Sentences with word «hackneyed»

Not only do they bring a fresh perspective to the often hackneyed world of fashion, they're a great way to inject a little individuality to your wardrobe.

This sounds terribly clichéd, DeVaul admits; the Silicon Valley refrain of «taking huge risks» is getting hackneyed and hollow.

Holding hands and singing «Kumbaya» might sound like a hackneyed way of making friends, but if you're doing it to get more comfortable with members of a new group, it might just work.

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

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

The dust has hardly settled on the 7 December election and already a much - hackneyed phrase used whenever there has been a shift of political power has started to appear in our political discourse — «empty coffers».

The dust has hardly settled on the 7 December election and already a much hackneyed phrase used whenever there has been a shift of political power has started to appear in our political discourse — «empty coffers».

I'm sure even Nkrumah would have been tired of the hackneyed legacy and cling to his ideology and principles were he still alive, and would have morphed them to suit modern - day politics in Ghana.

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.»

He can offer the bureaucratic equivalent of the hackneyed refrain, «Badges?

We are too busy parenting our own kids to get all riled up about some hackneyed feud with other parents that you're making up to sell copies.

It sounds hackneyed but the Flyers need to do a better job at getting shots on net, with the team averaging just 24.3 shots per game during this series.

There were times this evening that the Chicago Fire - the no - longer - winless Chicago Fire, the no - longer - pitiable Chicago Fire - were absorbing punishment like the hero of a hackneyed action movie, taking punches that sounded like small explosions, blood, sweat, and gore streaking down their lumpen, stubborn faces.

There are certain hackneyed terms that are used so often that they seemingly lose all meaning.

Why he is being paid to be an expert pundit and comes up with this regurgitated, hackneyed dross is the issue.

Strangely enough, that one hackneyed cliche was responsible for a large sum of money changing hands.

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.

This is a stupid and hackneyed phrase that means absolutely nothing and a moments thought will show anyone why.

MOST HACKNEYED SHOTS — 1) The Blimp.

Teachers aren't supposed to repeat hackneyed cliches'til they're blue in the face, they are to «equip the saints» For how long?

«It's true that I don't believe in God, but that doesn't mean I'm an atheist, and I would agree with Benjamin Constant, who thought a lack of religion was vulgar and even hackneyed.»

It reminds me a little of the superficial and hackneyed rhetoric of the teenage atheist who thinks he's the first person in the world to discover the problem of evil, or the New Atheist saloon - bar bore: «Church is boring... Christians are bigots and hypocrites... science has disproved religion... The Bible contradicts itself... why can't we just love Jesus and reject religion?»

Many fear that we are on a slippery slope, to use the hackneyed expression.

Both Orwell and Shaw thus have a point when they accuse Shakespeare of having a philosophy that rarely transcends the hackneyed, time «tested saws of folk wisdom.

It would be nice if some pastor, some where in the US, would be willing to equip the Saints and help them get to know God more instead of instilling guilt because they're not doing enough and when they ask for the pastor to lay off the hackneyed cliches even once in a while, they get something other than «knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.»

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

Odds are if you examine it, the 1000 sermons that supposedly are puffing him up with knowledge are just the same hackneyed cliches repeated for the 1,000 th time.

In a hackneyed phrase attributed to Harry Truman, he is expected to get out of the kitchen if he can't stand the heat.

It is a moment that could use a justification, since on its own it is fairly hackneyed.

To borrow that hackneyed but poetic phrase from Marx, all that is solid melts into air.

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.

No more hackneyed calls to your murderous sky fairy to redeem me, please.

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 theory.

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

Beneath the otherwise hackneyed moral parallels of También la Lluvia, the courageous words of Montesino uneasily occupy the dramatic summit: that moment when the Spanish colonists (and their foils, the Spanish film cast) have to choose whether they will feel, or numb themselves to, the plight of the indigenous.

His typical pattern of writing is to take a hackneyed, obvious notion like the Romantic view of the corrupt city and the innocent country, and twist it into complex, awkward shapes in an attempt to make it express the far denser mood - thought he felt about the city.

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.

Mother's «Life is big» is not a hackneyed use of the word «big.»

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.

And don't try those hackneyed free will args, or you'll be an even bigger FAIL.

Science freely admits it doesn't know, but is looking for an honest answer, not some hackneyed, often - copied fairy tale.

I am not enamored of the now unfortunately hackneyed phrase «speak truth to power» (yes, I know I used it above), but it has its place here.

Jack Werber recounts an immigrant's tale so classic it sounds hackneyed:

Dr. Craig, while intelligent and very eloquent, is a second - rate philosopher with fallacy - riddled, tired, hackneyed, oft - repeated arguments and your Craig nutt - hugging (I don't think Jesus would like that Chad, kinda gay) just shows how limited your cognitive abilities really are.

He is, without question, eloquent, but his arguments are hackneyed and tired.

To repeat a hackneyed phrase (nonetheless accurate), Wall Street has benefitted but not Main Street.

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

Bill Gurley: One thing I would say to that is I don't think there are any opportunities to disrupt healthcare in that type of way, simply because the amount, the shear force of inertia, the amount of regulation that exists, there's no way for someone to rush in and disrupt at that level with kind of hackneyed solutions.

The Supreme Court came up with a hackneyed opinion in Citizens United that grants free speech rights to non-human beings.

If you don't give your team enough constraints, they rehash hackneyed ideas.