Sentence examples for hackneyed themes from inspiring English sources

Few would disagree that Hollywood has a pretty deplorable record when it comes to black cinema – in the past it has often resorted to racist stereotypes and hackneyed themes.

And yet Ms. Cho, a young playwright of clear promise, develops even the potentially hackneyed themes with a laconic, natural ease that earns respect and admiration.

The gesaku writers were oblivious to the changes in Japanese society, and they continued to grind out minor variants on the same hackneyed themes of the preceding 200 years.

No, Mr. Wang picked the silliest, most hackneyed theme, and managed to make it work.

Titled "Territories," it press-gangs into service the efforts of a bunch of emerging artists around the somewhat hackneyed theme of mapping.

In what has already become perhaps the most hackneyed theme in gaming, the player's job is to save humanity from (yet another) zombie apocalypse.

But the perfunctory epilogue, on the hackneyed theme of Soviet and post-Soviet leaders ruling essentially as tsars, comes across as an ill-judged attempt to demonstrate contemporary relevance.

There are giants, eunuchs and Cyclops-like one-eyed freaks, too even a unicorn, for good measure.Underlying all this learned whimsy is the rather hackneyed theme of stories versus histories, fantasy versus reality, fiction versus fact.

As he wrote in his journal on Dec. 28, 1854, "It would be a very desirable labor for a young literary man, or for that matter, an old one; for the world can scarcely have in reserve a less hackneyed theme than Japan".

This tired, hackneyed theme has been the bread and butter of right wing bloggers, websites, and shrill talk show hosts from the moment Obama set foot in the White House.

There are plenty of reasons for viewers to be disappointed with this Vinci arc of the anthology series – hackneyed dialogue, overfamiliar themes, Vince Vaughn's pinched facial expressions – but the one that I feel holds most sway is that it's been a difficult story to comprehend.