Sentence examples for hackneyed images from inspiring English sources
But Cook's storytelling is laced with clichés and hackneyed images ("jaw-dropping," "live wire").
Today you can see the same brand of hackneyed images in the Harry Potter movies.
The extent to which "The Caller" has lost its bearings becomes painfully obvious late in the film when recurrent shots of the Statue of Liberty (of all hackneyed images) are used to connect the French flashbacks with American present.
Regrettably, "America The Beautiful" by Judge Roy Moore recycles not only hackneyed images and ideas but also cliches about people and the complexity of our lived lives.
Why substitute a hackneyed image for one of the greatest metaphors in all poetry?
But its glaring inadequacies are rendered somehow more infuriating and intractable by the hackneyed image it offers to visitors.
In much the same way, Primo Levi's Journey offers a hackneyed image of modern eastern Europe as land of hay ricks, plum brandy and klezmer music.
Far be it for Pratchett to stick reverently to the hackneyed image of the Grim Reaper, the novelists' Death dresses up as Father Christmas and displays an endearing fascination for the human lives he is helping to extinguish.
"The hackneyed image of Venice as a drowning city isn't entirely accurate," said Andrea di Robilant, author of "A Venetian Affair," a novel based on a scandalous 18th-century romance.
Don't take this hackneyed image literally.
It is more than the hackneyed image of a sweat-drenched televangelist on the television screen cajoling old ladies and poor people to phone or mail in their last dime on the latest prayer cloth or anointing oil.
