Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's " Love conquers all " to The Beatles ' " All You Need Is Love ".

All pictures are essentially cliché stills ; none of the daily atrocities or horrors of the camp are shown.

Another small oil on parchment, Danube Landscape with Castle Wörth ( c. 1520 ) is one of the earliest accurate topographical paintings of a particular building in its setting, of a type that was to become a cliché in later centuries.

Brandauer is a wonderful actor, and he chooses not to play the villain as a cliché.

Alternative rock grew out of the grunge scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s and is particularly favored by college radio and adult album alternative stations ; there is a strong focus on songwriters and bands with an outsider sound or a more sophisticated sound than the " three chord wonder " cliché.

Risus ( Latin for “ laughter ”) is a comedy game ( often described by its creator as a " joke game ") and uses a cliché ( character class ) system inspired by the broad " career scale " skills in Greg Gorden's DC Heroes RPG ( Mayfair Games ), and later influenced by Atlas Games ' Over the Edge.

Another indication of the popularity of " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus " is the use of " Yes, Virginia, there is ( a ) ( subject – person, object, activity, and / or concept )" ( or similar phrase ) in satire, parody, and as an idiomatic expression to insist that something is true, without the expression becoming a cliché.

The feminist academic and author Sally R. Munt argues that American Beauty uses its " art house " trappings to direct its message of non-conformity primarily to the middle classes, and that this approach is a " cliché of bourgeois preoccupation ... the underlying premise being that the luxury of finding an individual ' self ' through denial and renunciation is always open to those wealthy enough to choose, and sly enough to present themselves sympathetically as a rebel.

However, there is no evidence to support that she ever uttered this phrase, and it is now generally regarded as a " journalistic cliché ".

It is in this stage of rampancy that most closely resembles the cliché of the " insane computer ".

A common rhetorical cliché states, " History is written by the winners ".

This cliché has been parodied in the film Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, where Officer Zed is instructing new recruits how to " properly " consume their doughnut with coffee.

The critic for the New York Herald Tribune, conversely, wrote that " Mr Fleming is intensely observant, acutely literate and can turn a cliché into a silk purse with astute alchemy ".

However, to some Icelanders, Gunnar is a cliché, used to reference exaggerated or unbelievable qualities of character.

According to a widespread cliché, smoking has been part of French culture — actually figures indicate that in terms of consumption per capita, France is only the 60th country out of 121.

In Paris, and to a lesser extent in other major cities, many households do not own an automobile and simply use efficient mass transportation. The cliché about the parisien is rush hour in the Métro subway.

The term ' Mary Sue ' is thought to evoke the cliché of the adolescent author who uses writing as a vehicle for the indulgence of self-idealization rather than entertaining others.

This is a very common cliché in cartoons and modern theatrics and it also used in Psychology.

Frank was a gift for impersonators, and for a time it became a cliché that every half-decent impersonator was doing an impression of him, particularly his main catchphrase, " Ooh Betty ", which is only ever said in one episode: series 2, episode 2.

The first Fantômas book cover, showing a contemplative masked man dressed in evening dress and holding a dagger, boldly stepping over Paris, is so well known that it has become a visual cliché.

Rugby league journalist Roy Masters referred to Elias as the cliché king for his love, and occasionally incorrect use of, clichés and metaphors.

Even though many repeat the cliché that Italy had over fifty governments in its first fifty years of democracy to stigmatise its alleged political instability, Italy's main political problem was actually the opposite: in all the course of the so-called First Republic, the government was in the hands of the Christian Democrats and their allies, since it was unacceptable for a communist party to rule a western country during the Cold war.

Members of Masaryk's family — including his former wife, Frances Crane Leatherbee, a former in-law named Sylvia E. Crane, and his sister Alice Masaryková — stated their belief that he had indeed killed himself, according to a letter written by Sylvia E. Crane to The New York Times, and considered the possibility of murder a " cold war cliché ".

" In a December 2006 column, he wrote, " The most common cliché about the war in Iraq is now this: We didn't have a plan, and now everything is in chaos ...

A second verse continues in a similar vein, and the third and fourth verses move on to discuss the situation ( namely, imminent death ) in which Brian now finds himself, and alludes to the Shakespearean cliché that'all the world's a stage ':

Following the appropriation of the hymn in secular music, " Amazing Grace " became such an icon in American culture that it has been used for a variety of secular purposes and marketing campaigns, placing it in danger of becoming a cliché.

It was simultaneously lauded for being an overwhelming depiction of a powerful woman, and derided as representative of a worn cliché that lesbians are amoral and murderous.

The theory professes to explain why a subset of action movie fans are willing to accept the idea that, for example: The good guy can get away with shooting guns in public places ( without getting in trouble with the local law-enforcement himself ), never running out of ammunition ( Rambo movies ), or that cars will explode with a well-placed shot to the gas tank ( numerous action movies use this cliché / plot element ).

" Nichols never seriously considered her for the part, preferring to cast a younger woman ( Anne Bancroft was 36 while Gardner was 45 ), but he did visit her hotel, where he later recounted that " she sat at a little French desk with a telephone, she went through every movie star cliché.

Other programs became widely available within a year, and for a time the effect became common to the point of cliché.

In his essay " Politics and the English Language ", Orwell derided the use of cliché and dying metaphors, which " even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent " and went on to say " But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

After Hitchcock popularized the effect ( he used it again for a climactic revelation in Marnie ), the technique was used by many other filmmakers, and eventually became regarded as a gimmick or cliché.

A cliché is often a vivid depiction of an abstraction that relies upon analogy or exaggeration for effect, often drawn from everyday experience.

The 1997 loss, symbolising the loss of the election by the Conservative Party, has been referred to as " the Portillo moment ", and in the cliché " Were you up for Portillo?

According to the F. J. Peplow, Great Britain, in his book “ The Postage Stamps of Buenos Aires ”, the first clue that an inverted cliché existed on the Buenos Aires “ In Ps ” plate of the “ barquitos ” ( steamships ) was the report of a single stamp with part of the adjoining stamp rotated 180 degree and it had been acquired by Ferrary for his collection.

" Kaveney concurs with the opinion that the series avoided playing a cliché, " proving that it is possible for a queer character to die in popular culture without that death being the surrogate vengeance of the straight world ".

* Mary Sue or Sue, a pejorative term for a cliché and usually idealized fictional character

While still used for practical purposes, a more common association in Western culture is the cauldron's use in witchcraft — a cliché popularized by various works of fiction, such as Shakespeare's play Macbeth.

Abraham H. Miller, who won a Pi Sigma Alpha Award from the Western Political Science Association for his statistical refutation of some of the Commission's data analysis, stated, " There is considerable reason for rejecting the sociological and popular cliché that absolute or relative deprivation and the ensuing frustration or despair is the root cause of rebellion.

Schopenhauer theorized that individuals seek partners who share certain interests and tastes, while at the same time looking for a " complement " or completing of themselves in a partner, as in the cliché that " opposites attract ", but with the added consideration that both partners manifest this attraction for the sake of the species:

He argued for the need to turn something that has become over-familiar, like a cliché in the literary canon, into something revitalized: