But instead the melodrama amplifies to an appallingly hackneyed crescendo.
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"The Iraq war was terrible but" is already a hackneyed trope.
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Mr. Bratt moves through his hackneyed role with resigned good humor.
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However, the stories they are interested in are neither conventional nor hackneyed.
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A probable script, or a hackneyed tale too good to be true?
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This truth is so self-evident, that observing it is seemingly hackneyed.
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Nor is the work ingratiating, playing up hackneyed tokens of Hispanic heritage.
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We should view this fresh crop of hackneyed harpies through her eyes.
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Laying bare the hackneyed techniques of the demagogue can inoculate listeners against them.
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Remember those two years that every rapper had a hackneyed Benjamin Button punchline?
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Even the bloggiest of bloggers can't use their overwritten, hackneyed cynicism on it.
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It may sound hackneyed, but deregulated skies truly have democratised travel for Europeans.
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I don't like to label movies as underrated; it's an overused, hackneyed phrase.
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I saw that Gail's death hadn't merely been "tragic" in the hackneyed sense.
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The raucous atmosphere and performers' machismo could result in hackneyed and misogynist jokes.
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Dowd "treats Thurman's story like she's writing a hackneyed Vanity Fair profile," Petersen writes.
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Which is why this sudden move into hackneyed territory feels like such a letdown.
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Riley rarely mumbles more than a couple of hackneyed lines when confronting her targets.
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Among a younger, savvier audience, the implication of sex wasn't subversive; it was hackneyed.
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Instead, we get an overwrought Hallmark moment, and the hackneyed reveal of the baby's name.
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"The term 'compassionate conservative' has become hackneyed, but that's where I felt comfortable," she said.
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Mr Gorbachev's use of unnatural and hackneyed Soviet "newspeak" made him seem like an apparatchik.
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It was that hackneyed writing betrays rushed, automatic thinking, rather than slow and critical reflection.
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Yes, I know, it's terribly hackneyed, but less really is more — at least in Milan.
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The hackneyed saying "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" turned out to be true.
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And the occasional sexual tension lends a bit of spice to an otherwise hackneyed plot.
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It's been written enough times to be hackneyed that Wiley is a one-trick pony.
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An increasingly remote possibility, many Palestinians now consider it nothing more than a hackneyed slogan.
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But, there's something especially compelling and elevating about Night Profound's take on an often hackneyed genre.
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While extremely hackneyed in Hackney, the combination of patties and IPAs made serious waves in Hereford.
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For a book so full of corruption, "Careers for Women" never reads like hackneyed crime fiction.
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Few have been more enduring, however, than the now-hackneyed broadside from Union Army Maj. Gen.
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But this is so much more than the mere dry-mouthed fatigue of a hackneyed storyline.
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But the reason to watch Waves is its filmmaking, not its sometimes-verging-on-hackneyed storytelling.
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However, this felt like a hackneyed performance ritual, where the performer slowly and deliberately gets messy.
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Despite the many opportunities this subject matter affords, there is only one hackneyed pun in Sudjic's book.
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In her capable hands, however, even the most hackneyed occasions are transformed into revealing or comic moments.
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But the most important thing, even if it sounds hackneyed, is to just not drink too much.
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Somewhere along the line, too, hackneyed tap got tangled in the popular imagination with stereotypes of homosexuality.
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But there's a strong danger that Mr. Corella's company is becoming a hackneyed assortment of ballet clichés.
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The union-busting playbook that Kickstarter management has been running is as hackneyed as it is transparent.
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This feels massive and — to use a word that's quickly becoming hackneyed — unprecedented, though the response makes sense.
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What's not: The movie feels a bit hackneyed, and lacks the depth and intensity of the first film.
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More often, the ex-players resort to hackneyed sports jargon and observations that even casual fans consider obvious.
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To audiences today, however, its cast of Turkish, Peruvian, Persian and Native American characters can seem hopelessly hackneyed.
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Also lacking in tension is the central romance between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, which feels hackneyed and obvious.
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Here are five ways The Ranch breaks ground — even as some of its more hackneyed elements hold it back.
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Both the wedding dresses and vox populi conversations are somewhat hackneyed, but Goodman is not going for emotional payoff.
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Its depiction of Salinger's probable PTSD, the product of his service in World War II, is almost insultingly hackneyed.
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The fabric doubles over itself and grows into something larger that transcends the hackneyed homoerotic imagery found in pornography.
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Both portraits suggest the idea of parody in the sense that they take a hackneyed genre and make it new.
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The young, lesser known performers at the center of the story fare better, though their parts are just as hackneyed.
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At the risk of using a phrase as loaded and hackneyed as "safe space", the gig feels like a congregation.
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Furthermore, the models' alignment with now hackneyed male archetypes like construction workers and cops, in a way, confirm masculinity's fragility.
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Then again, maybe Bacelar thinks the AOC comparisons are hackneyed because she's not actually planning to beat Pelosi, for now.
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He's in the right place: in this hackneyed, Tarantino-esque dystopia, everyone seems to be intent on killing everyone else.
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A committed lead performance and some eloquent visuals aren't enough to save this hackneyed tale of a rehab-resisting addict.
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But the book's overriding message is the hackneyed idea that success is mostly about working harder than the next guy.
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But the hackneyed script also has the effect of lending an unmerited nobility to the politicians and bureaucrats on-screen.
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Or maybe not: Committing completely to Carl's wobbly perceptions, the filmmakers mire us in a hackneyed swamp of narrative uncertainty.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Call Me By Your Name is a movie hackneyed genre markers fly toward with abandon.
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But the gambit of positioning the influenza virus as the scarier of two foes is as dangerous as it is hackneyed.
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After all, the SNES and the Game Boy were designed to be played using full hardware controls, not hackneyed touch overlays.
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Soccer Without Borders also leans heavily on hackneyed diagnoses of American soccer's ailments, ones that have been lazily recycled for years.
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But at worst, it means intentionally using hackneyed ideas that are simply too far gone to be interesting on their own.
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Lacking a robust narrative, D'Onofrio desperately spackles over gaps with hackneyed close-ups of faces well versed in romancing a camera.
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I struggled to get out of bed on most mornings and found no meaning in the hackneyed Monday-to-Friday ritual.
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Drawn out to six minutes, the work can get tiresome, but that only underscores Zhang's criticism of these films as hackneyed.
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In effect, O'Connor is still being punished for protesting against paedophilia in the Catholic Church, something that feels hackneyed and obvious today.
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On the whole, the caliber of writing is improved, aside from a few hackneyed missteps that namely happen in the final scene.
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Cheap-looking and poorly acted, "Girl" has a hackneyed sleaziness that's not limited to the barely clothed pudenda adorning the end credits.
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These semi-fictional scenarios feel depressingly hackneyed because they never advance toward a greater significance than what an initial impression tells you.
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While some modern riffs on Hamlet can come across as clunky or hackneyed — do we really need to see Hamlet in space?
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Even as stock markets started booming again, politics shifted leftward and socialists gained clout—and hackneyed terms like "late capitalism" gained followings.
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We may get it at Survivor Series so we can get an even more hackneyed Reigns vs Cena part two at Wrestlemania.
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But usually, political messaging featuring Real People — framed in ways to emphasize how much they are not politicians — usually feels strained or hackneyed.
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The plot may provide the backbone of a story, but it is the details that can transform a hackneyed concept into something innovative.
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These images are cliché and hackneyed, because there's no specificity beyond location — just an opportune moment to display poor subjects needing divine intervention.
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This truncated plot turns Queen's story into a hackneyed tale of a band that suffers creative differences and yet still produces great music.
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And while it can seem like merely a (now hackneyed) storytelling device, its prevalence may also reflect recent tectonic shifts in heterosexual politics.
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In "Conjurations" (2007-2009), she reimagined early trick photography to create pictures of levitation and other hackneyed staples of the popular magician's repertoire.
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Although we celebrate his words without hesitation today, many of King's peers "deemed it hackneyed to the point of cliché" at the time.
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This place was endlessly predictable, haunted by all the ghosts and maps of lives spent you'd—in aging—learn to note as hackneyed.
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And these aren't rushed Garageband demos and hackneyed edits—each release carried CupcakKe's inimitable DNA imprint of raunch, humor and playfully aggressive lyrics.
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There is nothing about Sylvia Hernandez's colorful quilts that is posturing, nor is the work ingratiating, playing up hackneyed tokens of Hispanic heritage.
