Hackneyed in a sentence

Hackneyed metaphor aside, it’s a strange prop to have at an event for whatever reason.

The good news is that the culture is shifting around this discussion: BBC News’s hackneyed headline, “Jacinda Ardern resigns: Can women really have it all?” drew an outcry, as it should have.

Towelie is initially a parody of hackneyed mascots and shoehorned new characters, but Towelie ends up fulfilling this prophecy.

And the hackneyed formula of having people explain things as though they’re happening in real time, which has been done in literally every other Netflix before this one, feels tired.

Professionals fight back against the hackneyed idea that belonging to the mainstream is somehow inferior to being extreme.

Remember that without cliches, platitudes, pigeonholes, conventional wisdom and hackneyed ideas, life would be nearly impossible.

Some of the actors at the background got frustrated because of the hackneyed dialogue on the stage.

The hackneyed assumption is that teenage talents are sent to the lower leagues to “toughen up”.

There is an hackneyed journalistic phrase about rain not dampening people's spirits, but in Liverpool this week that has not been entirely true.

His opening monologue included hackneyed and dated jokes about Vice President Mike Pense and Trump.

So, emphasis has shifted to exploiting the nation’s hurtful and hackneyed struggles for political power and the blame-game along ethnic-religious fault-lines to propagate these destructive campaigns of bloodbath.

Whether in protest or in solidarity, here are some examples of British TV moments that have broken expectations and hackneyed ‘norms’ to permanently imprint themselves onto our own experiences.

While the film itself may be hackneyed and overdone, the afterward discussion was insightful and progressive.

A film critic for the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Cameron's overweening pride has come close to capsizing this project" and that the film was "a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances".

He named "The Lost Kitten" as the series' episode with the best story content, and the double episode "The Intoccabile" as having the worst, noting its "hackneyed look into the Cosa Nostra".

However, he said, the libretto "has the hackneyed look of the musical theatre replaced with Oklahoma!

Lynch places these often hackneyed characters in dire situations, creating dream-like qualities.

Many modern readers, who might regard anti-Victorian didacticism as dated, simplistic or hackneyed, have found these later works to be of absorbing interest for their hard-edged, objective consideration of interpersonal confrontation.

She lambasted the book as a "sloppily researched polemic as dismissible as a hackneyed adventure film.