Sentence examples for usual rock from inspiring English sources

Not what you expect to hear in your usual rock doc (if typical of Wire's candour).

It's well-acted all round, and the usual rock biopic cliches are nicely skirted.

This section therefore emphasizes the usual rock tunnel, in the size range of 15 to 25 feet.

There was seldom any mention of the usual rock 'n' roll excesses: the drugs, the girls, the trashed hotel rooms.

Against the odds and punk's dumber tendencies, Ms. Smith didn't die young or succumb to the usual rock clichés.

It's a cosy place, domesticated almost – none of the usual rock detritus of bottles, ashtrays and pizza boxes.

Mr. Gee has made a documentary that honors its subject by refusing to yield to the usual rock-doc gimmickry.

The champions travel with their usual rock-star band of imports: James O'Connor, Ma'a Nonu, Bryan Habana, Quade Cooper, Duane Vermeulen.

The usual rock-doc motifs are there: trouble with management; drug problems; tensions between Mr. Strummer and Mick Jones, the band's other guitarist and creative force.

Bon Jovi go acoustic 6 September 1989 The New Jersey titans stripped down their usual rock-pomp pitch to a more simplistic acoustic set-up for a medley of "Livin' on a Prayer" and "Wanted: Dead or Alive" at the 1989 Video Music Awards (VMAs).

Instead, F Gary Gray (whose CV includes Friday and Set It Off) plays it rather more straight, following Corey Hawkins's Dr Dre, Jason Mitchell's Eazy-E, and O'Shea Jackson Jr's Ice Cube on a pulsating rags-to-riches journey involving all the usual rock-pic elements: talismanic recording sessions, boisterous concerts, riotous parties (replete with unquestioned misogyny), corrupt managers etc.