We're getting sexist tropes, racist tropes, and xenophobic tropes against her.
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But it's often been linked to anti-Semitic tropes, racist tropes.
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Especially in crime, some of these tropes are time-honored tropes.
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And part of that is making fun of the tropes, but I felt like they didn't transcend the tropes.
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For our show, we deal a lot with tropes, so that's another trope, the left at the altar is one of the tropes.
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Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, Monica Valentinelli and Jaym Gates Tropes are an important part of literature, but they can be overused.
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The Masked Saint follows a lot of sports movie tropes, but the actors who play through these tropes make for a more memorable film.
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The issue with the original version of The Continent wasn't just that it used racist tropes; it's that it was yet another book using racist tropes.
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In Japan, Evangelion spawned countless anime tropes, and moreover provided a template for integrating stylish genre tropes with serious themes, high artistic aspirations, and deep characterization.
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Disney sells some silly tropes, and its current attempts to seem corporately woke too often turn into pandering that misses people's problems with those silly tropes.
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Fanfiction recognizes that, as a genre, YA fantasy works with some bizarre tropes and that readers mostly accept those tropes without fussing too much over what they might suggest about the characters involved because we can understand that the tropes are necessary to keep the story functional.
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I will say that knowing we're in a genre that has certain tropes—and genre might just be relationship story, or zombie apocalypse, we're constantly considering tropes.
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Feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian had spent several years making a YouTube series for Bitch magazine called Tropes vs Women, which examined sexist narrative tropes across pop culture.
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What we're trying to do is insert ourselves and our personalities into the digital space using pre-made tropes – tropes like "pouty fish face" or Snapchat's dog filter effect.
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We discuss the new trailer for The Last of Us Part 2, the tropes it engages with, and how those tropes operate when the protagonist is a queer woman.
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The men, at least, have better — more active, more essential, more flattering — tropes to return to, because men have always had better tropes to return to in stories like these.
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Rather, it's that the tropes that define the Trump administration's rhetoric and policies — apocalyptic xenophobia, anti-Semitic conspiracies, racist fear-mongering — are also the tropes that define white-supremacist literature.
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It's a quest fantasy novel that's deeply rooted in fairy tale tropes, and author Naomi Novik understands those tropes so well that they work on an almost primal, archetypal level.
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Everybody knows trailers can be misleading, but trailers like The Great Wall's can perpetuate damaging tropes, even if the films they're selling don't trade in those damaging tropes in the slightest.
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While a little heavy on the YA tropes at times, the lush setting and folklore more than make up for it (and those YA tropes will probably be enjoyed by many).
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The greatest example of all of these tropes, of course, was not onscreen at all: It was Friends, the 10-year TV romcom, which featured every single one of these tropes in spades.
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But again, those two tropes exist in relation to men.
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Zusak has a gift for playing with expectations and tropes.
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But the site she ran trafficked heavily in such tropes.
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I was interested in kind of using science fiction tropes.
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That fanbase is committed to traditional, monogamous, heteronormative dating tropes.
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How did you avoid common "jailhouse tropes" in your work?
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It's like her character subverts 15 different tropes at once.
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But like all good movies, it's the tropes: good vs.
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Like AHS, True Blood fell prey to too many tropes.
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Virginia is what Black girl Instagram tropes are made of.
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Either way, they've come to be legible tropes the genre.
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Dating Around rejects all the usual tropes of the genre.
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American fiction renders those literary tropes as clichés, black American
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She subverted tropes to the delight of humor and story.
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It's difficult to logically square the furor over Tropes vs.
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Some, like Tim Davis, directly reference absurdity of selfie tropes.
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Within each of those groups, there are tropes and themes.
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I think that he does rely on certain tropes still.
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"It captures the themes and tropes that define his career."
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But You're the Worst doesn't conform to classic television tropes.
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Similar genital tropes did carry over into subsequent cultures, though.
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They repeat tropes gleaned from militia websites and social media.
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These images do more than just satirize traditional marriage tropes.
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These are old, old tropes, and we keep recycling them.
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Across cultures, broad readings of horror tropes feel like anthropology.
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It's almost a compendium of familiar Tyler tropes and situations.
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The color guides here become repeated visual tropes, or patterns.
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The Dior spot traffics in dehumanizing tropes and stereotypical imagery.
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The messy truth lies in between two common, incorrect tropes.
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These are the common tropes of all of these stories.
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This year's potent energy pushed design tropes into new territory.
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New Girl embraced romantic comedy tropes throughout this fifth season.
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It's like the tropes around the United States of America.
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The show's sketches about zombies, dystopian sci-fi, and alien-invasion flicks weren't just deft plays on cinematic tropes; they succeeded by getting to the root of the very anxieties that powered those tropes.
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From the Bogs of Aughiska's excellent new EP, Fenian Ram, steers well clear of typical metal tropes—or rather, dark ambient tropes, since that's a far closer approximation of the Irish outfit's harrowing soundscapes.
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Najafi knows how to give this compendium of action tropes an
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By instinct, they created a lot of the tropes on Kickstarter.
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Buffy's origin story subverts one of pop culture's most famous tropes.
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They produced linguistic tropes and passages that echo down the decades.
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Now it's not like Watts completely avoids buying into any tropes.
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Whether knowingly or not, the president has used anti-Semitic tropes.
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When you watch a romantic comedy, you expect certain narrative tropes.
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Some storytelling tropes are tired, but others are tried and true.
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This is a show built atop the subversion of fantasy tropes.
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But was there anything left of the elder bachelor party tropes?
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Kazemi and thricedotted's bots play with language and humor and tropes.
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Tropes, even more than individual stories, present viewpoints about the world.
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Culture critic Anita Sarkeesian devotes an episode of her Tropes vs.
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American literature's thick web of tropes, scenarios, and stock characters from
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Or rather, who the world thinks she is, tropes and all.
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Spirit of the scene: Original ideas are more important than tropes.
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They're a break from playing teachers, deliverymen, or other porn tropes.
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The tropes are the hardware: uniform, the equipment, and the gear.
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Stories have become such a hotbed there are recognizable tropes, too.
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There's definitely more tropes of the true crime genre to hit.
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Russian tropes about the people of the Caucasus regions calling Georgians
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They use these age-old tropes to bring people into line.
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Anti-Semitic tropes have no place in the halls of Congress.
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The student-teacher liaison is one of teen drama's worst tropes.
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All reality TV is structured around common narrative tropes and arcs.
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It is one of the tropes of every major summer tournament.
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Trump, of course, has a long history of invoking authoritarian tropes.
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The brothers share "an opposition to bombastic rock tropes," Aaron said.
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Some of it — the anti-Semitic tropes, for example — is not.
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Now, all-women samba circles are pushing back against sexist tropes.
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Josie and the Pussycats subverted those tropes off and on-screen.
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Shipka doesn't identify with the tropes of being a child star.
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Reassuring to see we've moved on from the old antisemitic tropes.
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In a lot of the TikTok rants, they're very familiar tropes.
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Recycling tired tropes and closing Europe's open borders help no one.
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What are the tropes that speak the most personally to me?
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It's deploying romantic comedy, and just romantic tropes, right and left.
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TV Tropes (220013)There's probably a TV trope page describing the seemingly endless pit you can find yourself in after clicking on one of the site's many, many reference pages for genre tropes across popular culture.
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But I'd much rather see Stranger Things try to do something different and stumble than watch it recycle the same tropes over and over again, no matter how deeply those tropes are embedded in its premise.
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The two boys that Lara Jean "loved before," Josh and Peter, represent two distinct rom-com tropes, and the fact that the two tropes appear next to one another is... well, confusing for any potential shipper.
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But where True Detective was trawling through weird fiction tropes and tapping into a sense of preexisting mythology, I feel like Sharp Objects, so far, is mainly drawing on true crime tropes and keeping things literal.
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Game of Thrones was initially built on a premise of subverting established high fantasy tropes, and surely one of the most innate fantasy tropes of all involves the idea that only men are fit to rule.
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"I would hope the same thing would happen to her, but I'm not going to sit silent as long as there are people who are yelling out anti-Semitic tropes or anti-anything tropes," he added.
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If those movie tropes still sound familiar in 2019, you're not wrong.
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We also used a few too many punk tropes, like palm muting.
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Many Disney villains have refused to rely on conventional gender tropes, too.
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Traditionally, Jewish humor has centered around tropes of guilt and self-deprecation.
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We all see the tropes about young women and work on television.
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Imagine if we could train algorithms to recognize tropes or casting patterns.
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But while the film subverts some tropes, it gives in to others.
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Seyfried's mysterious hacker bears all the hallmark tropes of a femme fatale.
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He does not want their deaths to fade into the usual tropes.
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The Hammonds' active sex life is another deliberate tweak of zombie tropes.
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But both have also trafficked, wittingly or not, in anti-Semitic tropes.
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But at bottom, they're also about laughing along with ridiculous superhero tropes.
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It relied on tropes as often as it tried to escape them.
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Many tropes are idealistic, based on firm ideas about good and evil.
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It sheds a less archetypical, more human light on fairy tale tropes.
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They were really trying to avoid the stereotypical tropes of sex work.
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Why are these tropes so enduring, and where do they come from?
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Essentially, do these minute, occasionally funny, preciously insignificant tropes reinforce rape culture?
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If you've played a JRPG— any JRPG—the tropes are all here.
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He is actually using racist tropes and racial language for political gain.
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Our political culture is governed by a set of tropes and traditions.
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Could the tropes of the genre translate to a feature length comedy?
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The stoner–slacker tropes commonly associated with cannabis users made Chong angry.
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It is not the first time that Johnson has pushed Islamophobic tropes.
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Much of the film reheats the tropes and the tunes from 1992.
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Each of these encounters subverts various tropes of standard game boss fights.
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And Icke's conspiracy theories return again and again to anti-Semitic tropes.
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Like ghosts from the past, these old tropes now haunt the present.
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They represent so many major life moments (prom!) and individual tropes (freedom
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One of the show's most common tropes centered on the rape kit.
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But the marches couldn't escape the language and tropes of identity politics.
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Critics -- both Democratic and Republican -- said Omar's tweets evoked anti-Semitic tropes.
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Unlike They Came Together, Set It Up plays all these tropes straight.
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Its tropes are well-worn, and its narrative doesn't go anywhere unexpected.
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With references to his own back catalog, and the tropes of couture.
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Mr. Trump has been accused repeatedly of trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes.
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Not for the admission officers applying tired and deeply hurtful ethnic tropes.
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What are some tropes of that genre you wanted to pull off?
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When Set It Up toys with the tropes, it does so gently.
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Romantic comedies and their tropes are easy to mock, in part because these tropes were so omnipresent in so many bad romantic comedies 10 years ago, and in part because our culture loves to mock things associated with women.
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But in fact, the rom-com tropes it revisits — like the football game scene — are invoked as if they've never been used before, and the film doesn't add or change anything that would queer those tropes in interesting ways.
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In other posts from 2013, Frey also makes misogynstic and anti-Semitic remarks, and promotes far-right tropes about Christian crusaders (the mosque shooter in New Zealand made numerous allusions to those same tropes in his manifesto posted online).
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This fluctuation between bland tropes and creative risks is present throughout the show.
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You're delivering a pizza and, true to horror tropes, no one is home.
