Commencement Addresses Offer Road Maps to the Future They may be cliché-ridden, funny, witty, inspirational, sad and sometimes angry.
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Theresa May ran what was perhaps the worst campaign in recent political history—robotic, cliché-ridden, condescending, slapdash and otherwise awful.
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Performed in German by a largely non-Jewish cast, this is quite possibly the most convincing — and least embarrassingly cliché-ridden — "Fiddler" imaginable.
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If this were CBS's "Madame Secretary" or, God help us, ABC's cliché-ridden "Designated Survivor" (about a virtuous president facing down Washington cynicism), she would defy them.
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Obviously, the version of Berghain represented through these cliché-ridden jokes (which I myself, as a baby Berliner gif blogger helped to create) is a poor imitation of reality.
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"Million Dollar Baby" and "Rocky" are both excellent boxing pictures and worthy best picture winners that breathed fresh life into perhaps the most cliché-ridden genre in all of cinema.
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Still, Johnson's self-aggrandizing pronouncements ("no one else was going to hunt them down but me") can be grating, as is his tendency to lapse into pumped-up, cliché-ridden prose.
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But it is so vague, cliché-ridden and devoid of surprise and suspense that once you grasp its premise, watching it is like leafing through a design magazine kept in a refrigerator.
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"If anyone else came out with these sort of cliché-ridden, impossible-to-disagree-with, back-of-a-greetings card platitude, they would be ignored," complained Adam Bienkov of Business Insider on Twitter.
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But before this happens our hero (Max Crumm) has some growing up to do in "The Evolution of Mann," the cliché-ridden new musical by Douglas J. Cohen and Dan Elish at the Cell Theater.
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The scenes of nouveau riche Jewish life at the club (where "boys can be boys" and "we pretend to be goys") are just as cliché-ridden, but at least these clichés are sparkly and engaging.
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Right from the start, the geek community had their worst fears about this show confirmed: based on how it began, The Big Bang Theory promised to be a cliché-ridden weekly mockery of all things nerdy.
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This is not the easiest feat in a genre as thoroughly pawed-over and cliché-ridden as brasserie food, although to be precise we are dealing here with New York City's peculiar notion of brasserie food.
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The trouble isn't that Remedy has inserted TV into a video game — it's that it has inserted bad TV, with cliché-ridden subplots involving office romance and a Man Who Will Do Anything To Protect His Family.
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He initially avoids the cliché-ridden approach of older correspondents: His first big story is about the trial of Thomas Patrick Gilbert Cholmondely, a white Kenyan landowner who had killed two black men on his 50,000-acre estate.
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The wild novellas of Stefan Zweig, a neglected Austrian writer, or the teenage fantasy of the Inkheart series, or the cliché-ridden memoirs of Hitler's last secretary, were balanced by the anarchic fun of the Asterix comics, her main work for years.
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For sheer audacity and bizarreness, at least in comparison with the cliché-ridden religiosity that characterizes some other American outsiders' Christian-themed imagery, the late Norbert Kox's "Adam and Eve" (acrylic and oil on canvas), from Milwaukee's Portrait Society Gallery, offers a shot of otherworldly-psychological intensity of its own.
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The swimmer, as they call it, is named Ashton, a reference to Ashton Kutcher in his role as a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in the widely mocked, cliché-ridden 2006 movie "The Guardian" — and a wry acknowledgment that the Coast Guard is not always accorded the kind of respect reserved for other branches of the military.
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In Aviation in the Cinema, aviation film historian Stephen Pendo considered Canal Zone, "... a cliché ridden effort."Pendo 1985, p. 21.
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Roger Flaherty, Dolores. "A Cliché-Ridden Story of Murder", "Chicago Sun-Times", 27 March 1994.Wilson, Terry, and Blair Kamin. "Teen Charged in Winnetka Couple’s Deaths" "Chicago Tribune", 7 October 1990.
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From a retrospective review, film historian Roberto Curti praised Aristide Massaccesi's "efficient camerawork" but that the film does not "live up to its impressive opening", noting that Lucio Battistrada's screenplay "becomes cliché-ridden" and that Antonio Sabàto was "wooden as usual".
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James Wierzbicki for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch described Adams's score as the weak point in an otherwise well-staged performance, noting the music as "inappropriately placid", "cliché-ridden in the abstract" and "[trafficked] heavily in Adams's worn-out Minimalist clichés".Wierzbicki, James (December 6, 1992). "John Adams: Nixon in China." St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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One decade after the film's initial release, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy praised the film's early scenes as a "beautifully effective" urban fantasy, but criticized the later scenes as "cliché-ridden and turgid". Seeing the film as an attempt to emulate The NeverEnding Story (1984), it summed up Mio in the Land of Faraway as a "tired, imitative and cynical" adaptation of Lindgren's novel..
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"Even taken on its own terms—as a low- budget exploitation feature—Beginning of the End hardly reflects the best effort of a major theatre circuit." It called the special effects "obvious" and decried the use of stock footage. The reviewer felt the screenplay was "ludicrous" and cliché-ridden. The magazine believed Peter Graves had turned in a decent performance, but described Peggie Castle's performance as "unconvincing" and Morris Ankrum's as "artificial".
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A critical review came from Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com, who gave the film two stars out of four. Though he praised the performances and thought the story worked, Kenny criticized the social commentary and Phillips' direction, finding the film too derivative and believing its focus was "less in entertainment than in generating self-importance." In an analysis of the character Joker, Onmanorama's Sajesh Mohan wrote that the movie was cliché- ridden—the only original part being Joaquin Phoenix's acting.
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However, Paul Dresser was, in the words of David Ewen, the "richest contributor of sentimental ballads to Union Square." He was an original composer, less maudlin, less cloyingly sentimental, and less cliché-ridden than his contemporaries.Ewen, pg. 98 Less disposed toward clichés than so many of his rivals, elss inclined to stretch an emotion to the point of maudlin and cloying sentimentality, Dresser was a composers whose finest ballads have a winning charm and a lingering fragrance.
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The film was briefly released theatrically in Australia, before being released on home video internationally. Allmovie calls it an "insipid and cliché-ridden romantic comedy", although Variety conceded the film was "well crafted in every department". David Stratton called the film " neither funny nor romantic, and will do little for the careers of anyone involved in it."David Stratton, "COMEDY OF HORRORS", Sydney Morning Herald, 14 April 1988 p 12 The film received bad reviews generally.
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Alexa Camp from Slant Magazine wrote that Perry avoids experimentation by opting to stay "in her lane". Kish Lal of The Sydney Morning Herald branded Smile as falling flat despite the honesty in subjects dealt. Louise Bruton of The Irish Times asserted that the album possesses perfect melodies, but cited the subpar lyrics as a drawback. In unfavorable reviews, Pitchfork writer Dani Blum dubbed Smile as cliché-ridden pop with confusing platitudes, that is also inapt for the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Motion Picture Daily gave the film a mediocre review, calling the cast "spirited", with acknowledging the superior performance of Bennett. They did not give Newfield's direction either a positive or negative review, instead saying, "...he strives mightily to incorporate as much vital entertainment values as attainable." Harrison's Reports also was lukewarm to the film, saying the plot was a "cliché-ridden tale", with "few surprises". They felt it would only appeal to "undiscriminating audiences", and the acting and directing lived up to the routine script.
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Behindwoods.com rated the film 0.5 out of 5 stars and wrote, "If the storyline is not good enough to tire you, director Kalimuthu has made sure that there are other aspects to do the job. Like the unreasonable and illogical villainy of a cop (Saranraj), the cliché-ridden love story between Diya and Veera, and the sleazy camera angels that capture Diya's fleshy buxomness". A reviewer said, "Our simple request to Director Kalimuthu is that you made a great attempt, but lost the track with perplexity between emotional quotient and glamour".
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There's the shaadi-baarat, the romance, lovely clothes, and the atmospherics that transport you into another world.Yes, the film is cliché-ridden, has elements of rom-coms like Jab We Met, and Shergill's character track doesn't quite add up, but the film isn't aiming for anything more than a one-time watch entertainer. Anand L Rai (Thodi Life Thoda Magic, Strangers) makes a sweet romantic comedy that'll have you smiling as you leave the theatre". Rajeev Masand of CNN IBN gave it a two star rating explaining "Tanu Weds Manu isn't all bad.
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He continued to write for the show until late 2002. Television executive Brian Frons held a six-year position with SBS Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, where he worked on a number of popular reality shows. When he became head of ABC Daytime in 2002, he pushed for ABC's soap operas, which he felt had become cliché-ridden and predictable, to become more realistic. With Jean Dadario Burke as executive producer, Frons had ABC begin adding more depth to All My Children's Bianca Montgomery, the lesbian daughter of Susan Lucci's Erica Kane.
