| 1. | But there is no escaping the limits of such hackneyed writing.
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| 2. | The hackneyed screenplay traffics in stereotype and yuk-yuk jokes.
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| 3. | It's as dumb, and hackneyed, as it sounds.
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| 4. | However hackneyed, the pre-credits sequence is striking.
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| 5. | Bass'narrator writes, striking an early tone of hackneyed portent.
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| 6. | But if the structure is somewhat hackneyed, it is also hopeful.
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| 7. | As entertainment, it's often flat and hackneyed.
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| 8. | "Everybody thinks it's hackneyed,"
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| 9. | To the cynical " trite or hackneyed ."
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| 10. | Still, others say the IMF name is getting a little hackneyed.
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