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This was the era that brought us tropes like the creampie and cumswapping .
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Pulling off a story that deconstructs fantasy tropes sounds hard enough in itself.
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When Anna boards a plane at minute 23, all familiar tropes are abandoned.
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But mostly it pulls directly from a big box of well-established tropes.
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After four years, 21 videos, and countless threats to Sarkeesian's safety, Tropes vs.
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Scream Queen features artists who employ horror tropes or aesthetics to explore queerness.
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And The Sorcerer's Stone's public school story tropes are its most compelling elements.
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Think: all the pervasive fashion tropes you know, but with million-dollar upgrades.
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But as a cultural reference point, it evokes a few instantly recognizable tropes.
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Of all the tropes that scary movies employ, these are the 5 best!
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More broadly, it uses the tropes of masks, dolls, and, above all, surveillance.
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It's more a voyage of discovery than a radical reinvention of existing tropes.
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All of these tropes are conveyed unremittingly, caustically, and one could add, redundantly.
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This guy can produce enough racist, obnoxious, dishonest tropes to rile them up.
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Rather than spread junk science, it uses those same tropes to combat it.
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It's often hard to make a clear distinction between these two tropes, however.
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Co-creators Franklin and Chris Culvenor didn't bother re-fashioning these old tropes.
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In individual stories, that series of tropes is fine and makes perfect sense.
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Does the introduction of these new tropes / styles / narrative conceits make things worse?
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Cause that does echo a lot of the tropes that are used historically.
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What are the tropes of war, and how did Tim go beyond this?
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Like all great twists on pop tropes, however, The Smoke remains extremely memorable.
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WWDITS also provokes laughter from its (un)deadpan treatment of old vampire tropes.
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You know the kind of archetypes and tropes that come with the genre.
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Josephine Baker was arguably the first, reinterpreting blackface comedy and American vaudeville tropes.
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Many critics felt paranormal series "Chambers" was filled with well-worn genre tropes.
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" Democratic leaders condemned Omar for using "anti-Semitic tropes" that are "deeply offensive.
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It offers another opportunity to get mildly creeped out over bloated horror tropes.
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"Anti-Semitic tropes have no place in the halls of Congress," McCarthy tweeted.
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But are those tropes the whole story when it comes to hookup games?
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She crossed a line by, inadvertently or otherwise, playing into anti-Semitic tropes.
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Earlier this month, we explained how the soundtrack subverts 80s sci-fi tropes.
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These are all tropes and often written without much depth or internal motivation.
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There is a wary acceptance that onscreen, studios cast for safe, recognizable tropes.
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However, they're still fraught with offensive tropes like blood rituals and human sacrifice.
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Judge Adelman merely repeats the same tropes we have heard for a decade.
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But it's also chock full of creepy detail and classic ghost story tropes.
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And Crazy Ex-Girlfriend deconstructs rom-com tropes better than almost anybody else.
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This idea, which seemed to play into racist tropes, was not well received.
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Mr. Chua, however, is less interested in historical facts than in genre tropes.
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Pywell has great fun imitating the language and tropes of the romance novel.
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This first trailer highlights some clever humor built around familiar video game tropes.
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What the runways revealed, however, is just how incoherent such tropes have become.
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They know all the tricks and tropes poets use to manipulate the reader.
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In fact, the whole album is like a retcon of familiar U22 tropes.
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This is a movie that is lousy with tropes and conventions and clichés.
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Together with her students, Nochlin combed through the visual tropes of art history.
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One thing most of the bad examples seem to have in common is that they can function like a checklist: The critic praises "good" tropes that are present in the work, and asks whether "bad" tropes are subverted or questioned.
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"'Game of Thrones' was initially built on a premise of subverting established high fantasy tropes, and surely one of the most innate fantasy tropes of all involves the idea that only men are fit to rule," Aja Romano wrote at Vox.
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The second somewhat more subtle evocation of the Cold War is via horror tropes.
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"Their passivity, especially in the face of explicit abuse, reinforces sexist tropes," it said.
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Yet perhaps inevitably, recognizable tropes and patterns emerge amid the sheer abundance of them.
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It introduced some elements that are now genre tropes and she's fantastic in it.
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Both comments have been widely criticized as falling into long-standing anti-Semitic tropes.
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There, Minister Farrakhan gave a speech riddled with anti-Semitic tropes and transphobic remarks.
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I want to think that ultimately, this confidence outweighs all of Twilight's problematic tropes.
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These exceptions are extremely rare and surrounded by the continuation of widely accepted tropes.
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The news cycle is overcome with racist tropes and iconography — from fashion brands, especially.
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But the duo didn't just play with tropes in order to merely subvert them.
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Uncharted stops being just more of the same rote, boring, well-trodden genre tropes.
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I'm not sold on any show that markets people of color as derogatory tropes.
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Other searches for conspiracies or popular fake news tropes returned similarly low-quality results.
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The use of simple, recognizable tropes allows kids to easily connect with their story.
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The film is uplifting without ignoring historical facts or relying upon familiar slavery tropes.
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But advocates for seniors see an electorate actually more fluid than these tropes suggest.
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Indian comedian Vir Das takes on sexist advertising tropes in a new deodorant ad.
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"This is one of those stereotypical tropes that we all go after," Sow explains.
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They're ubiquitous in the UK, and they come with all sorts of codified tropes.
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There's a longstanding tradition of ghost tropes from which you can draw for inspiration.
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This year's breakout teen movies all point to a new life for old tropes.
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That said, Tabula Rasa is playing with tropes in ways The OA did not.
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As a result, The Princess Switch contains double the amount of Christmas movie tropes.
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Eating chocolate during your period is one of those tropes I just don't understand.
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These conclusions, of course, align with some well-known tropes in dating at large.
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Fair warning: Warm Bodies is essentially a "zom-com," venturing away from usual tropes.
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There are no smug jocks, mean girls, or other antiquated tropes about social hierarchy.
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Joe is a kind of vice because he's fulfilling all of these romantic tropes.
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I felt like playing with the tropes of the way prostitutes are often depicted.
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Even if the names are unfamiliar, the tropes and plot twists should sound familiar.
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Ahead, all the rom-com tropes we spotted during Meghan and Harry's tour engagements.
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This wholly original movie plays on familiar horror tropes with hilarious and surprising results.
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They set Lord of the Rings fanfiction tropes that other fanfic writers faithfully followed.
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Not at all...But how can we move beyond solipsism and tired Hollywood tropes?
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Even films as recent as 2015's The Danish Girl employ long-abused tropes.
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Q: Can you speak to the series tropes that carry on through to RE7.
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"I think it is quite difficult to work away from the tropes," admits Morris.
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And plus, gamers were too savvy; the tropes, once fresh, had become too predictable.
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To her critics, she has used anti-Semitic tropes and made anti-Semitic comments.
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Common themes, tired tropes, infinite comfort and warmth and a sense that everything's OK?
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" Lakoff refers to Trump's thought processes and the way he speaks as his "tropes.
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One of the most common tropes about millennial nonvoters is a sense of deficiency.
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Critics said the comments touched on anti-Semitic tropes of Jews discretely influencing politics.
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The move follows sharp backlash for a political cartoon that included anti-Semitic tropes.
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Politicians in both parties now traffic in dangerous anti-Semitic tropes with relative impunity.
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They're wholly dedicated to examining beloved tropes through the lens of absurdity and satire.
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The trailer just dropped, and it's peppered with tropes from every disaster movie imaginable.
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Marianne and Connell embody some of the oldest tropes from literature and teen movies.
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Media representations reduce American Muslims to stereotypes, tropes, or singular aspects of daily existence.
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Dufresne, as she saw it, was someone obsessed with deconstructing and reimagining culinary tropes.
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Meanwhile in Japan, there has been a revival of old tropes about "untrustworthy" Koreans.
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The first is to replace the usual horror tropes with stealth kitchen-sink realism.
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But Game of Thrones has always been about subverting the expectations of fantasy tropes.
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The book fuses fantasy and even Joycean tropes to create an entertaining, passionate story.
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This is what the mothers believe, because these are roles and tropes they recognize.
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"There's definitely a very British set of masculine tropes/stereotypes," he, a 3, said.
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Callum's decision-making can also strain credulity, and some secondary characters feel like tropes.
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But Lupo excels at turning those tropes on their head, particularly the steak tartare.
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Williams-Garcia avoids the damaging tropes we often attach to stories about black boys.
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It's no accident that "mood" is one of the online world's more prominent tropes.
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Of all the Bachelor tropes, the returning rejected contestant is one of the worst.
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But it is vital this discussion focuses on policy differences, not anti-Semitic tropes.
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Runaway hits often hybridize these tropes, combining and expanding on what makes them successful.
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All genders are welcome, but tropes aren't—unless they're being critiqued or re-contextualized.
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He infused familiar coming-of-age and gangster-movie tropes with a rare authenticity.
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Except this kind of story gets told all the time through sports movie tropes.
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Well, we actually are really playing with a lot of tropes in that genre.
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Those tropes are still there, of course, and some of them are even fun!
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Well, FXX's bold and bawdy anti-rom-com You're the Worst began its fifth and final season with an episode that both satirizes the romantic comedy tropes it has always juggled, while also acknowledging how indebted it has always been to those tropes.
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This is where the final season premiere's nod to rom-com tropes is most effective.
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The American road trip is one of photo-history and pop-culture's most celebrated tropes.
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But his nods to the more conventional tropes of the genre created an unlikely juxtaposition.
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The world is just stylishly futuristic enough without giving in to tacky sci-fi tropes.
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TV Tropes names this trope as the "depraved homosexual," and it's problematic for obvious reasons.
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It's difficult not to have such preconceptions since the dominant visual narrative pushes these tropes.
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Before this, we ran another survey that was about people's favorite tropes in fan fiction.
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It's mostly allegorical, using familiar AI and robotics tropes to raise questions about human agency.
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The writers have already laid the groundwork by drawing on the Borg's tropes and characteristics.
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Ilhan Omar sent a tweet using anti-Semitic tropes, Democrats had to pick a side.
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There are certain tropes in movies and TV when it comes drugs, alcohol, and sex.
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Another strategy also emerged: reverting to old Orientalist tropes of the exotic, romantic Middle East.
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Tabula Rasa is frustrated with tropes, much like Mie is exasperated by her own devolution.
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Everything about her pre-accident life suggests an awareness of the horror tropes and trends.
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Let's track the progress Hollywood has made in journeying away from the tropes Graf described.
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Many television shows and movies use horror tropes as part of an action/comedy mix.
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Beyond these familiar tropes, Chinese sci-fi and Afrofuturism offer refreshingly different perspectives and possibilities.
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It's a superhero film that follows all of the basic tropes of a superhero film.
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Kickass Drag Queen stands out through the way it swaps superhero tropes for drag references.
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By the end of the film, Tarantino falls back into some of his familiar tropes.
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But tropes that make the earth unlovely make humans that do not love the earth.
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It plays with its predecessor's tropes, takes them apart, and dumps out everything it finds.
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Sierra Burgess Is A Loser follows many tried and true tropes of teen rom-coms.
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But they're both shitty jokes because both these characters are composed of shitty female tropes.
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Yet despite switching parties and objectives, their politicians retain the same old spirit and tropes.
