Example sentences for: hackery

How can you use “hackery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As a great hack once said, the essence of hackery is "adjusting a minimum of information to produce the maximum journalistic effect."

  • My hunch is that Curtis Hanson, once a craftily offbeat writer-director who found the beat in a big way and made those thumpingly predictable blockbusters The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) and The River Wild (1994), consciously set out to liberate himself from Hollywood hackery.

  • The biography of the legendary Belgian-French king of pulp fiction (1903-1989), who wrote more than 400 novels and bedded even more women (he estimated 10,000), is deemed masterful, "absorbing," and "definitive" (Deirdre Bair, the New York Times Book Review ). Simenon wins praise for its defense of Simenon's oeuvre , often dismissed as hackery, and for its candid treatment of his misogyny and anti-Semitism.

  • As one accomplished hack put it, the essence of hackery is 'adjusting to a minimum of information to produce the maximum journalistic effect.

  • But inspired by the grand tradition of foreign correspondent hackery, I won't be stopped from reporting on Clinton's trip to China.


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