Sentences with phrase «became hackneyed»

It was remade in 1946 and starred Joel McCrea, but only turned out to be a standard Western as the plotline became hackneyed.

In so much as Schwarzenegger has become a hackneyed impression of himself, director David Ayer «s willingness to work him into a straight - faced leading role is the first feat of bravery to run from Sabotage «s gates.

The term «clean - up crew» has become a hackneyed catch phrase in the reef business that is often associated with the sale of snails — but these animals may not live up to consumer expectations in this regard.

Tworkov's work from this period is commonly referred to as geometric or minimal, and it has been often misinterpreted as a repudiation of abstract expressionism; however, while it is true that the artist did believe that the painterly self - expression of the 1950s had become hackneyed, his late paintings were more about the addition of the intellect, vis - à - vis formal structure or planning, than about the elimination of the subconscious impulse.

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The problem for me was that the idea of tikkun olam has become so hackneyed an idea, filled with the eisegetical meaning from well - intentioned political activists, that it has become meaningless.

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.

Speaking recently at the Hackney Borough's Speaker's Parlour, at Hackney Town Hall, in the presence of his well wishers and supporters, Adeyeye said unlike Buhari's two predecessors, Olusegun Obasanjo and Jonathan, who prosecuted and jailed members of their ruling party, Buhari's anti-corruption campaign has become «a political tool,» targeted mainly at those in the opposition.

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.

It's becoming beyond hackneyed... but the Tories are going to keep mentioning it for years, I'm afraid.

Hackney himself became speaker after his predecessor, Jim Black, became embroiled in a set of corruption scandals.

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.

From Eric Bana's hackneyed character arc — a man wrestling with personal demons becomes obsessed with a particularly troubling case and subsequently even more distant from his family — to the merciless employment of jump scares, to the predictably lame conclusion that relies on nothing more than a standard exorcism to bring the horror to a crescendo, everything about this project suggests what Derrickson and company have to work with here is hand - me - down material.

Some poor performances, particularly by Neve Campbell (Wild Things, Scream 2), and some hackneyed storytelling hinders the story from ever being truly gripping, but the film does give some insights into why America had become so immersed in an escapist and hedonistic dance craze after the turmoil of Vietnam.

Screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith - the duo behind the thematically - similar yet far superior Legally Blonde - offer up a hackneyed storyline that becomes increasingly tedious as the movie progresses, with the inclusion of a few genuinely hilarious asides and gags periodically alleviating one's growing boredom.

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.

Worse, the film adopts one of the most hackneyed and irritating tropes of the rom - com: the major piece of information that is implausibly held back from one character, only to be discovered just in time to become a speed - bump on the path to true love.

After founding Now Teach in 2016, Kellaway became a convert, joining Mossbourne Community Academy in Hackney as a maths teacher last September, at the age of 57.

Now anyone living, working or studying in Barnet, Camden, City of London, Hackney, Haringey or Islington can now become a member of the credit union.

Furthermore, late Picabia has become implicated in our revisionist ideas of postwar European art as a whole, for it turns out that his «Transparencies,» not to mention his cheesy nudes and heavily impastoed»50s dot paintings, were scrutinized by the young Sigmar Polke as he began to deal, in the early»60s, with picture - postcard imagery and hackneyed abstraction.

The performance eventually becomes a scene of assault, imitating a hackneyed male rock «n» roll gesture, staged at the defunct, 7,500 square - foot Giant Motors: Auto Body & Paint Shop.

Melbourne - based Lush opens his first UK solo exhibition, You Become What You Hate..., tonight at a warehouse space in London's Hackney Wick.

After graduating from the RA he went on to become one of the founding members of Rockwell Gallery in Hackney, London, which was from 2002 - 2007 an influential artists» run space.