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In "Spiritual Heroin" Russinger deals with his own former speed addiction, describing how Christ can fill the need created by addictions, which one reviewer described as a "slightly disturbing metaphor." The album also deals with the victims of the holocaust ("Death Train"), and finally closes with "Let's Go", a "no holds barred celebration of salvation." One reviewer found the album to be on various tracks "cliché-ridden but vaguely worshipful", "weakly inspiring", and "shallow & dumb." The reviewer went on to state that the attempt "to bring 1950s wholesomeness into today's moral morass" fell flat.
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R. Paul Dhillon of the Vancouver, British Columbia arts and entertainment website Straight.com (Actor Neeru Bajwa is Vancouver-raised), bemoaned "a lame plot and largely clichéd characters", and called it "another half-baked NRIs-in-the-Punjab tale", using the abbreviation for non-resident Indian, while he did praise "Ghuggi, who’s become Punjabi cinema's version of Jim Carrey", for "a very nuanced and controlled performance, right down to the accent and mannerisms of Indo-British lads".Dhillon, R. Paul. "Munde U.K. De is another half-baked, cliché-ridden NRI story" Straight.
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McLean was also unimpressed, writing, Mark Wright of The Stage was a frequent reviewer of HolbyBlue. He found the opening episode "boring", deeming it "a cliché-ridden disaster with some duff casting decisions and bizarrely clunky dialogue". Wright criticised the decision to launch the show under the Holby moniker, opining that it is not a true brand as Casualty and Holby City both possess "distinct personalities". He noted that he loathes the former and loves the latter, but concluded that despite differing audience demographics, they are both hospital dramas and it does not follow that their audiences would also enjoy a police procedural.
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National Media in England picked up on specific themes from the document. The BBC focused on the bishops’ diagnosis of a core problem of ‘'lack of trust. Other commentators thought that the bishops were suggesting that “over-regulation” was undermining community spirit Some commentators viewed the bishops' document as a covert support for the Conservative Party’s support of marriage, although The Guardian dismissed it as a “cliché ridden damp squib” The head of the Catholic Church in England, Archbishop Vincent Nichols expressed surprise when the Prime Minister, David Cameron seemed to echo the call to focus on the Common good.
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At that point there is a chapter by Stella Blómkvist which steers the story into such a cliché-ridden form that it can never recover. The story is ultimately "yet another addition to the failed crime stories which have been written in this country in the past few years" Katrín Jakobsdóttir commented that the initial chapter by Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson is skillfully written and also comments positively on the chapters by Arnaldur Indriðason and Stella Blómkvist. She describes the story as suffering from an overloaded plot and lack of verisimilitude. She is particularly critical of the characterization: > The Achilles heel of the work is the characterization.
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Response to the show in France and Belgium was overwhelmingly negative. In Télérama, Samuel Douhaire found that the famous locations of Paris showcased in every episode were used very badly, that the cops looked like caricatures from American shows and that the series' worst aspect is its cliché-ridden exploration of Jo's private life. In the Belgian Le Vif, Guy Verstraeten was also turned off by the clichéd nature of the show, stating that the creators couldn't be bothered to create a single original thing. Writing for Le Nouvel Observateur, Mathieu Cantorné labeled the show as "unoriginal and conformist" but did concede that the atmosphere "could be somewhat appealing".
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Of the entire movie, he called it "pointless flash and filigree". Jesse Hassenger of The A.V. Club also noted the "prime Nic Cage overacting", as well as John Cusack "trying to disguise how miscast he usually is as a lowlife", but wrote that this tried to work as a "quick fix for the movie’s weaker elements". Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times was far more negative, saying the movie may already be "the worst movie of 2017", criticizing the "cliché-ridden script", "dripping molasses pace", and "brutally unpleasant" action and fight scenes. He too noted that Cage's "sadistic Sonny Bono get-up" was "anything but dull".
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Peep World is a 2010 American comedy-drama film directed by Barry W. Blaustein and starring an ensemble cast, including Ron Rifkin, Lesley Ann Warren, Ben Schwartz, Michael C. Hall, Sarah Silverman, Rainn Wilson, Kate Mara, Judy Greer, Stephen Tobolowsky, Taraji P. Henson, and Alicia Witt. The story revolves around the Meyerwitz family causing trouble to each other after the youngest member reveals each other's secrets in his novel. It premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival on September 15, 2010 and was released by IFC Films on March 25, 2011. Peep World garnered a negative reception from critics over its cliché-ridden script and the cast being given broad caricatures.
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Herbert Joakim "Jocke" Berg (born 16 March 1970 in Eskilstuna, Sweden) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer of Swedish Rock/Pop band Kent. Berg rarely gives interviews, saying in one: less is more. Berg has tended to write lyrics in Swedish because he wants to avoid the use of cliché-ridden English lyrics, which often happens when Swedish artists sing in English. Kent's lyrics contributed to their development from indie band to broad mass appeal as songs in Swedish are preferred among the slightly older population that Kent has attracted, according to an academic who has studied the band in their sociological and national context.
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Recorded in Chicago in 2003 with Steve Albini, Purplene earned high critical praise both locally and internationally when the CD was first released via Spunk Records in 2004. The Australian newspaper said of the LP, "Just when I thought Australian guitar music seemed poised to choke on its own cliché-ridden tail, Purplene release their second album," awarding it 4.5 stars out of 5. Belgian magazine Derives made it their feature release, and Rolling Stone called the album, "The work of a band that's in love with the art of crafting the perfect song...truly impressive." In early 2018 it was announced that Hobbledehoy Records would be releasing the album for the first time on gatefold vinyl.
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As Ken Mandelbaum noted in his 1991 book "Not Since Carrie" – > The show received consistently negative reviews in Columbus, Detroit, > Philadelphia and New York, and its problems were obvious: a cliché-ridden > standard show-biz bio book, and an ordinary score ... The score went > unrecorded (by the cast), although several months later Judy Garland sang > three songs from Sophie on her CBS television series. Though Mandelbaum doesn't mention it, Allen was a guest on the episode of The Judy Garland Show in which she featured Allen's songs from Sophie. Later, a "compiled" recording of Sophie was released with vocals by Allen, Libi Staiger, Garland, and others. Allen's other produced musical was the 1969 London show Belle Starr, which starred Betty Grable as the American West character.
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Behr 1987 p. 318 In this book (as translated into English and published by Oxford University Press), Puyi made the following statement regarding his testimony at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal: Many of the claims in From Emperor to Citizen, like the statement that it was the Kuomintang who stripped Manchuria bare of industrial equipment in 1945–46 rather than the Soviets, together with an "unreservedly rosy picture of prison life", are widely known to be false, but the book was translated into foreign languages and sold well. Behr wrote: > The more fulsome, cliché-ridden chapters in From Emperor to Citizen, dealing > with Puyi's prison experiences, and written at the height of the Mao > personality cult, give the impression of well-learned, regurgitated > lessons.Behr 1987 p.
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Todd McCarthy of Variety described the film as "a preposterously pulpy but quite entertaining suspense meller" that is "spiked by some spectacularly staged and genuinely tense action sequences." He lauded the film's antagonist: "[Gary] Oldman, in his second malevolent lead of the summer, after The Fifth Element, registers strongly as a veteran of the Afghan campaign pushed to desperate lengths to newly ennoble his country." In a mixed review, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4 and found it flawed and cliché-ridden yet "well-served by the quality of the performances ... Air Force One is a fairly competent recycling of familiar ingredients, given an additional interest because of Harrison Ford's personal appeal."Ebert, Roger.
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In a savage review in the Los Angeles Times, Patrick Goldstein argued that an "awkward" and "uneven" script, "a paucity of intriguing characters", and an overwrought soundtrack of quivering violins "delivers a dreary, cliché-ridden film with all the wallop of a sheaf of crumbling parchment paper."Patrick Goldstein (11 July 1986), "Movie Review: Not Quite Paradise Is Not Quite That Funny", Los Angeles Times (retrieved 15 November 2012). London's Time Out contrasted the "strong material" in Paul Kember's original play to this melodramatic, "caramelized" screen version: "Gilbert has created a toffee-apple with the apple removed: bite through the sweet crust of romantic Holy Land locations, handsome Israelis, dashing Arab terrorists and corny jokes, and what remains is sheer emptiness."MH (no date), "Not Quite Jerusalem", Time Out (retrieved 15 November 2012).
