Sentence examples for hackneyed depictions from inspiring English sources

Of course, like any fictional representation, old age can be done well or badly regardless of one's own positioning as an author, but there's less chance of being called out on hackneyed depictions of old age, in part because those in the know — the over-eighty-five-year-olds themselves — haven't historically had any cultural power.

In fact, its strangled, hackneyed depiction of black masculinity is painful to watch.

A hackneyed, worn-out idea isn't hackneyed and worn out to them".

Nothing is hackneyed or maudlin, just straight.

Mr. Caro's writing is occasionally hackneyed.

Your themes are hackneyed, your style imitative.

And sometimes, he's downright hackneyed.

And yet it never feels hackneyed.

His bar-room "get real" manner seemed hackneyed.

A hackneyed, worn-out idea isn't hackneyed and worn out to them.

Wolmar called the pair "hackneyed" and lacking vision.