| 单词 | hackneyed |
| 例句 | “But that expression of ‘violently in love’ is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “Fifty years,” I hackneyed, “is a long time.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z So what if her first original words in months were the most hackneyed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Admittedly, it was the most hackneyed scene in the whole 20-hour series, but let's not spoil the story. The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z And don’t forget: The red tie, white shirt, dark blue suit is a particularly patriotic, if hackneyed, combination. Republican Debate Has Candidates Seeing Red 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The plot, they wrote, was hackneyed and formulaic. ‘Follies’ Was My First Broadway Show. 50 Years Later, I Remember It All. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z The back and forth is a bit over-wrought with hackneyed lines like, “Is this what we’re to expect from our ambassador? A hothead?” 'House of Cards' Season 3 Episode 2 Recap: Balancing the Eggs 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Aside from too many characters and story strands, the dialogue is hackneyed and the acting subpar, starting with the movie's lead. 'Guardian Angel' takes on a few too many sins 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Her final close-up might be the film’s most hackneyed moment of all, proving that not only does the Devil have all the best tunes, he also has all the best shades of lipstick. ‘The Sonata’ Review: A Little Fright Music 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The Boss gives her too little to work with: a hackneyed backstory and a string of slapstick gags that lead to an all too predictable climax and denouement. The 10 Most Disappointing Movies of 2016 So Far 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z It's also a non-American director's movie about the soullessness of American suburbia, which bothers me some because it's so hackneyed but might bother me more if it weren't so convincingly rendered. Cannes: Tilda Swinton's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is a grim shocker 2011-05-12T15:15:00Z “Cliche is death,” she concluded, “and death is the most hackneyed of cliches. So to hell with death, and to hell with cliches. Except for this one: On with the show.” Review | A literary quartet: Emersons return to theater, Shostakovich 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z But those hackneyed jokes — and that grating subplot about trapping a man! Review | ‘How to Succeed’ is a tired musical whose sexist humor is a little tired, too. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Critics, Westerberg explains, taught him that Top Forty singles and album-oriented-rock tracks were corny and hackneyed, and that punk rock—Johnny Thunders and the New York Dolls especially—was the way to go. Why Rock Criticism Was Essential to the Replacements 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Smith’s pursuit of money and power and her entourage’s hard partying ways result in a surprisingly high body count for two short acts, all captured by the hackneyed lenses of performers dressed as television cameras. Buxom and Doomed: The Odd Marriage of Opera and Anna Nicole 2013-09-27T14:09:14Z Yes, he’s as awkward in the suit as he is out of it, but Spider-Man: Homecoming never sets up a hackneyed nerds-v-jocks scenario. Spider-Man: Homecoming – at last a superhero film for millennials 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z But audiences soon grew tired of these hackneyed genres and ticket sales continued to dwindle. Blockbusters assemble: can the mega movie survive the digital era? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Simple Plan, a band who are to Sum 41 what Shandy Bass is to MD 20/20, were not suffering from a lack of hackneyed patois in their FM pop. This week's new tracks 2012-08-17T23:05:28Z Riley rarely mumbles more than a couple of hackneyed lines when confronting her targets. Review: ‘Peppermint’ Is Neither Sweet Nor Good 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z In her capable hands, however, even the most hackneyed occasions are transformed into revealing or comic moments. Review: In Emma Straub’s ‘Modern Lovers,’ Passion and Regret in Brooklyn 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z He is loyal and selfish, ambitious and lazy, talented and hackneyed. Tituss Burgess on a Role Tailor-Made for Him on ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Oddly, CBS chose her for her offbeat, downtown appeal, then boxed her into a conventional multiple-camera format that seemed hackneyed even back in the days of “Three’s Company.” Television Review: Three New Sitcoms Put the Focus on Young Single Women 2011-09-18T22:09:46Z It’s a play on a hackneyed stereotype, but it’s easy irony and the one number that could use a major trim. ‘Stu for Silverton’ sings about small-town tolerance 2013-07-24T01:37:24Z Or maybe not: Committing completely to Carl’s wobbly perceptions, the filmmakers mire us in a hackneyed swamp of narrative uncertainty. Review: If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother in ‘Kaleidoscope’ 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z In a book that avoids hackneyed plot devices Ms. Lippman makes Helen’s father physically abusive without giving his aggression a sexual component. Books of The Times: ‘And When She Was Good’ by Laura Lippman 2012-08-01T20:07:25Z While The Guardian of London called it "jolly" and "eminently readable," the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph said the writing was "appalling," "hackneyed" and readers would have to wade through "pages of treacly cliché." 'Fifty Shades' too steamy for some library shelves 2012-05-09T19:41:42Z But even Whedon seems to recognize what a hackneyed premise that is, so he has a little fun with it. Review: `Avengers' hits big screen with a blast 2012-04-24T01:16:03Z Anonymous of Chicago felt that I had succumbed to the hackneyed notion that sparkling wines are only for celebrations. Among Sparkling Wines, the Other Half Lives Pretty Well 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z With its focus on Pakistan, “The Wrong Enemy” is a valuable contribution to a hefty body of work on the American war in Afghanistan that has become stale and somewhat hackneyed. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z Medical professionals rounded on Todd Phillips’s film, accusing it of perpetuating “the hackneyed association between serious mental illness and extreme violence”. Madness in the movie: in defence of going gothic 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Not the hackneyed command that you “Go and Enjoy!” Review | The charms of Harry Potter work on Broadway — but read the books first 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z A TV show is said to have jumped the shark when, having reached its peak, it tries something desperate or hackneyed to prolong its popularity. Big Love: Shark-Jumping in Utah 2010-02-22T14:05:00Z Mr. McLean, perhaps determined to leave no cliché unturned, also wallows in the cheap and hackneyed irony of choreographed slaughter accompanied by Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. Review: ‘The Belko Experiment’: Kill or Be Killed 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Two-thirds into “Drifts” the narrator realizes she is pregnant, and as she beholds her “exquisitely tender and changing body” her diction stoops slightly into the hackneyed. Locked in a Creative Struggle, With Rilke as Her Guide 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z And a few hackneyed bits of Cain dialogue could be hacked. A steamy, riveting 'Indemnity' at ACT 2011-10-29T21:45:05Z This, however, reeks of simplistic moralizing, is lousy with hackneyed dialogue and filled ludicrously contrived melodrama that only pours out of writers and director who think they understand racism but really, really don’t. 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Matters are not helped by scads of hackneyed dialogue. 'Burning Blue' treats 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' era awkwardly 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Immensely to the society’s credit, there was not a whiff of routine about Sunday’s performance, which was so vivid and lively that the piece, hackneyed as some of it is, emerged in fresh color. Two contrasting concerts show best face of D.C. choral scene 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z But she brings something fresh in among those hackneyed male detectives. Kelly Reilly: 'I'm not an exhibitionist' 2011-01-02T00:05:11Z Mr. Bratt moves through his hackneyed role with resigned good humor. Review: ‘Ride Along 2’ Reloads Twin Barrels of Ice Cube and Kevin Hart 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The fourth-season finale—“Long Time Coming”—reads like a disappointing, hackneyed attempt to bring nuance back to the show. “Homeland” and “The Affair’s” disastrous finales: Why shows should never force a worn-out premise 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The show avoids too much hackneyed “Blast From The Past” humor by placing Kimmy’s last reference point in 2000—a while ago, but not ancient history. “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” is still rough around the edges 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z And that seems to be the show's lone, hackneyed message. Fox's 'The Following': bloody, ghastly, ill-timed 2012-12-20T14:55:26Z Had I seen that happen on screen, I would have dismissed it as a hackneyed comic device. How I came out to my three kids 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z The first section of the book leans heavily on the hackneyed ploy of the child narrator, whose unconsciously ironic observations are apparent to the reader. Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘Bream Gives Me Hiccups’ is no masterpiece 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z “In the galleries the enthusiasm was unreserved; in the stalls and boxes, people smiled a little at the hackneyed sentiments and claptrap situations, and enjoyed the play as much as the galleries did.” | 'The Shaughraun': Hiss at the Villain, Cheer the Vagabond 2011-05-10T21:35:45Z The plotting in Champion’s five- to eight-hour story mode is hackneyed and obvious, but the bouts are also quite effective in teaching new players the game. Video Game Review: Putting Up Your Dukes, or at Least Your Thumbs 2011-03-21T22:07:55Z Yes, but it’s also the most hackneyed way for people whose lives are less volcanic. Review: ‘The Art of Memoir,’ by Mary Karr, Is a Veteran’s Guide 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z But at its best, the series shows that–as with marriage, parenthood, friendship and all those other eternal, hackneyed tales–if you put your head down and just commit, it can still work. Review: On HBO's Togetherness, Love Is Hard Work 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Several critics called her performance wooden and the script hackneyed. Hollywood sends animated stars to Cannes festival 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z If the premise sounds hackneyed, well, that's because it is: Lucky Louie is an unashamedly traditional, some might say old-fashioned, sitcom. Lucky Louie: box set review 2013-07-04T14:00:01Z It’s hackneyed, actually — a dumbed-down agitprop streamlining of the novel, with cardboard villains and dialogue to match. ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ Review: A Not-So-Subtle Slide Into Autocracy 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z And, at this point, watching dancers walk onstage and off between sections with clipped, assertive steps is beyond hackneyed. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at City Center 2013-12-05T23:34:14Z Those who appreciate TV as an art form groan at producers' hackneyed declaration that their show is "really more like a 10-hour movie." With the sleepy "Moon Knight," come for the MCU, but stay for Oscar Isaac's dodgy cockney accent 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Why didn't a red pen mark the hackneyed phrase, or the stock character, or the creaky dialogue? The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z “But that feels reductive or hackneyed. I’m liking and feeling energized by designers like Willie who are not in their camp.” Willie Norris Has Some Words For Us 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z She applies a freshness to what could have been a hackneyed sitcom setup, or a lampoon of artsy-fartsiness. 'Circle Mirror' is drama class-turned-reality show 2011-10-27T21:39:03Z In “Sometimes I Forget You’re Gone” and “You Greet Her Ghost,” the turmoil in his drumming topples expectations and amplifies the anxiety and regret in potentially maudlin or hackneyed scenarios. Album review: Dirty Three, 'Toward the Low Sun' 2012-02-27T18:49:00Z But the writer-director Joel Souza soon dissipates the adrenaline rush of this opening into a verbose, hackneyed thriller about a night in the lives of a veteran patrol officer and his trainee. ‘Crown Vic’ Review: A Cop Thriller Abounding in Cliché 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z There's lots of quips about his age, lots of crowd interaction and lots of jokes that veer between the hackneyed and the, how shall we say, old school. Bruce Forsyth at Glastonbury 2013 – review 2013-06-30T16:30:40Z Casting presents all-too-real issues, and the black student’s unsentimental view is one we don’t hear often, but the show is burdened by hackneyed writing and uneven performances. FringeNYC, a Grab Bag That Calls for Intuition, Not to Mention Dumb Luck 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z In his famous jeremiad against hackneyed political rhetoric, George Orwell pointed to a pernicious cycle. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z As you might imagine, many of these “sexpert” tips are thinly veiled bouts of sexism and hackneyed gender stereotypes, but sometimes they are also just plain hilarious. 