Sentences with phrase «so hackneyed»

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

(The cheap resolution, with Chris getting Cynthia, feels so hackneyed and tortured because the moment of gratification is as uninvested as the rest of it.)

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?»

Goyer's work here is so uninspired, so hackneyed, that it's a wonder anyone even considered handing him the keys to such a celebrated franchise.

But this ostensible satire on American cops, crime movies, American values or lack thereof, intellectualism and anti-intellectualism, racism, and so on, is so hackneyed, tired, labored and overstuffed with contempt not only for all of its targets but also its own self that one gets the feeling that the talented Mr. McDonagh has gone mad with rage.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

JARR is a craft kombucha microbrewery based in East London's Hackney Wick and Europe's first kombucha taproom, so they really know their fermented tea!

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

OK, so technically this tweet from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition «s Sarah Hackney was referencing the Anson Mills heritage Southern grains and beans on the menu at the farmers feast.

The so - called Heroine of Hackney who joined the Lib Dems after the 2011 London Riots is bidding to be an MP.

The so - called Heroine of Hackney who joined the Lib Dems pulled out of the race to be the party president after she «encountered some unpleasantries» from a minority of members.

Hackney «was hesitant» to take on so young a researcher, he writes in an e-mail, but he gave her a project on the micromechanics of lithium battery design when he recognized that her mathematical skills far exceeded those of many graduate students.

Hackney's «coolnes» emerged not so long ago, but thanks to all the people who live there and create the whole mood about it (a lot of freelancers, bloggers, artists, designers), the area remains one of the top locations on the bucket lists of the majority of famous travelers.

If Over the Hedge aims solely to entertain, it does so in a way that's mildly amusing but mostly hackneyed.

Hackneyed horror tropes persist throughout and so does some crushingly exposition - heavy dialogue («Since my dad took his own life, you've been my only family») but it rattles along at a fair lick, never resting for too long before another nasty surprise.

So it's perhaps both a testament and symbol of Antoine Fuqua's fortunate / unfortunate filmmaking modus operandi that the director not only embraces the hackneyed sequence, but also attempts to top it and create the most gloriously excessive walking - away - from - explosions scene ever made.

It's a twenty - minute musical montage — a VH1 classic video presentation that has Crowe emptying out his record collection to the doll - eyed gesticulations of Bloom doing a fascinating imitation of a marionette and Dunst providing a hackneyed voiceover in an accent that might be Southern but is so elusive I could never hone in on its peculiarities.

The boisterousness of the film's finale, with its sieges and rescues, its lightning bolts and flash floods, relieves what would otherwise be an almost unbearably sad evocation of what is least preservable about youthful experience: not so much the loss of that «innocence» that is such a hackneyed motif of modern American culture (and for which summer camps have always been a favored location) but the awakening of the first radiance of mature intelligence in a world liable to be indifferent or hostile to it, an intelligence that can conceive everything and realize only the tiniest fragment of it.

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.

Part escapist action - adventure, part would - be exhilarating quest of self - discovery, «The Secret Life of Walter Mitty» isn't so much a mess because it wants to be everything at once, but because it employs hackneyed and mawkish methods to achieve a false sense of joyfulness.

Unfortunately the makers of this film realize that it isn't enough to make a movie, so they unwisely injected a hackneyed plot about adultery and redemption, which does little but to bog down the film with a lack of realism and unsympathetic characterizations.

Too hackneyed for adults to truly enjoy and, as ever, a trifle questionable even for the kids in its ability to hold attention between fart jokes, Daddy Day Care cuts a good preview and stars Eddie Murphy, so it's juuuust fine by Hollywood.

Reese Witherspoon is so likeable that she can carry even the most hackneyed of romantic comedies.

Shyamalan's by - the - numbers techniques seem hackneyed here and that he serves as writer and director with a style so identifiable, it's safe to say the blame lies with him rather than the serviceable cast and crew he has employed.

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.

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.

Despite the absence of stakes involved in the bet, while pursuing their relationships, each of the three keeps that fact hidden from one another, which results in a few hackneyed contrivances that threaten their relationships, culminating in Jason's boneheaded decision to skip the funeral of his girlfriend's father, so as not to appear that he's in a relationship.

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.

But she does come close, because a film this hackneyed could only be driven through charm alone, and even if the overall film falls short, it's so good - natured and fun in spots that you almost are willing to forgive just how weak much of it really is.

... The Trust told the principals, «OK, so you're head of one school, but you have a collective responsibility for every young person in Hackney.»

It goes beyond a hackneyed rehashing of memes which is so often found in the online world of clichés.

So for dinner try these locations: Indian or Bangladeshi restaurants in Tower Hamlets, Portuguese food in the Oval, Lebanese around the Edgeware Rd, Turkish in Hackney and Haringey, or Vietnamese north of Shoreditch.

However, without such a compelling conceptual framework with which to interpret «Untitled 2» (its media, listed as «steel, flat screen, and youth,» are not so enlightening), I can not but read the work in heavy, metonymic terms: the TV as technology, the boy as humanity, the Wall Street Journal as hegemonic power, the nude as vulnerable body — all rather hackneyed dichotomies of the day, made ready - to - hand by the exhibition's press release.

So I'm heading to Hackney to see the English artist Peter Peri for a studio visit / interview.

If one was so inclined, one could find a series of direct links between the photos that Tillmans took of pretty young things and the morning - afters that peppered fashion magazines in the early 1990s, and the seventeen year - olds that you see today clamoring through the French marche at Broadway Market in Hackney posing in café windows with their nonfat lattes.

Skeptic scientists dispute that in considerable detail now, and did so as far back as when Hackney wrote his essay.

Either way the Galileo gambit is so familiar and hackneyed, so cringe - worthy, that at this point whoever deploys it identifies themself as clueless to the extent, in some cases, of being self - absorbed, lacking in self - awareness, and therefore difficult to engage in any productive exchange (which by its nature is a social activity).

The majority of lawyer marketing that appears on TV or online is so banal, hackneyed, and pandering it's ridiculous.

This was to be distinguished from medical negligence cases, where it was sufficient to establish liability either to show that the relevant person (in most cases, the doctor) would have taken the requisite action, or that the proper discharge of their duty would require them to do so: see Bolitho v Hackney and City Health Authority [1998] AC 232.

Employers have seen «results - driven,» and other hackneyed phrases on so many resumes that the expression has ceased to mean anything.

No one ever gave us a manual at House of Hackney so we've really written it ourselves and we've learnt a lot over those years.

There have been a lot of imitators of House of Hackney — your tropical palm pattern Palmeral being a good example — so how do you continue to make your designs stand out?