Sentences with phrase «hackneyed symbolic gesture»
To paraphrase Will Rogers, Howard's never met a violin swell, standing ovation, or hackneyed symbolic gesture he didn't like, and A Beautiful Mind is stuffed to bursting with soulless tearjerks.
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The most hackneyed standbys of coming - to - America humor — the discovery of pizza, confusion about relationships and religions — get trotted out, and the selfish J.B. has to repeatedly redeem himself (to Ash, Rinku, Dinesh, and Brenda, the generic love interest played by Bell) through symbolic gestures.