Sentence examples for hackneyed talk from inspiring English sources

Throw aside all this hackneyed talk and croaking about brothers and countrymen, this fear of hurting their feelings & c. & c.

His innovative solutions go beyond the hackneyed talking points and painful rhetoric that the other candidates for the nation's highest office spout of with increasing frequency.

Smith added a big hackneyed Christian comedy standard: "Talk about the differences between white churches and black churches".

The script feels close to the way people talk rather than a hackneyed attempt at sounding street (Fatboy from EastEnders).

Ahead of the kick-off, much talk centred on the hackneyed issue of whether Chelsea's stars could perform on a cold December night in Stoke.

I can see straight away that he thinks as he talks, there is nothing hackneyed or reflex about him.

What, then, was this man in his military uniform talking about, with his hackneyed phrases and written speech?

2001's Cats and Dogs was a disappointing dud, a seemingly sure-fire premise for family-friendly fun that foundered on a hackneyed concept, lame gags, and creepy, CG-enhanced talking animals.

He talks about feelings, but his feelings are hackneyed beyond belief.

Mr Johnson later told the BBC Radio 4's World At One programme he would welcome the "spotlight" moving on from talk about his future plans, speculation which he described as "tired and hackneyed".

Allen is surely right that having a black president makes it hard to talk about race, particularly if you want to have the hackneyed monologue hustlers such as Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton want to have.