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The franchise, based on the popular video games from Capcom, traffics in crude characterizations, hackneyed storytelling, and pulpy sci-fi and horror clichés.
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Well, I mean, there's the old hackneyed saying about how you don't want to know how laws or sausages are made, or whatever.
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Despite some committed performances, particularly from a refreshingly natural Maika Monroe, "Villains" is a hackneyed farce rich in gimmicks and poor in substance.
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The senator's concern for nonunion miners seems a classic example of a hackneyed legislative tactic — arguing for the perfect to block the good.
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Yiadom-Boakye is doing more than exploring the supposedly uncharted territory of black selfhood, or making—in that hackneyed phrase—the invisible visible.
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Sure, it's a little hackneyed; it's worth remembering, I think, that calling something a trope suggests its overuse but doesn't question its efficacy.
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I don't watch any TV. I don't have the patience for it because I find it all to be quite hackneyed and cliché.
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But the picture's gender and race dynamics, not to mention its forced star-crossed lovers theme, are sufficiently commonplace to register as hackneyed.
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If we must live in a time of real-world plot twists, why are all of the plot twists so hackneyed and clichéd?
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The image of a mother drinking a large glass of wine by herself is kind of hackneyed, and it's a flaw in the book.
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Well, if she wants to win over those who consider her part of a hackneyed old political establishment, then it's something she should try.
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The industry is obsessed with this hackneyed tale, once inflicted upon young virgins to prepare them for marriage to feeble old buzzards with money.
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The slogan no doubt carries the clang of a hackneyed marketing catchphrase — a pulpy declaration of encroaching, Epcot-like, science-fictional kitsch ("Tomorrow, Today").
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The Concorde is, after all, so well known a cautionary tale of engineering ambition exceeding the constraints of reality that it verges on hackneyed.
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What he did not do: nod to the English eccentric or Bloomsbury, a former pet theme of the house, now often hackneyed in expression.
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As in "The Special," Mr. Davis delights in hackneyed showbiz talk, catchphrases (he tries hard to make "yaas, honey" a thing) and industry jargon.
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The accent, Kondabolu argues, encouraged The Simpsons writers to go wild and give the character every hackneyed quality they perceive an Indian man might have.
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Here in Cliché Shores, you can live a quiet, sanitized life surrounded by all those hackneyed themes and characters you expect from lightweight escapist paperbacks.
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Nothing feels hackneyed or dialed in, he injects an insane amount of energy and power into every note of his voice into something legitimately incredible.
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Afiniti on one hand calls itself a traditional AI company, but on the other, its CEO laments how overused and hackneyed the term has become.
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And Mr. Elliott, for whom the story was written and who appears in almost every scene, lends even the most hackneyed moments a faded authenticity.
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Mr. McLean, perhaps determined to leave no cliché unturned, also wallows in the cheap and hackneyed irony of choreographed slaughter accompanied by Dvorak and Tchaikovsky.
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None of Hasbro's properties are known for their narratives, beyond the hackneyed back-of-the-box descriptors penned decades ago by copywriters and children's cartoon makers.
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In a scene that epitomizes the hackneyed dynamic among the three characters, Kirkman meets the real-life news anchor Elizabeth Vargas for his first presidential interview.
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Last week's GAO report is a reminder that there is often nothing behind the curtain of harebrained policies except for bogus claims and hackneyed oped pieces.
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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.
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"To Muslims, it's just annoying and clichéd," CAIR's director in Arizona, Imraan Siddiqi, said after the Las Vegas mosque porking in December, calling the tactic hackneyed.
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You're battling hackneyed enemy archetypes using likewise-archetypal weapons, but damn if these rooms don't fly apart into clouds of destroyed furniture, gunsmoke, and atomized concrete.
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Some critics have compared it to a low-rent Inside Out, but the movie is really like a very uninspired and hackneyed version of Wreck It Ralph.
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Sorrentino assigns him a hackneyed backstory: He is the way he is because his libertine parents abandoned him at a Catholic orphanage with Sister Mary (Diane Keaton).
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As people do just that — in predictably hackneyed fashion — Zak and Richie make meaningful eye contact from across the room, neither of them sure what's coming next.
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For this to occur, tech geeks and policy wonks need to shed the hackneyed "disruptors versus regulators" paradigm and focus on the ways they can work together.
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An absence of reference points for Asian identity in popular culture has helped create a perpetual stream of hackneyed encounters, for men and women, children and adults.
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Regrettably, "America The Beautiful" by Judge Roy Moore recycles not only hackneyed images and ideas but also cliches about people and the complexity of our lived lives.
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Emin's "My Bed" looks very much like the various versions of my "Art Strike Bed" and therefore this recuperation makes my already unoriginal piece appear even more hackneyed.
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" The A.V. Club's review lamented, "With its formulaic story and hackneyed dialogue, all there is to do in between moments of self-aware outrageousness is admire the decor.
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The key story moments, the races you must complete to progress, are the game's most linear races, and yet, even with reduced freedom, they aren't dull or hackneyed.
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It is no less hackneyed to observe that the voice, as an instrument, is the most life-affirming of all instruments because it is concomitant with the breath.
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As hackneyed as training montages can seem, this one did a really good job of helping us understand how Arya was changing and what skills she was acquiring.
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In its own hackneyed way,13 Hours gropes for racial sensitivity, showing Libyans working and fighting alongside the Americans, rather than blurring into an amorphous mass of evil stereotypes.
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It's a way for folks to parody hackneyed coming out plots, corny LGBTQ tropes, cheesy gay design, painfully academic queer theories, and this one time Netflix maybe messed up.
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SCOTT: And one of the most hackneyed conceits in all of movies — the family holiday from hell — becomes the freshest, scariest, most electrifying domestic nightmare anyone has ever shot.
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The episode was criticized for indulging in "nearly every hackneyed orientalist cliché going," and it's widely regarded as one of the worst in the series, largely for that very reason.
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That Bomba Estéreo can rove through so many musical languages without ever lapsing into hackneyed tropes is a result of the anthropological nature with which the band approach their music.
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A result of this visual flatness is that some sequences drag with clichés, as the camera dithers on hackneyed images like Lexi flushing her wedding ring down the motel sink.
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CW: The way that I thought about is, the way people described working for Bannon was always like, using these kind of hackneyed, weird, I don't know, metaphors or whatever.
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The battle metaphors are hackneyed, but the league has associated itself with the military in myriad ways, from accepting money for military flyovers to the pageantry of its national anthem.
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It's famous enough that it's almost hackneyed by now, yet it's as good a description as any for the nearly impossible task of using words to describe the sacredly wordless.
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The prospect of the creation of new classes of protected minorities, governed only by the mathematical principles of permutation and combination, clearly raises the prospect of opening the hackneyed Pandora's box.
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The elder set at the Rio Games is resetting the bar at these Olympics and turning over the hackneyed idea that high-level competition is a young man's or woman's game.
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In a hackneyed version of Little Men, Brian and Kathy would be the smug, oblivious white people too wrapped up in their own lives to care about this kindly immigrant mother.
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Much of the success of "Full House" hinged on those mugging kids, who somehow got the same roars of approval every time they repeated their hackneyed catchphrases, even as they grew.
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The choreography by Jeff and Rick Kuperman is mostly performed as a sort of incidental sideshow, with hackneyed slow-mo effects that presumably are meant to suggest how love transforms time.
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The hackneyed "sell in May" idea that May-October returns have been weak over the decades has failed in recent years as stocks made good headway in that half a year.
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With that in mind, there is considerable irony — to apply a once useful and now hackneyed word — in noting that this selection of Opper's work is from the Neo-Expressionist 1980s.
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For reasons unknown, the England-born director opted for the hackneyed device of setting an entire play in a hospital room, with the main character either dreaming or hallucinating the action.
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They are less about creating bitchy characters that play into hackneyed fashion stereotypes and more about a kind of group recognition that success in fashion is hard and requires team players.
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They are less about creating bitchy characters that play into hackneyed fashion stereotypes and more about a kind of group recognition that success in fashion is hard and requires team players.
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This is the smartest part of "The Girl Before," even if it uses the hackneyed trick of putting at least one unreliable narrator into any book with "Girl" in its title.
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It is hackneyed at this point to say that Trump is approaching the job unlike any president before him, but presidential threats, heretofore, have been more reserved and used more sparingly.
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In Hans Christian Andersen's "The Most Incredible Thing" (1870), the usually impressive choreographer Justin Peck has chosen a story whose details he can't tell clearly and whose overall point he makes hackneyed.
