cliche

Bernstine finds new notes in a role that typically runs to cliche.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

“I’m very grateful for life. It’s so cliche to say, you don’t know the time nor the hour, but it’s true, and it just helped me put a lot of things in perspective,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Describing a result as a 'victory for football' might seem like a trite cliche - but you won't find many neutrals disagreeing with that description of Spain's win in the 2026 World Cup final.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Yet sometimes, he is entirely like the cliche - the long-serving politician who is intensely reluctant to confront accusations of past mistakes.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

And if you must use a cliche, why not word it in a way that makes physical sense?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

He went on to form The Smiths with Morrissey in 1982, defining an entire era of indie music with his intricate, chiming tones - rooted in British pop, while stubbornly avoiding cliché.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

I know it’s a cliché for me to say I go to record stores, but I do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

It’s a cliché, sure, but for good reason: the kitchen really is the heart of the home.

From Salon ● May 5, 2026

The confluence of Day’s songs, Herrmann’s score and Benjamin’s cantata demolished the cliché of cinema music needing to stay in the background.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Maybe that’s true, but cliché platitudes rarely help.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

But DC’s latest installment lands like a big hunk of Kryptonite for the dream of a superhero franchise that can transcend the genre’s clichés, Slate’s Dana Stevens writes.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Rollins hates clichés and signature phrases — ‘licks’ — and refuses to play them,” critic Stanley Crouch wrote in the New Yorker in 2005.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Lyrically, Kahan is reckoning with his newfound fame – without recycling hoary old clichés where "every hotel room looks the same" and "nobody understands the real me".

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

Recognizing that the film-noir genre, to which “Point Blank” loosely belongs, had become reliant on melodramatic clichés, Mr. Boorman practiced the fine art of removal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Not unless she is imagined to be more than tired tropes and predictable clichés.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan