Sentence examples for verbal cliche from inspiring English sources
First up, the verbal cliche.
There's not the visual grandeur of the big bands, the sharp clothes, for Mr. Burns to play with; the verbal cliches march onward; someone who has read the basic jazz histories can almost anticipate what the script will say about Parker, Miles Davis, Paul Desmond and Thelonious Monk.
Amis is known for (another cliche) "verbal pyrotechnics".
That's the style: cliches (verbal, narrative and cinematic) are constantly undercut, metaphors are strained ("the silence in the room was thicker than an elephant kebab") and retro atmosphere is jolted by inappropriate modern idiom.
She adds, "Trying to fuse the raunch and ribaldry of Judd Apatow with the aspirational feel-goodism of the movies Matthew McConaughey no longer makes, first-time writer-director Tom Gormican succeeds only in delivering a long-form sit-com of verbal and behavioral cliches".
Now and again Tanaka blurts out Japanese phrases and terms, underscoring these verbal eruptions with mannerisms and gestures bringing to mind the cliche of a Japanese tourist on holiday.
But it is written in a cliche-encrusted sort of stock-marketese, Mr. Kurtz having confounded the verbal style of his subjects with effective, lively narrative prose.
One can imagine how someone of Mr. Lagerfeld's verbal acuity might have little patience for people not up to his speed, or as alert to Chanel cliches.
Instantly you mutter "Cliche".
