Texas charm and Kenneth Williams» hot - tempered intensity fit together like old friends really do, with each one enjoying the chance to deliver the pulpy dialogue.

And I guess that's just stayed with me... using those old, conventional Hollywood tropes and then just turning them upside down, or inside out.»

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.

Having rejected the formal tropes of the Old Master canon, Matisse's forms could more easily be used for other purposes.

In his previous work, the 29 - year - old artist created figurative and highly personal paintings and sculptures, often using tropes from the Spanish Baroque style.