11 hilariously awful pieces of sex advice courtesy of Fox News 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z I think it's become quite a hackneyed thing on telly. Silk series two: Costello as a role model ... and a night in the officers' mess 2012-05-18T11:57:00Z Using terrible childhood memories as the go-to explanation for an artist's monstrosity or emotional difficulty is hackneyed at this point. Ewan McGregor dazzles in "Halston," which neglects to understand the legend behind the fashions 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z These hackneyed characters fit into a narrative that moves inexorably in one direction. | 'Red Over Red': At St. Marks Church, Shannon Sindelar?s Explores Air Travel 2010-07-26T20:57:00Z The young, lesser known performers at the center of the story fare better, though their parts are just as hackneyed. ‘The Get Down’ Is ‘West Side Story’ With Rappers and Disco Queens 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z And he believes it is a good thing Hollywood is moving away from the "hackneyed cliche of the sneering British villain". Super-Brits invasion 2011-02-01T14:37:48Z In its first season it took the unreliable narrator trope and flipped it; made other characterisations of mental health look hackneyed and used some pretty weird camera angles to great effect. Mr Robot or Mr Woebot? Why the hacker drama might need a restart 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z What’s more disappointing, though, is the way the novel doubles down on the hackneyed cliche of the tragic, unattainable beauty. Review | In Richard Russo’s ‘Chances Are . . . ,’ a charming reunion unearths a chilling disappearance 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z It wasn’t so much talking about being Jewish as the way I’ve insisted talking about it, which is not hackneyed and clichéd. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and Gary Gulman on Comedy and Depression 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z The former finds hilarity in hackneyed entertainment genres and worn-out tropes. No amount of wine can make "The Woman in the House" spoof work, despite its charismatic star 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z These hackneyed devices would be fine if the movie had anything to say or, at the very least, a jazzy way of not saying anything. The November Man – first look review: an asinine and horribly rote screenplay 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Again, it’s brutally hackneyed material — less complicated and less funny than Brad Paisley’s “I’m Gonna Miss Her” — but Mr. Brooks takes it so seriously it’s hard not to be charmed. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z It is by now a hackneyed observation that photography provokes distance: it yanks us out of the present moment, it conceals the real behind a smudge of images. How Larry Sultan Made His Father a Metaphor for Dashed American Dreams 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z When he realizes it’s over, what follows is a hackneyed story of a tedious, lovelorn expatriate, pulling himself together and dragging us around with him. ‘Granada Nights’ Review: Growing Abroad 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Similarly, when recording the video for Written In Reverse, the star went to great lengths to avoid hackneyed rock conventions. Dig for success 2010-03-11T08:16:00Z As theater, it's remarkably bad—heavy-handed, comically melodramatic, hackneyed. My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z The sound and fury was accompanied by hackneyed images of jungle predators baring their teeth and hunting their prey. Concert review: Watch the Throne at the United Center 2011-12-01T07:35:00Z My colleague Andrew Pulver referred to the phrase in his notice, though he had the good taste to avoid a hackneyed joke. Have mercy, take pity: The A-Team catchphrase is about to go viral 2010-07-20T10:21:00Z Mr. Rose is rarely the offender, though; on W. C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues,” it’s the tack piano that turns the song from a merely hackneyed choice into a bit of saloon kitsch. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z While ESPN’s documentary unit has long since moved past the hackneyed conventions of sports movies, “O.J.: Made in America” pushes that transcendence to extraordinary heights. O.J. Simpson, American icon: Why the football star turned accused killer is one of the 20th century’s most important cultural figures 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z While the arc of this particular strand of the episode was hackneyed: meet strangers, mean to strangers, someone remembers morals exist, nice to strangers – it offered a comely glimpse of life after the Saviors. The Walking Dead: season 8, episode 12 recap – The Key 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z But instead the melodrama amplifies to an appallingly hackneyed crescendo. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z This sounds hackneyed, and the show does use some of the tech set’s soaring, world-changing rhetoric for comic grist. ‘Silicon Valley,’ Mike Judge’s New Series, Debuts on HBO 2014-04-02T16:55:21Z The mixed message isn’t anything new in the world of love, but the hackneyed way that potentially personal message is expressed and the surrounding bland guitar rock progression can’t elevate it to much interest. Best Coast Gets a Little Darker on Fade Away EP 2013-10-28T14:00:44Z One day the Jason might feel as hackneyed as, well, a Riverside Oaks. From ‘Liz’ to ‘The Jason’: The bizarre trend of fancy apartments with human names 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z But rather than old-fashioned witless xenophobia, his material is rooted in keen observational humour, which swaps hackneyed cliche for fresh insights. This week's new live comedy 2013-04-13T05:00:16Z There are waves of brilliantly orchestrated anxiety and confusion but also long stretches of drab, hackneyed exposition that flatten the atmosphere. | 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo': ?The Girl With Dragon Tattoo? ? Movie Review 2011-12-19T18:19:04Z But we're also subjected to a classic and somewhat hackneyed TV interpretation of the alcoholic's journey. "The Flight Attendant" returns with double the baggage and showcase for Kaley Cuoco 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z This Argentine drama might seem, at first glance, to be another entry in a hackneyed, often misguided genre: films about fish-out-of-water teachers trying to make a difference in inner-city schools. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The problem is when he has to deliver the hackneyed dialogue. 'Immortals': powerful Greek gods in weak tale 2011-11-09T23:42:03Z Comparing investing with faith is a hackneyed if still fertile comparison at which the play only nods. Theater Review: ‘User’s Guide To Hell Featuring Bernard Madoff’ by Project Y 2013-09-09T21:37:18Z The story is not surprising — almost every turn seems obvious and a little hackneyed — but it is surprisingly enjoyable. ‘Empire,’ a Terrence Howard Drama on Fox 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z In a hackneyed scenario, Toby Park plays Toby Park, the pretentious actor-manager of a theatre troupe, who is unwisely determined to stage Melville's novel. Moby Dick 2010-04-26T20:30:00Z Reinvented as a quasi-disaster movie, the hackneyed plot finds Cage as Rayford Steele, a shifty airline pilot flying from New York to London when the Rapture hits. 'Left Behind' is a disaster in all the wrong ways 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The novel is also about first love, and Benson gives this hackneyed theme fresh life. Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke by Peter Benson ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:04Z She returns to this hackneyed theme often, which suggests little familiarity with the great variety of crime fiction published between the wars. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources PO'N No marks for the hackneyed programme title but unlike some of the trains, it is at least direct. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-21T08:00:02Z The fire of this canned sort of mutiny is pitted far too neatly against a hackneyed depiction of social conformity: “Go to school, follow the rules, get a job, work save vote obey.” James Frey Has Written His First Adult Novel in a Decade 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z New crew members come to realize that on the frequent “away missions,” some lowly ensign always seems to die a horrible and oddly hackneyed death. In ‘Redshirts,’ John Scalzi Gives Expendables a Life 2012-07-06T22:52:40Z And Mr. Elliott, for whom the story was written and who appears in almost every scene, lends even the most hackneyed moments a faded authenticity. Review: For an Aging Actor, Another Chance to Be ‘The Hero’ 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The only bearable way to hear the hackneyed strains of "Gnomus", or anything in the rest of Pictures, is to laugh at them - just another of the Coen Brothers' gifts to world culture. Bored by Brahms? Do you find Telemann tedious? 2011-07-06T12:06:36Z Just as Jon Stewart’s best work at “The Daily Show” deconstructed the hackneyed conventions of cable news, Berger’s edits expose the cynical faux intimacy and meme-pandering that constitute this new genre’s worst clichés. A Political Satirist for the Internet Election 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Despite some committed performances, particularly from a refreshingly natural Maika Monroe, “Villains” is a hackneyed farce rich in gimmicks and poor in substance. ‘Villains’ Review: Blundering Robbers Meet Their Match 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Playwright Lorraine Hansberry disparaged its images of Southern blacks as hackneyed and limited. Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z “It gives great comfort to my wife and me that he died doing what he loved. And that might sound hackneyed, but it’s absolutely the truth,” Davan said. 9/11 doc ‘Chief’ preserves FDNY history on screen and beyond 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Bombastic and theatrical, the project is “political,” but at times hackneyed. Museum & Gallery Listings for March 27-April 2 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The use of the army fatigues was about his team challenging themselves to do something new with a hackneyed favourite. Marc Jacobs at New York fashion week: army fatigues with a luxe edge 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Instead of dramatic play-by-play and hackneyed triumph, Hill gives us the more quotidian moments that come after the game, between seasons, after the sun of youth sets. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Rooting for One Player in Baseball Politics: Dad The trouble with baseball movies like “Trouble With the Curve” is that they tempt reviewers to reach for hackneyed sports metaphors. Movie Review: ‘Trouble With the Curve,’ With Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams 2012-09-20T21:56:24Z “Lookie here!” exclaims lead ne’er-do-well Otis, who’s hackneyed enough to be sipping moonshine from a jar, as Cooper makes a violent entrance. Twin Peaks recap: episodes one and two – crazy town just got much, much weirder 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The summer fete featured special guest and Archers fan Colin Dexter upstaged by Lynda's murder mystery play and its array of terrifyingly hackneyed performances. A month in Amdridge 2010-07-28T07:00:00Z Being gently challenged to really think, and not come up with hackneyed answers, can throw up surprises. I slept with my best friend's ex. Now I'm terrified of confrontation 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z A result of this visual flatness is that some sequences drag with clichés, as the camera dithers on hackneyed images like Lexi flushing her wedding ring down the motel sink. Review: Los Angeles Through a Stranger’s Eyes in ‘No Light and No Land Anywhere’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z It was such a hackneyed expression that I thought: "We can't use that!" How we made: Bob Young and Francis Rossi on Caroline 2013-04-02T06:00:06Z Their efforts, however, are too often diluted by the film’s lazy plotting and Millie’s hackneyed emotional baggage. ‘Freaky’ Review: The Killer Inside 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z “In Hollywood there is that kind of hackneyed, commercial thinking where they think, ‘Oh, this guy is over the hill, this guy can’t direct that kind of picture,’” says Allen. Working late in life, directors refuse to say cut 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z There may not be any Emmys for this slightly hackneyed drama, but at the very least, President Kirkman seems to be a warm, resolute presence in a chaotic year. ‘Designated Survivor’ Series Premiere: Glasses Off 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The classroom scenes, while periodically hampered by hackneyed dialogue about dress codes and black women’s hair, derive incisive commentary from a self-conscious white gaze. Review | In Lynn Steger Strong’s ‘Want,’ a woman collapses under the obligations of modern life 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z But the picture’s gender and race dynamics, not to mention its forced star-crossed lovers theme, are sufficiently commonplace to register as hackneyed. ‘Heartlock’ Review: A Prison Kingpin Steals the Show in This Hackneyed Drama 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z If you’re simply relying on a stock shtick, though, this one is about to overtake “Webster’s defines….” in the hackneyed essay routines top ten. Open Letter Writers: Cut it out! 2014-04-01T18:48:00Z Despite this nonfiction reference material, the movie presents a simplistic and hackneyed view of what drives extremism. ‘Profile’ Review: Screen Sharing With Extremists 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z And at Duckie Brown, Mr. Cox and Mr. Silver once again gave proof that, in a world dominated by stylists and their hackneyed tricks, authentic design is alive and well. Check Out That Dude 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z I’m more than a bit tired of the hackneyed “bankers are cowboys” message. 