Sentence examples for familiar mantra from inspiring English sources

"I want to hear all about your trip," goes the familiar mantra.

Predictably, growing public concern about state surveillance is dismissed with the familiar mantra that "the innocent have nothing to fear".

And Mr Schily is not put off by the familiar mantra that xenophobia is not to be blamed on the foreigners concerned.

On top of this, there's a widespread tendency to treat failure as a badge of honor: "Fail fast, fail often" is a familiar mantra in Silicon Valley.

"Obviously we have to look after ourselves, and so far nobody has scored any points," Vettel said, falling into a familiar mantra.

Meanwhile, in the mixed zone interview area, Rupp had moved from the press scrum to the TV cameras and was repeating a familiar mantra.

This will certainly work with the Palestinian issue, where Netanyahu can simply fall back on familiar mantras involving a two-state solution and readiness to negotiate without preconditions.

Where Livingstone is concerned the evidence suggests that these cannot be straightforwardly reduced to familiar mantras about particular ethnic or social groups or a specific "Ken effect".

Another explanation, offered by Thomas Mallon, David Callahan, and other authors, is that political speech, unlike regular communication, is rewarded for staying within prescribed boundaries rather than venturing creatively, for intoning the same thing over and over again, for staying on message, and for offering familiar mantras and faithful recitations of the conventional wisdom.

This archive trawl repeated familiar mantras about how the royal family cared a great deal more for the country than they did for each other, without ever once pointing out that the supposed rescue effort was every bit as much for their benefit as ours, or asking if we might not have been better off as a republic.

The government responded with its now-familiar mantra.