Sentence examples for outdated cliche from inspiring English sources
However Andrei Lankov, a professor of Korean Studies at Seoul's Kookmin University, said while a significant proportion of the population is still malnourished, the portrayal of North Korea as a "destitute, starving country" is an outdated cliche.
The Chinese Government is fighting a purely indigenous cult by resorting to outdated cliches borrowed from the West.
Russia's Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, appealed to council members to give the latest ceasefire efforts a chance, saying: "Don't just keep repeating outdated cliches". "Let us work very seriously on this and ensure that in 2017 we achieve a political settlement of the Syria crisis," he added.
He wears outdated cliches like a comfy, XXL fleece.
"The issue of the Malvinas [Falklands] is a challenge to see whether or not we are capable of overcoming prejudice and cliches that are outdated, because the world has changed and there are new players".
"The issue of the Malvinas [Falklands] is a challenge to see whether or not we are capable of overcoming prejudice and cliches that are outdated, because the world has changed and there are new players". President Fernandez de Kirchner also said Argentina is "just asking to talk" about the islands' sovereignty.
But until the fashion industry stops thinking of black people as cliches that would have looked outdated in Alabama in the 1960s, white is still the new white.
'Set in aspic' is so useful a metaphor, with its overtones of outdated convention that it's entered our national canon of cliche.
The oft-repeated cliche of North Korea as a "starving Stalinist country" is outdated – it is neither starving nor Stalinist.
