Sentences with phrase «such hackneyed»

This is a great substitution for such a hackneyed word «led», which presents you in the best light, as a person with strong executing abilities and leadership skills.

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

Filmmaker Gary Ross has infused The Hunger Games with a low - rent, curiously uncinematic feel that immediately alienates the viewer, with the hands - off atmosphere perpetuated by the director's continuing use of such hackneyed devices as shaky camerawork and extreme closeups.

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.

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St John at Hackney worked with Christian organisation Word for Weapons and installed the bin 18 months ago, one of the first churches to launch such a...

You can see the negative effects of gentrification in traditionally working class areas of London such as Hackney, where the demolition of estates to make way for new private housing complexes has led to some local residents on low incomes being relocated by the council to other parts of the country, away from their families and support networks.

Without direct action by the government, we could see some of the most deprived district councils experiencing reductions of as much as 30 % and severely deprived areas such as Liverpool and Hackney losing around 12 % in overall total funding in the first year alone.

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

Already set up in major cities such as Berlin, Detroit and Seattle, the London branch of this distilling family is run out of railway arches in Hackney.

This mentor - rookie relationship is rather hackneyed and is reminiscent of other, better movies, such as «My Favorite Year,» about showbiz divas and their young lackeys.

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.

Over 3,000 events showcased the big and small ideas across the country: Manchester United held a staff bike ride, the Arcola Theatre in Hackney taught children how to make hydrogen powered cars, and stars such as Lily Cole and Gemma Arterton showed how fashion can be part of the solution to climate change by modelling a low carbon designer Climate Week T - shirt.

The investigation also revealed that Hackney Council had been aware of the operation of such schools since 2010 but had destroyed the records of children going missing at the request of the schools.

Some of the most deprived areas in England are hotspots, including most London boroughs - such as Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Newham.

These include London boroughs with big deprived populations such as Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Newham.

He said many schools were «excelling», such as Mossbourne Community Academy in London's Hackney, which sent 7 % of its pupils to Oxbridge between 2011 and 2012.

Some areas in London, such as Haringey, Newham, Barking and Dagenham, and Hackney, had almost no gap between pupils on FSM and their peers.

Marlowe is such an appealing protagonist — smart, irreverent, sexy — that one is inclined to overlook the rather hackneyed writing that occasionally clots the narrative («The sky was dark and the moon was dim.

As such, Team Indie isn't the ultimate indie crossover many were hoping for, but once you look past the hackneyed presentation it's a worthwhile and enjoyable platformer that has a lot to offer if you've played its inspirations to death.

The average cost across the city per square foot three years ago was just under # 14; some studios, such as at Space's Deborah House in Hackney, have seen their rent rise almost 50 % since then — policy shift or no those rents won't be coming back down again anytime soon.

Early sculptures were given geographic identities based on areas where Price has lived and worked (Hackney, Brixton, Dalston, Deptford)-- street names with historic gravitas or mythic qualities (such as «Achilles Street») that make the ordinary sound heroic and the fabled appear normal.

Her career has also focused on education over 30 years including institutions such as Birkbeck College, the V&A, and Hackney Community College.

Based in the London borough of Hackney, the institute has developed a consistent strategy of working with young people, aimed at extending the field of arts education to include wider cultural objectives such as «social inclusion» and personal development.

Their work is represented here, where it is shown alongside that of contemporary artists such as Tom Hunter, whose photographic series reimagines A Midsummer's Night Dream in modern - day Hackney.

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.

Tower Hamlets and Hackney had cut off the grants, because Bryan had made the Whitechapel such an international sensation they no longer felt it was a local gallery.

His work has been hosted by organisations such as the V&A, SPACE, Barbican and the Delfina Foundation, and he is currently a resident artist at The White Building in Hackney Wick.

Of such a type as appeals to country - folk; rustic or unsophisticated; tiresomely or ridiculously old - fashioned or sentimental; hackneyed, trite; inferior.

«Being lawyers in Hackney, we are proud to have been a part of this unique event and to help such fantastic technical talent provide a real impact for the HCLC»

Avoid hackneyed sentences such as «Enclosed please find my resume».