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Disenchantment follows those tropes, but without leaving its own form of well-worn comedy safety.
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Phil embraces all the film noir tropes — the smoking, the cynicism, the reliance on voiceover.
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But Gucci makes an argument here — that creativity is borne from riffing on existing tropes.
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Along the way, it freely appropriates tropes from the Halloween, Terminator, and James Bond franchises.
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In this sense, as child psychologist Ellen Braaten told me, they're built on longstanding tropes.
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Did Rothfuss fall victim to lazy fantasy tropes, or is he smarter than us all?
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On top of that, educators who teach Black students are usually cast with certain tropes.
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The book at least looked for resonances between zombie tropes and the comedy of manners.
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Thor: Ragnarok and Lego Batman poked fun at genre tropes while wrestling with deeper themes.
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Boys are told via cultural tropes that anger is more acceptable than vulnerability and worry.
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Talking about any physical downsides to VR plays into all sorts of unpleasant dystopian tropes.
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In 2012, her site Feminist Frequency asked for a mere $6,000 to make Tropes vs.
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Its creators are also aiming for something more complex and visually compelling than Tropes vs.
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Join us as we talk about novels about grief, tropes in YA, and Goodbye Days.
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Both stories mix superhero comic conventions with tropes from other genres — in particular the Western.
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We've pulled together 10 tropes that are better off firmly in the realm of fantasy.
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It's an odd amalgamation of cute nods to military history and Japanese dating sim tropes.
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The tropes are unconscious, and the press needs to "make the unconscious conscious," he said.
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In the meantime, it's probably best for everyone to lay off those sexist tropes. Forever.
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Unfortunately, this trend of anti-Semitic tropes on the left is hardly unique to Omar.
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Trammell: So many film references and tropes... also looking forward to the film buff analysis.
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Some writers are using science fiction and fantasy tropes to describe grim current political realities.
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These assertions rely on classic antisemitic tropes, some of which are over 2,000 years old.
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Omar has been accused of using anti-Semitic tropes in several tweets, but has apologized.
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The show fearlessly explores sexuality, giving depth to teen drama tropes we know and love.
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I could see straight through it now—solipsistic, narcissistic, false reality, easy tropes, barely amusing.
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Nothing is more well worn, among theatrical tropes, than the pathos of the faded clown.
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It also again employs tropes of legibility, challenging how we read both sculpture and text.
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And its weapon of choice for doing so is some seriously old-school suspense tropes.
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She apologized Monday for using "anti-Semitic tropes," but stood by her criticism of AIPAC.
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Gamer girl porn is porn featuring female gamers, and all the tropes within that setting.
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Cheesy strongman tropes aside, The Rock clearly believes in the transformational power of physical fitness.
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The whole universe is trippy, with gaming tropes blending seamlessly into reality and vice-versa.
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I mean, if the gods of base tropes didn't ... They'd have to invent him, right?
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While your lyrics address these modern-day issues, they're loaded with old fairy tale tropes.
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For much of the movie, Mr. Audiard instead seems content to play with genre tropes.
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But especially in genres, we need some tropes to be able to tell these stories.
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But his candidacy has empowered anti-Semites, and he has frequently leaned into their tropes.
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The tropes and stock characters have robbed the story of its ability to surprise you.
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This means a lot of the old rom-com tropes feel ripe for exploration again.
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With tropes like that, you might see the Tarantino oeuvre as a footnote to Corbucci's.
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In fact, all these tropes find themselves on the receiving end of some cutting satire.
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This fictional mystery-comedy subverts tropes by turning the Dead Girl narrative on its head.
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It is positively surreal in its devotion to the exhausted tropes of mainstream political coverage.
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That's not to say that the show's subjects completely avoid falling into sci-fi tropes.
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This season, Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta sought out fashion tropes that make them uncomfortable.
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This warm intergenerational saga transplants fairy-tale tropes into a mid-century mid-Atlantic setting.
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The film is certainly stuffed with devilry, and Eggers is not shy of familiar tropes.
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There's a way to handle those themes that doesn't rely on stereotypes or tired tropes.
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Some contain remnants of colonial tropes: a fixation on barefoot locals, colorful people, exotic traditions.
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He's also made a name for himself by elevating dangerous conspiracy theories or racist tropes.
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It has a confidence and a clarity that isn't beholden to tropes of Western thinking.
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From the West Wing on Thursday, he spouted old racist tropes about immigrants and foreigners.
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For women and non-cisgendered men in fandom, however, these tropes are harder to overlook.
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Juno has troubles, but doesn't fall into the tropes of one-dimensional "troubled teen" characters.
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The poppiest moment, "Twist My Fingaz," is a tough reworking of classic G-funk tropes.
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In what feels like a never-ending cycle of hyper-sexualizing tropes and reinforced respectability to fight those tropes, even progressive portrayals of Black women's sexuality can fall short in acknowledging that Black women have sex outside of the parameters of monogamous relationships and marriage.
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Horror-comedies are often flippant about the genre's big tropes, but Cabin in the Woods, like Scream, clearly comes from filmmakers who are fond of those tropes, even when they're turning them over to interrogate where they came from and what purpose they serve.
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These tropes — often mockingly described in fan circles as "manpain" tropes — depend on a belief that the male action hero is more important than anyone else in his story, and that any pain and misery felt by other characters is subordinate to the male hero's.
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This one led to a public spat with Ursula Le Guin, in which Ishiguro fretted that readers might not understand that he was writing a literary novel with fantasy tropes and Le Guin accused him of condescending to those tropes without fully understanding them.
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Aja: I think it's worth asking, too, if "surface pleasures" could or should incorporate girl-driven tropes, instead of just, for example, taking all the great girl babysitters of the '80s — Adventures in Babysitting, The Baby-Sitters Club — and giving their tropes to Steve.
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It's a simple choice on the surface, but it's also a reversal of classic Lovecraft tropes.
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Even Avengers: Endgame adds heart and a sense of unpredictability to its save-the-world tropes.
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We're all familiar with the general tropes of it—"jet fuel can't melt steel beams," etc.
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It's not like they hadn't been appropriating the tropes from your dad's record collection before then.
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Few tropes in modern America are as enduring as the LSD Trip Gone Far Too Long.
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And they are engaging in the same normalization of Protocols-style anti-Semitic tropes as Omar.
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"Recurrence of age-old conspiracies or tropes occurred across many of the case studies," Joseff said.
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The trailer, with all of its gothic tropes, may remind you of 2015's Crimson Peak.
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He's freed from the burdens of traditional electronic tropes, able to float somewhere above it all.
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Two tropes recur in the arguments these erstwhile moralisers continue to make for the casino-owner.
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The anti-Semitic tropes uttered in the British Labour Party are far from being the exception.
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It's a mesmerizing arthouse film with no qualms about embracing jump scares and slasher-movie tropes.
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Female comics characters have likewise evolved in reaction to regressive tropes — in particular their gratuitous sexualization.
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And here enters a variety of anti-Semitic tropes that go back decades, if not centuries.
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After 9/11, a spate of films emerged that rehashed many of the old terrorist tropes.
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It inhabits the space of a Western institution without falling into hypocritical tropes of art speak.
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But it also approaches satire in its ridiculous mining of tropes and its conscious visual excesses.
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Their songs use traditional country tropes—love, loss, heartbreak, shame—but sung from the queer perspective.
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Still, in this case, subverting female horror tropes comes at the cost of leaning into others.
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And thus, the third update to the classic movie tropes: Elves should be cute, not creepy.
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Aladdin uses tropes of the Middle East to center and validate the Western (read: white) experience.
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Grace easily fits all of these tropes with just a small adjustment of her facial muscles.
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And the way it builds those tropes around its black characters is both gripping and absorbing.
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And the actual episode did riff on different murder mystery tropes, as the pitch also suggests.
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Yes, it delivers a bizarro Back to the Future ride through both spacetime and genre tropes.
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And the new globalist conspiracy line is in keeping with anti-Semitic tropes over the decades.
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Architects often mixed indigenous, colonial and Beaux-Arts tropes in the service of new national ambitions.
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It's one of the oldest tropes in science fiction: when aliens invade Earth, we fight back.
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You know those familiar tropes that crop up in almost every "bromance"-themed movie out there?
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Male action heroes tend to make their way through a pretty standard set of narrative tropes.
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It utilizes tropes classic to the genre, like an ill-fated trip to a remote location.
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If the goal is to avoid the more tedious tropes of fine dining, then mission accomplished.
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There's sometimes hints of footwork, and techno tropes, but it sorta feels like everything at once.
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But try as it might, it also cannot avoid the Bollywood tropes that weigh it down.
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The melodies were very contrary to a lot of the "brutal" death metal tropes and archetypes.
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But Hollywood is rapidly turning subversion of its own tropes into its chief box office asset.
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Each feels too concerned with engaging with or rejecting the classic tropes of horror movie-making.
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" "Tyler is a fully-realized, endearing character, whose story is not reduced to simplistic trans tropes.
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Souza's feature plays like an amalgam of the tropes of numerous TV and movie police procedurals.
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I tallied a total of 17 cinematic tropes that always result in a full-on cryfest.
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It's what got him interested in ideas about confounding perspective and playing with familiar American tropes.
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Several members, including a number of Jewish Democrats, said Omar's comments engaged in anti-Semitic tropes.
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The first boner, masturbation session, and the messy cleanup of young men are welcome comedy tropes.
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Image: YouTube ScreenshotThere are few cartoon tropes as ubiquitous as killing ants with a magnifying glass.
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A number of less visible acts have also adopted some of the same sounds and tropes.
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What would've, would that have been an example of trafficking in the most deeply harmful tropes?
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McQueen's other stylistic tropes are on display here, albeit in a less prominent way than before.
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It unfortunately feels not too far off from a lot of early 2000s nu metal tropes.
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I have tropes that I don't care for in particular, but that's just my own peccadillos.
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It's playing on plenty of cyberpunk tropes, but it doesn't feel obligatory or paint-by-numbers.
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West's latest viral message, in other words, is the culmination of tropes far older than he.
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Where do you find things like tropes and clichés useful, and where do they become problems?
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Because in fanfiction, especially queer fanfiction, writers tend to simultaneously embrace and explode rom-com tropes.
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That's bad news for David's Bridal and other retailers that have profited from traditional bridal tropes.
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The video mixes both Hollywood and propaganda film tropes that play over a pulsing orchestral score.
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Cendrars integrated into his works the tropes of advertising and journalism, and the temper of jazz.
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Op-Ed Contributor The rising stock market has recently become one of President Trump's favorite tropes.
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But the heavy use of spy tropes only emphasizes how inert and uninvolving the tale is.
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It fully embraces and utilizes horror movie tropes, but in a context that feels wholly unique.
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Ilhan Omar apologizes over tweets with 'anti-Semitic tropes' after Pelosi, other Democrats condemned her statements
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The effortlessly chic French woman is one of the most persistent tropes in our lifestyle landscape.
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"It sort of plays into anti-Semitic tropes that existed during the Soviet Union," she said.
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This film, and their soundtrack, take gory horror films tropes and fold them in on themselves.
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And I was obedient and I was following these tropes and it was only later ... Obedient.
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But at some point, I realized that its melange of tropes and ideas was the point.
