But it's a different kind of teenage drama, without excessive cliquishness, slangy banter or other clichés of the genre.
My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"' " – Steve Williams "I used to go out with Christopher Reeve, but I just had to keep standing him up" – Steve Hall "I despise cliquishness, for reasons only my four closest friends will ever properly understand" – Steve Hall "Where I'm from, people aren't quick.
BRATZ A live-action comedy, inspired by the dolls, about overcoming cliquishness in high school, directed by Sean McNamara.
A certain amount of cliquishness is inevitable: the editors from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and China sat huddled together at one table.
Ghostwriter Andrew Morton pointed out that this was an instance of "the casual cattiness and cliquishness of children...which often remains as a canker in the psyche well into adult life".
Worthiness and cliquishness are forbidding.
Lorde does write about teenage concerns: battling cliquishness in "White Teeth Teens," longing for companionship in "400 Lux," the temptations of drinking and fighting in "Glory and Gore," dreams of refuge and reassurance in "Buzzcut Season".
But there wasn't much cliquishness in this band, or any agenda beyond the spark of present-tense interaction.
But he deplored "the idiocies and the bad writing in it, the cliquishness, the cultishness," which he said "don't really belong in an adult form".
But his dismissal reflects how the quest for representation in minority communities can devolve into cliquishness; those who don't belong, or don't look as if they belong, are left feeling irrelevant to the cause.
2. dominance through threat of punishment and violence The word tyranny has appeared in 185 New York Times articles in the past year, including on May 31 in The New Old Age blog post "Mean Girls in Assisted Living," by Paula Span: In senior residences, Ms. Basroon concluded, "it's like junior high, with that cliquishness, that excluding" of others.
