His argument that the media invariably and inaccurately portrays single women as pathetic is a little hackneyed. |
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It would be hackneyed if I say that death is something very sad and irreclaimable. |
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It may be hackneyed to point out that people fought and died for the right to vote, but it's true all the same. |
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There is a hackneyed witticism about crofts being little pieces of land surrounded by regulations. |
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There are plenty of hackneyed truisms about ill-winds, silver-linings and darkness-before-dawns that can be tossed into the glumness. |
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Audiences who had grown tired of hackneyed devices and betting on which token minority would die first had spoken with their wallets. |
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She does this not with hackneyed images of shell-shocked Tommies, but principally through simple visual metaphor. |
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And for a writer praised for his verbal energy, he's not above succumbing to hackneyed images. |
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History should be about forcing people to challenge their perceptions, not reinforcing hackneyed stereotypes of the past. |
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But the key to stock market glory isn't contained in some hackneyed phrase. |
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This idea dates back so many thousands of years that it is more at risk of being hackneyed than revolutionary. |
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We've heard Beethoven so many times that there is always a danger of it falling into a hackneyed mode of routine playing. |
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His boss can take even a hackneyed phrase and let it dangle suggestively in the air until a dozen meanings reveal themselves. |
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The final hour has long past on the horror spoof and, sadly, all that's left is hackneyed jokes and trite dialogue. |
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The script is hackneyed, riddled with stereotypes and offers nothing that hasn't been seen in every single gangster film ever made. |
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That's one of those hackneyed sayings we grow accustomed to from a young age. |
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Their books use hackneyed plotlines, stock characters, and omission of inconvenient facts. |
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However, the story and the manner of its telling are alike hackneyed, dull, and pointless. |
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This year's summit has been accompanied by the usual round of hackneyed phrases about the need to end poverty. |
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The nite also reiterated the hackneyed fact that music is not confined to one place. |
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The story is as old as the hills, and there can be nothing compelling about such hackneyed themes. |
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If only they had used biblical language at least it would have sounded less trite, hackneyed and cliched. |
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It is a tribute to the quality of his unwavering line that neither has become half as hackneyed as it should have done. |
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I'd agree that it is head-and-shoulders above most sitcoms but it follows hackneyed gender traditions. |
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They're hackneyed and thus utterly predictable, yet they still manage to be largely unintelligible. |
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But a closer look reveals there's more to this course than a hackneyed phrase. |
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As somebody who gets paid to sit in restaurants, I'm well accustomed to deciphering hackneyed old menu descriptions and cheffy verbiage. |
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The political aspect is linked in practice to the financial aspect, and both are linked to the much abused and hackneyed Lisbon Strategy. |
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Many of the self-portraits in company brochures are full of hackneyed phrases and interchangeable. |
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They are not hackneyed imitative replicas of the original versions. |
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She reinforces this hackneyed portrait by evoking African tom-toms. |
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As for the hackneyed old argument that this is about oil, bah! |
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Secondly, it was full to overflowing of hackneyed sexist stereotypes. |
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The initial combat scenes are well directed, chilling and very unsettling, but the events that follow, the courtroom sequences in particular, are hackneyed and dull. |
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The blame, say critics, lies with the hackneyed, highly predictable plots. |
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Meanwhile the transitions and cross cutting formulations are hackneyed, usually singularised by low-angle zooms arranging the actors in Swimsuit Calendar poses. |
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The action in the Bond films is tired, the jokes are unfunny and the scripts rarely more than a hackneyed series of conventions and foolish plot twists. |
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Another reconfiguration will be along soon, and perhaps then it will be possible to emphasise some of the emerging innovations and rely less on the hackneyed old solutions. |
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Hiding behind the hackneyed theme of a ruler being led astray by evil advisers, Becket could have been in no doubt that the scheme had been orchestrated by Henry. |
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It is littered with hackneyed phrases and lazy commonplaces. |
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These warnings seem hackneyed, but their very commonplaceness is the reason for repeated emphasis. |
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It will not contain any of the hackneyed words, hectic, anent, or meticulous. |
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It is where you take your first step. A bit hackneyed, perhaps, but a pretty fair description of the state of affairs. |
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The first, in my view, is the fact that many of the arguments have become hackneyed. |
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Ms. Karen Mock: Well, what it does, just to use a hackneyed expression, is level the playing field. |
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Globalization, in almost hackneyed terms, presents opportunity, challenge and threat. |
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We only need to implement those which are on the table, which are already boring and hackneyed. |
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The UN Secretary-General did not greet us with polite and hackneyed words of thanks, no, he really read the riot act to Europe over its immigration policy. |
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We have allowed our relations to become hackneyed and risk losing their special character, even though Africa's position in world trade has never been so weak. |
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Written by Shainblum and drawn by Gabriel Morrissette, the Northguard graphic narratives represented an attempt to bring a new degree of realism and sophistication to the increasingly hackneyed superhero genre. |
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We also need to articulate our case with words and facts that are strong, unassailable and, as important, rhetorically inspiring without being hackneyed. |
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All of these themes should be discussed without referring to the dogmas that paralyse innovative thinking and facilitate the most hackneyed of corporatist thinking. |
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Everything seemed too hackneyed or unconvincing or simply impossible. |
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The report, in fact, is a hotchpotch of hackneyed ideas, all of which have the same purpose, namely the inversion of decent values and the promotion of decadence. |
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We must be wary lest in avoiding the foggy stuff which comes from the use of a vague intermixture of words, current phrases, hackneyed terms and fashionable expressions we fall into the other error: that of fine writing. |
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And according to Couth what was once innovative TV has now become hackneyed. |
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The mantra has started to sound like hackneyed PR schtick. |
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Quick, jump in this hackneyed carriage, follow that old chestnut. |
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It's a wrench for the Saints and as hackneyed as the sentiment might have become, it's true to say that Hayes is a universally-admired figure in the game on account of his courage, grace and dependability. |
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Whilst listening to the dynamic parliamentary debates it is hard to resist forming the impression that many research centres are continuing to make use of schematic, hackneyed methodological principles. |
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Their views and opinions on the development of our relations serve as a kind of litmus test of cooperation between our countries and help us to get rid of hackneyed stereotypes. |
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Schools cannot, of course, be encyclopaedias, nor should they conform to stereotypical international standards, or merely churn out hackneyed clichés. |
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It has finely honed this instinct for compassion of which Stephen speaks, and, if I may use a hackneyed phrase, made ordinary people do quite extra-ordinary things. |
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What a pity that some expressions become hackneyed, but we can say with complete justification: Wherever precision and quality come from, that's also where Hermle is at home. |
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The picture he paints of Africa with a leopard calmly surveying the world from its grassy hillock is clichéd enough, but his China is positively hackneyed. |
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That hackneyed teen pregnancy then became a cue to examine how a couple of everyday kids such as Lindsey and Rob might react to imminent adulthood, and whether their tender relationship would survive along the way. |
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Yet she too inevitably slides into the same hackneyed phrases that she condemns, and from her very forthrightness becomes a misrepresenter, like most of the other speakers. |
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