Sentence examples for making the usual points from inspiring English sources

If you haven't seen the film, that description has probably conjured an instant image of what the film might be: a dour, ugly drama making the usual points about oppression via a fixation on a mundane object.

The Serb made the usual points about its "southern province," claiming there has been no progress on IDPs and that there is a lack of freedom of movement for non-ethnic Albanians.

Mr. Ogden made the usual point this week, starting the hunt for money with the standard no-sacred-cows-everything-on-the-table speech.

The thing to do is to write out a suggested introduction to yourself, making the usual high points sufficiently to justify your presence there and the audience's, and hope that the introducer will be guided by it and will carefully refrain from hyperbole.

He makes some of the usual points: that there is no case for invoking "a god of the gaps" to explain what science cannot account for, because history shows that sooner or later science quite often does get to explain the once seemingly inexplicable.

Which makes the usual starting point of the modern European narrative — the rubble of 1945 — all the more poignant.

She made the usual precaution-sceptic points that it can be limiting, and be skewed to public fears and prejudices.

First, it has made the usual complaint that Tata's bid is severely underpriced, an effort to acquire the company at a low point in the economic cycle.

Three years later they made "The Usual Suspects".

Empty nesters make the usual exodus.

The family made the usual first-dinner conversation.