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Some 22m of Led Zeppelin's page views have been for "Stairway to Heaven", a riff so hackneyed that it was banned in a guitar shop in "Wayne's World", a film from 1992.
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That's necessitated a relationship with Indian regulators, and an avoidance of traditional startup practices like the hackneyed (but often true) 'move fast and break things' approach to product development and user growth.
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Among other things, Sarkeesian sees Ordinary Women as a positive antidote to the hackneyed representations of women in fiction — many of them driven by a piecemeal or selectively edited version of history.
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But after eight-odd episodes had washed over me, in an amber haze thick with hackneyed dialogue, contrived emotion, and Mandy Moore's perfectly colored hair — I have to say, I felt nothing.
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It's a hackneyed concept, playing on the idea that rock is somehow more authentic than pop when in reality, pop is a much bigger industry with significantly more cultural cache right now.
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Throughout, he attempts to unpack his complicated feelings growing up the son of immigrant parents, and the challenges of navigating cultural expectations, without resorting to hackneyed musical tropes to signify his heritage.
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Granted, if you measure the position by such hackneyed standards as Super Bowl victories or career yardage, you might give the nod to this quarterback's former mentor in New England, Tom Brady.
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Having acquired the ability to control the hosts from dim, gullible Felix and dim, odious Sylvester, Maeve decides to rewrite Lee Sizemore's hackneyed saloon heist as a test of her newfound powers.
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But even for brands that don't want to go full-Old Spice, hackneyed jokes or cliches don't cut it in a culture where humor is often wrapped in multiple layers of irony.
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Given the general prejudices against naturalism linked to most schools of modern art, Soutine would need to accomplish more "magic" than the static, hackneyed, and by now dissipated traditions of trompe l'oeil verismo.
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But the writer-director Joel Souza soon dissipates the adrenaline rush of this opening into a verbose, hackneyed thriller about a night in the lives of a veteran patrol officer and his trainee.
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"It's an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and 'Peyton Place' adumbrations in which five women are involved with their assorted egotistical aspirations, love affairs and Seconal pills," he wrote.
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Such a summary, however, does justice neither to the author nor to his people; out of such hackneyed materials Mr. Roth has written a perceptive, often witty and frequently moving piece of fiction.
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Even more hackneyed is the idea that he does not care, that because he has spent so much time away from Argentina that he somehow lacks the requisite passion to represent his nation.
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Harrold, the author of several novels and poetry books, was himself an orphan, and he writes about parental loss in a way that moves beyond the hackneyed tropes often found in children's literature.
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Pat Tillman, whose family continues to plead with people to stop using their son's name to make their hackneyed political points because he would not agree with them, makes an appearance in the video.
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North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, who took part in the Hanoi summit along with Pompeo, called the chief U.S. negotiator the "diehard toxin of the U.S. diplomacy" who employs "hackneyed sanctions rhetoric".
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Yellow Eyes itself is an entirely apolitical entity; the lyrics eschew hackneyed battle tropes or Satanic shlock in favor of focusing on strange, abstract, almost poetic themes, heavily inspired by nature, solitude, and decay.
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The "clank" graffiti itself might feel hackneyed, but there's little doubt that most of it looks properly placed, as though there's an offensive scrawl somewhere out in the real Prague that this one replaced.
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The conventionality of the plot could have easily led to a prosaic and hackneyed storyline, were it not for Scorsese's unflinching camera lens, De Niro's outstanding turn as LaMotta, and a carefully penned script.
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For starters, the plot hinges on strained coincidences and hackneyed relationships, and there's really not much of a mystery surrounding the central storyline, which involves the body of a young woman that washes ashore.
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I felt like my heart would burst, those were the words for it, the hackneyed phrase, and I was grateful for them, they were a container for what I felt, proof of its commonness.
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The Finborough Theatre typically rejects scripts based on conventional love stories as too hackneyed, but it made an exception for a play that uses a romance as a way into a deeper political drama.
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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.
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Her final close-up might be the film's most hackneyed moment of all, proving that not only does the Devil have all the best tunes, he also has all the best shades of lipstick.
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The few intriguing narrative progressions—John's bid for county sheriff, youngest son Kevin Rayburn's battle with abuse and financial turmoil—were muddled by dull, Danny-centric flashbacks and hackneyed hallucinations plaguing a guilt-riddled John.
