The phrase "age cliche" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be a misspelling or misunderstanding of "age-old cliché," which refers to a saying or idea that has been used for a long time and is considered unoriginal.
Example: "The age-old cliché that money can't buy happiness still holds true for many people."
Alternatives: "timeworn cliché" or "old-fashioned saying."
Yet – sometimes narrowly – Schell somehow manages to avoid falling into new age cliche through a constant grounding in hard and irrefutable astrological fact.
NOT that she would ever resort to such a smarmy New Age cliche, but when Ms. Spiers tells a client, in so many words, "I feel your pain," she's not just sympathizing.
But Block's whimsical fancy for conjuring a mystical aura with silk, gardenias, mint tea and such -- even, at one point, oils perfumed "like the bark, leaves and blossoms of trees from a sacred grove" and "a tape of Tibetan monks chanting" -- sometimes borders on New Age cliche and jars with the harder edges of violence in both dialogue and action.
It's a New Age cliche to say, "listen to your body," but my body does give me messages.
The screenplay's watered-down New Age cliches are illustrated by cinematography that lends the California settings the shallow gloss of a shampoo commercial (Stephen Holden).
Or Worst Coming of Age Cliches?
Something in the narrative is perhaps a little thin and unrealised, and the tragic ending is arguably excessive, but Coppola's direction engagingly avoids the coming-of-age cliches and the film boasts an excellent performance from Kirsten Dunst as Lux, the tearaway oldest sister.
What aging cliches drive you crazy?
Should I give father time, and my own issues with "middle-age cliches" the finger and get one?
Mysterabbit is a whole new take on the age old cliche, "Stop and smell the roses," that encourages hurried city residents to take slow down and enjoy life's small pleasures.
It's one of those weird things you do when you're in your 40s: that age-old cliche of checking you're not there.
