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As an encore for this unhackneyed recital, Malofeev turned Rachmaninoff’s ultra-hackneyed Prelude in C Minor into something so monumentally thunderous that it nearly overwhelmed all that had come before it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2025

They are small and tautly composed, with radiant colors and chiseled forms; the word “gems” applies with an unusual, unhackneyed precision.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2020

The recital opened with strong, unhackneyed songs by women: Elinor Remick Warren, Lili and Nadia Boulanger, and Amy Beach.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2017

But even this unhackneyed relationship involves believing that beautiful, young-looking, redheaded Maureen O'Hara could be a grandmother; and everything else in the little town of Akbarabad is all too exotically familiar and reminiscently rusty.

From Time Magazine Archive

The novel is a genuine love-story with a touch of politics, and the Southern atmosphere is delightfully unhackneyed.

From A Woman's Will by Caliga, I. H. (Isaac Henry)