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Her book Riot Days, partly written in prison, is marketed as an autobiography, but it's actually the first extensive documentation of the abuse women face in Russian prisons, with none of today's hackneyed memoir tropes.
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I mean, it&aposs common -- I feel like these sorts of moments of solace and these comfort words and phrases that are heard all around the world are sounding a little hackneyed in many ways.
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Its flickering graphics, which move so fast it feels like something outside of normal phenomenological experience, are noticeably dated and ultimately hackneyed—like ostentatious passages from a yellowing copy of William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive.
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The director, Travis Knight, has put together a picture that hits a lot of all-ages-entertainment sweet spots while avoiding hackneyed conventions, and ends up delivering what feels like a sincere family-friendly message.
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The humanoids spoke with the host of the showcase with canned replies and hackneyed requests for a high-five and a fist bump, which — for anyone who has seen humanoid demos — is all too familiar.
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Bitterness will only grow when outsiders insist on meddling in the internal affairs of a state, whether seeking to protect life or resorting to hackneyed Hitler comparisons for legislators whose guiding principle is self-actualization.
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"Right now, we view investing in the current environment using the hackneyed phrase of 'catching a falling knife,'" said Richard Bernstein, chief executive of Richard Bernstein Advisors in a note to investors and conference call.
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Those two earlier films are also far more daring and unnerving than Joker, which resorts to predictable story beats and hackneyed, clichéd proclamations about how the world is going crazy and nobody is civil anymore.
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This descent into hell (played here by the Paris catacombs) is visually mesmerizing, which makes this movie worth your time even if the scares can be a bit inert and the drama a bit hackneyed.
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Some, for example, may need to expand their delivery or logistics capacity at peaks times or during busy order period, and that where Lalamove's "Uber For Logistics" model — to use the hackneyed term — comes into play.
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"I hate to use a hackneyed expression, but they are rearranging the deck chairs and the ship is still sinking," said John Wells, a retired Navy commander and lawyer who runs Military-Veterans Advocacy, a nonprofit.
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While many accounts of his upbringing have emphasized the hackneyed narrative of escape from the rampant violence and gun crime of a poor neighborhood near the nation's capital, that is not altogether how he remembers it.
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But it was conceived before militia members marched with neo-Nazis in Charlottesville and "small-town America" calcified into hackneyed shorthand for "hardcore Trump Country," and before a feeling of unease turned into outright panic in 2017.
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It is, perhaps, hackneyed to refer to an idea as "un-American," but Trump running on a promise to put his opponent in jail is literally the opposite of the ideals on which the nation was founded.
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Nor do they engage in the hackneyed fantasy that our coming techno-utopia will lift billions out of poverty, free us from the burden of work and lead us into a glorious future of leisure and abundance.
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The cozily titled poem "Man and Wife," in his landmark confessional volume "Life Studies" (1959), describes the times that Hardwick faced the kingdom of the mad— its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye— and dragged me home alive.
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Ms Larson is of course a skilled actress—a sharp glance from her is more powerful than an hour's worth of hackneyed dialogue—but her character is simply not as engrossing to watch as Mr Harrelson's flawed narcissist.
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Beyond its heroes of color, Overwatch is marketing to another swath of the population so often ignored: 10 of the game's heroes are female, and only one serves the hackneyed gaming role of a white priestess/angel lady.
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The last edition's slightly hackneyed "Gardens of Versailles" look has given way to a sleeker, more contemporary "220 Shades of Gray" styling by Nathalie Crinière reminiscent of the rival Frieze Masters fair in London, which opens next month.
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This puts a premium on the start and end of the set, and two of the highlights are satires of a certain hackneyed genre of opening and closing jokes that poke fun at convention while also subverting it.
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That's particularly true when it comes the sound experience, from the constant booming attempts to keep the crowd from falling asleep or staring at their phones the entire time, to the hackneyed musical cues in between the action.
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But rather than echo this hackneyed view, the artists here attempt to breach that distance with modern cities, while expressing how people, regardless of the barriers imposed upon them, will find ways to become intimate with their surroundings.
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"Lear" doesn't make much of this cross-gender casting, but then it doesn't make much of anything as it witlessly deploys one hackneyed Brechtian or postmodern device after another: a bit of text here, a bit of movement there.
