Sentence examples for Kind of hackneyed from inspiring English sources
"Rituals" is probably the right word, because there was often a kind of hackneyed and uninspired monotony to the various verbal exchanges this summer.
Musicals, even of the quasi kind, are a reliable font of hackneyed wisdom, designed to elicit tears by gunpoint if necessary.
No doubt there are those who will deem "Simon Birch" "heartwarming". It is exactly the kind of movie that has given that hackneyed superlative a bad name.
Putting the glossy orchestral backdrop to one side, Chasing Pavements manages to be both hackneyed and the kind of metaphor for pointless pursuit that wouldn't look out of place on a James Blunt album.
Rejecting stereotypes, Bertsch insists that audiences quickly tire of hackneyed plots and cheap thrills.
"What a load of hackneyed situations, intrigues, false notes!" By October the situation was worse.
St Valentine himself was, of course, the patron saint of hackneyed chat-up lines and clumsy passes.
Also a list of hackneyed, sometimes dreadful chapter titles ("Dead Men Dancing," "Lucifer Rising," "Prophet of Doom," "Fire by Trial").
He organized his thoughts in terms of hackneyed platitudes, even inventing a new cliche "the custard pies of outrageous fortune".
It shouldn't be necessary to repeat a list of hackneyed workplace virtues.
Today you can see the same brand of hackneyed images in the Harry Potter movies.
