Sentences with phrase «as hackneyed»

Superficial hobbies, likes and dislikes are instantly recognized and come across as hackneyed.

Content-wise, it's not bad, but the story is about as hackneyed and predictable as it's ever been, which makes me think the upcoming movie is going to be an even bigger bomb than I thought.

As hackneyed as it sounds to have multiple amnesiac protagonists, let me assure you that this doesn't hurt the plot in Glory of Heracles.

Even for a Disney film, dialogue rarely comes as hokey or situations as hackneyed as in this film.

As hackneyed and as unoriginal as the central story might be, Valenzuela shows a knack for generating tension, the atmosphere of dread and despair that permeates things, especially early on, is generally palpable no matter how absurd or stupid things become.

As hackneyed and familiar as this territory can be, Howitt has done an exquisite job in illuminating exhilarating storytelling with superlative intelligence and wit.

Two policemen going undercover as high - school kids is as hackneyed as they come, but by dint of some genuinely hilarious writing and top - class casting choices, 21 raises its head well above the parapet.

You can see the negative effects of gentrification in traditionally working class areas of London such as Hackney, where the demolition of estates to make way for new private housing complexes has led to some local residents on low incomes being relocated by the council to other parts of the country, away from their families and support networks.

The heads are warning of budget gaps and unequal funding - saying schools would have an extra # 5.5 bn if they were funded at the same level as Hackney.

Not exact matches

Describing the region as a powder keg seems hackneyed, but the description is now more apt than it has been for a long time.

The flawed and hackneyed phrase «as long as you're sincere, it doesn't matter what you believe» was heard with maddening monotony in Catholic circles throughout the 1970s and 80s.

She is involved in energising churches in Hackney to work for social justice as well as developing younger leaders and helping churches tell their stories.

Every hackneyed anti-Church saying one can think of is used by the townspeople as a taunt against Fr.

As for your now hackneyed and absurd whining about «theory», as many others have noted, creationism that you are trying to pawn off here incessantly, is not even a scientific theorAs for your now hackneyed and absurd whining about «theory», as many others have noted, creationism that you are trying to pawn off here incessantly, is not even a scientific theoras many others have noted, creationism that you are trying to pawn off here incessantly, is not even a scientific theory.

There is no reason to assume that uniformity and sameness are required; the event of God in Jesus Christ is so «many - colored», as used to be said, that staleness is likely only when the preacher himself is stale and the preacher's grasp of the essential proclamation has become tired and hackneyed.

Anything beyond hackneyed everyday experience, reproducible at will to «scientific» observers, tends to be treated as superstition, magic, or myth.

You might be familiar with Cleveland's general decline as an American metropolis, and it's a little hackneyed to shove it into every story about the city's sports.

Fine harness horses, carrying a full mane and tail and hitched by light harness to four - wheeled rubber - tired wagons, will trot and turn before the judges, as will heavy harness horses and Hackney ponies, the latter well known for high action with their front and hind legs.

Describing herself as «a proud Nigerian who was born and raised in London, Hackney», she is a second year English Language and Literature student who is renowned for her work as a performance poet.

Hackney Publications accepts all major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover), as well as checks.

The boroughs are Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and the City of Westminster (sometimes referred to as the «inner London boroughs»); and Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston - upon - Thames, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton and Waltham Forest (the «outer London boroughs»).

The Deputy Minister of Communications, Felix Ofosu Kwakye has described Dr Mahamadu Bawumia's analysis on government's 2016 budget statement, as «hackneyed and pedestrian propaganda.»

Without direct action by the government, we could see some of the most deprived district councils experiencing reductions of as much as 30 % and severely deprived areas such as Liverpool and Hackney losing around 12 % in overall total funding in the first year alone.

As prospective Labour Mayor of London candidate, Diane addressed the London housing market, where houses in her constituency of Hackney can now cost # 1 million plus.

[12] In 1987 she was elected to the House of Commons, replacing the deselected serving Labour MP Ernie Roberts as MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington.

Abbott was elected to Westminster City Council in 1982 and as MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington in 1987.

She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington at the 1987 general election, when she became the first black woman to hold a seat in the House of Commons.

Hackney South and Shoreditch has been won by Labour at every election since its creation as a seat in 1974.

