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To go unshaven in the midst of personal hardship is so ubiquitous in popular media, and perhaps real life, that TV Tropes has a page dedicated to the “Beard of Sorrow.”

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2024

"Tropes and genres and stuff. And it wasn't necessarily super-clear what the game was going to be."

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2024

Tropes about fortunetellers are also pervasive, including in California, where psychic shops are plentiful.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2023

I still browse TV Tropes on an almost daily basis, usually while anxiously waiting for something else.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2020

All writers on Pyrrhonism after the time of Aenesidemus give the Tropes the principal place in their treatment of the subject.

From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills