Sentence examples for hackneyed frame from inspiring English sources

Screaming "vanity project" from every hackneyed frame, "Drawing With Chalk" is yet another example of midlife American males doing all they can to avoid acting their age.

We pursue our reporting through the lens of actual human experience -- a messy, internally-contradictory frame of reference that simply cannot be described by hackneyed labels like left and right.

Ruby turns to the family's lawyer, played by Bruce Dern, for help, but not even an actor as accomplished as Mr. Dern can do much to help a film in which "every hackneyed cinema trick from tinkly pianos to shock cuts and half-focused frames have been used to clue us into the malevolence" (A. O. Scott).

And they frame SW in the context of tennis as a whole, modifying her name with hackneyed sporting adjectives like "legendary" or "all-time-great" or "incomparable", "insurmountable," "larger-than-life".

The Crew throws its hackneyed plot at the player inside its opening 20-or-so minutes: you've been framed for a crime and now the powers that be want you to infiltrate this... blah, blah, bored.

Who needs these hackneyed hallucinations?

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

Immersive theatre – tired and hackneyed already?

Let's try to avoid this hackneyed expression.

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