I've been saying for years that his schtick about being some kind of peacenik was a crock.

Springer, who died in 2023, made a schtick of apologizing for ruining the culture at the end of his life.

The practice of including recent art in historical exhibitions, an increasingly common art museum schtick, means to make supposedly arcane subjects relevant and timely by suggesting that living artists still engage those themes.

It's not a gimmick or a schtick, this is a fully-fledged game of football, at Cliftonhill on Saturday at three o'clock, with all the bells and whistles and with three points on the line.

Those are just the highlights of some of the introductory speeches before Trumpov came on and did his usual schtick which had people leaving the venue in droves.