Sentence examples for hackneyed portrait from inspiring English sources

Interviewed in the Observer before the first night, Wade insisted she had not painted a hackneyed portrait of the ex-Etonians who now wanted to lead Britain.

A 2006 exhibit titled "Hackneyed Portraits" was designed to "pick up some of the slack" when the David Hockney show at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts closed.

This is not for lack of trying — Hage clearly means to honor her — but his language is too hackneyed to create the portrait she deserves.

But his ideas are so hackneyed: he replaces the Mona Lisa's face with his own smirking visage; he pictures Picasso painting his portrait; and he offers a Magritte-style Kostabification of Leonardo's "Last Supper" with tubular dramatis personae, computers floating in the air and Jesus invisible but for rainbow-colored feet under the table.

Who needs these hackneyed hallucinations?

Immersive theatre – tired and hackneyed already?

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

Nothing is hackneyed or maudlin, just straight.

Gang politely dismisses such hackneyed assumptions.

Your themes are hackneyed, your style imitative.

And sometimes, he's downright hackneyed.