Sentence examples for it seems hackneyed from inspiring English sources
"It seems hackneyed and it seems like the same old poison politics," he said.
The tissue of lies is transparent, and his Sam Shepard-meets-Gothic horror format seems hackneyed, complete with lightning and guttering lamps.
The plot seems hackneyed to us now, but that is because of the immense revolution in perspective that separates us from Shakespeare's day.
Yes it sometimes seems hackneyed, but the appeal of the familiar cannot be overlooked.
His bar-room "get real" manner seemed hackneyed.
Overdosing on heroin in the Chelsea hotel seemed hackneyed, on reflection.
Such sureness of touch turns a story that might have seemed hackneyed into a genuine pleasure.
Of course, to settle for the theatrics of strings might seem hackneyed for an artist so future-facing.
Oddly, CBS chose her for her offbeat, downtown appeal, then boxed her into a conventional multiple-camera format that seemed hackneyed even back in the days of "Three's Company".
The rose-window comparison, in which the saturated colours of stained glass are held within a lattice of stone, or in MacMillan's case two sections subdivided into chapters of Gospel narrative, might seem hackneyed.
In a gripping moment that in the hands of a less skilled journalist might have seemed hackneyed, Beamer and a telephone operator he has reached in an air-to-ground call join in reciting the Lord's Prayer and the 23rd Psalm.
