There is an old trope about sausages and law.

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She presents examples of the damsel in distress trope in video games concisely and effectively.

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While my own scrimping ways may seem antithetical to the trope of Millennials being entitled and self-indulgent, Mills says that having grown up in politically and financially tumultuous times has actually been a boon to many twenysomethings when it comes to how they control their spending habits.

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Rosewood lent itself admirably to carving African figures, too, as shown by a delicately modeled German figure of a "Black Female Nude" (1600-10) that suggests an African-inspired trope on the ancient Greek and Roman sculptures of "Crouching Aphrodite, " versions of which had been engraved by the early 16th century.

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They are a product of an inherited, imperial history of clothing, of our particular war-fighting history and of the "support the troops" trope so common in 21st century war rhetoric.

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The plot in outline is a noir trope: An innocent man is wrongly convicted for murdering his wife, and the one person who can save him by providing an alibi has seemingly vanished.

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The one thing that rings true is yet another trope trotted out by CEOs of newly public companies, even if they and their employees may not believe it themselves: The IPO is the beginning, not the end.

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