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The plot twists are dismissed as hackneyed, borrowed from Cold War thrillers and courtroom melodramas.
The most overused, overworked, hackneyed word in the cliche-ridden vocabulary of pols and their speechwriters, D.C. bureaucrats, think-tank thinkers, pundits and even lowly working reporters condemned to write about legislation and policy making.
2) The film begins as an intelligent exploration of the origins of hate and ends as a hackneyed cautionary tale.
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.
Any sure thing attracts too many hackneyed ideas, like Wolff's, and too much foolish money.