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"Tell Your Friends" is another video that trades more generic tropes of horror than specific references.
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After successfully upending all the tropes of good-versus-evil storytelling throughout the first, second, and third acts, it feels like Martin has come to a harsh realization while trying to write the final one: That the good versus evil narrative tropes were there for a reason.
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If they realize that you can get away from these old tropes — about the person who acquires a disability and wants to be killed, other negative and tired tropes — that there's actually room for romantic comedies and thrillers and all sorts of other films around disability.
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"Christian nationalist rhetoric, defending America's Christian heritage" — all these, he said, were common tropes throughout American history.
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But they also play into the large set of tropes about Obama being alien, mysterious, un-American.
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Rating: 23/25 This message is using tropes and metaphors, and there's also a hidden argument here.
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But he is very good at channeling every discussion into the same handful of culture war tropes.
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Good, because the tropes The Magicians are working with—obvious and otherwise—are half of the point.
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Films featuring queer women are rare, so when they fall victim to common tropes, it's especially disappointing.
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The page promised a livestream of the attack and an "open letter" filled with anti-Semitic tropes.
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In American pop culture, finding representation beyond racist tropes and white washing has been a huge hurdle.
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So it didn't make me think of '80s cyberpunk tropes as much as current world plus holograms.
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The slasher flick introduced Ghostface to the world and made its lasting mark by satirizing genre tropes.
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Many of Cebulski's stories written under the Yoshida pen name included Japanese settings or East Asian tropes.
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It not only undercuts the film, it suggests the filmmakers fundamentally misunderstand the tropes they're working with.
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But where Unbreakable was meticulous, re-examining well-worn tropes through well-drawn characters, Glass is uncontrolled.
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Tacoma, the just-released exploration game from Gone Home studio Fullbright, relies on some very familiar tropes.
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His previous film, "Cabin in the Woods", gleefully participated in teen-horror tropes while simultaneously dismembering them.
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So I wanted to take those tropes and apply them to a monster movie, with monsters everywhere.
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Winter Tide joins a small group of books that have been inverting Lovecraft's tropes and legacy recently.
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At first, the game amalgamates so many suspense and horror tropes that it seems to transcend them.
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Diversifying representations requires moving beyond these tired tropes and expanding the kinds of stories that are told.
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Beyond all the mumbo-jumbo about "ethno-pluralism", the old racist tropes and practices are still there.
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Where the film excels is in its departure from the tropes the define Bollywood as a genre.
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Legion is even more driven by the unique powers of its central character, rather than superhero tropes.
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Far more than most Black Mirror episodes, "Black Museum" is based on big, familiar science fiction tropes.
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It sabotages the genre's truly timeless aspects, stretching out surface-level tropes like an ill-fitting skin.
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But here's the first problem: Urban myths and stereotypes are simplistic tropes that rarely match real behavior.
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After this almost exhaustive list of family patriarch tropes, there's only one left: the tragically dead dad.
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Some such echoes may be accidental, the conspiracists unconsciously defaulting to ancient tropes, but they are striking.
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They seized this opportunity to wrestle with thorny dilemmas far beyond the usual hero-versus-villain tropes.
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This week Ilhan Omar, a Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, had to apologise for peddling anti-Semitic tropes.
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But, it's pretty hard to predict super powers, of all sci-fi tropes, are on the horizon.
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I've never been into mushy, heteronormative romance tropes, but I will follow Black women to strange places.
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Their job, at this point, can be broken down into two tropes that we see every year.
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It doesn't have the exuberant love for its tropes and genre that elevated To All the Boys.
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We're not willing to perpetrate those tropes any more, but it seems like they're still catching up.
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The game mirrors the tropes of the Pokémon handheld games, from the design to the battle system.
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There are actually many of those connections — as you said, series tropes — that are in the game.
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But somehow, his performance lacked the tropes of traditional masculinity that might have made this aggression discomfiting.
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The reports helped solidify the imagery behind a couple of the UFO tropes we know and love.
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The scouts have an array of personality types that extend beyond basic girly, sporty or tomboyish tropes.
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Warcraft willingly throws itself into some familiar fantasy tropes, the kind that nakedly appeal to viewers' emotions.
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Instead, it quickly tosses those themes overboard and falls back on a reliable set of supernatural tropes.
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She continues to be celebrated as a symbol of endurance and tragedy—tropes familiar to LGBTQ folk.
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Online criticism of Soros is sometimes explicitly anti-Semitic, and sometimes harkens back to anti-Semitic tropes.
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Dripping with emotion, "All That Matters" showed a Bieber ready to shed all the teeny-bopper tropes.
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His books deconstruct genre tropes by reexamining them in a new light, and Crooked is no different.
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Omar apologized in February after she was accused of employing anti-Semitic tropes in tweets about Israel.
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I think it smashes the tropes that we see about African-American men in the inner city.
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Most Americans are neither coastal elites nor inhabitants of flyover country (both objectionable tropes on their face).
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Even a well-intentioned film can perpetuate tropes of maids and nannies as meek, petty, and unremarkable.
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The filmmakers made their intention to avoid the usual tropes of labor films clear from the beginning.
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There are certain right-wing tropes that he just grabbed onto when he started his presidential run.
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Sukha's own story is a engaging mashup of rags-to-riches immigrant tropes and a restaurateurs' spiel.
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These movies operated under pitch-perfect horror tropes—an invading enemy disrupting the status society's status quo.
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All of this setup, though, gets thrown out in favor of cheap horror tropes about halfway through.
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By avoiding pop-punk's lyrical tropes, Midwestern Songs offered a lyric sheet that was actually worth reading.
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As our lead, Eve Polastri differs wildly from typical detective drama tropes in a number of ways.
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Many dominatrixes and escorts made mentions in their bios that played into the tropes of Asian women.
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The tropes are classic noir, but Anna Biller's new thriller subverts them with a distinctly feminine twist.
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You'll notice a pattern with the Brazil and Alien tropes—as in I'm very influenced by movies.
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Underlying many of Doki Doki Literature Club's subversive elements are familiar tropes of anime and visual novels.
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The dishes here are well executed, but much less surprising in their hewing to more contemporary tropes.
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And then we go back to the rom-com tropes for the last part of the season.
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Those who attended went through the usual tropes: "liberation hero", "son of the soil", "pan-African icon".
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That said, indie rock will never die, per se—it uses the same tropes over and over.
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Twitter exploded with outrage, accusing Rowling of engaging in some of the worst Western tropes about Africa.
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The whole idea of the story, in a way, is to critique those kinds of fantasy tropes.
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You can still see many of my characters, and some of the basic tropes and plot points.
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The bigger-than-Watergate analogy, of course, is one of the most overused tropes in American politics.
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Cheeky details like these recall the witty and absurdist tropes of the Victorian era, said Ms. Lock.
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He may recycle some tropes and tradecraft but each new book is refreshingly different and uniquely compelling.
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Omar's anti-Semitic tropes, including explicitly attacking AIPAC and its supporters and raising the "dual loyalty" screed.
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So go three popular sexist tropes, with mothers — stereotypically sexless figures — usually falling into martyrdom or sainthood.
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Say "foster care" to most people and they think of two tropes: the saint or the villain.
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In an interview, Mr. Wang said he wasn't a big believer in appealing to such nationalistic tropes.
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"Yes in the musical composition I used tropes from 'white indie rock' of my adolescence," she wrote.
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In conversation, he sometimes leans on tropes and turns of phrase that feel like personal brand sloganeering.
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Even lauded progressive comedies like Big Mouth treat fat characters less like people and more like tropes.
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He's a truly polarizing figure whose recognizable tropes leave no gamer in the middle ground of opinion.
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The portraits depict the couple as elegantly-dressed and respectable, using the tropes of upper-class portraiture.
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Basically, when I was reading these things, it was like, what are the tropes that happen always?
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This rule holds especially true for the season four episodes that more overtly borrow from genre tropes.
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Employing familiar international biennial tropes, his artists make installations, videos, and of course much politically critical art.
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It didn't constrain itself to typical tropes of episodic television, and it went off on weird tangents.
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I think it's gotta be that way if you're going to make your aesthetic tropes so overt.
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Her inversion of typically upbeat sonic tropes captures the nightmares lurking beneath the surface of everyday American life.
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Full of classic teen movie tropes and references to Mean Girls, Bring It On, Legally Blonde, and more.
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Yet Ögel's reading of Benjamin is very far from the decadent aesthetic tropes we usually find in art.
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The stars and creators may have been relative unknowns before the series debuted, but its tropes are universal.
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It was interested in exploration and sometimes-excruciating puzzles and had no interest in most standard videogame tropes.
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Were you trying to play with familiar fantasy tropes in the writing of The Name of the Wind?
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Instead, they're reaching back in their propaganda playbook for some tried-and-true tropes about the United States.
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More recently, he has morphed into a fusion of both tropes; something of a rowdy, gifted, sober artist.
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Relying on these tired tropes was the easy approach, and it's maddening to watch how it plays out.
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He rejected charges by Soros that the government's campaign stoked anti-Muslim sentiment and employed anti-Semitic tropes.
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"Congresswoman Omar's use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel's supporters is deeply offensive," Pelosi continued.
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She expects to see a flood of racist and sexist tropes spread through memes, cheapfakes, and other approaches.
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It stirs his love for meticulous filmmaking, oddball characters, and genre tropes together into a uniquely madcap mix.
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Fisher brought something new to the table: a heroine who acted against the standard tropes of science fiction.
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It seems pretty clear: No one should wear blackface — or any costumes that perpetuate racial or ethnic tropes.
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And ultimately, Manchester by the Sea succeeds because it subverts as many of these tropes as it can.
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It's a classic mix of rom-com and coming-of-age tropes, with Hopper playing the protective dad.
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She never transcends beyond tropes that position her in relation to the men she shares the screen with.
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And that's the puzzle box mystery, the world building, and, most of all, the British boarding school tropes.
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These are professionally published fiction, and they are also partaking in a lot of tropes of fan writing.
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At the time she apologized for unintentionally expressing anti-Semitic tropes about the financial influence of Jewish groups.
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It subverts old tropes, challenging readers to question humdrum science fiction plots, and imagine an entire alternate reality.
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The will-they-or-won't-they is one of the most enduring tropes in television for a reason.
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In July 2017 alone, two new supernatural shows are premiering, each with their own take on familiar tropes.
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But the willingness to play with genre tropes is one of the most exciting things about Thor: Ragnarok.
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It's thrilling to see Betty and Veronica as actual characters, rather than just blonde and brunette TV tropes.
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Walt Disney World's iconic 1967 ride just got a wave of social awareness in its traditional pirate tropes.
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Mysterious disappearances, creepy mansions, and characters trapped in locations far from home are all standard horror movie tropes.
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The magical tropes of these ancient tales prove influential, picked up for other, supposedly realist, genres of film.
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Beyond magical ninja resurrection, Sekiro plays with a lot of familiar FromSoft tropes in narrative and environment design.
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Ilhan Omar apologized for invoking anti-Semitic tropes when criticizing the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group last month.
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Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who was accused of using anti-semitic tropes in her criticism of AIPAC's lobbying.
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With their tired tropes about spiralling downwards and the "tawdry self-congratulation" of recovery, such stories defy originality.
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Serving up male bodies to gawk at is one of the oldest tropes of the rom-com genre.
