The truth about clichés: Why the stigma against them isn’t entirely fair Stock words and phrases often get used to death — but that isn't always the case ...

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Clichés represent a paradox: they are used by all speakers, and are familiar to everyone, yet they are never evaluated appreciatively or even neutrally: the very word cliché is encumbered with ...

Following ESPN's groan-inducing Jeremy Lin headline, we'd like like to point out a few more phrases headline writers might want to avoid, not only because they're vaguely racist but also because ...

Sara Cowley, a disabled playwright who lives in Mesquite, believes in writing nuanced human stories. For over a decade, she’s been using theater to bring her life experience to the stage in a ...

A few weeks ago, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, sent an email to the newsroom about clichés. To paraphrase: He wanted us to try harder to avoid them, because nobody comes ...

Artists have rarely wanted to correct the public on this point. This was especially true of writers in the middle of the twentieth century, laboring in the long interval between Prohibition—when ...

As comedy writers we are always hoping that a line or joke from our script will become a catchphrase but of course as soon as you try too hard, the magic disappears, along with the phrase. Occasional ...

On Monday, I read the following sentence on a popular music website about the new Cloud Nothings album: “The band continues to make powerfully utilitarian ...