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GLAAD is so upset they've found a reason to use the word "hackeneyed"; we're told via email the group is "reaching out to the
Gay Geeks.Org 2010
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GLAAD is so upset they've found a reason to use the word "hackeneyed"; we're told via email the group is "reaching out to the
Queerty 2010
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I certainly wouldn't put it in the same class as the sort of philistine anti-intellectualism we find all too often in genre, the populism that celebrates the most hackeneyed and formulaic while decrying any hint of ambition as pretension.
More Pretentiousness Hal Duncan 2008
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I certainly wouldn't put it in the same class as the sort of philistine anti-intellectualism we find all too often in genre, the populism that celebrates the most hackeneyed and formulaic while decrying any hint of ambition as pretension.
Archive 2008-04-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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This is not just a hackeneyed whinge: social cognition research shows that where interlocutors knowingly take positions that undermine their own self interest, audiences consider them more trustworthy.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Everything is so effing convenient and hackeneyed and hasty and amateurish.
NAACHGAANA 2009
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