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In the game, a terrifying playground of scary movie tropes and archetypes, you play as eight different teens.
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A Quiet Place follows a relatively predictable horror arc, and it relies on familiar tropes for its scares.
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Such tropes made for a decent read, but it didn't connect on the same level as Milestone's characters.
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Killing Eve could do more to expand its views on queerness by growing beyond queer serial killer tropes.
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Many of his logos pay allegiance to metal's major visual tropes: bilateral symmetry, monochromatics and thematic ornamental decorations.
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Freed from the tropes of country music and the straightjacket of Nashville, she became a global mega-star.
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So the narrative patterns that emerge across many stories over time — tropes — have a very important social context.
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Not to mention the even more ridiculous tropes that insist on teachers being aloof and out of touch.
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" Meanwhile, McCarthy seized on the moment, tweeting: "Anti-Semitic tropes have no place in the halls of Congress.
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But often, K-Pop artists have a bad track record when it comes to utilizing hip hop tropes.
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There are certain trendy fashion tropes that have become synonymous with the ladies of the Kardashian-Jenner family.
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The crew discusses the legacy of the comic, which established many of the tropes of the Batman vs.
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In Gerald's Game, not only are the typical King tropes absent, but King deliberately distorts many of them.
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Without resorting to parody or cynicism, Staver undoes the tropes we associate with depictions of heroic and mythical.
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Tired old tropes (such as that Emperor clone called Snoke) were literally torn apart by a new generation.
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Akino is a complicated wildcard who gets really close to sexist tropes about women, and then crosses them.
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Their decisiveness, sacrifice, and forgiveness are not simply banal tropes, but are envisioned anew as truly meaningful acts.
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It seems like a lot of these tropes have crossed over from the "fringe" into mainstream political discourse.
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It's tough to break free, as these ingrained tropes simultaneously define and constrain the women assigned to them.
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He conflates gun talk with depressive distress, deflecting with tropes about exotic women and focusing on his paper.
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This ought to sound familiar, because the whole thing is a deeply self-conscious pastiche of cyberpunk tropes.
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For one thing, it doesn't lean into torture porn tropes, which reduce women to objects of male violence.
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The other was algorithmic — it relies on machine learning to reduce clickbait by filtering common keywords and tropes.
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Gray nods to favorite artists and art world tropes, layering in his hallmark Op art and wavy motifs.
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If I had to compare this year's nominees to typical family tropes it would go something like this.
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Content warning for brief description of horror tropes including blood and gore, mention of a fat-shaming line.
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But these heterosexual tropes are pretty reductive and fail to take into account that women like sex, too.
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They will look at those tropes as a suit and try to decide who fits that suit best.
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I will wonder: Do these pervasive entertainment tropes about the way men and women interact sanction certain dynamics?
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Even though it's decidedly not traditional, the NUC 21080 still has some gaming tropes built into its chassis.
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The New York Times Opinion section on Saturday apologized for a political cartoon that included anti-Semitic tropes.
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Omar, one of two Muslim women in Congress, has previously been accused of pushing anti-Semitic tropes. Rep.
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That will follow accusations from Jewish Democratic lawmakers that Omar trafficked in anti-Semitic tropes about dual loyalty.
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It's when you make a trans character a sex worker, then she's sassy, and you're playing into tropes.
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Together they sheperd tracks like "Surrender" and "Evil" away from post-punk revival tropes and into unexpected turns.
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But where other lesbian romances fall victim to tortured tropes, Disobedience comes barreling through with heart and passion.
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Many of the tropes, jokes and formats that we associate with the modern sitcom, we owe to Seinfeld.
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You've seen the characters Sherman plays before because they're archetypes — often stereotypes — built from class and identity tropes.
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The best one can hope to get out of 13 Hours is a survey of contemporary Orientalist tropes.
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DVWEZ makes music that updates 80s pop tropes; a winning formula that's surprisingly tough to do really well.
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They vamp it up, are vulnerable, angry, Amazonian, sensitive, indecisive and ashamed, embodying a gamut of female tropes.
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His Lil Baby collaboration, "Day in My Hood" turned the familiar, Auto-Tuned trap tropes into something fresh.
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The referential films revel in nostalgia: for genre tropes and archetypes, design and characterization, pop culture and myth.
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King evokes long-standing racist tropes that have been applied to numerous waves of immigrants throughout U.S. history.
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Then in October, a place opened in the West Village that seemed to hit all the right tropes.
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The two novelists are not unique among transgender writers in their magpie approach to literary tropes and genres.
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Back in December, Prada pulled figurines from its stores in New York that had characteristics resembling blackface tropes.
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You're talking about tropes, and "trope" has become kind of this bad word for a lot of critics.
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Aside from a few 80s synth tropes, their fusion of pop, trap, and songwriter shmaltz sounds totally contemporary.
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Instead, these tropes have become an abstract shorthand for "the past" in the personal, rather than temporal, sense.
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This Jane is "emancipated from the conventional tropes of the ballet heroine," Judith Mackrell wrote in The Guardian.
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Unlike most other man-versus-nature tropes, they do it with a side of terrifying, razor-sharp teeth.
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Both Democrats had won statewide office before and found ways to distance themselves from coastal liberal cultural tropes.
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The image checks off the operative tropes: love, youth, leather, guitars, probably a motorcycle somewhere — lookee, rock & roll!
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Beyond the tired tropes, this speech misses a chance to build more organically on his parallels with Claire.
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Too many of the tropes and delivery mechanisms of modern media are designed precisely to bypass critical filters.
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The legend of cultural Marxism recycles old anti-Semitic tropes to give those who feel threatened a scapegoat.
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And, when you look past all the teenybopper, rom-com tropes — and there are a lot of them!
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The front cover alone draws on longstanding and offensive anti-Semitic tropes, Ms. Pollock wrote in the letter.
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But I think it's much more than that, although at times it does lapse into some familiar tropes.
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The tropes of past public debates about welfare may not resonate, particularly when applied to food and healthcare.
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Here the tropes include the grouchy chief, the conceited and sexist male surgeon, the sudden and difficult childbirth.
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A week later, The Daily Mail published a story about Ms. Markle's supposed ambitions that included racist tropes.
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In doing so, they're relying on old racist tropes and fueling fears about the ways Asian people eat.
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I want to express my condolences to my friend, but the standard tropes seem insufficient, given the situation.
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"One of the standard tropes in the field is that Section 230 creates a lawless zone," Goldman says.
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All of those tropes are at play in "Nightmare," a 1986 ad for the Apple IIc home computer.
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The novel relies too much on stock tropes, but the depiction of reckless cynicism in finance is energetic.
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Relying heavily on African and Caribbean tropes, the result is an eye-popping array of art as uniform.
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It's such a baldfaced indulgence of tortured-man movie tropes, it almost feels like a full-on parody.
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On this subject, he is mature and humane, offering considered and convincing analysis instead of familiar novelistic tropes.
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And what are the main themes you see beyond the usual "white men are the most rational" tropes?
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Screaming the "Fed&aposs balance sheet" and "stock buybacks" have been reliable tropes over the last few years.
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Her comment was swiftly denounced by fellow Democrats, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as playing on anti-Semitic tropes.
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But the striking feature of anti-Zionist rhetoric is how broadly it overlaps with traditionally anti-Semitic tropes.
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One of Mr. Trump's favorite tropes is to conflate Amazon and the newspaper, as he did on Jan.
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Tropes vs Women wasn't a revolution in critical thinking about games but it was a revelation for many.
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Get Out ingeniously uses common horror tropes to reveal truths about how pernicious racism is in the world.
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To talk about the tools and horror tropes Get Out uses, it's helpful to understand the basic plot.
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The band's first album in six years, Father of the Bride jumbles tropes and references with characteristic density.
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If you've spent much time online in recent years, you're familiar with the tropes of advertisements aimed at millennials.
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This is a movie that knows its tropes and loves them, and that is precisely what makes it great.
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So, we know it's cultural, but what else about holiday cultural tropes makes so many people down to fuck?
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It does, and it's a very recognizable one to readers familiar with the favorite rhetorical tropes of President Trump.
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However exaggerated these tropes may be, there's no doubt that there's a slice of truth to the coke cliché.
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It is exceptionally hard to see these critiques as good-faith concern about the mainstreaming of anti-Semitic tropes.
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It doesn't so much analyze or update those tropes as it does lampshade them, and call it a day.
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That means users can't hide their slurs, epithets, and racist or sexist tropes in their bio without a penalty.
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Tony has always felt incongruous with the show's more conventional high-school tropes and scenery, now more than ever.
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The exploration of horror movie tropes yielded an interest in unusual materials, utilized in mid-century American couture silhouettes.
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DuckTales is already well-known for playing on adventure serial tropes, like hunting for lost civilizations and secret treasure.
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The series brings in sitcom tropes and structure to mock them, but also to seriously reflect BoJack's damaged psyche.
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How do the tropes, the rumors, the myths travel from Russia to Hungary to Israel to the United States?
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There are the standard rap video tropes — the vixens, the bling, the homies — but good god is it weird.
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The reason to make it is because the character is female, so we're seeing another perspective on familiar tropes.
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That there would be a wise adviser, or that any of these handy tropes would exist in adult life.
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"Say 'foster care' to most people and they think of two tropes: the saint or the villain," she wrote.
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The artworks are not trying to refine "Black art," or make it more palatable; they celebrate its unique tropes.
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"Dress for the job you want" is one of the oldest — and possibly most unrealistic — tropes in the world.
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For one, Invincible always went out of its way to torpedo the common tropes in comic book hero stories.
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Where his series Futurama was a comedic take on science fiction, Disenchantment will be his take on fantasy tropes.
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In the thrall of homage and nostalgia, Trosch conjures up the marks, tropes, and touch of many other painters.
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Plus, she does it all without turning to the typical "it's autumn, you guys" tropes, like flannel and tweed.
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I'm here to explain to you what not-so-typical tropes *make* a Christmas movie worth watching these days.
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James Franco co-directed this star-packed rip-off of Mad Max filled with some questionable female character tropes.
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Overall, though, Cleverman so thoroughly undermines popular superhero-genre tropes that it's a wonder it was made at all.
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While a few shows are getting it right in 2018, plenty are falling back on tired tropes and stereotypes.
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Mainstream American superhero humor, though, tends to be less about deflating superhero tropes, and more about reveling in them.
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The election materials are roughly spliced into flower scenes in a combative contrast of pop culture and artistic tropes.
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I needed to understand what the witch was in the early modern period and where these tropes come from.
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It's not just another instance of a superhero winning a trophy girlfriend to fulfill the familiar comic book tropes.
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Its page, littered with anti-semitic tropes and propaganda urging its followers to "take action," earned over 27,000 views.
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She paints over images that at first seem to represent tropes of conventional beauty, shifting them into something unexpected.
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But Musker and Clements also have the sense to pick and choose which tropes make sense for their story.
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Charting this path was a risky move for Game of Thrones, which built its success on subverting fantasy tropes.
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Eva wasn't the first anime to marry fun action tropes with deeper religious symbolism and an overarching metaphysical tone.
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The increasing diversification of the cast and crew is another way to shake up the series' longest-standing tropes.
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I wanted to find a different way of talking about these things, rather than using explicit or stereotypical tropes.
