Hackneyed in example sentence

A very fine cast (the always-excellent Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine in her debut, Mildred Natwick, Jerry Mathers as MacLaine's son) can't do much with this hackneyed script, and surprisingly neither can Hitchcock.

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It was a hackneyed retread done 1000 times before and each time better.

Interesting twist on an hackneyed story.

This movie used every hackneyed trick in the book to leave the screen, tap you on the shoulder and politely ask if it can have your heartstrings so that it may give them a good tug.

Any fan of Russian cinema will have great difficulty in believing the sub-par performances phoned-in by Mashkov and Bodrov Jr., and will perhaps be utterly perplexed by Bodrov Sr.'s hackneyed and confusing script, which is coupled with uncharacteristically weak direction.

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