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Both USAT and the Post begin a paragraph with the same hackneyed sentence: "The carnage was widespread."
The plot twists are dismissed as hackneyed, borrowed from Cold War thrillers and courtroom melodramas.
Director James Cameron contributes a short defense of his movie, but an accompanying review pans it: great special effects, hackneyed story.
A little-discussed consequence of the pending calendar turn is the impact it is likely to have on one of the more hackneyed journalistic traditions: the year-in-review survey.
from the enchanted, irradiated island of childhood" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Critics appreciate its avoidance of hackneyed gender politics, and its presentation of the boy's colorful, cartoonlike fantasies.