| 单词 | hokey |
| 例句 | “You think Holy Tradition that the Church keep for two thousand years is hokey pokey?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Owen would think it was so hokey, so stupid to think that. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My socks balled up on the hardwood floor made a greater statement than any of their hokey claptrap with the carefully matted frames and big curly signatures in the lower left-hand corners. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Then Vonetta and Fern started dancing and singing: “You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. That’s what it’s all about.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll just put these boxes in the backseat,” he offered, and I could tell by his hokey voice that he was laughing at me himself. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And David hunkered next to the tiller and held the Frog on course and thought, hokey or not, he would follow it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z If Tomlin’s salute was quirky, then the celebration of Hanks’s career was hokey Hollywood magic. Kennedy Center rocks the honors roll to salute Sting, Green, Hanks, Tomlin, McBride "It sounds so hokey, but it was just about sitting out there," Meloy nods towards the window, and the view out over rich green woodland. The Decemberists: The changing of the seasons 2011-01-06T21:30:00Z Mr. Muniz’s particular fusion of the two main strands of postmodern photography — appropriation and setup — is aggressively material based and consequently uncannily tactile, if also sometimes rather hokey. Art in Review: VIK MUNIZ: ?Pictures of Magazines 2? 2011-09-15T21:15:09Z AP: Are there any hokey demands on you as poet laureate? AP Interview: Trethewey a 'cheerleader' for poetry 2012-11-21T13:16:14Z It’s borrowed from a hokey mnemonic you may dimly remember from math class — or you may not, in which case it will probably just baffle you. Review: ‘Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally,’ a Phone’s Tale 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z They kicked about principles of “scientifically based and not hokey” self-help, according to Sarah. Date Lab: They ‘nerded out’ over books 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z It should always be quite something when Saul gets knocked off his horse a little farther down this road, but “A.D.” suffers, as a TV show, when its hallelujahs verge on hokey. ‘Wolf Hall’: A somber, perfect take on that time the Tudors went tabloid 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Slightly hokey howlings erupt periodically from elsewhere in the building. Japanese ghost stories take the stage in ‘Kwaidan,’ a Spooky Action Theater show But, as modern anthologies become more prevalent, so they become a byword for hokey lameness and a lack of quality control. Lame, lazy, lifeless: have TV anthologies lost their way? 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z This walking ethnic type, familiar but grounded in specific gestures and rhythms, is unfortunately mired in a hokey story with a needless reality-show overlay. Movie Review: ‘My Uncle Rafael,’ With a Reality-Show Armenian 2012-09-20T23:43:01Z The latter, full of show-must-go-onisms, sounds rather hokey in theory: in practice, there's something moving about hearing two artists who've enjoyed wildly differing fortunes coming to the same conclusion. Elton John and Leon Russell: The Union ? review 2010-10-21T14:30:00Z Despite its hokey nature, Escape to Victory is regularly shown on British TV, with fans enjoying its mix of patriotic fervour and footballing celeb cameos. Vinnie Jones keen for David Beckham to slip into Bobby Moore's shoes for an Escape to Victory remake 2010-03-23T11:51:00Z If Anna were just another middle-class escapee on a spiritual quest, that might come off as handsome but a little hokey. Lydia Millet has cooked up a contemplative thriller of endurance in 'Sweet Lamb of Heaven' 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z By the same token, when you step outside the world to change it, both you and your world are forever changed, not in that hokey, it’s-a-small-world-after-all way, but in a way unique to what S.K. Forging an individual identity when the group is all anybody, inside or out, wants to talk about: S.K. Ali’s YA novel “Saints and Misfits” 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z In addition, there was a complete mismatch in sensibilities--the scary monster hokey/lame effects vs a mother's pain due to her child's abduction. Did You Watch ‘Stranger Things’? Let’s Talk About It 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z An earnest, if hokey, story-telling reenactment takes place every Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Journeys: In Germany, on the Grimm Brothers? Fairy Tale Road 2010-06-24T21:07:00Z Forget, please, this hokey old production, first given by the company 15 years ago. The opera villain was forced to lip-sync and a new star couple emerged at L.A. Opera's 'Tales of Hoffmann' 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z From the get-go, he and his pals wanted it to be bad: hokey bad, sendup bad. 