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Tuesday marks the end of a couple of reputedly hostile, partly concurrent periods for equities: The weakest six months encompassing the hackneyed "Sell in May" routine, and the late summer-early autumn months when risk has often swamped reward.
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What it really is: Painfully unoriginal memes that lean on hackneyed stereotypes about black people, Muslims, women, and the LGBTQ community, usually with less comedic structure than a Laffy Taffy wrapper, and sometimes with no joke pretense at all.
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The gifted actor has made his (understandable) disdain for press junkets clear before—especially in this Funny or Die parody in which Kristen Stewart asks him all the alternatively personal and banal questions hackneyed journalists seem to resort to.
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Even some of the most hackneyed themes—the power of love, friendship, connection, survival, storytelling, and so on—find some nuance throughout, but these moments are fleeting and lost in the overall weirdness and purposely confusing feel of the series.
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Grevenius's script, with its clichéd melodramatic flourishes and ham-handed habit of signifying that malevolence via backward spelling (one character's surname is "Natas," oy vey), proves intractable to Bergman's mastery, which looks instead like super-competence with this hackneyed material.
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The "role reversal" is a hackneyed storytelling device that rarely works, but it's terrific fun here because Edgar and Lindsay haven't improved their lives so much as they've taken a couple of small steps forward while their friends have utterly collapsed.
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All of this technological innovation will surely bring significant societal benefits, perhaps most notably in the area of health care and genetic engineering, but it will also increase — to use a hackneyed but useful term — the "attack surface" for cyber mischief.
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The hackneyed analyses, suggesting that incumbent parties always fare poorly in a midterm, may be just as sound as the predictions the New York Times and other mainstream publications made about Clinton having a 91 percent shot at the presidency.
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Maybe that phrase is a little hackneyed at this point, but it's still a good reminder that human hands build the machine hearts of procgen games, and human biases (or lack of foresight) can lead these story-engines to produce upsetting outcomes.
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By far the most common complaints about the novel — complaints I largely share — stem from its treatment of Tom Robinson, who is simultaneously a bit of a stereotype and the kind of unbelievable saint who usually pops up in more hackneyed stories.
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Later, in a slightly hackneyed romantic subplot that's more or less swiped from "West Side Story," Calogero's life is further complicated when he becomes sweet on Jane (the radiant Ariana DeBose), a girl in his high school who happens to be black.
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One New York Times reviewer wrote in 20163 that, while the "uplifting, family-oriented show" boasted a "brutally realistic center," its "hackneyed television conventions" rendered the portrayal less effective overall (a critique that could have been leveled at many scripted shows of the time).
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Occasionally he can be hackneyed or cliché, but over the past few years he has begun to show more of himself and become less a television character and more a human being who joins us in our living rooms on Sundays and for big events.
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But The Division, even if its core plot line is a little hackneyed and its game world grayer than a wet weekend in Gears of War, could be saved by a wealth of emergent narratives, each personal to the player (or small sets of them).
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By now, the images are almost hackneyed: artists and Hasidim gliding along on bicycles, sporting parallel chest-length beards; coffee beans of every roast sharing shelf space with spices from the Caribbean and craft beers brewed in nearby warehouses that had long stood idle.
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There are many things that James Cameron's Avatar movies have been made fun of for over the years: the hackneyed plot that borrows heavily from FernGully, the tedious White Savior trope, the magic trees, the improbably oversized knife that features prominently in the film's final battle.
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After giving it a lot of thought, I've decided that the second-worst thing about the hit Netflix original series Narcos is that Steve Murphy, its DEA agent narrator, would have used that anecdote to make some hackneyed pronouncement on the essential nature of the Colombian condition.
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Libby Nelson explained for Vox, commenting on a recent Hillary Clinton advertisement in which Khizr Khan, the father of a dead Muslim US soldier, blasted Trump: Political messaging featuring Real People — framed in ways to emphasize how much they are not politicians — usually feels strained or hackneyed.
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We have seen him at his best on Wall Street reform, on Medicare for all, on protecting Social Security — it's time for him to apply that same standard to reproductive justice for women instead of parroting the same hackneyed dogma of moderate Democrats he claims to reject.
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While just about every two-bit metal band in the overall genre's lengthy history has aspired towards now admittedly hackneyed notions of brutality, records like 2011's God Is War and 2013's Nothing Violates This Nature for Southern Lord effectively encapsulate the severity of that intent.
