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The cab of taxicab is from cabriolet , a light passenger cart; and hack is hackney coach , a coach for hire, hackney or hack being a hired horse and by extension anything shoddy and overused, whence hack-word and hackneyed phrases.
The right-wing polemicist's biography is accused of idolizing the Gipper and lacking "intellectual honesty" (Claude Marx, the Washington Post Book World ). In the New York Times Book Review , Richard Berke says the book retells hackneyed anecdotes and is not "particularly revealing about what drove him."
2) The film begins as an intelligent exploration of the origins of hate and ends as a hackneyed cautionary tale.
It's "what happens when too many mystics attend a Hollywood pitch meeting" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics also dislike the hackneyed plot twists and "embarrassingly silly dialogue" (Emanuel Levy, Variety ). They find Washington his usual charming self, but some reviewers wonder why his characters never have romantic relations with white women.
This screed against TV journalism is dismissed as hackneyed, heavy-handed, and hypocritical.