«I'm delighted to have been selected by the members of Hackney South and Shoreditch as their candidate.

Rather, his political journey began as a Labour councillor in Hackney during the 80s and he stood as Labour candidate for Bury St Edmond in the 1992 election.

As long as he can use some of the money clawed back from millionaires in Hampstead to support claimants in Hackney — slowing the rate at which their benefits are withdrawn in order to encourage them back into work — he's not particularly worried about the wider consequences for the GovernmenAs long as he can use some of the money clawed back from millionaires in Hampstead to support claimants in Hackney — slowing the rate at which their benefits are withdrawn in order to encourage them back into work — he's not particularly worried about the wider consequences for the Governmenas he can use some of the money clawed back from millionaires in Hampstead to support claimants in Hackney — slowing the rate at which their benefits are withdrawn in order to encourage them back into work — he's not particularly worried about the wider consequences for the Government.

2018 could see a few entirely Labour councils as well as Newham and Barking you could see Haringey, Islington, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham, Southwark and Lambeth all going that way.

The phrase is so hackneyed that it should not be printed in a publication such as the New Scientist.

Though some offset and renewable energy credit providers might currently provide a greater environmental benefit than others, FTC would have a hard time judging marketing practices as misleading, Hackney said.

Aifantis was 17 when she approached Stephen Hackney, a colleague of her father's, and asked him if she could work with him on applied elasticity, which her father had developed as a mathematical theory the year she was born.

Already set up in major cities such as Berlin, Detroit and Seattle, the London branch of this distilling family is run out of railway arches in Hackney.

The helpful sales assistant suggested that I check out their oulet store in Hackney, as they might have some left.

The first 2,000 people to download the app before Valentine's Day are in with the chance of winning tickets to see the likes of Adele, Justin Bieber and the Kings of Leon, as well as trips to Hackney Showroom, Artisan Du Chocolat and a paddle boarding experience.

We don't collect old hackneyed College Girl Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

One's interest does, as a result, begin to wane considerably as the film plods into its increasingly predictable midsection, with the inclusion of hackneyed plot twists - eg Nick and Billy must whip their ragtag group members into shape, Billy is forced to contend with an obnoxious rival (Max Minghella's Graham), etc - ensuring that the movie only grows more and more interminable in the buildup to its expectedly uplifting finale.

While not a TKO and certainly not devoid of hackneyed dialogue or predictable plot twists, «Real Steel» wins the vote in a split decision as the people's champion.

Screenwriter David H. Steinberg offers up eye - rollingly over-the-top comedic set - pieces that become more and more desperate as the movie unfolds (ie a character is raped by a moose), yet it's the absence of compelling characters and the almost uniformly hackneyed nature of the various storylines that inevitably cements American Pie Presents The Book of Love's undeniable downfall.

Born in Hackney, London, on February 19, 1957, Winstone spent much of his youth as an amateur boxer.

Her justification of «if we eat these bodies we're no better than it» was hackneyed and irritating, as was her complete contempt for human lives as she dooms the rest of the party to certain death.

In Public Enemies, that duality is revisited as a more hackneyed version.

It's a seemingly foolproof premise that's employed to distinctly (and consistently) underwhelming effect by director Johannes Roberts, as the filmmaker, working from a screenplay cowritten with Noel Clarke, Dave Fairbanks, and Marc Small, offers up a narrative that's been jam - packed with generic, hackneyed elements that slowly - but - surely drain one's interest - with, for example, the movie's absence of sympathetic characters growing more and more problematic as time progresses.

It's a strong (albeit familiar) premise that's immediately threatened by a surprisingly (and distractingly) low - rent visual sensibility, as filmmaker Craig Gillespie, along with cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe, has infused Fright Night with a hackneyed artificial darkness - ie it's almost as if the pair were trying to emulate the appearance of David Fincher's movies - that both holds the viewer at arm's length and highlights the laughably unconvincing computer - generated special effects.

Every thought and idea contained in Playing It Cool is communicated as if it's an earth - shattering truism, but there isn't a single thing here that isn't completely hackneyed and done to death.

This mentor - rookie relationship is rather hackneyed and is reminiscent of other, better movies, such as «My Favorite Year,» about showbiz divas and their young lackeys.

It feels very much like a personal remembrance using the hackneyed formula as a clothesline.»