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Despite their obviousness, these tropes are still trotted out in most time-travel movies—including, most recently, Avengers: Endgame.
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Wilder's characters, particularly those created by Mel Brooks, were almost always absurd—send-ups of familiar, often exhausted tropes.
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In reality, however, the stalkerware industry is much more mundane, and dangerous, than film tropes depict—especially for women.
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Together, these "infant" incarnations of Torpedo Boy, Undom Endgle, Bring Back, and Soul riff on tropes of toy design.
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How did you prevent yourself from falling into the tropes of gay memoirs: coming out, getting bullied, and AIDS?
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - The shared-office provider's long-awaited IPO filing is packed with pointless life-affirming tropes.
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It tonally alternates between mysterious and scary, delving into the narrative and visual tropes of the sci-fi genre.
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Do you think the 'do it like a dude' or oversexualized tropes still apply to women who can rap?
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At the same time, we're wary of the existential threat they pose, one emboldened by decades of Hollywood tropes.
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Those who engage in anti-Semitic tropes should not just be denounced, they should face consequences for their words.
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Using metaphorical and visual tropes, Lundgren departs from the confines of the actual landscape, conjuring elements of the supernatural.
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Making Kennedy a baritone — rather than a tenor, as his speaking voice suggests — is designed to avoid heroic tropes.
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Baxter nimbly avoids tropes common to writing about Africa, and his continuous self-effacement inspires trust in his account.
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But her Democratic National Convention has so far avoided some of the heroic tropes of these types of proceedings.
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Meanwhile, resentment towards the "undeserving" poor quickly fomented into the type of racist tropes and stereotypes that doomed welfare.
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The building code does more to shape contemporary design than a desire to faithfully adhere to traditional architectural tropes.
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Even for the uninitiated, the story will feel stale because horror fiction has been regurgitating Lovecraftian tropes for decades.
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It was a natural extension of what they do inside the ring: twisting tired wrestling tropes into inside jokes.
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So you get hyper-stylized doo-wop on "The Ocean," almost parodic in its play with the genre's tropes.
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Today he releases a track of the same name, of which there are all the very obvious Morrissey tropes.
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After a decade-plus of coverage centered on the Beantown-Gotham axis, the old tropes are all worn out.
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Its lackluster third season, though, fell prey to sitcom tropes, and Kimmy's mental health largely fell by the wayside.
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Intended as a sneak diss for LL, "Girls L.G.B.N.A.F" parodies his Queens rival's horny boy tropes with added raunch.
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They replaced Freudian tropes with a focus on family dynamics, especially the need for emotional security in early childhood.
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The writers went out of their way to make this show different and not lean on traditional Trek tropes.
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"I see most mainstream porn as essentially sexist and racist in its tropes," she said in a telephone interview.
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The subreddit has also been criticized for allowing an undercurrent of racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic tropes and language.
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My attraction to my cousin and my detachment as a husband both reside in the pantheon of male tropes.
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Standard white supremacist and far-right nationalist tropes, like fears of a "white genocide," are sprinkled throughout the statement.
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Mr. Trump, despite his own history of trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes, is clearly trying to exploit the moment.
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She has also divided members of her own party, having made several statements that repeated historically anti-Semitic tropes.
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This specificity came under fire when President Trump invoked the dehumanizing tropes of "vermin" and "infestation" against the Rep.
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She gently and smartly parodied the tropes used by male photographers employing their wives and significant others as muses.
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It alludes to Serena being childish and angry (I'd argue that the text relies on racist, sexist tropes, too).
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Sure, it's a familiar character who originated in the DC universe, but the movie ignores any superhero movie tropes.
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Trump's innovation is to have mined a deeper vein of cynicism, exhausting the weary tropes of polite political discourse.
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Deutsch, however, took the conversation in an entirely different direction that also managed to play up several sexist tropes.
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The few Latin American actresses who have been shortlisted in recent memory played characters exhibiting "familiar tropes," he adds.
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And that allows it to play with and explore a number of tropes related to authenticity on the internet.
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The Palestinian leader has now veered into anti-Semitic tropes worthy of a beer hall in late 1930s Berlin.
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More recently, though, Asian-Americans have deliberately sought to reclaim and then recast some of the most timeworn tropes.
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Before settling on the cowboy, Marlboro tested many different tropes of masculinity, including sailors, football players, and airline pilots.
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But the proliferation of anti-Semitic tropes in the GOP is so worrying precisely because it's widespread and systematic.
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Borderlands launched in 2009, and it's known for its mashup of post-apocalyptic tropes, space opera, and dark humor.
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The PC and console game exemplifies tropes that many narrative projects — including Life Is Strange — have since evolved past.
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Like, listen, I'm wearing heavy lipstick right now, too, but it's not the normal tropes we see from her.
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Some of Mr. Corbyn's supporters also stridently oppose Israel, occasionally resorting to anti-Semitic tropes to make their points.
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Tired old tropes (such as that Emperor clone known as Snoke) were literally torn apart by a new generation.
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But references to monkeys and apes are old tropes that have been used to mock black people for decades.
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Megan "drove the boat" toward inclusivity, defying tired tropes that suggest there can only be one woman in rap.
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And, once again, while each of them draws on tropes, they're almost all based on original stories and characters.
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And because of that lack of clarity, Scarborough winds up trafficking in racist tropes to get his point across.
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I'm also on the fence about some of its character models, whose heightened Victorianism includes some classically Orientalist tropes.
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Given all the usual tropes of booze and newfound freedom, the survey also uncovered a few bits about sex.
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In a race with a Jewish candidate, this image should be recognized as offensive, raising classic anti-Semitic tropes.
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All of this deepens Crazy Rich Asians' commentary on colonial narratives, even as it indulges in familiar romance tropes.
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And would the films be more vibrant, rather than the tired regenerations of worn tropes they often have been?
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So the movie takes these movie tropes of a character "bettering himself" but uses them in an absurd way.
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This framework for viewing the mummy essentially hasn't changed since, and continues to inform today's horror tropes about mummies.
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Culture critic Anita Sarkeesian explained the trope in 2011, as one of the earliest videos in her Tropes vs.
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If you watch this show for its campy deconstruction of horror tropes, I can see where you'd love Coven.
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And for you to relax on these tired Australian tropes for once in your I am totally just kidding.
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Those opposed to Jews living peacefully as part of their countries have traditionally relied on a few major tropes.
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This also plays into the huge dominance of fanfiction culture's sincere embrace of tropes, where fans are very upfront about wanting endless repetitions of coffee-shop meet-cutes and high school teen romances and office rom-coms, and there's no high/low cultural divide, or any shame attached to loving these tropes.
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The Vanna Venturi house instead played with scale and tropes of historic architecture such as split pediments and pitched roofing.
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Thankfully, this version of the video falls victim to fewer stereotypical tropes, as far as the portrayal of women goes.
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Join us this week as we talk about The Tempest, common Shakespeare tropes and our favorite plays from the bard.
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Gestalt, though, is a character who doesn't follow formula, who is based in tropes but does new things with them.
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Its makers picked the right story, one replete with sports movie tropes of highs and lows, triumphs and let-downs.
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It starts out looking like any other teen comedy, but keeps revealing surprising depths and turning tropes on their noses.
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You try not to run into usual tropes of, everyone is going to get in a big fight at dinner.
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And over the show's three and a half seasons, the writers' reliance on those tropes has only become more obvious.
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But both the show and its score transcend simple pastiche, subverting 80s film tropes in ways both critical and reflective.
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In Reality dissects the nuances of a relationship in 2019, and all the traditional love tropes modern day dating shatters.
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It's about the military and the ways in which it engages with the civilian executive, regardless of its political tropes.
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It thrives today in tropes about foreigners, Muslims, and other groups changing the social and demographic nature of Western countries.
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The movie plays with a lot of bro-comedy tropes, replacing Seth Rogen and Jason Segel with Plaza and Micucci.
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The show is brash, and it falls into a lot of love triangle tropes we've seen a thousand times before.
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"Russian state news gives substantial attention to anti-GMO tropes involving rats, fertility, cancer, and GMOs," Dorius told BuzzFeed News.
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These raunchy, campy skits played on racial and sexual tropes regarding her identity as a queer, border-straddling Latinx woman.
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George R.R. Martin loves setting up traditional story tropes, then undercutting them entirely — both to his fans' delight and horror.
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Ironically, The Times's dismissive approach to classical architecture played into the same tropes that animate some of its worst fans.
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As POC creators have entered the horror field to add new perspectives, though, innovative new narratives have flipped those tropes.
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But I can't help but feel we're being cheated by the sheer volume and domination of these hyper-masculine tropes.
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This time, the researchers used stories written for junior or high school students that use common tropes and plot devices.
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The seven books that made up the sprawling series were a characterful mish-mash of time-worn tropes lovingly refurbished.
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I thought I was just writing a fun little nostalgia piece, perhaps poking fun at the '90s indie-movie tropes.
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It's really fun for us to get inspired and pay homage to movies or tropes in movies that we love.
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It would seem that mainstream media will only speak of Muslim women athletes if it can serve up stereotypical tropes.
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The video twists a familiar narrative while still playing with plenty of fun tropes — like, for example, a literal frog.
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For all the tropes about manipulative professors, academics still seem to believe that graduate students are often their greatest enemies.
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When you have something like this bridging genres and tropes, it's harder to write off as an underground, radical publication.
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All these definitions have examples where women are portrayed in a negative light, or are subject to sexist, outdated tropes.
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Redditor DeadPoetsHonour99 points out the fact Stranger uses our main boys to explore the different tropes of father-son relationships.
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Even Deadpool — which is self-consciously a snarky deconstruction of the genre — plays with these tropes for the most part.
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Screenwriters Matt Leslie and Stephen J. Smith pack a lot into their script, but it's mostly tropes and shout-outs.
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Bryan: The Last Jedi is the rare franchise movie embraces its series's tropes and subverts them at the same time.
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It's especially a challenge for those who, like Inkle, wish first to engage with tropes before reinventing and subverting them.
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Other times, they deliver tired tropes of familiar characters, with plot lines crafted only to set up money-making sequels.
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Suburra may deal in traditional gangster movie tropes, but it uses them to tell a story that's modern and universal.
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These are mostly comedies, with some, like The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror" series, wringing laughs out of horror movie tropes.
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Members are encouraged to listen and offer helpful suggestions on how to challenge hurtful tropes and hopefully alter racist behavior.
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Happy Accidents (2001)Happy Accidents, a romantic comedy infused with sci-fi tropes, is the definition of a hidden gem.
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All the characters and settings and tropes and clichés that occur in those kinds of small town teen television dramas.
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Despite the icy tropes that informed you about goths through movies and television, goths need love and ice cream too.
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And, most like the soap opera, Assassin's Creed games use a limited set of narrative tropes to power its stories.
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With this in mind, if we rely on the same stale tropes about men for our liberation, we've already lost.
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Many family sitcoms embrace the tropes they're expected to embrace: uptight mom, cool guy dad, brainy son, ruthless teen girl.
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Horror lovers and novices alike know all about the familiar character tropes: the final girl, the jock, the doomed skeptic.
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So far, Season Four is filled with plenty of our favorite dystopian tech tropes, including online dating and memory harvesting.