'Casa de mi Padre': a Will Ferrell spoof, with accent on 'bad' 2012-03-13T23:43:04Z In college, Nguyen said, he wanted to be a doctor because that’s the immigrant dream, but also — and here he apologized for sounding hokey — to help people heal. Making Art Out of Bombshells and Memories in Vietnam 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z As Allen says, “This is absurd — as if ‘life’ consisted of production values or hokey premises or unearned, happy endings.” In support of Stephen King 2012-07-18T14:16:00Z The "real" victims recount their stories to camera without an ounce of human ; a hokey idea, and badly botched. Blooded ? review 2011-03-31T21:00:01Z Like “Die Hard,” this is a Christmas movie, which is to say a religious allegory in sometimes hokey holiday dress. ‘The Green Knight’ Review: Monty Python and the Seventh Seal 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Despite the deconstruction, the form Gilman adopts — with its digressions and asides, potted histories and accidental anachronisms — is still pretty hokey. Review: ‘A Woman of the World’ Dwells in Possibility 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z For real excitement and emotion you’d be better off watching “America’s Best Dance Crew” on MTV.com, where there’s less corny dialogue and hokey contrivance to get in the way of the moves. | 'Step Up 3D': Moose and Camille Return in Another Dance Story 2010-08-05T23:53:00Z If this sounds hokey, Mr. Howard doesn’t write it that way. In ‘Driving the King,’ Ravi Howard Imagines Nat King Cole 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z As hokey as that statement seems when it’s said by someone like me, when it’s said by him it seems groundbreaking. We Asked Some Musicians to Pick Their Favorite Songs of All-Time 2011-10-26T13:25:58Z “I don’t want to sound hokey,” said Ms. Yoo, “but there was a connection between us.” Mia Yoo Steps Into Ellen Stewart?s Shoes at La MaMa 2011-10-15T22:30:24Z Instead, she runs away with a hokey crew of “mag kids” – young misfits who sell magazine subscriptions. I've never seen ... American Honey | Suzanne Moore 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z You’d wince at some of the hokey song selections, but only the truly cynic would laugh at the emotion that spilled out of the letters Kasem read. Kasem was an island of calm in swirl of pop music 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z To revisit a favourite 1970s cop show 40 years later in box-set form is to risk disillusionment, and Kojak is undeniably hokey in places. Kojak | Your next box set 2010-03-26T06:45:00Z The dramatizations are nicely filmed, if a little hokey, and the overall velvety tone is peppered with piquant details, like Hall communicating with the Russians in a code derived from Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” ‘A Compassionate Spy’ Review: Back to the U.S.S.R. 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z “It’s hokey, and corny, and cheesy — but it works,” he said. Reintroducing Sam Sanders 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z It recommended I give myself time to grieve for the children I would never have, which sounded hokey but felt true. 2010-01-29T21:20:00Z But it’s still pretty hokey as a movie. ‘Triumph’ Review: Going to the Mat 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Oh, wait a minute, it seems as though 3D actually still is a hokey old funfair gimmick. Resident Evil Afterlife: it's purgatory in three dimensions 2010-07-14T11:35:00Z “I suspect foul play,” he says with a hokey deep-fried southern drawl. Shedunnit – how Agatha Christie became cinema hot property 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Cummings’s spirituality can border on hokey like that, certainly earnest in a way that most politicians are not. Elijah Cummings endured two painful years. Soon he’ll be more powerful than ever. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z A lot of vivacious production numbers, hokey gags and sly spoofing of the Cold War, and a spy plot that's, well, a mess. Review: 'Iron Curtain' turns Cold War into a splashy romp 2011-04-07T19:24:04Z No matter how hokey or naïve Rogers may come across onscreen, the man was intensely invested in how the harshness of life affected children. Robert F. Kennedy and Mr. Rogers: Two icons of masculine empathy sorely missed today 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z In a hokey stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” by the Bedlam theater company, a Victorian woman learns the hard way that some decisions are best made on one’s own. Review: In ‘Persuasion,’ How to Lose Lovers and Influence People 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z One is a governing system, the other is hokey branding designed to create the illusion of fairness and greatness. Fox News was in a "purple haze" on election night until Trump's wild claims gave them clarity 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Perhaps the answer lies in Israelite’s willingness to throw a loving embrace around the show’s hokey roots, to celebrate the show’s mad-as-a-box-of-spiders shtick rather than trying to reinvent it. How the Power Rangers reboot morphed into a surprising triumph 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Even to those who are open to opening up, Uncurated’s gimmick might sound a little hokey. A wave of super-earnest card games want you to bare your soul on game night 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Any other day in any other place in America, I’d probably find that sentiment too hokey. In ‘What to Send Up,’ I See You, Black American Theater 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z In her hands, time travel was impossible to dismiss as a hokey gimmick. Gotta get back in time: The current explosion of time travel novels goes beyond sci-fi and fantasy 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z The theme nights and song choices aren't so hokey and repetitive. Your guide to the 'American Idol' tour singers 2012-07-11T21:34:04Z It was like watching America’s twisted relationship with its own underclass, but with hokey dramatic music. Reality TV’s sick depths: How the altruism porn of “The Briefcase” highlights America’s twisted relationship with its poor 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z By today’s standards, the jokes are hokey, and sarcasm is refreshingly scarce. Theater Review: ‘The Henrietta,’ a Comedy Set in 1887, Resonates Today 2013-06-18T17:56:55Z The music that actually is new — that purports to find direct inspiration in either the righteousness of the demonstrators or the plight of the 99 percent — is generally unimaginative, hokey, disappointingly safe. Trust me on this: The Beatles’ “Let It Be” 2012-05-29T22:30:00Z Some of it took the form of hokey set pieces that fizzled, such as a demonstration of what the T.S.A. now prohibits passengers from taking onboard a plane: hedge clippers, dynamite, Muslims. Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z This makes perfect sense, as – hokey religions and ancient weapons aside – these elements are precisely what helped the original 1977 Star Wars movie find so much success. The six key questions Rogue One: A Star Wars Story must answer 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The second room takes us back to early pop, with paintings derived from comics and adverts, the charming vernacular of mis-registered blocks of colour, wonky line and hokey imagery lovingly blown up, edited and repainted. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z It's not as hokey or maudlin as it sounds. Travolta makes impression in the passable 'Forger' crime drama 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Why, whoever said 3D was just a hokey old funfair gimmick? Resident Evil Afterlife: it's purgatory in three dimensions 2010-07-14T11:35:00Z "I looked down on country as something hokey and simple," she says. Emmylou Harris: 'I looked down on country' 2013-03-04T18:22:38Z Critics have well and truly looked down on Tom’s whimsical, chin-lifting philosophy, branding it “naggingly repetitive”, “so very annoying” and “too hokey for anything but aspiring meteorologists”. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z "Proof" doesn't break any ground as a procedural and has more than enough hokey moments to make you look elsewhere. Sexy medical drama "Body of Proof" good fit for Dana Delany 2011-03-25T19:33:50Z In "Legs, Straw, Diver," a tryst behind a haystack is contrasted with a hokey undersea-exploration image. New at the Henry Art Gallery: Jeffry Mitchell, Laurie Anderson and more 2012-11-20T21:29:03Z Yet even the greatest ones give in to some pretty hokey dramatic impulses. Looking for a Great Courtroom Drama? Start Here 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z After last week’s naked scene, the romantic whispers between those two feels less pure, and more hokey than ever. Downton Abbey Watch: Life is a Game 2012-02-20T13:45:28Z The website also featured some hokey photos of the dancers, and their stats: weight, height, Zodiac sign, and motivational catchphrases. My “Magic Mike” moment was truly magical 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z That little swish he does is pretty hokey. Michael Schultz Broke the Mold for Black Directors. He’s Not Done Yet. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Most important, it’s continued to combine ambitious storytelling with pulpy, Saturday-matinee energy, something neither “Lost” nor “The X-Files” could manage in their later seasons as they slid into pretension and hokey, unconvincing mysticism. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Fringe’ Begins Final Season on Fox 2012-09-27T21:48:01Z Nonetheless, the turnout in places was “thick and good-natured,” and from the perspective of 2018, an incredible if somewhat hokey display of unity in the face of a crisis. Remembering Hands Across America 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The acting in “Malignant” might be on the hokey side, but who goes to a James Wan movie for the performances? ‘Malignant’ Review: Womb for Improvement 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Set to Spanish and North African music, along with sounds of birds and water, “Gnawa” is full of hokey spiritual trappings. Dance Review: ?Juilliard Dances Repertory? at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-03-30T21:31:38Z It looked pretty hokey then, and the winged moments here fare no better. TV Review: CW’s ‘The Messengers’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The movie is eagerly revisited by some devotees around this time of year, though others may find it hokey. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Deepwater Horizon’ and ‘Europa Report’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Rotten Tomatoes described it as "Harmlessly hokey yet never much more than mediocre." “Hocus Pocus” knew what really scared us: reckless parents 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Many of his films were hokey, with absurd plots and over-the-top acting. George Kennedy, Versatile Actor Who Won an Oscar for ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ Dies at 91 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z I never saw the still-running Broadway revival, but this first-class touring production has helped me get over my allergy to the musical's hokey material. 'Pippin' brings big-top wonders to Hollywood Pantages 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Sounds hokey, I know, like an environmentalist’s version of those creaky horror stories about the curses that lurk in mummy’s tombs. Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the World in ‘Mlima’s Tale’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The players, loudly amplified over a rock beat, strutted through a hopped-up collage of hokey classical favorites. Music Center's 50th-anniversary gala amps up energy to a fault 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z We view packed schedules, hokey craft projects, and curriculum themes based on seasons or food groups as a sign that learning must be going on. “Well, that’s the big mystery about God”: It’s amazing what a 4-year-old who’s given the opportunity to speak freely in preschool can come up with 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z On paper this sounds hokey, a facile equivalence between Jews and blacks, but onstage it works as an insistent, mostly terrifying, reminder of difference. | 'Under the Cross': Religion and Family at Odds (With Blacks Playing Jews) 2011-06-13T21:57:52Z Mr. Oppenheim’s best work had a transparency, almost an obviousness, that could seem hokey. Dennis Oppenheim, a Pioneer in Earthworks and Conceptual Art, Dies at 72 2011-01-27T04:30:03Z “We thought about putting her name on an envelope or hiding it in an illustration, but then we thought that would be hokey and a distraction and contrary to the purpose of the book.” Chelsea Clinton wants to talk about her kids’ book. Her readers have other ideas. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z An early ensemble scene depicts the hokey life of Mexia, Tex., where Anna was born, and you sympathize with her desire to escape. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z Oppressed by a Moonie-like religious cult and fears of the polluted outside world, these folks sort of deserve what they're getting — considering their hokey pageants wouldn't pass muster at a small-town church social. Review: 'Her Mother Was Imagination' is a drab showing of dystopia at Annex 2010-08-12T20:27:00Z It's a pared-down production, dispensing with the Rosalind subplot and the kind of hokey stage business which involves street vendors suspiciously biting coins. Ecstasy and Death; Romeo and Juliet – review 2013-04-20T23:06:09Z In response, there’s been shock at this newfound exasperation at the old “thoughts and prayers” hokey pokey. There is no war on prayer: Stop hand-wringing over “prayer shaming” and confront the hypocrisy of empty gestures 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Nothing that is hokey or corny — but we sort of stay in character, in a sense.” It’s got that swing: ‘Cotton Club’ coming to Benaroya Hall 2013-05-30T19:47:55Z This was where it all got a bit hokey. Dance Review: Saburo Teshigawara?s ?Miroku? at Lincoln Center 2010-07-12T21:58:00Z It’s more a nod to Cap’s hokey pre-war value system than it is anything else. Does God exist in the Marvel Universe? 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Since I can’t get enough of ye olden, olden, really olden days, I also went on the somewhat hokey but fascinating tour of the ancient Oxford Castle. In Search of Oxford 2014-03-21T16:22:35Z That script, by Drew Larimore, locks each character into a single mood — Caroline is the agitated city woman, Hal the hokey outdoorsman — passing up any chance at complexity or inventive comedy. Theater Review: ?Out of Iceland,? by Drew Larimore, at Walkerspace 2012-04-10T22:05:06Z Kosice takes huge pride in its hokey fountain that jets in time to music and its cathedral of Saint Elizabeth, a handsome 14th-century church with impressive gothic vaulting. | Slovakia Off-Piste 2011-01-24T17:44:21Z Displaying his usual mixture of broad, sitcom-style humor and soapy melodramatics, it's an entertaining, if hokey, effort that his target audience will eat up. "Married Too" a familiar blend of laughs, melodrama 2010-04-02T23:41:00Z As for the Clipper itself, the dancers take care of that, tilting and churning like parts of a plane — wings, gears, propellers — a concept that looks less hokey than it sounds. Review: ‘Sunset, o639 Hours’ by BalletX at the Joyce Theater 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z While it may strike some contemporary viewers as hokey, not many things on television have been as brilliantly constructed or portrayed as the crescendo of grief in the “Twin Peaks” pilot. Critic?s Notebook: A Series Homage Lovingly Wrapped in Plastic 2010-12-01T04:55:00Z The woman coins hokey terms like “lonefulness” and “alonement,” and soon her followers start disappearing: They give up their lives and take to the woods to seek quiet and stillness. These Are Not Your G-Rated Fairy Tales 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z She doesn’t often count her blessings or write gratitude letters, both of which she thinks sound hokey even though her research suggests they make people happier. Happiness Inc. 2013-04-19T23:30:21Z But the orchestra also swells with hokey cinematic outbursts. Review: A Maudlin Trip Down the Amazon, With a Star in Disguise 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z What might appear hokey in a horror film takes on a different timbre when it’s something you have gone through at 2am for more than three decades. ‘A dark presence squats on my chest’: the waking nightmare of sleep paralysis 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Such breathy, inflated sentences may be even worse than this embarrassing novel’s cardboard characters and absurdly hokey plot. Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z Mr. Sucsy’s movie, about a husband who tries to win back his wife after she suffers memory loss, did not fare well with critics, who complained it was too hokey and formulaic. ?Chronicle? and ?The Vow? Put First-Time Directors at No. 1 2012-02-12T22:39:46Z “Counting Backward” was a bloated collage of predictable ambient ensemble writing and hokey prerecorded observations on time and nature, echoed by volunteers planted throughout the audience. For This Experimental Festival, Bring Your Swimsuit and Dancing Shoes 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z It’s admittedly hokey and a little too convenient, but “11/22/63” isn’t envisioned as a work of sci-fi that’s preoccupied with relativity, paradoxes and other restrictions pop culture imposes on a make-believe phenomenon. What Hulu’s absorbing ‘11/22/63’ tells us of the harm of dwelling in the past 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The stock devices Mr. Taylor uses to distance himself from the hokey material — a doubling and tripling of couples, an amateur-theatricals frame — don’t make up for a lack of invention and engagement. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Evening Includes ‘Sunset’ and ‘Gossamer Gallants’ 2014-03-19T20:08:21Z Childhood episodes blotchily whiz by, along with a past hijacking and a hokey fantasy about turning into a giant, taloned bird. ‘Last Hijack,’ a Documentary With Animation 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Fox’s nonluminous Lily remains a standard male fantasy of a damsel in distress until the inevitable “Wind Beneath My Wings” moment lofts the movie into a never-never land of hokey sentimentality. | 'Passion Play': Blow the Trumpet, Palooka, Life Is but a Carny Dream 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z As one theatergoer’s bliss is another theatergoer’s cornball, let’s accentuate the positive before delving into the negative of a show that reveals just how thin the line is between hokey and charming. 'Bright Star' at the Ahmanson: Bluegrass, tears and a big, vacuous smile 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z But the film never hits its stride, rambling through plot points that don’t really cohere, while hokey flashbacks about Min-jae’s dad sap momentum. ‘The Policeman’s Lineage’ Review: Undercover and Overcaffeinated 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Looked at one way, the story is hokey. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z That would be a lot less derivative and just as much hokey fun. Amazon's new pilots: Sevigny shines in standout show The Cosmopolitans 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The street-theater plot is a hokey variation on “True Grit,” with plenty of winks and elbowing jests. Critic's Notebook: Buffalo Bill Museum in Wyoming 2012-08-03T19:07:26Z Vogel reacts with disdain over the assignment, about the host of a “hokey kids’ show,” and he approaches his subject with an adversarial skepticism. The Wondrous Heroism of Mr. Rogers in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z “It took courage. It’s hokey to say, but I’m proud of him.” One T.S.A. Line Worth the Wait 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Starring Will Bond as a winningly hokey McLuhan in brown suit and bow tie, it is missing that ineffable ingredient that would grab us by the collar and pull us in. Review: ‘The Medium’ Is Less a Message and More a Museum Piece 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z There are no hokey competitions or artificial deadlines here. Review: ‘Chef’s Table’ Profiles Top Culinary Talents 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Paranormal Activity revealed that Katie had problems with demons prior to the events of the first film, so all producers need to do is concoct a hokey backstory and film that. Paranormal Activity 3: demons and their daddies 2010-10-05T11:58:00Z Where “Carmelites” is polished and elegant, this “Dutchman” is hokey, with its primary-color palette, its awkwardly stylized movements for the chorus, and its unfortunate handling of the opera’s obvious climaxes. At WNO, strong ‘Dutchman’ cast makes up for production’s deficits 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Marc and I started laughing. “It’s hokey, and I love it,” I said. Motherlode: Updates From Paris and Texas 2011-06-09T20:30:14Z No hokey decoys or sentimental trappings of Americana. Kitchens by the AD 100 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z Reality shows like “The Real Housewives” are as fixed and hokey as pro wrestling used to be. The TV Watch: ?Beverly Hills Housewives? Goes on After a Suicide 2011-09-06T15:37:21Z The weigh-ins and the trainers' effusive proclamations of wisdom are just that heartwarming, if slightly hokey. The show I never wanted to watch, until I had to 2011-04-29T18:20:00Z Halloween is upon us and nobody likes horror that collapses into hokey. Review | Until the final episode, ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ is the perfect horror show 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Ron Howard's comedy begins and ends in hokey cliché, but for a brief period in the middle, it carries a slight hint of Billy Wilder, playing uncomfortable stuff for not entirely dumb laughs. 'The Dilemma': Happy days upended for couples in Ron Howard infidelity comedy 2011-01-13T02:33:04Z KB: It’s crazy to me that meditation is viewed as hokey. For Arianna Huffington and Kobe Bryant: First, Success. Then Sleep. 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z A much less elegant truism can be traced back to hokey versifier Edgar A. Guest: “It takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home.” Review | ‘Lives of Houses’ is a lovely book to savor while you’re stuck at home 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I’m concerned. Andrew Garfield on Faith, Politics and Making 'Hacksaw Ridge' 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Most chapters contain some hokey self-help boilerplate to signpost learning — “I’d conflated being successful with being loved and being happy,” etc. Review | In Will Smith’s memoir, the superstar is self-deprecating but ultimately invincible 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z But being more exotic, they're also easier, frankly, to laugh at, so I'm curious if newcomers found the settings—and the encounters with the Dothraki—to be hokey. Game of Thrones Watch: It's All in the Execution 2011-04-18T19:00:00Z This is a book in which nothing is complicated, good and bad are polar opposites and life never fails to make sense, in a hokey and homespun way. Books of The Times: ‘The Silver Star,’ a Novel by Jeannette Walls 2013-05-29T20:54:36Z I hesitate to use this term, since it is so often equated with hokey, but is life-affirming. The Impossible: Naomi Watts Keeps This Disaster Film Afloat 2012-12-20T10:45:08Z It may be hokey, but a good title for cellist Edward Arron would be “Mr. Chamber Music.” Cellist Arron: chamber music champion, Seattle chamber-fest fan 2013-06-19T23:07:26Z Manic energy and hokey humor abounds – one man hits another over the head with a zucchini; the lights dim when scary stories are told – as does some gross-out talk of past murders. Review: At ‘Dinner With the Boys,’ a Serving of Mafia Jokes 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z “This isn’t sentimental or hokey: It’s the fact of the matter of the American experience. I’m not saying, ‘Relax, everything will be fine.’ Think Things Look Bad in This Country Right Now? We’ve Been Here Before, Jon Meacham Says 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Observe the wall painted over with images of stars Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and Italian markers including the Colosseum and Leaning Tower of Pisa — eye candy that’s less hokey than it sounds. Don’t let the name stop you. I’m Eddie Cano is a charmer. 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z A detachable and diaphanous copper skirt, worn by Ashley Ellis, highlights the third movement, which also features a hokey duet. Yoshiko Chuma, ?ngel Corella and Joseph Webb 2010-03-21T20:53:00Z Yes, it's a gentle with a cast of charming eccentrics and a premise that's hokey as hell: highly-strung New York Jewish doctor gets stuck in small town Alaska – with hilarious consequences! Your next box set: Northern Exposure 2010-10-22T07:00:00Z Both movies play like hokey advertisements for the National Rifle Association, injected with high school pep rally enthusiasm. Red Dawn: Chris Hemsworth Helms Lackluster Remake 2012-11-21T15:35:01Z "It's hokey and wonderful and poignant and powerful." Flaming Lips plan musical 2011-04-05T09:07:22Z This musical, on the other hand, focuses on the wide-eyed teenager whom “The Wizard of Oz” propelled to fame: It’s a loving but hokey attempt to tell us how Garland soared, not how she crashed. ‘Chasing Rainbows’ Review: Judy Garland’s Happy Days 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Just as it’s too hokey for transcendence, it’s too much of a music video to make the leap to the proscenium stage. Review: Perfume Genius and Kate Wallich in a World of Angst 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Atticus's frequent request that Scout picture herself in the shoes of her adversaries sometimes seems like hokey, homespun wisdom, but adds more complexity to the novel than Mallon grants it. To Kill a Mockingbird: too simple a moral tale? 2013-07-10T12:00:01Z As a theatrical touch, it’s too much — as hokey as a picture of the Beatles at an ashram. Savion Glover Dances in ‘OM’ at the Joyce Theater 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z He recalled triumphs like The Man Who Would Be King and disasters like his hokey killer-bee thriller The Swarm, but treating those impostors just the same. A Night Out With ... Sir Michael Caine review – relaxed, charming, and faintly bemused all by the fuss 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Fellow Idol Confessions blogger Sharon Abraham asked for the hokey results shows to be livened up and at least for this week, her wish has been granted. 'American Idol:' Idol Gives Back 2010-04-20T07:39:00Z But the dramatic asides are hokey, especially in contrast to the powerful artwork. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z For an explicit attempt at instructive uplift titled after a poem by the filmmaker, “Seeds of Resiliency” is neither very sappy nor hokey. Movie Review: ‘Seeds of Resiliency,’ by Susan Polis Schutz 2012-11-22T22:14:23Z And a wounded Frank staggered through the desert, trailing blood and jousting with hokey ghosts, enduring tortured dialogue instead of inflicting it, for once. 'True Detective' Season 2 Finale Recap: In Search of a Better World 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z In this way, “Haieff” isn’t a hokey testament to the human spirit — it’s a testament to Balanchine and to what drove him to create: the unattainable woman. It’s a Season of Vintage Gems, and Female Bonding, at City Ballet 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z “The Passage,” a hokey but mildly entertaining drama about an ill-fated scientific attempt to harness the immunity of rabid vampires, premieres Monday on Fox. Review | ‘The Passage’: Another viral vampire story, with an appealing child who gives it life 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z A fondly hokey vision of a bygone America of box socials and surreys with fringe on top? 5th Avenue's 'Oklahoma!': a multicultural frontier 2012-02-08T21:36:04Z “It sounds super hokey, but in a period of months it fundamentally changed my relationship with my body.” Body shaming yourself: How to fight the ‘pervasive sense that there’s something wrong with you’ 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z That same year he starred with Ann Miller in a revue called "Sugar Babies," a hokey mixture of vaudeville and burlesque. Legendary film and TV star Mickey Rooney dead at 93 2014-04-07T05:38:50Z Even when it was firing on all guns, Xena was always a hokey slab of titillation with meagre production values. Music television: the five greatest all-singing episodes ever 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Nor does the hokey story and chaste romance. Miley Cyrus all grown up in new movie 2010-03-31T02:33:00Z But it won’t win awards, because it’s – admirably – light on histrionics; just a humdrum yet hokey study of the effects of chronic pain. Cake review – an anti-vanity vehicle for Jennifer Aniston 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s a delightfully hokey offering, a vision of friends and families gathering for singing, dancing, snowball fights and other