"Days of Glory," the English title of Rachid Bouchareb's new film — called "Indigènes," or natives, in French — has a rousing, somewhat generic war-movie ring.
In conversation, O'Brien called the fugitive "a composite of generic, warring despots", but the resemblance to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžic is as perceptive as it is terrifying.
A generic word used to describe medieval war horses was charger, which appears interchangeable with the other terms.
The difference between a generic, refrigerated war and the Cold War is the difference between a war and a World War.
The economic stakes in the brand-generic drug wars are huge.
Yet for all the particularity, these are the generic facts of war, not very different from those chronicled by Homer almost 3,000 years ago.
For Woolf, as for many antiwar polemicists, war is generic, and the images she describes are of anonymous, generic victims.
There's a meta sub-plot about the squadron's heroic actions being adapted for the big screen with jabs made about the generic nature of Hollywoodised war films and Lee does deserve credit for not turning the project into American Sniper 2. But one feels as if there was a smarter, sharper, sadder film to be made here.
(A common generic name for medieval war horses was charger, which was interchangeable with the other terms).
The Molotov cocktail is a term coined by the Finns during the Winter War, as a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons.
But it isn't a generic cinematic war into which Coin sends her forces.
