a.)"After years of eliminating everything pretentious, self serving
or inauthentic in his character he realised there was nothing
left."
b.) Hackneyed, ppl, a.
1. Hired; kept for hire. (Obs.)
2. Used so frequently and indiscriminately as to have lost its
freshness and interest; made trite and commonplace; stale.
3. Habituated by much practice, experienced; sometimes with the
ulterior idea of disgust or weariness.