nostalgic fare. Get in the holiday mood with Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Each is enclosed in a wavy frame that suggests in hokey, pop-culture style that the portal is vibrating in space. Ludovica Gioscia at Baert Gallery: A collision of past, present and future 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z The original is a hokey melodrama, with robotic vocals and kitschy electronic effects. Music Review: London Grammar, British Pop Band, Avoids the Cliché 2014-01-16T23:27:43Z It’s a little bit hokey and a whole lot of fun, and Slater was pleased that relatively few viewers saw the big surprise coming. On rebooted ‘Exorcist,’ a new way to get rid of demons: Hugging it out 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z And the supposed corrective to that, meanwhile, is just as hokey – the grandstanding mauling of terrible movies that no sane person would ever want to see anyway. In praise of the Black Swan controversy 2010-12-10T13:08:00Z While the sports action can feel a little hokey — but then, that’s exactly how we like sports action — the human element has a wonderfully genuine lived-in quality. What to Stream on Valentine’s Day 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The use of menacing slow-motion footage and rumbling music/sound cues sometimes can verge on the hokey — but the overall level of film-craft is high indeed. ‘Life on Fire’: living with volcanoes 2012-12-28T21:55:18Z It’s an aimless finale, yet sums up the night: a little bit hokey, but with some brilliant moves. Dance Review: In Church, Tapping Out Memorials 2011-03-11T22:55:21Z Unfolding mainly over one long night, “The Birthday Cake,” punchily photographed by Sean Price Williams, is brash, a little hokey and endearingly melodramatic. ‘The Birthday Cake’ Review: Baked Hoods 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Enjoyable, but could've done without the hokey exposition from old blokes in tunics. TV highlights 29/05/2013 2013-05-29T06:00:08Z Sometimes the biggest challenge is a genre bias — to watch a show that looks unbearably hokey. ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’: There’s no better use of Netflix’s fortunes than this perfect revival - The Washington Post 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z After a while, cracks appear in the dramatic conceit, and the scenes in which our hero addresses the unseen ghost of his dead father in the back seat are more hokey than Hamlet-like. Movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z "It put them in the mindset of viewers for what kind of movies they put on, this tongue-in-cheek, hokey type of movies," he said. TV film 'Sharknado' inches to cult status with midnight showings 2013-08-03T00:17:03Z Asked about the Venice show when it debuted last year, Eli Broad, the philanthropist and museum founder, remarked that it was “kind of hokey.” Damien Hirst’s Post-Venice, Post-Truth World 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z “Viewers will find either freedom in the narrative experiment, or feel a tinge of impulse to dismiss the whole set-up as hokey. I suggest holding on.” Essential Arts & Culture: Our spring arts preview, more silence from MOCA, a feminist 'Shrew' 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z It would be hokey if it weren’t so good. Gramercy Tavern: A Classic Still on the Move 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z None of this hokey because Lange is an expert writer, his prose exact, his narrative tightly controlled. Richard Lange's 'The Smack' is refreshingly realistic L.A. Noir 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Instead of hokey horror, the place is full of animals — dead animals. At Alnwick Castle, (don’t) pick your poison in this deadly garden 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z It's another podcast that seems to start with too much hokey chat, but actually gets into its subject matter pretty quickly. Rewind radio: If I Were You; TED Radio Hour; Stuff You Should Know; Stuff Mom Never Told You; Desert Island Discs – review 2013-07-27T17:05:00Z Even in a season of political acrimony, we still hold doors open for one another, share photos of cats, kids and grandkids on Facebook, say, “Have a nice day,” hokey as that may be. The moral deceit of pro-lifers: How Donald Trump accidentally revealed the true hypocrisy of the war on women 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z It seemed hokey and just from a vocal perspective, it's got to be difficult to belt out a song while sitting down. "American Idol" recap: Sexual frustration edition 2010-03-10T16:01:00Z As the simpleton Lymon, Fisher occasionally goes too hokey, especially when it comes to his Southern drawl, but is endearing nonetheless with his dopey physicality and witless expressions. ‘The Piano Lesson’ Review: August Wilson’s Phantom Notes 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z It is chatty rather than polished and occasionally hokey, populated by entertaining allegories and regular flashes of humor. Tattoos, Bieber, Black Lives Matter and Jesus 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Han Solo is directly contradicting his memorable dismissal of “hokey religions and ancient weapons” in the first “Star Wars.” We are the evil Empire now: This is how “Star Wars” grows up — by confronting what it means to become a traitor to your own beliefs 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Continuing to make this principled stand against pretentiousness, Corgan staggers around a number of meandering rock songs in search of hokey mysticism. The Smashing Pumpkins: Oceania – review 2012-06-21T20:30:02Z Complete with tongues darting in and out, just like the hokey pokey told us it was all about! 