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In November 2005, Variety, after seeing the film at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles, called it "snowed under by misjudgment on every level", with "frigid" commercial prospects. In March 2006, David Mattin of the BBC gave it three stars out of five, saying the film "wants to be a cross between small-screen hits Northern Exposure and Frasier" but "can't resist the lure of cheap and obvious one-liners"; Mattin calls William's performance "typically slushy and ultimately likeable" and Ribisi's a performance that "really shines", but notes that the viewer is mostly subjected to "limp gags based on [Hunter]'s compulsive swearing, and Harrelson's cliché-ridden small-town hick stupidity." On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 30% based on reviews from 10 critics.
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" Yahoo! said: "Despite the cliché ridden script and stereotypical characters, the show's biggest downfall was its lack of direction. At times, it felt like it was trying too hard to be a hybrid of some of television's recent successes. Stylistically, it was very similar to Hustle, although some may argue this was always going to be the case with Tony Jordan leading the writing team, and the group's tactics seemed very reminiscent of Sherlock, just without the spark." Alison Graham of Radio Times said: "By Any Means is sweetly retro, even though it thinks it’s bang-on 21st-century computer-game fast, as good guys catch bad guys (by any illegal means, of course), all played out against a painfully loud, jangly soundtrack that’s as insistent as a chainsaw.
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The Language Report first appeared at a time when there was concern in some quarters about a perceived decline in the use of written English due, in part, to the growth of e-mail and text messaging. Others, such as the broadcaster John Humphrys and the lawyer and ethicist Sir Ian Kennedy, were concerned about what Humphrys called “sloppy, overblown, cliché-ridden language” John Humphrys (2004) Lost for Words and Kennedy saw as the undermining of the "symbolic importance of language" (for example, in the field of health, talking about "the patient experience" rather than "the experience of patients").Learning from Bristol: are we? (an essay by Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, 2006) The novelist Kingsley Amis (1922-1995), an admirer of Fowler's Modern English Usage (1926), was apt, as he himself put it, to "spot some fresh linguistic barbarism and [I] am off again".
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" While noting that the song is "a cliche-ridden [ballad]", Thomas Conner of Chicago Sun Times added that the song is "mighty and inspirational [and] could go into the ring right now with the biggest Celine Dion contenders and come to a draw." In a less favorable review, a writer from the UK newspaper Scotsman wrote that the song is a "feeble, pedestrian [...] standard issue ballad Linda Perry found while scraping her songwriting barrel," while Alexis Petridis of The Guardian calling it a "patented self-help ballad." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic simply called it a "boring inspirational song", with Rolling Stone's writer Rob Sheffield agreeing, calling it an "inevitable Linda Perry snoozer." For Jon Pareles of The New York Times the song "tries to invoke 'Imagine' but falls short," with Michael Cragg of MusicOMH also adding that "Perry contribute in a typically cloying and cliché-ridden ballad.
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Mike Duffy of the Detroit Free Press said the show is "luridly derivative" and that "there's nothing remotely hip" about it. Charlie McCollum of the San Jose Mercury News said the show "spends far too much time exploring the whiny angst of the teens".Something's wrong with CW's teen melodrama by Charlie McCollum Tom Shales of The Washington Post said of the show, "you're likely to find more fascinating figures and intriguing dramatis personae in the latest catalogue from J. Peterman."Teen Soap All in a Lather by Tom Shales The show has also come under fire from the Parents Television Council, which called the pilot episode "cliché-ridden" and claimed the overall plot was inappropriate for its teenage target audience because of its depiction of underage drinking, parental suicide and sex, the pilot and finale episodes being named the most offensive television programming of the weeks of their respective broadcasts on the CW network.
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" Ryan Barbee of Jesus Freak Hideout told that the album was "balanced with singable melodies and attractive music that can capture the attention of Christians and non- Christians alike." Also, Barbee felt that "Not only will this album appeal to fans of Thrice, but to anyone looking for a more assertive worship sound that isn't filled with fluffy and cliché-ridden lyrics; as one person put it, 'Dustin's lyrics are like bringing a bear to a fist fight.' He most definitely did that and no doubt can call this album a TKO." At The Christian Manifesto, Lydia Akinola stated that "There's no argument about it; The Water and the Blood puts aside conventional notions of corporate worship in favour for a more singular approach to both song-writing and composition." According to Akinola, this meant that Kensrue "crafted one of the year’s most convincing, and convicting, worship projects. While we’re feasting on the music, he must be eating his words.
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