'If cocaine's everywhere, I missed the memo': Industry as seen by a banker 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Sugartown, in both its hackneyed presentation of the north and its marginalised scheduling, is the exception rather than the rule. Grimetime TV: why the north rules 2011-08-03T20:30:00Z Whatever the reason, the plot of this book is a little hackneyed: stuff stolen from a locker, Theo is framed, who could be the culprit?! Theodore Boone: The Accused by John Grisham - review 2012-08-30T14:00:00Z For most presidents, Washington is a hackneyed metaphor for bad governance, for the dysfunction they have been elected to fix. Perspective | Trump wanted a photo op. He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z “A lot of people only see the garish glitz and the ghastly glamour, all the cliché hackneyed things. I see the biggest entertainment, dining and travel stories of our time.” Scene Stealers: Robin Leach Rolls on in Las Vegas 2014-04-18T19:22:28Z Her transformation would seem to suggest that Ms. Eilish is content these days to abandon her formerly maverick stance in favor of a fetish-tinctured bombshell look that seemed hackneyed when Madonna was a girl. On That Bombshell Billie Eilish Cover for British Vogue 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Sure, you can call that a hackneyed sentiment, and some people won't get past the fact that "Detachment" is delivering a familiar message in a familiar setting. Tribeca: Return of a moviemaking madman 2011-04-26T21:30:00Z Perhaps the point is that communication can only flourish when ideological assumptions are examined and good faith is exercised, but the dramatic writing in the final exchange between Jeff and Bradley is hackneyed. 'Death of the Author' finds life in academic theory 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Eliot thought the play was consequentially an artistic failure, but it is exactly this dissonance between Hamlet and the hackneyed avenger storyline that gave rise to an unprecedented classic. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z He’s in the right place: in this hackneyed, Tarantino-esque dystopia, everyone seems to be intent on killing everyone else. Review: Revenge Goes Sour in ‘Terminal’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The famous music plays sometimes as hackneyed melodrama, sometimes as fairground accompaniment. Danza Contemporánea de Cuba – review 2012-06-01T15:40:27Z Nor does the hackneyed image of the pacing milonguero capture the subtlety and complexity of the dance itself, a kind of conversation expressed through touch, posture and interweaving footwork. Queer Tango Brings Its Liberated Style to New York 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z At least he knows what he is doing, even if his own speech – "It's sink or swim: I don't do lifebelts" – is every bit as hackneyed as that of his desperados. The Apprentice touches base again 2010-10-06T21:00:00Z The term "crowd pleaser" is a real backhanded compliment in comedy, being associated with stale, hackneyed, button-pushing routines. This week's new comedy 2011-03-05T00:07:44Z People have been copying for so long that the act has moved beyond aesthetic novelty — first, to encoded-with-meaning significance and, finally, into the realm of the hackneyed and dull. New Music: Releases From Kurt Feldman, Elle Varner and Marcus Miller 2012-08-06T22:24:05Z Since Cher is among the first to lead the auto-tune revolution, referred to as the “Cher effect” for a time, one might forgive her for popularizing the technique into hackneyed overuse. Do you "Believe" in the immortality of Cher's pop music anthem after 25 years? 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z If so, is that because it’s offensive, cruel or just hackneyed? Perspective | What are you laughing at? ‘Late Night’ leads a new crop of comedies trying to make jokes more woke. 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z “Every child is different. They can find the stories they need to, and they bring themselves to stories. A hackneyed, worn-out idea isn’t hackneyed and worn out to them.” The Percy Jackson Problem 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Verse, as even Geoffrey Hill might acknowledge, is good at reanimating the hackneyed phrase, the inevitable combination of words. Guardian book club: Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy 2013-01-18T20:00:00Z I didn’t want him to be hackneyed and boring. His Novel Describes the Dark Side of Internet Fame. Hank Green Knows Something About That. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z What should bother everyone is that the compression shifts the balance of the story away from episodic adventures on scattered planets, and toward the mechanics of a hackneyed noir revenge fantasy. Review: ‘Cowboy Bebop,’ Minus the Art 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Despite lavish production values and robust original songs, some viewers complained that the show was hackneyed and cartoonish. NBC's Greenblatt rebuilds network long in disarray 2013-01-04T14:02:13Z Yet even the most hackneyed plots reveal a perverse fascination with fate, and perhaps a witty critique of the entire business of love. In These Elegant Comics, Love and Darkness Collide 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z You will recall we employed our best, most hackneyed cowboy imagery to present our trip to Texas as an exotic escapade, full of rootin' tootin' fun. Close up: South by north-east 2011-03-17T16:52:22Z He talks about feelings, but his feelings are hackneyed beyond belief. Andrew O'Hagan: 'Blair is cursed with a strong sense of his own decency' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z “The Peripheral” is plotted as a traditional, even conservative thriller, and its fascinating, funny, unsettling ideas are slowly buried beneath a hackneyed plot and flimsy characterizations. William Gibson’s Man-Made Future 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z One of the more toxic ideas that Joker subscribes to is the hackneyed association between serious mental illness and extreme violence. Why Joker's depiction of mental illness is dangerously misinformed 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z In a scene that epitomizes the hackneyed dynamic among the three characters, Kirkman meets the real-life news anchor Elizabeth Vargas for his first presidential interview. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 3: The Two Shows 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s time to retire this hackneyed expression to the final resting place of platitudes, alongside “I’m stepping down to spend more time with my family,” or “It’s not you, it’s me.” This Life: ?You Look Great? and Other Lies 2011-06-10T17:10:41Z It has become a hackneyed way to get a cheap laugh. Critic’s Notebook: When the Comic and the Heckler Both Take Offense 2012-07-17T22:36:45Z “What a load of hackneyed situations, intrigues, false notes!” Film: Making Hollywood Films Was Brutal, Even for Fritz Lang 2011-01-23T02:19:11Z Also opening this weekend was Brooklyn's Finest, a good cop/bad cop saga so hackneyed that it could almost have been one of those movie-genre parodies that have themselves become old hat. Letters to Juliet is corny as Kansas. Great! 2010-06-14T09:45:00Z Bombastic and theatrical, it’s political in its image choice, but hackneyed in its delivery — and less effective than his first installation, which also focused on the photographer as much as his subjects. Alfredo Jaar: ‘Shadows’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z And they will be right, in the sense that it’s not very good — hackneyed and medium funny at best. | 'The Exes': ?The Exes,? With Donald Faison and Wayne Knight - Review 2011-11-25T23:33:17Z It’s a hackneyed idea, but a suitably classic one, which plays right into Quibi’s strengths — by the third episode, the hunt is on, with the odds stacked against the hero. Quibi is here with two dozen new shows. Are any of them worth watching? 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z What he did not do: nod to the English eccentric or Bloomsbury, a former pet theme of the house, now often hackneyed in expression. Burberry’s 50 Shades of the British Bourgeoisie 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z As for the plot of “Blood on Snow,” it is as predictable as it is hackneyed. Review: Jo Nesbo, in ‘Blood on Snow,’ Tries a New Kind of Hero 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z A New York Times review said Smith’s performance of the “hackneyed” part was “fine,” but “not revelatory.” Justice Smith Doesn’t Need Your Assumptions 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z The word iconic is one of the most hackneyed terms in the modern lexicon, bandied wantonly by marketers and pundits to describe everything from cars and beer to B-list celebrities. Louis Vuitton asks six visionaries to riff on its famous monogram 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z I'm not convinced that this hoary, hackneyed old cop-opera is entirely to be trusted either, although it is served with such relish that the fun proves infectious. Cannes 2013: Blood Ties - first look review 2013-05-19T18:33:36Z And yet even the most beautifully art-directed of mothers can’t escape the most hackneyed of subjects forever hovering over the stroller set. Mommy Blog or a Glossy Fashion Magazine? 2013-06-12T22:54:13Z More significantly, Ben Stones’s splendid set design eschews the hackneyed visual imagery associated with this show. Can ‘Miss Saigon’ Be Saved? Two British Shows Disagree. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Like, why would someone want to work with such hackneyed subjects? Pure color: John Elderfeld looks at the legacy of Helen Frankenthaler 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Now, more than ever — what a hackneyed phrase, right? — the world needs Murphy Brown. “Murphy Brown” returns revived, but not refreshed 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Had I said anything, it probably would have come out as the usual hackneyed and self-serving blend of white liberal guilt. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z His strategy is finely honed and remarkably effective, transfiguring hackneyed, second-hand images to deliver a fresh psychological jolt. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-29T00:06:24Z Still, laughs are relatively thin on the ground, mostly coming when Eric cracks a knowingly hackneyed gag – “tea, Ern?” From Python to Seinfeld - are these 12 classic comedies still funny? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z The problem with the advert is not so much sexism; it's the hackneyed gags. The new Samsung TV advert 2013-06-22T05:00:00Z The narrative pieces he and Mr. Woods toss out — a dead wife, stolen loot, a D.E.A. investigation, a drug cartel — are hackneyed in the extreme. Movie Review: Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Back in ‘Sabotage’ 2014-03-27T22:49:41Z In his article, Morrison discussed Gutfeld in a dismissive paragraph, judging that his humor was often “hackneyed,” and “far . . . from working in prime time.” In Praise of Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Padgett's stilted intonation so exaggerates the hackneyed nature of the dialogue that the performance might be mistaken for camp were it not for the humorlessness of the role. 'Waterfall' plunges over the edge of banality 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z We know more than the hackneyed clichés supplied by the movies in which the therapist knows all and bestows wisdom on those who, prone on a couch, consult with them. How can a therapist get the most out of therapy? 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Limiting her thespian efforts to wig and wardrobe changes — and adding or subtracting eyeliner — Ms. Portnoy embodies a hackneyed plot device unlikely to fool the average toddler. Movie Review: ‘Assassin’s Bullet,’ With Christian Slater 2012-08-02T22:06:43Z Mr. Polovich lives in Nashville and knows a hackneyed tour when he sees one. How the Concierge Endures in an Internet World 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Our problem is that it does so in such a hackneyed way. New band of the day ? No 926: Anna Calvi 2010-12-08T17:11:00Z If it's really imaginative, opera – even and especially the hackneyed warhorses of the 18th and 19th-century canons – can change lives. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z The hackneyed plot bounces from the Nevada desert to the ocean floor to outer space, but never takes the leap into somewhere truly imaginative. Review: EA's sci-fi shooter 'Fuse' lacks spark 2013-05-30T12:35:12Z He also thought that a physical confrontation between Cookie and her son Hakeem was hackneyed. Lee Daniels Watches ‘Empire’ – and Talks Back to the Screen 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z They even find an original route through a pretty hackneyed topic. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito – review 2013-04-11T14:29:01Z Again, though, the problem was not so much Redmayne’s interpretation of the role as the hackneyed script and ponderous direction, and for me, the film’s worst crime was being boring. A fantastic leap – trans cinema's breakthrough moment 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z It may be hackneyed, but there’s a lot of truth to that. Column: Overwhelmed? Confused? Here's what to make of all those presidential polls 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes Auster strains too hard to make his prose appear original; at other junctures he settles for hackneyed phrasings. Paul Auster's new novel lacks his usual postmodern fireworks. Thank God for that 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z The Ping-Pong table was surrounded by silent reminders of a singular college career — purple helmets, signed footballs, All-Pac-10 plaques, framed articles from Sports Illustrated and The Seattle Times featuring delightfully hackneyed headlines: UW folk hero Joe Jarzynka’s last hurrah — and his family’s path forward 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Every convenient shorthand and hackneyed motif is encoded, over and over, in the ads themselves. A.I. and TV Ads Were Made for Each Other 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Her lover counters her assessment with this hackneyed line: “She’s not a human being, she’s a star, and stars belong to the world.” Commentary: 'The Idol' is no 'Euphoria,' but it reveals a similar misogyny 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z When he arrived in Tuscaloosa, with the intention of turning the Crimson Tide into a blue-collar team, Oats introduced the headwear prop as hackneyed motivation. Perspective | At Alabama, a 21st-century sports scandal without accountability 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z You’ve got the stuffy setting, the strict staging, the meticulous scripting, the hackneyed performances and even the occasional audience member nodding off — either from boredom or because they liquored up before the show. Must-see TV? You never know with State of the Union 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Anniversaries can lend themselves to strained or hackneyed efforts to connect the commemorated event to more recent developments. Review | The Waco siege’s long shadow 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z But the locations have some appealing old-school western grandeur; and the chemistry between Cage and Armstrong carries the picture through its more hackneyed moments. Review: 'The Drop' doesn't always work as a comedy, but it has the ring of hard-won truth 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z I hesitate to use that hackneyed verb here, but it’s hard not to read that sentence without a near-audible sense of the disdain being offered. Book excerpt: What Florida tells us about the future of U.S. politics 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z But just because it’s hackneyed, that doesn’t make it any less true. Don’t get scammed this holiday season. Here’s what to watch out for 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The array of Black identities, personalities and body types Carty-Williams depicts is refreshing and honest, a far cry from hackneyed media portrayals that present Blackness as a monolith. Review | In ‘People Person,’ estranged siblings bond over their absent father 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z I’m not a big fan of those rules or, quite frankly, almost any hackneyed idea people use to govern financial decisions. One size doesn’t fit all for wedding dresses or finances 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z There were times when he sounded a bit hackneyed, instilling ordinary moments with great drama. Vin Scully, forever the voice of the Dodgers, dead at 94 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Here he made his celebrated distinction between four varieties of theater: “deadly,” signifying hackneyed or ossified; and “holy,” “rough” and “immediate.” Peter Brook, Celebrated Stage Director of Scale and Humanity, Dies at 97 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Perhaps a powerful first step to stopping the misuse of science, then, is noticing these hackneyed themes— and calling them out. A Playbook for Science Denial, ‘Scientific Phallocracy’ in the Animal Kingdom, and More 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z He said the trailer’s release alone has drawn blood pressure-raising comments that slam the show as unreal because it avoids hackneyed Native depictions. Navajo mystery series ‘Dark Winds’ seeks true storytelling 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z What you do get is 25 hackneyed words about the plot and, in some cases, if you click below that you might able to see some cast credits. A triumph for the blind community 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z New entrants don't have this baggage, and seem more eager to rise above hackneyed partisanship. The death of CNN+: Legacy news media's failed quest to stay relevant 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z There’s a line in the book: “Dear reader, I’ve steered this exquisite tale into a bit of hackneyed territory, but a girl’s gotta score a movie deal.” 21 summer films to get you excited about going to the movies again 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z These young actors give rich performances, digging into their characters’ underlying fears and dreams — even when the story has them coping with hackneyed complications like bullying jocks, insensitive parents and strict teachers. Review: A Tony Hawk documentary, 'Metal Lords' and more movies to watch this weekend 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z In hackneyed fashion, the musical turns Frank Jr. into the smarmy emcee of a ’60s TV variety show — imagine a kind of “This Is My Life” with a beaming dance ensemble. Review | ‘Catch Me If You Can’ fizzled on Broadway. A new Arena Stage production loses altitude in much the same way. 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z So far, President Biden seems to be more straightforward than many of his predecessors, despite his use of at least one hackneyed, misleading Cold War-era anachronism: “the free world.” Column: The never-ending obfuscation of war 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Anyone tempted to recycle the hackneyed conclusion that athletes who face real-life crises will find their peace on the playing field hasn’t been paying much attention lately. Perspective | Naomi Osaka is still hurting, and tennis doesn’t seem to be the cure 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z But it all falls apart in a hackneyed third act, as the characters end up in a rote standoff, bargaining for a thingamajig to save the world. Review: Recycled ideas keep time travel flick 'The Adam Project' stuck in the past 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Diplomats involved in the talks, which began 10 months ago, have said it remains unclear whether an agreement will indeed be reached, citing the now hackneyed principle that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. EXCLUSIVE Iran nuclear deal draft puts prisoners, enrichment, cash first, oil comes later -diplomats 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z But the bulk of Nathan and Sully’s banter falls flat due to an unfortunate blend of questionable chemistry and hackneyed dialogue that makes even the dullest of video game cutscenes shine by comparison. Uncharted’s road to gold is plagued by its bros 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Though I think this particular magic is hackneyed and self-destructive, I still must ask how you accomplish this trick? Feedback: Many loved Super Bowl LVI's halftime show. These readers did not 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z But Evison’s prose is often marred by hackneyed phrases of the “sting of tears” variety — hearts beat “at a gallop”; a resolute person is “an unstoppable force of nature.” Review | Jonathan Evison’s ‘Small World’ feels like a big statement about America 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Out with the hackneyed propriety of his predecessor ; in with élan. JFK’s secret weapon in the Cold War: James Bond 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z The Wilhelm scream is no hackneyed narrative device, but instead a nod to what Burtt calls the legacy of the language of sound. How the Wilhelm scream became Hollywood’s ultimate ‘secret’ sound effect 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Critics have dismissed Mr Ruto's "bottom-up" idea as full of "hackneyed clichés". Kenya's Deputy President Ruto campaigns for 'Hustler Nation' 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z That hackneyed phrase thankfully withered as Connecticut’s death toll rose - lapping 8,000 in recent days. Editorial Roundup: New England 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z All of which prompted Barbara Pompili, the minister of ecological transition, to speak of the “prehistoric” views, full of “hackneyed clichés,” of these men in effect calling two of her Cabinet colleagues Neanderthals. The unlikely issue upending France: meatless school lunches 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z “Their efforts, however, are too often diluted by the film’s lazy plotting and Millie’s hackneyed emotional baggage.” Critics are shocked too: Vince Vaughn is scary good in 'Freaky' slasher comedy 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z For once the familiar line about this being the most important election of a lifetime didn’t seem hackneyed or contrived. After four years of upheaval, election day gives voters their say 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Russia in May denied the accusations as a “hackneyed story” said the EU lacked evidence. EU sanctions head of Russian military intelligence 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Some others on the team initially found the approach hackneyed, but not Mr. Biden. Opinion | The Battle for Joe Biden 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z And “A Nice Girl Like You” never cares to make any sense of it, relying on tired gags and hackneyed antics. Review: Lucy Hale rom-com ‘A Nice Girl Like You' hits all the hackneyed clichés 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z He is trying to assemble an agenda acceptable to the various wings of his own party and to argue for it by transcending the stale and hackneyed dividing lines that drive Trump’s approach to politics. Opinion | Biden’s pitch is an implicit but devastating punch at Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z For instance, Beijing uses terms such as “win-win,” “mutual respect” and other Chinese proverbs that Mr. Yu says are “really hackneyed Chinese expressions with no substance if you really know the Chinese language and culture.” From Mao’s China to Foggy Bottom: Miles Yu a key player in new approach to Beijing 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z “Time is money” is not just a hackneyed aphorism. For Racial Justice, Employees Need Paid Hours Off for Voting 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z But there's a serious undertone to the title: Throughout their career, Haim have been dogged by the hackneyed question "What's it like to be women in music?" Haim: 'We'd be taken more seriously if we were brooding and aggressive' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Now it’s time to reassess Snowden by moving beyond the hackneyed question of whether he is a hero or a traitor. Review | Reassessing Edward Snowden 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z “Right now, we view investing in the current environment using the hackneyed phrase of ‘catching a falling knife,’” said Richard Bernstein, chief executive of Richard Bernstein Advisors in a note to investors and conference call. Investors prepare for more market swings as virus spreads in the U.S. 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z Who is swayed by these gestures — the occasional mangled words of Spanish, or the hackneyed “ethnic food” photo op? Column: Candidates love the 'ethnic food' photo op, but there are better ways to reach nonwhite voters 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Prepare to hear a lot of hackneyed metaphors over the next few months from loquacious agent Scott Boras, who represents all three. Analysis | Labor unrest again lurks just below the surface as baseball’s Hot Stove heats up 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z This transformation of hollow phrase and hackneyed term into a magically charged space – the change, for me personally, from journalist to writer and poet. German novelists on the fall of the Berlin wall: ‘It was a source of energy we lived off for years’ 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z And even though Ana is a far more sympathetic of a character, “Act II” is still hackneyed. Review: Awkwafina and pals bring girl power to 'Paradise Hills'; and more 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z But, in a back-and-forth affair played largely at a hackneyed pace, they couldn’t keep up, eventually succumbing to James Neal’s game-winning goal with less than seven minutes to play in the third period. Todd McLellan’s debut spoiled as Kings fall to Oilers in season opener 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z One of the reasons for that hackneyed phrase about “Bridgeport just being Bridgeport” is that this is nothing new. Editorials from around New England 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s a hackneyed premise but handled with a screenwriter’s narrative verve, snappy dialogue and breakneck scene shifting – and refreshingly Diaz, in his late 60s and feeling the pace, is not your average all-action American hero. The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z The North Korean foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho, who took part in the Hanoi summit along with Pompeo, called the chief US negotiator the “diehard toxin of US diplomacy” who employs “hackneyed sanctions rhetoric“. North Korea calls Pompeo 'poisonous' to diplomacy 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z This became such a hackneyed tradition that students at the Christian Science college, Principia, call it “the gratefuls”, which itself sounds like a disease. Dying the Christian Science way: the horror of my father’s last days 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z “The Attorney General raises the same hackneyed and losing arguments in each case involving contraband in jails or prisons,” the judges wrote. California court: Prison pot is OK — if inmates don’t inhale 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z This is a hackneyed, age-old argument used by gun-runners the world over. Trump is provoking a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. What could go wrong? | Simon Tisdall 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z None of this is possible, and all of it is hackneyed. What HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Attacking the party for its dynastic politics is a “hackneyed argument,” Khera said. The anti-Modi: Rahul Gandhi’s unconventional bid to lead India 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Having seen only the trailer for Leaving Neverland, whatever confessional justice was intended by its two informants is compromised by its director’s hackneyed, tabloid true-crime approach. 