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opinions or beliefs that are held or accepted by most people
Conventional wisdom in Hollywood says that a movie can't succeed unless it stars a famous actor or actress.
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Brousson is an Austin resident and often posts satirical videos teasing Texas cliches and generalizations.
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Teenagers are tested on more advanced skills, such as making generalizations from a reading passage and comparing information from charts and graphs.
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What bothers me is the foot-dragging, the spinning in circles, the slow degradation of these characters into annoying stereotypes.
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Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith’s screenplay is littered with exaggerated stereotypes just waiting to be boisterously subverted.
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