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Anyone who tells you differently has never cackled their way through an abysmal movie as they made fun of it with good friends, or gleefully beat a joke into the ground, or seen Norm Macdonald spoof a roast by telling the most hackneyed jokes with complete conviction.
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In short: Matt becomes embroiled in the kind of hackneyed London gangland rivalry that Guy Ritchie would be embarrassed by, receives no help from a staggeringly incompetent Met, and a romantic interest is so painfully forced upon proceedings that it hurts to watch the relevant scenes.
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Made in three days on a shoestring budget, Mister America is a much-needed alternative political satire in a time where every two-bit comic hosts a Daily Show knock-off, and SNL attempts to address our most dire issues as a nation via hackneyed sketches featuring Alec Baldwin.
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With gorgeous action and a moving story, "the director, Travis Knight, has put together a picture that hits a lot of all-ages-entertainment sweet spots while avoiding hackneyed conventions, and ends up delivering what feels like a sincere family-friendly message," Glenn Kenny wrote in The Times.
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The title of the show came from a letter Conner sent to one of his gallerists: My work is described as beautiful, horrible, hogwash, genius, maundering, precise, quaint, avant-garde, historical, hackneyed, masterful, trivial, intense, mystical, virtuosic, bewildering, absorbing, concise, absurd, amusing, innovative, nostalgic, contemporary, iconoclastic, sophisticated, trash, masterpieces, etc.
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Of the others, I recall only the aura of social ambition expressed by their authors, and the hackneyed subjects that gave the sense that the literary novel these days is exclusively concerned with the fulfillment and frustration of bourgeois characters, confined tightly to their own segments of race and class.
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Less clearly framed unless, that is, you're convinced your 'reader' is unlikely to be doing much more than skimming lightly over the surface of your content like a stone hopping atop a glassy lake, tripping from one hackneyed thought to another, eyeballing words as if they're so many pretty shapes.
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At a time when a lot of cynicism is about to be attached to the whole concept of an athlete, there is a purity here, a sense of pain and joy, that has nothing to do with hackneyed metaphors and everything to do with compelling characters and a wrenching story, beautifully told.
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Singer is perhaps the best director of superpowered action on Earth, but when it comes time to have Apocalypse dovetail with story threads from the earlier X-Men: First Class (which was directed by someone else entirely), both Singer's direction and Simon Kinberg's script rely on hackneyed devices and clumsy storytelling, usually involving poorly inserted flashbacks.
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And I think that, this may be hackneyed but it's you know it's it still remains true, but they want to see people who are their friends and they trust that they get to know in conjunction with great companies that have something to offer in this market either for consumers or in technology or in professional services.
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A radiant Greek woman (Katerina Misichroni) struggles to protect her debt-squeezed restaurant from a pushy developer while caring for an amnesiac British D.J. Around them, a flotsam of idiosyncratic travelers — a Yeats-quoting Libyan refugee; a Turkish drug dealer-cum-baker — ebbs and flows, saddled with naïvely hackneyed dialogue and a director who seems to be entertaining only himself.
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Collaborations can seem like a hackneyed exercise by now, there are so many: high fashion designers working with mass market brands, musical artists signing on to do sneakers, celeb faces working with designers and demanding their own capsule line; all of it seeming, increasingly, like the most naked form of mutual back scratching, based on little more than money and marketing.
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Though Mr. Ninomiya's 36-look epic poem — which moved from dandelion-fluff bridal pom-poms to skeletal motorcycle leather jackets, spines raised and studded with silver; to towers of human topiary; to oil-slicked nature; and back to light, all crowned by extraordinary living confections of ferns and cactuses by the floral artist Azuma Makoto — was one of the truly transporting moments of fashion month (a hackneyed word not to be used lightly, but one that here genuinely applies).
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It was following us, and then I looked back and it was goneThere's always a rational explanation for this kind of phenomena, so here's a few guesses:Somebody threw a frisbee with a flashlight duct taped to it at himAn eagle got tangled in Christmas lights and just wanted helpWell, the Soviets weren't exactly known for their creativityAliens are real, and their ships just look like absolute hackneyed garbage (or who or whatever is flying them wants us not to believe del Toro)Del Toro also told the Reporter that he has seen ghosts twice, and frankly, I'm getting pretty jealous here.
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