| 41. | Other guidebooks can be so technical, hackneyed and stiff the reader turns away disenchanted.
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| 42. | The reason this characterization has become so hackneyed is because it's so true.
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| 43. | The movie tries to wring comic energy from the hackneyed clash of East and West.
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| 44. | It's too hackneyed ."
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| 45. | It's an idea so hackneyed that the immediate question is : Why bother?
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| 46. | To say this is hackneyed by now.
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| 47. | Diehl even uses the hackneyed ploy of depicting his villains as uglier than his heroes.
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| 48. | Caro's writing is occasionally hackneyed.
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| 49. | Hackneyed morality is at the heart of Tolkien's tale, to be sure.
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| 50. | Lynch places these often hackneyed characters in dire situations, creating dream-like qualities.
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