Sentence examples for hackneyed scene from inspiring English sources

In one hackneyed scene, Sybil, the Saxon "daughter of the people", even reads chapters of Thierry's history to her father, Gerard.

The hackneyed makeover scene – everyone diving in on Eleven in a chair, plastering her with dark eyeshadow and slicking her hair back with goo – has been discussed by critics as her "teen rebel" phase.

These hackneyed characters fit into a narrative that moves inexorably in one direction.

Though at times hackneyed, Ranney's sporting scenes can be playful and even rather comic, as in "First Fish of the Season" (1849), a picture of an intently focused fisherman and his equally rapt dog fishing in the New Jersey marshes, a popular setting for his paintings after he settled in Weehawken in the late 1840s.

His scenes may be hackneyed but they are no less vivid for that.

The film, based in name only on a series of South Korean graphic novels, has nice, washed-out desert exteriors and some cool jet-powered motorcycles, but there's nothing in the hackneyed story or the derivative action scenes to make you take notice.

Hwang avoids the hackneyed ups and downs of most bio-plays, setting offhand scenes in Lee's martial-arts classes, or on a car ride during a location-scouting trip in India.

The picture quality belies the hackneyed writing that lies beneath.

But back in the garret Mimì's death scene seemed stilted, marred by Ms. Marambio's hackneyed coughs and Mr. Villazón's somewhat implausible sobs.

'Tarantino is in a uniquely difficult situation,' elaborates the film historian and critic Mark Cousins, 'because all the things that made him new and fresh when he burst on the scene a decade ago have become over-familiar and hackneyed through their over-use by other, often lesser, directors.

She plays every single scene to the limit, finding truth in the hackneyed dramatic beats and keeping a straight face when Jamie Dornan tries to emote.