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"tired trope" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is often used to describe a overused or clichéd idea or phrase. It typically conveys a sense of exhaustion or annoyance with the repeated use of the same idea. Example: "The tired trope of the damsel in distress was once again used in the movie, much to the disappointment of modern feminist viewers." In this example, "tired trope" is used to criticize the overuse and lack of originality in a common storytelling device.
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This tired trope was reprised in 1976.
But then Matt Lauer reprimands himself for thinking such a tired trope.
But of course, that misrepresentation fit with the tired trope of Democrats as tax-and-spend liberals.
I was never tempted to employ the tired trope of the sassy black bitch that popular culture has come to equate with a strong black woman — those awful "Housewives of Atlanta," cursing, arrogant, selfish.
He has also raised the tired trope that Obama isn't black enough and that the news media is scared that he, "a real black man," might run against Obama.
The most heavy-handed of the shortlisted schemes, the images also feature that tired trope of a stepped wooden seating tribune, an interior with all the character of a departure lounge.
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They were, in a way, tired tropes.
1) "Ignorant and provincial" and "not ready for prime time," his "boring and uninspiring" writing overuses "tired tropes of the white middle class".
A meal of organs, the glimpsed remains of a "huge, indescribable animal" and a cache of subterranean coffins are all vampire clichés, but somehow Fuentes refreshes tired tropes.
A failure in this series would not negate that achievement, but it would revive tired tropes about James's stature in the game, and he seemed to be bracing for the backlash already.
Becoming Bulletproof works because it avoids regurgitating tired tropes, such as saccharine tales of overcoming adversity, while managing to communicate the barriers that persist for disabled people in everyday life and for people like Murray who want to break into TV or film.
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