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They have the outlines of familiar fantasy tropes, but the heroism and the failings are distributed equally on both sides.
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Danielle, Natalie, Rob, and Patrick sit down to discuss the new game, cosmic horror tropes, and Lovecraft's influence in games.
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The watered down House resolution serves only as a gateway for anti-Semitic tropes to rage on among the Democrats.
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BUFFALO — Once upon a time, N.H.L. origin stories resounded, like a slap shot in an empty arena, with familiar tropes.
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The Earthsea cycle by Ursula Le Guin, who died in January at the age of 88, excels at these tropes.
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Clinton instead chose to smear the alt-Right with the same tropes that it once wielded against today's conservative establishment.
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Invoking #Soros as controlling the State Dept, FBI, and Ukraine is trafficking in some of the worst anti-Semitic tropes.
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Regardless, all those asking Abu-Salha questions about Islam and anti-Semitism gave space and oxygen to anti-Muslim tropes.
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That's all in addition to the litany of other terms and tropes authors explicitly warn readers about in their disclaimers.
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That may be harder now that many of his signature tropes (like gender-bending, say) have filtered into the mainstream.
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After a while, the record feels less like a subversion of pop tropes than like a hyperintelligent narration of them.
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To play with the tropes of the genre, but twist them into something new, at all times, no matter what.
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English-speaking YouTube has established tropes—workhorse video concepts like unboxing, shopping hauls, and microwaving things you're not supposed to.
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Stanley focuses on propaganda and rhetoric, so his book is largely about the tropes and narratives that drive fascist politics.
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Your specialty is propaganda and rhetoric, and in the book you describe fascism as a collection of tropes and narratives.
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Clinton instead chose to smear the alt-right with the same tropes that it once wielded against today's conservative establishment.
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Bringing in tropes from different styles and...it's not like every single is up for grabs or something like that.
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Taking the tenants of jazz, he works backwards, stripping its tropes bare and rebuilding the genre in his own image.
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" One of its recurring tropes is a recitation of 16th-century English poet Thomas Wyatt's poem "I Find No Peace.
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What's also important is that it depicts Black people outside of the very narrow tropes that Hollywood limits us to.
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The film gained notoriety for its reexamination of familial horror story tropes and its avoidance of sacrificial motherhood or matricide.
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The video accompaniment was a collage of horrible racist tropes: blackface, tribal savagery, weird bone necklaces, and ritual animal sacrifice.
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It uses plenty of horror tropes like dangerous strangers, violating a restricted area, and showing the killer's point of view.
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Now imagine a Republican Party after Donald Trump, led by a younger candidate without his bigotry and culture war tropes.
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One of the oldest tropes in science fiction is the idea of the singularity, the idea of uploading your consciousness.
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Already, we're seeing this fresh crop of women candidates facing the same sexist tropes that Clinton lived through in 2016.
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Befitting the community of code-savvy folks who make extensions, many of these browser add-ons satirize tired technology tropes.
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You also get to see attractive people enacting those tropes, which gives film a boost over novels in this regard.
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The hall of mirrors was constructed in the first place as a distillation of tropes around a racially charged stereotype.
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But those Soundgarden classics unmistakably sculpted the tropes and sounds that we think about when we memorialize the grunge era.
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But many of these books, while offering newfound visibility for queer teens, were riddled with tropes about homosexuality and suffering.
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Yet it all feels a little forced, as if the play was going down a checklist of tough-guy tropes.
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In Madonna's Sex, on the runway, and beyond, Western culture has been obsessed with these tropes for a long time.
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Right-wing groups are stoking anti-Korean sentiment by recycling old tropes of "untrustworthy" and "faithless" Koreans, says Ms Dudden.
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Her 2011 collection, "Life on Mars," which won the Pulitzer, is inflected with dystopian themes and tropes from science fiction.
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Or perhaps it's censorship to tell readers they can't critique fiction they see as uncritically reinforcing harmful and racist tropes.
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There are bosses that call themselves bosses and a handful of other moments that poke fun at video game tropes.
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The comments became the subject of backlash, with some online saying Farage was spreading conspiracy theories and anti-semitic tropes.
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Likewise, when some of Bonnie's toys get trapped in an antique store, two more pre-used tropes come into play.
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Their work was daring, edgy, funny and dark; it rejected old tropes that defined us as pathetic, frightening and worthless.
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The movie has been criticized for perpetuating tropes about Muslim Americans, but I identified with the idea of conflicting selves.
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Jewish groups criticized President Trump for using anti-Semitic tropes while speaking to the Israeli-American Council on Saturday night.
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Carnival Row is more evidence that the smartest, most successful uses of Lovecraftian tropes don't avoid or ignore his racism.
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But it acknowledges the history and tropes of murder-mysteries in the same way, while telling its own distinctive story.
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In media, Jews tend to adhere to a narrow band of ethnic tropes: the nebbish, the neurotic, the overbearing mother.
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By snapping these hard-won photographs, they've begun to overwrite the spaceship-swallowing tropes of sci-fi with real data.
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It was the studios fix for a character who was developed around a whole lot of racist tropes and stereotypes.
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A pretty straightforward haunted house story, The Haunting in Connecticut was criticized for relying too heavily on scary movie tropes.
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Humblebrag, #DeepThoughts and Food Porn From there, Comey went on a tear, learning the ropes and tropes of social media.
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But with a lineup spanning decades, Disney's library isn't squeaky clean, with several films featuring racist tropes and offensive portrayals.
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But although "Tragedy Girls" is up-to-date on tweets and technology, its high school dynamics conform to familiar tropes.
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Cruz is drawing on specific right-wing tropes about the threatening "isolation" of Muslims in Europe (and perhaps the US).
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And it walks the tricky line of surprising a savvy audience while also following its franchise's familiar symmetries and tropes.
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The backlash to Ms. Omar's tweet was fierce, with even Democratic leaders accusing her of trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes.
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It was not until the mid-1940s that popular culture began to abandon once-popular minstrelsy tropes, Mr. Carson said.
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At first glance, it looked as though the show would ultimately destabilize its romantic comedy tropes via a love triangle.
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Her books are deeply rooted in the profound, often overlooked, physical consequences of the high fantasy tropes she trades in.
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In my favorite exchange, Pondsmith explains how he and the team rethought one of cyberpunk's most familiar tropes: Flying cars.
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You talked about the tropes of horror, but this movie also works within the family drama or family tragedy genre.
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Distinguishing between architecture and art today is a challenging task, particularly when faced with countless tropes supplied by popular culture.
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Some Game of Thrones fans think that what happened in "The Bells" marked the show's boldest subversion of tropes yet.
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"Relationship Goals" is a new column celebrating unconventional and weird love stories that are far superior to traditional romantic tropes.
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Here, she approaches the topic with comedic zest, roleplaying into some of these tropes to show how ridiculous they are.
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These tropes tend to make "journalism" a stand-in for "romantic workplace shenanigans" (which is often code for "sexual harassment").
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The report basically says that no one knows if these tropes came from advertising or if advertising just enforces them.
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They do that by treating them extremely seriously and with that much-coveted sincerity, but also by centering them within very self-aware lived experiences, making conscious choices about how to either subvert the tropes they're working with or reframe social issues in order to shamelessly leverage those tropes to create even more shameless fantasy.
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Far Cry Primal doesn't shed all the tired video game tropes, but it does get rid of a big one: guns.
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I've found it interesting how versatile Lovecraft's creations are: how did you approach subverting some of his tropes with your characters?
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But they all end up feeling like tropes being crossed off a checklist, without any living, breathing story to support them.
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And those sorts of tropes get very uninspiring as a designer, when you're playing the same card over and over again.
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The tropes that Wennmachers helped to fashion, the ideas that built the image of the heroic founder, must now be reexamined.
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ONE of the time-honoured tropes of writing on business is the detailed description of the life of a corporate titan.
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The analogy was like a funhouse-mirror reflection of slut-shaming tropes, and it attracted the internet's attention and ridicule accordingly.
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If they are, they tend to exist in the past tense, or as tropes that mostly function as counterpoints to whiteness.
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It's right in line with some of the most time-honored star-crossed lover tropes that literature has ever served up.
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Amis resists succumbing to Hollywood bombshell tropes and transforms moments that would be erotic in a more conventional film into tragedy.
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What types of things do you need to change or create yourself to improve upon those tropes in your own works?
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Where I'd hoped Wilson's Heart was a clever subversion of generic horror tropes, it turned out to be simply repeating them.
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The result is a frustrating lack of narrative cohesion that relies too heavily on tropes the original Blair Witch Project codified.
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Sadly, in this sequel, she gets too stuck in the web of action-movie tropes to really go anywhere at all.
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It's just silly enough to feel deliberately dated, while unironically drawing on the tropes that made those old films so successful.
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Still, let's not forget that the show makes it blatantly clear that no amount of rom-com tropes can save Joe.
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I thought Ryan Murphy ws done with extreme feminist tropes, having taken things pretty far with main character Ally (Sarah Paulson).
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With critical theory and costume changes, she engages her audiences with Sufi music, Disney imagery, Bollywood tropes, and auto-ethnographic research.
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It deconstructs fantasy most of the time — which makes it all the more satisfying when it leans heavily into those tropes.
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Making fun of The Bachelor is difficult in part because the show relies on traditional gender roles and tired female tropes.
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Someone on the elevator was sufficiently offended by that, you know, his invocation of sexual gender tropes, or whatever it was.
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Sure, it hits on a lot of the crime tropes you've seen before, but the familiarity is more fun than exhausting.
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The various nods to expected genre tropes are handled so lightly and inconsequentially that they play more like parody than plot.
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And he's also worked as a live-action actor, most notably in "Anime Crimes Division," which spoofs anime and detective tropes.
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But the game will more deeply explore the way they see the world and spend less time leaning on broad tropes.
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Distorting familiar tropes from beginning to end, "Found a Job" is an entrepreneurial success story presented as a self-help parable.
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Here are some of the worst offenders — and ones that subvert the tropes, making room for more nuanced conceptions of sexuality.
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Futurama poked fun not only at science fiction tropes, but at politics and capitalism, while also delivering some genuinely emotional stories.
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Beyond The Apprentice, Trump's campaign used the same familiar reality TV tropes that we've been fed for the past 20 years.
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Amponsah also criticized the organizers for evoking stereotypical tropes of voodoo and cannibalism by decorating a stage with skulls on sticks.
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The trio described themselves simply as "smart athletic friends" on social media and in interviews—no racist tropes, no tired gimmicks.
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Much of the griping relied on tired tropes about what work counts as real activism and who gets to define it.
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As The Daily Beast and The Washington Post have reported, many of these ads employed racist tropes to sway political beliefs.
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The new animated movie understands that with seven big-screen appearances since 2002, old tropes don't necessarily need to be repeated.
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The film would be thuddingly familiar if not for Waititi's willingness to grasp overused tropes and manipulate them into something new.
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That first game is called Man of Medan, and it starts with a premise that really leans in on horror tropes.
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It plays with familiar tropes by forcing you to act during moments that would usually get audiences shouting in a theater.
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Sometimes we lean into tropes where they're best for the story and sometimes we want to subvert them in interesting ways.
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Hendrix had absorbed the tropes, voice, and structures of sci-fi and had begun to apply them to the rock music.
