Sentence examples for hackneyed notions from inspiring English sources
It takes some of the more hackneyed notions of the bar industry, pops them into a mixer with some garnish and ice, and gives them a good shaking.
Amundsen is at his best when he is examining (and exploding) the sorts of hackneyed notions about early medicine that are repeated so often that they are assumed to be true.
Obvious urges to submit to the hackneyed notion that only the committed are sane are resisted.
Like Fanny, this Julie turns the hackneyed notion of "theater in the blood" into biological fact.
What was Brittney Griner supposed to say to the hackneyed notion of her or any woman trying out for the N.B.A., raised recently by the Dallas Mavericks' owner, Mark Cuban?
With the soaring rhetoric and lofty ideals of his campaign now a distant memory, he instead peddled the hackneyed notion that America's answer lay in its own innate and unique brilliance.
Andrew Appel, the director of Four Nations, refreshingly batted at the hackneyed notion of music as a universal language in a program note, going so far as to declare that "music, the most abstract and personal, may well be the most provincial of the arts".
"Grown Ups" feels like the work of people who sat around a table for an hour or so tossing around hackneyed comic notions, then decided to slap them onto the screen and hope for the best.
He dismisses some popular Arab leaders as "loony xenophobic zealots" and offers delightful satires of everything from hackneyed American reporting to Saudi notions of hip architecture: Populuxe "monstrosities" with stucco champagne bubbles riveted up an outer wall; a mosque with tail fins.
It's a film that seemingly feels indebted to solve mysteries from both the original Alien film and Prometheus a film of hackneyed ideas in which the notion of exploring them is indistinguishable from the dubious art of "worldbuilding".
"Laurie Simmons' daughter says Brian Williams' daughter's boyfriend 'has a vagina,' a notion that isn't at all hackneyed and retrograde when it's uttered by a self-aware 24-year-old girl who has tattoos of illustrations from children's books all over her body".