'Too big to cancel': can we still listen to Michael Jackson? 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z This misty trinity of New Age exhortations — besides being hackneyed — does a disservice to women who don’t wish to or can’t attain them. A new book promises to help women find joy late in life. If only it were so simple. 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z An entire dome is given over to dozens of Jones’ digitally printed canvases, presenting his fantastical, if hackneyed, New Age visions. Review: The Wisdome popup in DTLA fills five geodesic domes with some art and a lot of hot air 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z While few would grumble if that hackneyed epithet were also to be retired in time for Christmas, Manchester United managers are among those expected to play along with the hype. Mourinho’s place in United pantheon? Simply part of a botched succession | Paul Wilson 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The premise of “Dead Cells” is as hackneyed as any in video games — guide a faceless dude through dungeons and other inhospitable places where murderous creatures lie in wait. The 10 best video games of 2018 | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z I felt like my heart would burst, those were the words for it, the hackneyed phrase, and I was grateful for them, they were a container for what I felt, proof of its commonness. “The Frog King” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z But if that’s all, just the usual hackneyed, base-pleasing rhetorical points lobbed across the ideological divide, that would be a shame. Opinion | The immigration conversation we need to have — and soon 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z “Reach” disappoints with its lack of imagination for Clarence’s fate, and the hackneyed reliance on clichés. Review: Teen suicide drama 'Reach' disppoints - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z "If you get in a discussion with them it's always the same buzzwords and hackneyed arguments," the poster wrote. Have you seen NPCs all over social media? 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z And if calling their hosts everyday heroes sounds a bit hackneyed, and the musical about them is at times openly sentimental, it’s the truth. ‘Come From Away’ at 5th Avenue Theatre is openhearted and exhilarating 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z We must rely on someone like Mr. Graham to give us his hackneyed opinion, and further rely on that to be the honest to goodness truth. Senate Moves Toward Friday Showdown Vote on Kavanaugh’s Confirmation 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Some of the writing, which is also typical of the Woodward oeuvre, is hackneyed: “Victory was as sweet as it got,” “Sessions’s recusal was a wound that remained open.” Review | Bob Woodward’s meticulous, frightening look inside the Trump White House 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “Whenever your life is shaky, fame makes it worse,” Otis observes in another moment of hackneyed moralizing Morisseau should have resisted. Review: 'Ain't Too Proud,' the Broadway-bound musical about the Temptations: Sensational music, scattershot storytelling 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z The score, though it contains some arresting melodies, is hampered by hackneyed lyrics and music that can sound like a rock star’s idea of Broadway songwriting. Review: 'Pretty Woman' and 'Head Over Heels' try oh-so-hard to revive beauty and the beat for Broadway 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z If we did the hackneyed "blind résumé" comparison, it's likely these three—even against Woods and Mickelson—would warrant a nod to Paris. U.S. Ryder Cup bubble watch: Tiger Woods a lock, Brandt Snedeker rising and what to do with Phil Mickelson - Golf Digest 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The battle metaphors are hackneyed, but the league has associated itself with the military in myriad ways, from accepting money for military flyovers to the pageantry of its national anthem. Why the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. Are So Far Apart on Social Justice Stances 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Yet Lauter brings fresh energy to what might otherwise be hackneyed territory. At Blum & Poe, bow down to the ecstatic painting of Mimi Lauter 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The plot may provide the backbone of a story, but it is the details that can transform a hackneyed concept into something innovative. Who owns an idea? 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Miller is bothered by this, and he tries too hard to justify his story of human nobility and exceptionalism with hackneyed references to the stars, the heavens and the cosmos. Review | On the subject of evolution, a way to hang on to both science and religion 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Dangerous wrote Sharpe is “one of a burgeoning movement of African Americans who mock leftist identity politics and their hackneyed concept of ‘social justice’ in the United States.” Fake coupons are popping up promising free Starbucks coffee for African Americans 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps, in the era of Donald Trump and fake news, the joke becomes a little more hackneyed, a little less funny. Arcade Fire: 'People have lost the ability to even know what a joke is. It’s very Orwellian' 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Havel memorably asked his readers to imagine a greengrocer who obediently posts a hackneyed slogan — “workers of the world, unite!” — in the window of his shop. Opinion | What the Soviet bloc and the American South have in common 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z It's hackneyed to complain about the Oscars running long, lacking creativity or just generally being a bummer to watch. Lonely Island's unaired song would have been the best part of the 2018 Oscars - Golf Digest 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Being an informed citizen is more than parroting party line talking points and spouting the same hackneyed ideas in our echo chambers. Justices Won’t Block Pennsylvania Gerrymandering Decision 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Granted, if you measure the position by such hackneyed standards as Super Bowl victories or career yardage, you might give the nod to this quarterback’s former mentor in New England, Tom Brady. Brady’s Backups Entice, but Don’t Excel. Will Jimmy Garoppolo Be Different? 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Use plain English and avoid hackneyed phrases, Ucas advises: "Be authentic, be focused, be enthusiastic." University admissions: The art of the personal statement 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z More often, the ex-players resort to hackneyed sports jargon and observations that even casual fans consider obvious. Answer to N.F.L. Viewers’ Prayers: Tony Romo, the Play Predictor 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z But its stereotypical writing, which errs on the side of cheesy and hackneyed, rather than deep and psychologically rich, dooms “’Til Death.” ' 'Til Death Do Us Part' tries to treat domestic abuse seriously, but comes off as seriously soapy 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Even though Mr. Diehl scoffed at the “hackneyed” Israeli-Palestinian peace process, he ended up advising that we should preserve and pursue that same exhausted strategy, after a delay of some unknown duration. Opinion | The injustice continues for Palestinians 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z General Assembly is underway this week in New York, so we can expect to hear, again, its most hackneyed rhetorical theme — the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process.” Opinion | How Trump could save Palestinian statehood 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr Gorbachev’s use of unnatural and hackneyed Soviet “newspeak” made him seem like an apparatchik. How Mikhail Gorbachev ended the cold war 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z That hackneyed mantra ignores the reality that unless the Afghan government becomes more accountable and less riven by factional infighting and corruption, U.S. forces will never be able to safely leave the country. Opinion | Trump’s welcome self-correction 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z But our anthem singers don’t need any hackneyed verification. Perspective | Seven suggestions that will help D.C. host MLB’s All-Star Game better than Miami 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z "It's not the crime; it's the cover-up," may be a hackneyed political saying, but that doesn't mean it lacks a kernel of truth. Trump-Russia inquiry: President's 'possible obstruction' - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Yiadom-Boakye is doing more than exploring the supposedly uncharted territory of black selfhood, or making—in that hackneyed phrase—the invisible visible. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Imaginary Portraits 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z But the attractive pair too often gets lost amid baffling flashbacks, clunky action sequences, incoherent double-crosses, a rogues’ gallery of stock bad guys, tone-deaf melodrama, florid narration and scads of hackneyed dialogue. Kazakh crime thriller 'Diamond Cartel' is a best-forgotten mess 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s content with hackneyed romance and soaring strings. Review | ‘The Ottoman Lieutenant’: War as a backdrop for a love triangle 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But a campaign to turn the hackneyed clichés on their heads is fast gathering pace. What is the true meaning of 'Essex girl'? - BBC News 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The glamorously insouciant MacLaine wears a brave face enlivening the hackneyed script. Still fiery Shirley MacLaine is let down by predictable 'The Last Word' 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The opposite of a hackneyed tale of triumph over adversity, Dear Friend remains an attempt to make sense of what happened, and to address aspects of her life she has always evaded. Yiyun Li: ‘I used to say that I was not an autobiographical writer – that was a lie’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z It falls back on the kind of hackneyed clichés endemic to rose-colored, nostalgia-heavy images of the kind of “America” people cite when they argue that this country needs to be made great again. Canine drama 'A Dog's Purpose' is a fleeting experience 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z It will be seen as a hackneyed bid for populist appeal before next year’s election. There Is a Better Way to Help Immigrants Assimilate 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z But that phrase is worse than hackneyed and sentimental, it is oxymoronic: Different nations affirm different notions of justice; a community consists of people made cohesive by a consensus about the nature of justice. Obama’s foreign policy was error after error 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Mills said that July “told me, ‘It’s hackneyed, it’s making your movie about women really about a man’—she was brutal. Mike Mills’s Anti-Hollywood Family Films 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Some of the film’s most stirring scenes feature the hackneyed conceit of clueless white folk being enlightened by their African American educators, but Henson, Spencer and Monáe give them grit and knowing gravitas. ‘Hidden Figures’ explores NASA’s untold history with nerve and vivacity 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z SCOTT: And one of the most hackneyed conceits in all of movies — the family holiday from hell — becomes the freshest, scariest, most electrifying domestic nightmare anyone has ever shot. The Year’s Most Captivating Film Performances 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Again, it might sound hackneyed to an outsider and, in his first season at Western Michigan, not everyone appreciated the shtick. P.J. Fleck, a coach with both oars in the water, has unbeaten Western Michigan rowing in right direction 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Early on, in a turn of phrase that now seems both hackneyed and painfully apt, Elizabeth notes that the key to success is knowing the right moment to play your “trump card.” Jessica Chastain galvanizes in the timely political melodrama 'Miss Sloane' 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The lifelong intelligence officer, who once valued tips gleaned from tribal reporters, has become a ready tweeter of hackneyed conspiracy theories. The Disruptive Career of Michael Flynn, Trump’s National-Security Adviser 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z An absence of reference points for Asian identity in popular culture has helped create a perpetual stream of hackneyed encounters, for men and women, children and adults. I Was Never Jackie Chan, and I’m Not Jeremy Lin 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z He wrote in defiance of chronology, which he called a “hackneyed roll-call.” The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z This may sound pretty hackneyed, but in fact what West Virginians mean by love of state and family is unusual and particular. In the Heart of Trump Country 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z But beneath the hackneyed aphorisms, there’s a thrilling story worthy of our attention. Disney’s ‘Queen of Katwe’: a familiar underdog story in a fresh setting 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z This is hard for outside observers to understand, who are often inclined to dismiss tech’s transformational rhetoric as hackneyed marketing chatter. Gaffes, ignorance and PR nightmares: why it's so easy to hate the tech industry 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The McDonnells’ story is as hackneyed as any in America’s lurid history of political graft. Robert McDonnell gets freedom from jail — but not from disgrace 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Sometimes it works wonders — “The City on the Edge of Forever,” the best episode of the classic series — and sometimes it’s a hackneyed gimmick that just lets actors from different “Trek” shows appear together on-screen. Ranking every 'Star Trek' movie and TV series from first to worst 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z In a typical addiction memoir, this New Age approach would come off as hackneyed or schmaltzy, but in a memoir set on Wall Street it is riveting. Can an Addiction Memoir Help Us Understand Wall Street? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z One of the most hackneyed clichés in journalism holds that a week is a long time in politics. Inside the Week That Broke British Politics 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z It may be hackneyed, but it is also deeply felt among industry leaders. Gaffes, ignorance and PR nightmares: why it's so easy to hate the tech industry 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Or is the hackneyed phrase just too irresistible? 9 Times Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Seemed to Have the Same Speechwriter 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Frustrations persist as well over the hackneyed portrayal of black characters in games—if the characters even appear. How Africa’s Kiro’o Games is Shaking Up the Gaming Industry 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z I saw that Gail’s death hadn’t merely been “tragic” in the hackneyed sense. A Voyage to the End of the World 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Now that he’s decimated their party, now that’s he toppled every hackneyed candidate he’s faced, they’re forced to perform an about-face and endorse him as their nominee for president. The new mess Republicans have created for themselves: Clinton’s brutal anti-Trump ad highlights why the GOP can’t plausibly endorse Trump 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z None of Hasbro's properties are known for their narratives, beyond the hackneyed back-of-the-box descriptors penned decades ago by copywriters and children's cartoon makers. Why Hollywood will adapt web videos and memes into big summer movies 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z That would be time spent together, rather than time spent staring miserably into a camera before awkwardly muttering a few hackneyed plaudits. A eulogy for a birthday present? I’d rather go out for dinner, thanks | Fay Schopen 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z But at worst, it means intentionally using hackneyed ideas that are simply too far gone to be interesting on their own. Technolust is the concentrated dose of cyberpunk VR has been waiting for 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Among other things, Sarkeesian sees Ordinary Women as a positive antidote to the hackneyed representations of women in fiction — many of them driven by a piecemeal or selectively edited version of history. Anita Sarkeesian's new video series is a feminist take on history 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z These music videos are perpetuating hackneyed fantasies of India as an exotic playground for rich white people to explore and exploit for cultural capital and economic gain. Coldplay: only the latest pop stars to misrepresent India as an exotic playground 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z In its own hackneyed way,13 Hours gropes for racial sensitivity, showing Libyans working and fighting alongside the Americans, rather than blurring into an amorphous mass of evil stereotypes. Michael Bay's Benghazi movie is an unexpectedly apolitical Rorschach test 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The same innovation the second time round always sounds hackneyed. Don’t despair about the state of pop – fans are the new subversive force | Sam Wolfson 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “Over the course of this year, success in these areas — to use a hackneyed but apt analogy — will be measured by singles and doubles, not home runs,” Dorsey said. Arlington board may become less liberal as it turns over in 2016 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z There’s something easy to tracks like "M.F.T.R.," and I don’t mean to suggest the writing or rapping is lazy or hackneyed in some way; Pusha’s pen remains sharp, his references inventive, his disses intriguing. This is your next jam: Babyface, Pusha T, and more 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z It is a hackneyed and not entirely fair comment to call its trading arm a “black box.” Glencore: Steering Clear of Mining Armageddon 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z It’s also the hackneyed notion of smart, educated—and, usually, white—people returning to flyover country from their coastal bastions of reason to deal with the boorish, uninformed souls who raised them. Our Thanksgiving hatred is getting out of hand: How to survive a holiday that has become a war zone 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z That this is dreadfully hackneyed—freedom, baseball and apple pie!—doesn’t necessarily mean it’s false. ‘Stranger’ Than Fiction 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z House GOP leaders huddled with their caucus in the Capitol basement for an hour before emerging to hit the enemy with an unrelenting barrage of hackneyed phrases. The GOP’s new strategy to fight the Islamic State: Kill them with clichés 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z It is a hackneyed saying that is masquerading as hip intellectualism. No Time for a Learning Curve on Foreign Policy 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In the fractured-family holiday movie "Love the Coopers," hackneyed humor and warmed-over life lessons are strewn like so much overused tinsel. It's hard to like the messy and overdone 'Love the Coopers' 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The plot involves hackneyed imaginings of cowboys and Native Americans, but it's hard to decipher any cohesive narrative over the circus music, gratuitous screaming, and awful, unplaceable accents. Watch the first trailer for Adam Sandler's Netflix movie, if you must 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z It sounds hackneyed and jaded—this we’ve seen it all before. Intifada Childhood 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Playboy’s hackneyed idea of what a nude is, and who it’s for, seems increasingly narrow in the selfie age. A history of nudity: Playboy's censorship is a throwback to the medieval era 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z "Breaking Through" is curiously low-energy, riddled with hackneyed plot devices and weighed down by choreography that doesn't come close to what you'd see on network reality shows. 'Breaking Through' is a dance movie without good dancing 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z As for his influence, if he helped produce the hackneyed polarization of moral liberals versus evil conservatives, then he’s partly at fault for the political stalemate in the United States. Camille Paglia takes on Jon Stewart, Trump, Sanders: “Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true!” 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z While FanMail’s overriding conceptual approach now seems dated, the way Empty is constructed still feels forward-thinking, even with the slightly hackneyed, looped modem sound that forms part of the song’s intro. Janet Jackson: 10 of the best 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z And the article rolls on checking all the hackneyed polemical boxes of the pro-Russian side. Top Kremlin Critics In The West Face Media Smears On The Home Front 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Replace hackneyed expressions like “strong team player” and “possess organizational skills” with strong, active verbs that demonstrate results. 10 Tips For Spring Cleaning Your Career 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Such hackneyed images of hackers are, of course, evidently wrong, bordering on offensive. Hacker Implants NFC Chip In His Hand To Bypass Security Scans And Exploit Android Phones 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “Come as You Are” seems most interested in proclaiming that it is the “first” museum survey of the ’90s, but even if it is, it seems both hackneyed and unfinished. A Time When the World Seemed Larger 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Insipid comeback lines such as Birdwell’s lame “I’d rather be tried by 12 than carried by six” is not only hackneyed but unworthy of serious debate on this issue. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z There are some bridge players who can, to use a hackneyed term, think outside the box. Geir Helgemo Plays at the Rosenblum Open Teams 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z What you'll get is something altogether different, a fresh experience built around screen-edge interactions and tailored Scopes that aim at "reversing the hackneyed status quo." The Ubuntu phone is real and going on sale next week 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z The company is pushing hard to position its cloud platform technologies using that oh-so dangerously hackneyed and over spun acronym – ‘unique’. VMware: A Cocktail For Distilled Liquid Cloud 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z In hoop earrings the size of manhole covers, Henson charges up the show with a wild, infectious brio, turning hackneyed lines into platinum zingers. “Empire” and “Mozart in the Jungle” Reviews 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Republicans dismissed it as a hackneyed policy approach that, along with a series of recent veto threats, did not bode well for the next two years. State of the Union: Obama to focus on economy, vision for middle class 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The fact that what they were debating was which of their enthusiastic but hackneyed Bill Cosby imitations was better was genius. Tina and Amy Just Showed Us the Right Way To Make a Rape Joke 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Ahead of the kick-off, much talk centred on the hackneyed issue of whether Chelsea's stars could perform on a cold December night in Stoke. Stoke City 0-2 Chelsea 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Others include hackneyed descriptions, like Byron D. Clercx’s “Axiom” from around 1993, an ax whose long handle is made, as the catalog entry states, with “found newspaper and theory books on postmodern art criticism.” A Review of ‘Odd Volumes: Book Art From the Allan Chasanoff Collection,’ in New Haven 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z He also surprised exactly no one by repeating his hackneyed slogans of defiance toward the West: “It is pointless trying to talk to Russia from a position of strength,” he declared. Putin's Rambling State of the Nation Speech Unnerves Russia's Elites 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Show And Don’t Tell! This is one of those hackneyed lines repeated ad nauseum by journalism professors. How To Tell A Meaningful Story Through Video 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Yet one hopes that this election also reflects a rejection of hackneyed, over-the-top political ploys. Let's Start A New Season Of Treating Women Like Grown-Ups 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Much hackneyed thinking, if not specific language, is shared by our two nations. Filtering Out the Jargon of Politics 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z This is an old question, even a hackneyed one. Can Leadership Be Taught? 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z It is – to use a hackneyed British phrase – “not cricket”. Why The Russian Central Bank Can't Defend The Ruble 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Another tired and hackneyed “rule” is that you should own your age in fixed income. Financial Wake Up Call for the DIY Crowd 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z At its worst, it fails—becoming trite, clichéd, hackneyed, uninspired and uninspiring. "The Death of Klinghoffer": Let the Show Go On 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Yes we understand that innovation is happening rapidly, but we keep seeing this now hackneyed and overused image presented to us repeatedly in an tired attempt to show how progress works. A New Business Formula For Application Modernization 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Last year’s N.L.C.S. played out against a hackneyed backdrop: the staid, so-called Cardinal Way against the more freewheeling Dodgers. Dodgers Fall to Cardinals in Wild Opener of Their Division Series 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The picture quality belies the hackneyed writing that lies beneath. Red Band Society is fall’s most emotionally manipulative show 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z When it was over, in the hackneyed tradition that surrounds such events, Republicans declared Kashkari the victor just as Democrats gave the win to Brown. Jerry Brown vs Neel Kashkari: A governor's debate that changed little 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z But, in the somewhat hackneyed interest of not living in a dreaded bubble, I do follow some progressives. Does Twitter Suck Now? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z His ambitious goal to take to the skies was met with hackneyed responses from some pilots: “you’re crazy,” ”you’ll kill yourself.” Ohio man builds own bush plane, then learns to fly 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Political correctness – if we are to persist with that hackneyed term – required members of a diverse society to accord to others the level of dignity they would want for themselves. Blaming the Rotherham abuse on a fear of being branded a racist is ludicrous 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed "fear that women aren't funny" being one of them. Katy Brand's right about female comedians 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z It is tempting, for the slightly hackneyed footballing romantic, to sense the hand of Brazil itself here. Goals, thrills and villainy – so far this has been a World Cup to savour 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z The trope of small-town-quirk may be so hackneyed that it begs to be retired permanently, but Scott — working with fellow screenwriter Mike Dowse — keeps the self-conscious cutesy-ness to a gratifying minimum. ‘The Grand Seduction’ review: A cozy, fish-out-of-water tale In lieu of hackneyed and sometimes awkward mentoring relationships, consider becoming what’s popularly called a “reverse mentor.” How Smart Girls Get On Corporate Boards 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Wagner’s long programs usually feel great when they are new, but get tired and hackneyed by the end of the year. Women’s figure skating final: Predicting a surprise gold-medal winner 2014-02-20T14:51:08Z Tepid perhaps because the concept’s a little hackneyed, an homage to their own success while skating to Alexander Glazonov’s “The Seasons.” Olympic ice dance final could make figure skating history 2014-02-17T14:20:09Z “Frank knows where all the bodies are buried,” Jim Logan, the cemetery’s superintendent, said, wincing at his own hackneyed joke. After Nearly 55 Years, Gravedigger Departs Sleepy Hollow 2014-02-03T02:01:28Z Predictably, opponents of an increase in the minimum wage are once again invoking the hackneyed warning that it will lead to higher unemployment, especially among low-skilled, low-wage workers who are the intended beneficiaries. Today's Economist: Raising the Minimum Wage: Old Shibboleths, New Evidence 2013-12-13T05:01:11Z It’s beyond the purview of these paragraphs — and to be honest, I’m tired of the hackneyed polemic — to address whether violence, especially politically motivated violence, is ever justifiable or commendable. What Nelson Mandela can teach us all about violence 2013-12-08T14:00:00Z If social media is about projecting a cool image, and that image is still so hackneyed, then we have a lot of work to do. The Facebook Effect: Everybody Is So Cliché 2013-10-02T18:14:55Z To gain their loyalty, help them discover the unknown and share the unexpected.The hackneyed boardroom phrase is “surprise and delight” but yea, surprise and delight as often as possible. Trying To Understand Gen Y? Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable 2013-07-03T19:46:00Z As one local Catholic bishop from told theCatholic Register, “We all welcome the president’s presence, but would encourage his speechwriters to support a less hackneyed analysis of our situation and prospects.” Obama Offended Catholics? Blarney! 2013-06-21T08:45:00Z He added that the salesmen used hackneyed stories, such as claiming that they were returning to Italy from a conference and needed to sell their products before they returned home. Watch scams among con comebacks 2013-06-19T23:00:02Z In his hour of triumph, Walsh was not going to entertain hackneyed questions about last laughs and revenge. On Basketball: Latest Knicks Failure Has Its Roots at the Top 2013-05-19T15:11:21Z And he became one of the few big-game voices who could handle football, tennis and golf without egotism, shtick, hackneyed phrases or trademark calls. An Appraisal: Pat Summerall Made the Most of His Gifts and His Flaws 2013-04-18T00:30:20Z The words are hackneyed, but the sentiments are not. Ledley King: life after football 2013-04-13T20:54:12Z This week in the U.K., a great deal of hackneyed sentiment will gush over Thatcher's transformation of a country that was an economic basket case into one with a flourishing economy. Margaret Thatcher's Death Marks an End to the 'Heroic Soloist' Era 2013-04-09T15:33:00Z He is there for a boring, hackneyed attempt at visual juxtaposition. Sports Illustrated uses people of color as props in swimsuit issue 2013-02-15T23:54:00Z To borrow a hackneyed phrase, the middle class must first be retooled to take advantage of those gains. State of the Union: A Return to First Principles for Obama 2013-02-12T10:50:21Z There's a hackneyed theory beloved by football fans called new manager syndrome, which supposedly explains why teams do better just after they've sacked their old boss. Barclays battles persistent pests, while Hourican endures a storm 2013-02-10T00:05:49Z Besides, it's high time we entrepreneurs stop using those hackneyed sports and military metaphors. When Good Ideas Bear Fruit 2013-02-08T05:00:00Z And what I learned--and it sounds a little hackneyed--is how important listening is in every kind of endeavor. Reading This May Be Your Only Non-Sales Activity Today 2013-01-28T15:54:55Z Murray, meanwhile, was quick to dismiss the notion that he is "under-cooked", to use a hackneyed expression that means little – except, perhaps, the opposite of knackered. Australian Open: Andy Murray calm ahead of Roger Federer storm 2013-01-23T15:41:38Z However, the issue wasn't with the rather hackneyed imagery, rather the crass insensitivity of the timing. Helen Flanagan was a guilty of a silly stunt, nothing more 2012-12-23T00:08:36Z Hills clothes hoists An archetypal, if not hackneyed, image of suburbia in one of the world's most urbanised societies. 10 Australian inventions 2012-11-08T00:10:47Z “I would welcome the spotlight moving away from what I think is an increasingly tired, hackneyed, desiccated, super-masticated issue,” he said. Memo From Birmingham: London’s Boris Johnson Overshadows Cameron 2012-10-10T01:26:22Z When he made 149 runs at Headingley on Saturday, he did not "answer his critics" in that hackneyed phrase, because no one was ever asking any questions. How do England solve a problem like Kevin Pietersen? 2012-08-07T19:21:49Z Phishing attacks, like the urgent emails from the "IT Support Team" requesting our passwords to avert some Internet calamity, are so hackneyed that they likely ensnare only the extremely naive or credulous. Why We Should Scam the Scammers 2012-08-03T23:44:23Z It felt slightly hackneyed, something we've seen before, and nothing else – absolutely nothing else – about this ceremony was anything other than original. London 2012: Opening ceremony – reviews 2012-07-28T23:07:10Z It would be an exaggeration to describe the scenes in Hackney as "travel chaos", to use that hackneyed phrase. Anger and daftness amid bus strike 2012-06-22T11:02:00Z "The beautiful game" is now a hackneyed phrase and not always an apt one for much of soccer. More Than a Game in Spain 2012-05-25T19:04:26Z “The buck stops with me” is hackneyed and inappropriate, especially when Dimon suffers no financial consequences. Jamie Dimon, Leadership, and the London Whale 2012-05-17T14:03:01Z This does not necessarily imply that the precise context is recalled, or certain hackneyed trifles from Lucretius and Horace, and a score of such chips in porridge, would be indecent. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The gift of writing comes nearer to being their one common trait than do beauty and all the other hackneyed siren charms. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Not versed in the set phrases of speech, time-worn and hackneyed, their thoughts were naive, fresh, crude and angular as the frost-rended rocks on the mountain side. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z A score of questions similar to this can be asked to which the hackneyed explanation of the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Moors gives no answer. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The inscrutable warrior is aptly imaged by the hackneyed figure of a volcano covered with snow; and no man can say when or where the wildfire will burst forth. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Then, having gazed their fill on the Bavarian throne's wrecker and finding she could not dance, they stayed away; and Lola ended her engagement at the Broadway to the hackneyed "beggarly array of empty benches." Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The hackneyed descriptions in the guidebooks profane the spirit of a place; I never look at them till after I have found the object, and then only for dates. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z There is an excitement in coming on something original which has not been hackneyed by photograph. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The "Valse Bleue" was swaying its hackneyed sweetness across the dusk. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z We shall not trouble the reader with our own views or arguments on the hackneyed controversy of Gallileo's persecution. Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, July 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:19.393Z And the answer to that conundrum is the same that serves for the question concerning the hackneyed snowball in the Inferno. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z We have passed over the hackneyed ground attended by a torch-bearer, who has given a new animation to the procession of events, and cast a ruddy glow on many a striking physiognomy. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z It has been remarked that it does not contain one hackneyed or conventional rhyme. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z "Don't quote such a dreadfully hackneyed sentiment!" said his sister. Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z It all sounds prosaic, perhaps, because I've used hackneyed American terms, but for a man who has been but one day in India there won't be anything prosaic about it. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z He was exceedingly happy in his illustrations of a principle, and his figures were always interesting, never hackneyed. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z The remoteness of time and manners, the subject, at once so hackneyed and so revolting, these great obstacles he seizes with giant grasp, and moulds them to his purpose. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The arguments were all old and hackneyed to me. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z "How comes it, Mr. Murray, that beautiful things in nature never grow hackneyed?" Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z Little of early aphorism, however, or of the later obscurity and confusion remains; these are replaced, sometimes indeed by a hackneyed declamation, but often by natural and fluent dialogue. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Thread′bare, worn to the bare thread: having the nap worn off: hackneyed: used till its novelty or interest is gone.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z They show us, in survival, what the now hackneyed main roads were like three generations ago. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Reflexion on life was altogether strange to a Roman in the age of Plautus; to a Greek it was easy and hackneyed. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The movie is a crime itself -- a sloppy, hackneyed remake of the Icelandic thriller “Reykjavik-Rotterdam” that is far below Wahlberg’s usual action standard. Ripped Wahlberg Out to Sea as Inked Ribisi Menaces Wife: Film 2012-01-12T03:37:12Z His tragedies mainly conform to the hackneyed models, no matter what the sources may be or how large his own invention may seem. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z You and I may laugh at the hackneyed 'People against the Corporations' cry, but it's as effective with the masses to-day as it ever was, perhaps even more so. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z To use a hackneyed figure, it was as though the earth had opened and swallowed her husband. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z Thus his language never became trite and hackneyed, and, as we read him, no medium of after-associations is interposed between his mind and our own. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The wretchedness of gold-hunters in the rich field of California is by this time a hackneyed theme. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Both "The Politician" and "The Duke's Mistress," a tragedy along hackneyed lines, end with reward for the virtuous and punishment only for the vicious. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z It is true that he spoke of the leopard’s spots, and used other phrases equally ominous but less hackneyed; for the most part, however, he made these observations to himself. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z She had chosen one of the less hackneyed of Mendelssohn's 'Songs without Words,' and when she had finished I thanked her heartily, while Miss Farington chimed in with more reserve. A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 2011-12-15T03:00:17.253Z To use a rather hackneyed phrase, Squire Broadbent had the courage of his convictions. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z “There is nothing hackneyed about this sort of thing, is there?” The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z The best companies were those in whose hands a hackneyed comedy was always plastic, and who kept their improvisatory powers in exercise. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z And that would be unfortunate because rare are the opportunities to resist the hackneyed superstar agenda and instead opt for a more original, and practical, championship blueprint. On Basketball: Trading Anthony Could Be Knicks? Way Up - Harvey Araton 2011-12-08T18:45:15Z As hackneyed as that phrase may be, it is the reason why 20-somethings live with roommates; why dining rooms become bedrooms and foyers become offices; and why babies sleep in closets. Vivian S. Toy: The Apartment Critic 2011-12-04T00:57:17Z He really had, and it will be seen presently that he had, “the courage of his own convictions,” to use a hackneyed phrase. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z You go down the Mediterranean—that is hackneyed. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z The hackneyed verdict was recorded as a matter of course--suicide while temporarily insane. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z When they are trivial and undiscriminating, they are unaffectedly tedious, and that is almost pleasant after the hackneyed sparkle of the inferior picturesque. English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books 2011-11-30T03:00:10.703Z That, indeed, is very simple, and, perhaps, a trifle hackneyed. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z A hackneyed phrase floated into her mind—“woman’s wit.” Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z You go up the Rhine—that is hackneyed. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Sometimes a writer makes an effort to be extremely courteous, but fails because he uses hackneyed wording; as, 1. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z The musical language employed in Faust was new and fascinating, and it was soon to be adopted by many other French composers, certain of its idioms thereby becoming hackneyed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Possibly some readers may shy away from my book, deeming that its subject is hackneyed and worn out. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z He has the rare merit of an occasional specific note, and he touches even the hackneyed expressions about birds and flowers with a contagious buoyancy. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z You go here, there, and everywhere, and you find here, there, and everywhere hackneyed. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z The glories of our country were all very well in their way, but the subject is a hackneyed one, and it is scarcely worth while to revive it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z The ads invoke “hackneyed Democratic campaign clichés to scare seniors citizens that ‘others,’ but not himself, are a threat to Social Security and Medicare,” the GOP says in its FEC complaint. Democratic US Sen. Ben Nelson appears in new party-sponsored ad, despite GOP complaints 2011-10-13T23:59:30Z I did not hear this, but a friend told me that the speaker’s electric recitative made the hackneyed words forever new and fresh to him. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z But Pangbourne is not a hackneyed place, and never, I believe, will be so. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z It is really nothing more than the old hackneyed idea of the "Presidential Steeplechase" presented in a new guise. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z I need not remind you of the hackneyed remarks, that extremes meet, and that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z All true, no doubt, but also all hackneyed bromides, repeated ad nauseum to mask the depths of a significantly more complex -- and challenging -- individual. Payton book author: Why I wrote it 2011-09-29T16:11:00Z To escape from the tediousness of hackneyed tales and fables, they sought refuge in the ancient, original form of narratives of travels. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Well, it goes to show how small a place this world is,” remarked Eleanor, not knowing what else to say, but feeling amused at the hackneyed phrase she had to make use of. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z There is none of the minstrel’s cant in this work, none of the cheap sensations, the hackneyed wonders such as are ridiculed in Sir Thopas. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z A hackneyed text flashed through his mind: "Be sure thy sin will find thee out." The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z A hackneyed word; the expressions of which it forms part can usually be replaced by something more direct and idiomatic. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z In our times, the North American Indian has often been held up as a model of uncorrupted simplicity, and many touching romances have been written on the theme, now rather hackneyed and out of fashion. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z And not just because it’s a hackneyed cliche. In Science, There Are No Holy Grails 2011-08-12T14:50:56Z Hanson has, as of late, also made a name for himself with hackneyed attacks on Obama’s Keynesianism and the generally left-wing, socialist, and nasty way in which the president manages the economy. The eternal wretchedness of Victor Davis Hanson 2011-08-10T15:01:00Z Would it not seem to the great sceptical, sophisticated world only a tale invented to cover the old hackneyed story of a woman's infatuation? The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Another hackneyed word; like factor it usually adds nothing to the sentence in which it occurs. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z If the individual before you opens his mouth, he will retail all the hackneyed common-places that the papers have wearied you with for the last half century. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z So they started on their travels, going to Switzerland and Italy by the approved route, which in those days was not so hackneyed as it now is. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Get right away from hackneyed phrases and allusions. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z As for myself, I'm afraid I'm a friend to all the old, hackneyed arguments. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z So much has been written about Rome and Roman subjects within the last decade, good bad and indifferent, that the task of avoiding as far as possible hackneyed ground is not an easy one. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z One of the most hackneyed and yet one of the most effective illusions in the repertory of the conjurer, is that known as the Rising Cards. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z If true the hackneyed witticism Which stamps Originality As 'undetected plagiarism,' What a vocation I have miss'd As undetected plagiarist! Verse and Worse 2011-07-12T02:00:34.607Z If the colour of the heroine's eyes and the tint of her hair are immaterial to her career, omit such hackneyed data. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z It will be seen that it gives a totally different order of the cards, a much-needed variation, from the now hackneyed rhyme which for ages has appeared in all works on card conjuring. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z No woman of Anglo-Saxon blood, without a vast amount of training, could have said so much and said it so naturally with a gesture so hackneyed. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z The general scheme of the picture is the one which Pietro made somewhat hackneyed, but there are certain special features that must not be overlooked. Great Masters in Painting: Perugino 2011-06-27T02:00:59.487Z Also, when writing the company description, it's important to avoid hackneyed expressions, like "proudly serving the community" or "The best hairdresser in town." Market Using Google Places 2011-06-21T16:00:00Z Avoid all these hackneyed themes, and obvious tricks. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z Her dress of hackneyed smartness was bedraggled, the skirt marked by knees that in some fall had ground into loam. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z They are, Ms. Rose says, accessible remedies for ailments as hackneyed as allergies, migraines or even poor sexual performance, and as complex as fibromyalgia or diabetes. | Ditmas Park: Take Mugwort and Call Us in a Week 2011-06-16T20:22:44Z "I am of course aware of the hackneyed phrase and stamp that politicians live in a glass house," he said. Vladimir Putin: When Family is Virtually a State Secret 2011-06-16T07:45:00Z But save where the god is a symbol of commerce or speed, the helmet should be dispensed with, for it is hackneyed beyond endurance. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z I have preferred not to repeat either this or the equally well known—nay, hackneyed—and very distressing death-bed drawing made by Severn at Rome. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The old parallel of the hen-mother and the young ducks would come in most usefully here, were it not so hackneyed. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z It is in reality a conglomeration of hackneyed moralistic considerations. Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 2011-06-04T02:00:16.113Z The hackneyed line is that a country gets the politics it deserves. Animal house 2011-06-02T10:37:50Z Patti again was increased by the fact that the work in which she was to appear was not a hackneyed one. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z "And mistress of herself, though china fall," and at the hackneyed quotation, all smiled. Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' 2011-05-20T02:00:37.457Z I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck, and sit, like 'patience on a monument,' whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z "I detest," he wrote, "the hackneyed fightings of bookseller and author,"—but he denied emphatically that he owed the money claimed by Curry. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z Time’s Nick Carbone began his with, “The question’s becoming as hackneyed as holding a piece of newsprint in your hands: How do you monetize online journalism while keeping your readership?” Facebook, Franzen, Wallace: Let's Give The New Yorker Its Due 2011-04-12T14:26:47Z The five or six stanzas mentioned above are so well-known as to be positively hackneyed. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z And with this hackneyed reflection he turns back into the house, rebolts the door, and goes to his bed—not to sleep, but lie long awake, kept so by that same fear. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z In his earlier plays Foote constantly resorts to the most hackneyed device of farce—a disguise. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The old hackneyed phrase, “This is a free country,” has been applied in varying degrees according to the caprice of the individual with the most aggressive will. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z To use a hackneyed cliche, Japan will likely end up replacing its busted nukes with a kind of bento box of sources, including the cheapest alternative of all–conservation. Options For Replacing Japan's Busted Nukes 2011-03-21T04:29:19Z Even the graduating week at West Point, though a hackneyed subject, is presented with the charm of freshness as well as reality. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z And here lies one secret of the infinite variety in nature, by which the old seems ever new, and the same thought has an eternal freshness and originality, endlessly repeated, yet never hackneyed. Seaside Studies in Natural History Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates. 2011-03-07T03:00:13.343Z It is a transition from the mediocrity of incessant repetition of well-known truths told in long and hackneyed terms, back to descriptions derived direct from nature and fresh from her treasury. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z We paid them the usual hackneyed compliments, and then stood around looking rather sheepish and wondering what to do next, until Reddy produced a box of chocolates and presented it to the bride. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z For us there was no appeal; we could not threaten the indignation of powerful friends,—the terrors of fashionable exposure,—not even the hackneyed expedient of a letter in the "Times"! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z A plea for Saas and Fée The Zermatt district may be still more striking, and they who have no time to visit both, no doubt do wisely to seek the more hackneyed valley. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z He was reduced even to the hackneyed phrase. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z International marriage novels have been many of late, even as the number of American girls marrying abroad has increased, but this one is strikingly different from the type that has become almost hackneyed. The Riverside Bulletin, March, 1910 Houghton Mifflin Books for Spring and Summer 2011-02-23T03:00:32.690Z The hackneyed parallel of Shakespeare will occur to all. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z “Islam is the solution,” goes the hackneyed slogan of Islamic activists. News Analysis: Uncharted Ground After Stunning End of Egypt?s Regime 2011-02-12T03:13:27Z Not that I disallow that hackneyed tenth of Juvenal, "Orandum est ut sit mens sana," and the rest of it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z The personal “journey” is one of the most hackneyed of clichés, rehashed in self-help manuals and interviews with aging celebrities. Disunion: Lincoln Moves 2011-02-10T21:37:45Z And with this hackneyed reflection he turns back into the house, rebolts the door, and goes to his bed; not to sleep, but lie long awake—kept so by that same fear. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z You seem to forget, besides, that you are talking to a man of the world, just as hackneyed, just as 'used up' as yourself. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z And he believes it is a good thing that Hollywood is moving away from the "hackneyed cliche of the sneering British villain". Super Brits 2011-02-01T14:37:48Z Does Vick's story really say something about redemption, one of the more hackneyed concepts in American society? From Prison to the Pro Bowl: The Meaning of NFL Quarterback Michael Vick 2011-01-28T19:00:00Z It also marked a change: it wasn't the hackneyed glitz of "Cool Britannia" or the old-world charms of tourist biscuit-box Britain. The East End's Olympic hopes are being dashed 2011-01-14T07:30:01Z The hackneyed old saying, "No fall so slight but may kill you quite," occurred to me. The Lonely House 2011-01-13T03:01:04.920Z Yes, I do,—infinitely better than the sentimental homage other men pay me or the hackneyed rubbish they talk. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z For the present, he was simply trying to act his part well, and was only repeating hackneyed phrases often uttered in houses of mourning, at funerals, and at wakes. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z |
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