In his defence, Deripaska will say the pair never had a business partnership (despite gifting $250m to his rival) and allege that their relationship was merely that hackneyed one of a legitimate businessman being extorted by a crime boss.
When Wood and his friend Zach Cowie announced their five date North American vinyl-only DJ tour, they inspired plenty of hackneyed, one-note social media trolls on the former's behalf―"Frodo on the beat," "Get Gandalf on the mic," etc.
But as the music subsided, "Vita Nuova," for all the fuss, ended with a hackneyed twist on Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony: One by one the players finished their parts, turned off their music-stand lights and exited.
"Conversations on Russian Literature," the last and best play, belongs to what might be the most hackneyed one-act genre: the park-bench drama (Edward Albee has much to answer for).
Why substitute a hackneyed image for one of the greatest metaphors in all poetry?
A hackneyed topic indeed, one treated hundreds of times already by writers of every kind and level of ability from great poets to mediocre journalists, a matrix of words and images so familiar that, as Paul Fussell ably demonstrated in '&apos The Great War and Modern Memory,'' they have become cliches of modern consciousness.
"I think it's become quite a hackneyed thing on telly.
Proving the doubters wrong has become such a hackneyed expression of late that one red-top sports editor sent a department-wide email last year outlawing its use in intros.
There's one extended section on how "children are garbage", which is a hackneyed shock-standup premise, and another on abortions.
Nothing like that happens at Venice, an incomprehensible mess of a show with a hackneyed plot, characters that don't maintain a shred of consistency from one scene to the next and relentlessly bad hip-hop lyrics.
