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• n  a trite or obvious remark

• Let us move away platitudes and cliches and work for real progress.

• platitude
• banality
• commonplace
• bromide

News & Articles

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• Richard Linklater's 'Before Midnight' with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke is sublime finale to his trilogy: Movie Review
  It's complicated. Yes, this is a relationship cliche -- but it exists for a reason. It's true. Love and relationships are complicated -- all the more so as you get older. It's this phase of love that Richard Linklater delves into in his sublime "Before Midnight,"
  June 12, 2013 - The Sun Press
• 'This Is the End' offers a fresh take on endtimes — and plenty of laughs
  'This Is the End' offers a fresh take on endtimes — and plenty of laughs Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 1:30 pm, Tuesday, June 11, 2013 In the last 10 years or so, it has become a cliche for celebrities to portray themselves on screen as vain, ridiculous and obnoxious, in fake ...
  June 12, 2013 - Albany Times Union
• The Word Guy: How ‘cliche’ clicked into English
  By Rob Kyff Asked to use “cliche” in a sentence, a student once responded, “My father came home last night with a cliche on his face.” When the ...
  June 8, 2013 - The Mckeesport Daily News

Quotes

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• Coen brothers in ktla 5
  It sounds like a cliche, but all the movies that were nominated were really interesting to me personally, and that isn't always the case,Joel Coen said. "All of them to me personally I thought were fantastically good movies."
• Edward Kennedy in Forbes
  At the risk of sounding cheesy and cliche, the truth is, I love what I do and I love my job, and there is an aspect of that being dreamlike. It's hard for me to credit the fact that I've managed to be able to do what I love doing, I mean, even get... Christopher Nolan http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGrnoGcLNZiBqypc1Gqt8DIoEVuyg Huffington Post (blog) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20100708/us-film-christopher-nolan&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFYkzU5wIIjqnZOIYmtJ0ABg2yXKA Jul 8, 2010 18454 25944 cliche Asked about amnesty on CBS (nyse: CBS - news - people )'s The Early Show" Friday morning, Kennedy said, "That's sort of a slogan and a cliche you're going to hear a lot about."