No, they didn't; some of the visual tropes of the show were exciting.

One of the two main visual tropes I identify with Griffith is the wind in the leaves, of which there's plenty in "Way Down East."

And a few of the visual tropes, like a white coffin Sweeney lugs around in the second act, can be irritatingly arty and confusing.

The book illustrates how Lichtenstein's visual tropes evolved.

While deftly working the visual tropes of the spy-thriller genre, "Fay Grim" carries them into the realm of the absurd.

This visual trope has drawn references to the Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni and many of his works about urban displacement.

"Political Pop" refers to artworks that appropriate the visual tropes of propaganda (specifically the Cultural Revolution) and reworks them into he Western "pop art" style.

The series mostly abstains from using the visual tropes characteristic of anime, but does rarely use exaggerated facial expressions to highlight emotions for comic effect.

But a retrospective of their work, whose art mostly presents the visual tropes of the 1980's but whose dates extend through the last 15 years, is a service to no one.

The doctor, nurse or patient will relate to the number as a visual trope, in this case a metaphor, for the health of the body.