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What we get here are hackneyed concerns with the problems of writing.

All realities were hackneyed, simply because they had been around for a long time.

Mostly you play simple games to move a hackneyed story forward.

On the other hand, it simply may be that the story has grown hackneyed by now.

It's not only us who have hackneyed ideas about what scientists are like.

That is a hackneyed phrase, but I really mean it.

They were the most hackneyed lyrics in the world, but I loved them.

Hackneyed though the nude may be, this show could bring new life to it.

Using baseball as a metaphor for life seems a little hackneyed now.

If this didn't actually happen, it would seem too hackneyed to believe.

Is there any setting for a play more hackneyed than a school reunion?

But this is not a show of hackneyed forms and themes.

Every line I came up with sounded hackneyed and canned.

They probably want to pitch another hackneyed bomber idea to you.

When the film gets around to her psyche, those scenes are hackneyed, too.

But there is no escaping the limits of such hackneyed writing.

Given this approach to creating female figures, I do not feel they are a hackneyed subject.

Ingredients that have become hackneyed are instead given a fresh, vigorous treatment.

These reflections appealed to Gordon just because they were so hackneyed.

Never once does he use the hackneyed phrase "vintage of the century," not even for 1961, which is often called just that.

Although he thought this a "hackneyed idea", Hunter considered it well executed.

It's not very good because most of his lyrics are pretty hackneyed and something any other rapper has said.

To use the hackneyed phrase, here he found himself.

Third, if you'll excuse the hackneyed phrase, what I'm after is the human interest angle.

The more quixotic the imagery the better, for the subject is hackneyed.