Adjective : the hackneyed images of his poetry. From Dictionary.com.
The filmmaker's draw a fresh, unhackneyed bead on the clash of cultures. From Wordnik.com. [Smiling in the Dark] Reference
The descriptions of nature are admirable -- fresh, unhackneyed, and vivid. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
I can think of no route so entirely unhackneyed to recommend to blasé tourists. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
In his journeyings he generally avoided the beaten track of tourists and sought unhackneyed scenes. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
The movie, of course, looks great, and Foster and Stewart (who may remind you of Jodie as a kid) have a nice, unhackneyed rapport. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Their conversation, therefore, when around the convivial board, possessed an unhackneyed freshness and raciness highly entertaining and instructive. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in California] Reference
'Tis so intelligent, yet so unhackneyed. so full of meaning, yet so artless, that, while I look at her, I feel myself involuntarily anxious for her welfare. '. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
The young man, with the proud probity of unhackneyed sentiment, made a vindication of his uncorrupt intentions; which produced but louder mirth, and coarser incredulity. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
An obstacle, of which I suppose you have never heard, -- an obstacle entirely new, fresh, and unhackneyed, will arise; so, I pray you, let patience have her perfect work. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
Experience only can cure the unhackneyed mind of its erroneous estimates!. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
But, in the end, this performance of the warhorse was unhackneyed and often stirring. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
The outside was deliciously unhackneyed in design, the only reproduction of a Norwegian. From Wordnik.com. [Hillsboro People] Reference
He was too innocent, too unhackneyed, to understand what was going on in his own heart. From Wordnik.com. [From Jest to Earnest] Reference
Its theme is novel, its incidents unhackneyed, and its interest of the live and up-to-date sort. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost] Reference
These plays are funds of delightful sentiment, unhackneyed, piquant humor, and minute observation. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl with the Green Eyes A Play in Four Acts] Reference
He was so bold, so handsome, and he looked at life and spoke of it in such a fresh, unhackneyed spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers of Fortune] Reference
The author has a bright, attractive style, abundant humour of the unhackneyed kind, and command of pathos. '. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Mysteries] Reference
Also, there is nothing to prevent even a hack from innovating once in a while or using a still unhackneyed form. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3] Reference
He had the sentiment of nature and unhackneyed feeling, but he has no mastery of verse, nor any elegance of diction. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
But to me his most fascinatingly original work is his "Arabesque," an entirely unhackneyed and memorable composition. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
Naturally a great deal they contain is by this time commonplace, although it was unhackneyed enough when Fielding wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Fielding] Reference
Spenser's object was to find unhackneyed and poetical words rather than such as should seem more on a level with the speakers. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
At any rate, it promised so much unhackneyed pleasure that she resolved to make the most of it, and then decide upon her course. From Wordnik.com. [Nature's Serial Story] Reference
Not the novelty and freshness of his subject-matter concerns him but the novelty and unhackneyed character of his literary style. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
Miss Bradley had the great advantage of an unhackneyed theme, which she skilfully illustrated by a numerous array of unfamiliar facts. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9] Reference
I shall never go straining after jokes when in a cheerless mood, so long as the unhackneyed subject of international law is open to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches] Reference
This latter is one of the most delightful characters I have ever met, for openness, probity, intellectual knowledge, and unhackneyed manners. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
No living author, if we except Mr. Kipling, has so amazing a command of that unhackneyed vitality of phrase that most people call by the name of realism. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference
It opens with a most unhackneyed series of preludizing arpeggios, whence it breaks into a swinging lyric, strengthened into passion by a vigorous contramelody in the bass. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
“We think we find in the story, so far as it has proceeded, the promise of an interest as unhackneyed as it will be intense. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe]
Talk about novel and unhackneyed themes. From Wordnik.com. [Quelle Surprise! Bottle Shock Sublime Vintage; Costner in a Squeaker] Reference
Aragon, "and the whole piece is of a new and unhackneyed order. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Girlhood] Reference
"We think we find in the story, so far as it has proceeded, the promise of an interest as unhackneyed as it will be intense. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe] Reference
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