Príklady hackneyed

• In non-literal terms a cliche came to describe an expression that was repeated so often that it lost its freshness and became hackneyed.

• In so doing, they are concerned to avoid hackneyed or pejorative phrases.

• I am still not entirely convinced by the idea of using these rather hackneyed tunes, especially as the word-setting is sometimes rather clumsy.

• What matters is that his music seldom sounds hackneyed.

• A second imperative is the avoidance of the cliche, the tired, the trite, the hackneyed.

• As a bonus, the text is illustrated throughout by plans and drawings, often far from hackneyed : medieval church art is a particularly lively source.

• It can hardly have been an accidental oversight that they rejected the most hackneyed of all operatic formulae inherited from the nineteenth century.

• To continue with my hackneyed metaphor, the play of the gravitational field not only modifies the stage - without the play, there would be no stage!

• This objection is hackneyed, but it carries more than a grain of truth.

• Mashriqi strengthened the importance of world history as proof for religious truth by employing a somewhat hackneyed technique of textual interpretation.

• Fowler instructs the writer to beware if hackneyed phrases should spring to mind.

• Hackneyed calls to 'carrying on the revolution' have lost all meaning.

• I now come to that hackneyed subject of the dive bomber.

• I sometimes think that the hackneyed phrase, "a conspiracy of silence," is in our days inaccurate.

• I do not want to indulge in hackneyed language, but we have character and quality; we have the will and the potential energy.