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Hope, change: These are the oldest tropes in the political challenger playbook, yet somehow he made them new and exciting again.
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Women videos covering both negative gaming tropes and positive examples of female characters, along with reviews of new games and movies.
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I love that we're kind of just turning all those tropes upside down in a way, just kind of revisiting them.
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There's shrewd messaging about toxic relationships, gender dynamics, and self-esteem, and a subversion of princess tropes that runs surprisingly deep.
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The acrostic sign is one of the most overused fan tropes out there, so it's delightful to see some minor absurdity.
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Those attempts were criticized for trafficking in racist tropes about black communities, a criticism that has reemerged with his latest attacks.
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But detractors went particularly hard on Jones, the only black star, dusting off their worst racist tropes to keep her down.
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We said, let's not go into all stereotypes or use old tropes—we've got to keep the narrative as it was.
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For instance, during a White House event on Friday in which he denounced the violence, Trump trafficked in white nationalist tropes.
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He wants to round up the tropes of the genre, layer them on top of each other, and smash them open.
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Shadow's creators seemed poised to finally include Indigenous peoples in a game without the grossness of "Western" imperialist tropes of savagery.
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There's certainly no shortage of animated explainer videos on the web, and they tend to incorporate the same types of tropes.
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Americans will find it hysterical, too, because it's a different way of looking at these tropes we're so used to seeing.
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"Within science fantasy there are so many different tropes, there are so many archetypes you see all the time," he said.
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The introductory vignette, shown as a means of hyping up a wrestler, is one of the most timeworn pro-wrestling tropes.
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It isn't, but not much is — especially in the crime genre, which uses established tropes and formulas to sometimes great effect.
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The genius of Westworld's reworking of The Tempest lies in showing how character tropes from Shakespeare's play are intertwined and inverted.
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" The argument here is that Frozen is propaganda because it violates mythical tropes that have existed since "the beginning of time.
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Even if these tropes and traditions are often violated — and Trump has done so again and again — everybody clings to them.
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It even repeats the best of all bro-country tropes, describing a playlist that includes one country singer and one rapper.
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The work counters the two tropes of representation for women—beautiful object of desire or self-sacrificing mother/wife/daughter/grandmother.
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Join us as we talk about horror movies, tropes in slashers, and There's Someone Inside Your House in the episode above.
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I'm hesitant to say that nobody should ever criticize a movie trailer ever again; trailers can prop up ugly, pernicious tropes.
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Still satisfying us with gorgeous visual effects and lush imagery, Discovery continues to play on our love of familiar starship tropes.
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Sherman is known for reimagining female tropes by embodying them with all manner of hair and makeup and photographing the results.
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It suggests to me that Hollywood is most interested in giving these tropes attention when they're approached ironically or at angles.
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And then finally, if we look at the lyrics, this is just through-and-through full of country music lyrical tropes.
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Rather than confront the strictures of Greenberg's Modernist tropes, he allowed them to endure by substituting three-dimensional space for flatness.
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The heroic ending is incredibly predictable, and it doesn't quite track with Game of Thrones' previous penchant for subverting fantasy tropes.
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Ms. Haspel is the latest white chef to be accused in recent months of appropriating Asian cultural tropes in insensitive ways.
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Not all the stereotypes have disappeared, and the casual expression of anti-Semitic tropes is still widely socially acceptable in France.
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It's kind of like Bioware's take on Destiny, but it looks like it doesn't lean quite so heavily on MMO tropes.
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We often see politicians behind a podium, or waving on a stage, or kissing a baby's head — the tropes of portraits.
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It has all the tropes — mismatched police partners, prying small-town reporters, gruesome murder — but everyone is bad at their job.
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A lot of the same tropes are present, whether it's a show like Gentefied or Vida or The Chi before it.
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As the tropes that fueled the early debates succumb to diminishing marginal utility, they're not being replaced by anything truly illuminating.
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He avoids all the familiar feline tropes and uses the cat as a device to teach us about the other animals.
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Other defenders of porn conceded that it was exploitative and infused with fantasies of domination, often involving classist and racist tropes.
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Social media sites were clogged with conspiracy theories along these lines, and some of the theories even parroted anti-Semitic tropes.
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It's interesting to watch a whistleblower film about a lawyer that doesn't conform to a lot of tropes of the genre.
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Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Killing Eve flipped spy cat-and-mouse thrillers—and lesbian-adjacent psychodrama tropes—completely upside down.
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It's a quintessential '21984s horror throwback — and hopefully one that will dig deeper into the era's tropes as the season progresses.
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It is difficult to write about this subject without falling into predictable tropes or clichés, but Russell manages a brutal originality.
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The result is a thoroughly recognizable romantic comedy, with many of the same tropes that rom-coms have used for decades.
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So when we're presented a picture of real couples (or real friends), we create narratives around them based on these tropes.
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The result is an ad hoc remix of a classical Indian composition to a contemporary Western musical tropes with catchy results.
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However, she interestingly discusses the way in which Sergei Eisenstein's early comic films make fun of bourgeois values and Hollywood tropes.
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"Tropes and storytelling devices that worked in movies and TV have to be rethought and reworked for virtual reality," Milk said.
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It's valuable, then, to strip away decades of storytelling tropes that have accumulated around this subject and return to primary accounts.
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Drenched in Southern Gothic tropes and wielding more double-edged charm than a bed-and-breakfast full of peepholes, the first episode, "Vanish," packs in a host of mystery tropes: emo protagonist with a murky past, a small town with secrets, eccentric local color, it looks like we have a serial killer on our hands, and bingo.
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Aja Romano: I think another significant factor in the denigration of the rom-com is that they are built so heavily on tropes; their predictability is a huge part of their appeal, but like every other genre that relies heavily on genre tropes, the rom-com has been treated contemptuously by "serious" creators and authors for decades.
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"Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes," Ms. Omar said in a statement released on Twitter, about an hour after Ms. Pelosi and the entire Democratic leadership publicly chastised her for engaging in "deeply offensive" anti-Semitic tropes.
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The now 50-year-old mother is living proof that, despite ageist tropes, there isn't an age limit to sexual self-discovery.
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Blade Runner's plot and character dynamics deliberately echo common noir mystery tropes, to the point where some viewers may find them clichéd.
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But the way it goes about that is by winking and nodding at all the recognizable beats and tropes it's going through.
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Kirsten Gillibrand, in a statement issued Thursday, suggested that Omar may have used anti-Semitic tropes, but condemned Republicans for inciting violence.
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The campy Carver plot line of Nip/Tuck was nonstop '80s horror tropes before we even knew we wanted such a thing.
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This book, however, does not follow any traditional tropes of romance, instead braiding the literary genres of memoir, fiction, and auto-fiction.
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We must also push back against those in the media who exclude these communities or diminish them through discriminatory tropes and caricatures.
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This week, I played a short indie JRPG that uses creepy-cute tropes to cut right to the heart of those feelings.
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The horror-comedy Snatchers, which debuted at this year's SXSW, combines both tropes — then filters them through a high-school-comedy setting.
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This season has been just as wholesome and pleasant as its predecessors, having pulled together all of Bake Off's most lovable tropes.
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A show that bucked romantic comedy tropes is now bringing a rom-com heroine to the small screen for its sixth season.
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In this striking body of work, Tuncay is finally free to offer his own critical take on both "feminine" and "masculine" tropes.
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Directors Lav Diaz, Mattie Do, and Minh Quý Truong have built off Hollywood's tropes in unexpected ways in their science fiction films.
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And admittedly that's curious, considering her sometimes very close adherence to pop tropes, shared by other alt-pop acts like Rina Sawayama.
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Kirkus Reviews gave the book a starred review, saying that it's "a celebration of fantasy that melds modern ideology with classic tropes."
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The Fifth Season elevated the fantasy genre by upending tropes about the portrayal of magic, relationships, and the end of the world.
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I was really cognisant of shoegaze tropes, so I tried to stay away from reverb and delay unless it was absolutely necessary.
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When you don't know the history of Jewish persecution or the tropes that have fueled it, they are particularly difficult to avoid.
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His Little Terrors series juxtaposes military artillery with the cutesy tropes of childhood in ways that are both humorous and deeply unsettling.
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But even then, The Jungle Book is about a boy's coming of age, and it's full of boyish tropes of the genre.
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Westworld deliberately trades on all the familiar tropes of Western fiction: cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and bandits, lost loves and last stands.
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Rather than being a direct sequel or remake of something like E.T. or Aliens, it instead evoked those movies' styles and tropes.
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It uses familiar tropes from video games, like shooting targets, negotiating mazes and moving blocks, to express Ms. Anthropy's state of mind.
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The movie addresses race in a way that doesn't just fall back on the same tropes we've become used to as moviegoers.
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Just because they seem rigid, stuck in the old tropes of what it means to be a professional, a boyfriend, a father.
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The outcome is pure exhibitionism, relying on homonormative tropes to drive a sophomoric message of uniform emotion antithetical to the queer community.
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I was surprised perhaps by my own relief at seeing interesting, engaged art that is the opposite of studied art school tropes.
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On their excellent debut Feast of Love, Drake's quiet vocals pushed through fuzzed out guitars and emo tropes of heartache and longing.
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She has all these different layers happening at once that allow her to be more well-rounded then we see these tropes.
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They rely on tropes about Black women being ghetto, uncivilized, and unattractive; stereotypes that Black women still have to fight against everyday.
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The idea of two conflicting personalities sharing a single body is one of those metaphor-rich tropes that writers tend to love.
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The Michelle Dockery-led period drama follows the pop culture dominance of HBO's epic Westworld, which melds Western tropes with futuristic twists.
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And what Crazyhead finds in Buffy's romantic tropes is a treasure trove of thoughts about gendered power dynamics, about romance and friendships.
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The Godzilla rhythm, augmented with some light drums, almost combats with the lyrically complex Monch, embodying an extreme version of rap tropes.
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Jessica Jones' initial season brilliantly exploited the tension between horror tropes and superhero stories by pitting her against a terrifyingly powerful antagonist.
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Dramatizing social ineptitude was his way of fusing punk with art school; it meant he could play around with tropes and themes.
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You'd think we'd all know better by now that our shared culture would be moving on from such retrograde tropes, but nope.
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While Trump's photo clearly pulls from some of these tropes, she said, it also departs from them in a number of ways.
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The telegenic, English-fluent Netanyahu is a free-market champion who favors cigars and American sports tropes, and keeps a beachfront villa.
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Summer-set YA romances are starting to arrive, and the familiar tropes are in bloom: young love, beach trips, bonfires, theoretical physics.
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Peele is unerring in setting up the strange world of the Armitages, but relaxes into tropes when Chris needs to escape it.
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Homer catalogued the heroes and villains of ancient battles; Dylan does the same with the tropes and myths of his changing times.
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To avoid that fate, Riverdale will need to generate new narratives and new tensions out of the tropes it has already resolved.
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And Through the Ages hews to some of the standard tropes of flatscreen nature videos, like time-lapse video of Yosemite's vistas.
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That doesn't mean the old tropes about feminine compassion and maternal determination have disappeared entirely—they're just being put to different uses.
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In 2012, Anita launched a Kickstarter to fund a web series examining sexist portrayals of women in video games, called Tropes vs.
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