Sentence examples for hackneyed claim from inspiring English sources

This counterintuitive claim is often followed by the hackneyed claim that landowners "prefer the devil they know".

That sounds a lot like that hackneyed claim that people love advertising as long as it's well done.

So we asked him for his two cents on a few hackneyed claims about black people.

So we asked him for his two cents on a few hackneyed claims about African-Americans.

With her chosen subjects young, fluid, and markedly diverse, one wouldn't be mistaken for making hackneyed critical claims of "August Sander meets early Ryan McGinley" in regards to Tomanova's work.

After this stinging rebuke, Brind resorted to hackneyed conspiracy theory, claiming that it was a "corrupt federal agency" and dedicated to "protecting the abortion industry", as well as directing his ire towards the mainstream medical community.

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.

Zachary Scheer of Cinema Blend said, "The short is as hackneyed as that title.

Directors like to claim that the conventions of Italian opera are hackneyed and that contemporary audiences need novel reinterpretations if they are not to grow bored.

The accompanying film was so moribund the poster claimed "In music, she found her dream, her love, herself", and so hackneyed that one critic called it, "the pop equivalent of Chernobyl".

However much the Tories insist that their big-ticket promises can be funded by savings made elsewhere step forward that hackneyed favourite, cuts in bureaucracy and waste all the opinion-poll evidence suggests that such claims only increase swing voters' scepticism.