Likewise, this trope is an easy way to examine geneder roles without having to necessarily do as much heavy lifting. From Wordnik.com. [First Girl Ever at SF Novelists] Reference
The “liberals refuse to teach phonics” trope is a fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Teaching Reading Right] Reference
This “center-right nation” trope is really goddamned tired. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Generic Ballot Points to Giant House GOP Win in 2010] Reference
Anyway, the whole Libertarian 'government = terrorism' trope is tiresome. From Wordnik.com. [A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The ever-popular "noun + numeral" song-title trope is well represented with 69. From Wordnik.com. [Merry Swankster] Reference
This is becoming a familiar trope from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Gottlieb: Conjuring Conspiracies (VIDEO)] Reference
In so doing he draws upon another Latin American trope, this one of more recent vintage. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo Chávez's Jewish Problem] Reference
Indeed, the whole poem, whose dominant trope is apostrophe, may be condemned in this way. From Wordnik.com. ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference
The prophetic trope is more often than not delivered as a throwaway and read accordingly. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
Be a clever commentary on the White Dude Saves the World (or your non-white culture) Again trope?. From Wordnik.com. [Forbidden Kingdom - April 2008] Reference
The whole idea of a trope is to let writers use things that are already established in the genre. From Wordnik.com. [Firefly not good SF?] Reference
Whether someone else assumes he said it, or merely uses it as a rhetorical trope, is not evidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional] Reference
PROS: A respectable (and accessible) examination of reality; the "Many Worlds" trope is put to good use. From Wordnik.com. [March 2009] Reference
To that end, the "Many Worlds" trope is put to good use, though the subsequent use of time travel is less inspired. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose] Reference
The rough, tough, gruff trope is stolen from In the Red by the late Mark Tavener, an early stalwart of the Liberal Revue. From Wordnik.com. [House Points: Eric Pickles and MPs' expenses] Reference
The problem with time travel as a stand-alone trope is that it's almost impossible to do well, as you point out in the question. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: The Tricky Trope of Time Travel] Reference
Such a position might be called trope universalism. From Wordnik.com. [Tropes] Reference
A standard fannish trope is framing plot and character. From Wordnik.com. [April 29th, 2007] Reference
Swordbreaker looks like Cook's take on the sentient sword trope of fantasy. From Wordnik.com. [Books Received] Reference
The rest of it ... well, there is something to be said for the wild-man-in-the-cabin trope. From Wordnik.com. [The Muse as Moment and Place] Reference
A trope is a simple entity in that there is no distinction between it and the property it ˜has.™. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Simplicity] Reference
Snowbound is framed around the ugly duckling trope which is one of my favorites. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary] Reference
It was fascinating, and actually was a conversation with a differing PERSON, not a "trope". From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Truth is a trope is a proposition. From Wordnik.com. [Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.] Reference
Well, you can wave goodbye to that trope for a while. From Wordnik.com. [That Was Then, This Is Now] Reference
This trope is not limited to movies about 40-something women travelers. From Wordnik.com. [Eat, Pray, Love, Leave: Orientalism Still Big Onscreen] Reference
The idea of women training simple men is a well-worn trope of pop culture. From Wordnik.com. [How to Train a Husband] Reference
"That's really inspiring," he went on, warming to his newest campaign trope. From Wordnik.com. [44: Obama -- 'No we can't'] Reference
The other night you were using the trope "That's not change we can believe in.". From Wordnik.com. [How to Beat a Rock Star: ‘Substance.’] Reference
(A familiar Washington rhetorical trope: "You are a lobby, we are a community."). From Wordnik.com. [Washington's Works Of Art] Reference
Of course Waters has Faraday use this trope at the novel's most unsettling moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters] Reference
This racist trope persists well beyond the confines of Mel Gibson's deranged psyche. From Wordnik.com. [Jackson Katz: Mel Gibson and a "Teachable Moment" About Rape in Celebrity Media Culture] Reference
A favorite trope is the Nazi-Jew comparison, which has a simple psychological function. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Semitism In Araby] Reference
Ms. DAUM: All I really care about is, you know, I have this has been a trope in my work. From Wordnik.com. [Searching For A Perfect Life 'In That House'] Reference
Their images are carefully posed to look casual, a defining trope of contemporary photography. From Wordnik.com. [Photography: self-portraits as an art form] Reference
Thankfully, those days are fading; the blinking-VCR trope is becoming as rare as a floppy disk. From Wordnik.com. [Talking Tech] Reference
There's no question in my mind that Haxton's version is far better than this lame trope of Hugo's. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry Slam] Reference
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