Sentences with phrase «like hackneyed»

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.

If that was the case, why is that schools in places like Hackney and Jarrow achieve impressive results?»

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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.

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.

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.

Conservative London Assembly member Andrew Boff said that Khan's promises to Londoners were now «evaporating like the mist on Hackney Marshes.»

Say what you like about Hackney (and everyone's always got an opinion on Hackney.

The waif - like Winston, played by an extraordinarily talented Mark Arends, looks like a Quentin Blake illustration in modern - day Hackney Wick.

Thanks to Hackney photo gallery and personal profiles you can know the person you like before making acquaintances.

For its pre-set date ideas, Pitchit has made partnerships with major ticketing companies like Bookatable and Love Theatre, along with venues like Junkyard Golf, Hackney Showroom and Artisan Du Chocolat.

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.

Meander with your date alongside the canal from Camden to Hackney Wick along quiet hidden paths throughout the city lined with sporadic cosy cafés, peaceful al fresco bars and possibly even a floating bookshop, where the manic bustle of London life seems like a thing of the past.

All the hair tussling in the world can't make Pitt seem like a credible scientist, nor can it turn hackneyed musings into captivating insight.

We get to see people like Christopher Meloni, Ed Helms, Bill Hader, Kenan Thompson and Cobie Smulders do their very best to keep this hackneyed sack in the air.

And if the two leads are underserved by the hackneyed script, the supporting cast is treated even more poorly, with respected actors like Sam Neill and Amy Ryan wasted in relatively small roles.

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.

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

Yes, that last bit sounds like bad, pretentious voiceover from a trailer, but that personal discovery is less hackneyed than the other thing Charlotte discovers while on duty in France: a new love, namely Resistance fighter Julien (Billy Crudup).

Written and directed by Jeff Benna, Life After Beth has nothing particularly new to add to a rather tired and hackneyed genre, and for example is nothing like as funny as Ruben Fleischer's 2009 film Zombieland.

He also avoids falling into the standard structure of an action blockbuster, skipping hackneyed things like chase scenes for much deeper emotions.

So much of the dialogue is so bad, and the situations so hackneyed, that the question of «What would a World War II movie written by Tommy Wiseau sound like?»

But that doesn't negate the fact that Cumberbatch's iteration of the character is pretty hackneyed, and that Doctor Strange's scenes are stitched together in a way that feels uninteresting and mechanical, like it's actively trying to hit the same beats as the many Marvel movies that came before it.

So you have to wait 1/3 of the film, to wait for the most hackneyed, cornball resolution in war film history.And say what you want about modine, he looks like olivier next to sheen's unintentionally comic performance.

Exposition is clumsily handled by a Miss Cleo - like psychic (Patricia Belcher); and Salva actually makes a hackneyed attempt to incorporate the title song into the plot, resulting in a «payoff» so painfully, unbelievably literal.

People are far less like to read the email if they just encounter a hackneyed «I'm away.»

A Grown - Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson «Like Joshilyn Jackson's previous four novels, A Grown - Up Kind of Pretty presents the real South in a tale that is less interested in the stereotypical poverty, hackneyed regional idioms (think «knee - high to a grasshopper») and unbearable humidity than in the lives of three fiercely brave women, who just happen to be Southern.»

Characteristic of this breed is its elegant gait boasting a hackney - like action where the front legs are lifted very high.

From the pistol - like evokers which teen protagonists point to their heads in SMT: Persona 3 to the Jungian exploration of unconscious representations in Persona 4, the franchise habitually shirks the hackneyed mythos that is common to the RPG genre.

The series continues the artist's exploration of the Hackney neighborhood of East London through the imagery of iconic paintings, referencing artists like Delacroix and Wyeth to describe the local myths, struggles and dreams of his local community.

To mark the anniversary of the Bard's death, Compton Verney, in his home county of Warwickshire, examines Shakespearean - themed art, bringing together paintings by Rossetti and Watts with contemporary pieces by the likes of Tom Hunter, whose photographic series reimagines A Midsummer's Night Dream in modern - day Hackney.

Certainly it is also because the term beauty is so hackneyed or sounds like «the good» and «the true.»

Like, why would someone want to work with such hackneyed subjects?

Today, even with the Olympics threatening to smarten parts of it up, you are far more like to meet an artist in Hackney than you are in Montmartre.

After all, when candidates are brought in for an interview, do they refer to themselves in the third person, using hackneyed phrases like «proven leader,» or «team player?»

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

Leave out all those overused, hackneyed phrases like «results oriented,» or «team player» or «success driven;» they are meaningless anyway, unless you substantiate them.