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–adjective 

made commonplace or trite; 

stale; 

banal: the hackneyed [images] of his poetry.  



—Synonyms 

overdone, overused. See commonplace.



Commonplace, banal, hackneyed, stereotyped, trite describe words, remarks, and styles of expression that are lifeless and uninteresting. 



Commonplace characterizes thought that is dull, ordinary, and platitudinous (陳詞濫調): commonplace and [boring].



Something is banal that seems inane (空虛), insipid, and pointless: a heavy-handed and banal [affirmation] of the obvious. 



Hackneyed characterizes something that seems stale and worn out through overuse: a hackneyed comparison. 



Stereotyped emphasizes the fact that situations felt to be similar invariably call for the same thought in exactly the same form and the same words: so stereotyped as to seem [automatic]. 



Trite describes something that was originally striking and apt, but which has become so well-known and been so commonly used that all interest has been worn out of it: [true] but trite.





　

For all of Assayas' impressive facility, 



the movie never transcends its hackneyed [scenario]. 



Seeking to [unearth] the profundities 

immanent [in] the mundane, 



Assayas' movie ends up evaporating from memory days after the fact -- like much of the drudgery of [everyday] life.



Ultimately, the movie comes to seem irritatingly mannered.





banal 

bathetic trite Tenuous