hackneyed image

Examples (10)

• The film critic dismissed the movie for its reliance on the hackneyed image of a hero riding off into the sunset.
• Aspiring poets should avoid using the hackneyed image of a red rose to represent love.
• His paintings, while technically skilled, were filled with hackneyed images of crying clowns.
• The new ad campaign failed because it used the hackneyed image of a happy family picnicking in a field.
• In her novel, she tried to subvert the hackneyed image of the 'damsel in distress'.
• It's a creative challenge to present a familiar idea without resorting to a hackneyed image.
• The professor explained how a powerful symbol can become a hackneyed image through overuse.
• I'm trying to express sadness in my song without the hackneyed image of falling rain.
• That greeting card is so sentimental, with its hackneyed image of two doves.
• The politician's speech relied on the hackneyed image of the nation as a shining city on a hill.