18 hilariously terrible sex tips that all men should ignore 2014-02-21T13:05:00Z Should I take a song, one of the hokey classics you'll hear 10 times a day this time of year, and trace its history – because one Christmas song can explain so much about pop? Paul Morley's Showing Off? 2010-12-26T00:05:10Z They will learn to trust each other, though not in a hokey way; Ms. Jiles is much too good to let her book sink into sentimentality. Review: In ‘News of the World,’ Unlikely Companions Bond on a Perilous Journey 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The movie is “brash, a little hokey and endearingly melodramatic,” Jeannette Catsoulis said in her review for The New York Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Oratorio’ and ‘Dexter: New Blood’ 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z I also found the music, by Michael Thurber, distracting rather than enhancing, with hokey, maudlin strings and piano used too heavily between scenes. ‘Richard II’ Review: A Radio King With a Tottering Crown 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Photos of a Black man with his head poking above a manhole are hokey. How Ralph Ellison’s World Became Visible 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z It’s hampered by wooden acting and some hokey narrative architecture. Stanley Kubrick's best films – ranked! 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z But it quickly became clear that Ms. Gilbert’s honesty — the charm of the book — was difficult to translate into a movie without seeming hokey. Jennifer Salt: The Story Behind the Writer 2010-07-21T22:30:00Z That might sound hokey, but this series, created and written by Abi Morgan, is anything but that, growing deeper, darker and more intricate with each episode. Review: In ‘River,’ Stellan Skarsgard Is a Cop Searching for Answers 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z The comic drama "Isn't It Delicious" is aimed squarely at baby boomers — the hokey pokey plays a pivotal role, and a trio of central characters are named after Kennedys. 'Delicious' delivers a tart tale of a dying salty matriarch 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z “Dawn,” like “Rise” before it, rested on a hopeful, slightly hokey message of interspecies harmony. Review: New ‘Planet of the Apes’ Makes You Root Against Your Species 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z There’s grief, there’s domestic abuse, there’s a car crash, there’s endless hokey small-town Americana, there’s a bear attack. The best and the worst Jennifer Lopez films – ranked 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Ms. Peelle entertains in the novel in a folksy way that might lapse more frequently into hokey in a less confident writer’s hands. Schemes of Mules and Men Propel ‘The Midnight Cool’ 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z It whitewashes it and fails to tell people they need to stop being...is "evil" to hokey a word... evil to others. When the Cyberbully Is You 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z While colorfully scored, with vivid instrumental underpinnings, the work has moments that veer toward the saccharine and even the hokey, like the prerecorded voice in “Transformations,” the third section. Music Review: Divine Life Force, Please Meet Truth and Existence 2011-04-01T23:02:39Z As it happens, I had it exactly backward: all the stuff I thought would be hokey, the simple sincerity of the experience, was what I enjoyed the most. Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Perhaps there is some hokey emotional chemistry at work here, but, in the process, Hosseini is communicating to millions of people a supple, conflicted and complex picture of his origin country, Afghanistan. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini – review 2013-05-26T09:00:01Z Smith was aided with the book by self-help author Mark Manson, which may be why this otherwise exhilarating audiobook is burdened at times with passages of hokey advice on self-empowerment. Review | Should celebrities narrate their audiobooks? Will Smith and Mel Brooks make the case for yes. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Instead, the spiky cool of the early Bond movies evaporated as the series indulged in increasingly over-the-top plots that moved away from Fleming’s novels, and added hokey one-liners. Say never again: why Daniel Craig should quit while he's ahead as Bond 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z The result was a genre nearly new to the theater: inside-out soap opera, riveting and relatable but without hokey climaxes. Review: Apple-Picking Time Again, in ‘And So We Come Forth’ 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z I also liked the fact that, though he dealt with his favorite motifs, there was really no hokey theme, like a Jacques Cousteau under-the-sea moment. On the Runway: Jean Paul Gaultier: Black Magic 2011-01-26T21:46:52Z As awful as that sounds, the film’s tone stays on the light side, even hokey, warmed by Charlie’s hopes. ‘Amerikatsi’ Review: A Prisoner in His Homeland 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z "The Old Man and the Sea" is pathetic, infantile, hokey, almost self-parody. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Joe Queenan on Books Classic, Trashy and Otherwise 2012-11-30T15:00:16Z That’s the song with the repeated lyrics, “a-sailin’ we will go,” which usually comes across as a blustery, hokey ode to the maritime life. Review: A ‘Carousel’ That Spins on a Romantically Charged Axis 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z I expected the scenes to look a bit clunky to my 40-year-old eyes – a touch hokey, perhaps, the scares maybe over-signposted. 'I didn't sleep well for months': the films that terrified our writers as kids 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Seeing them, these actors, playing me on screen — this is going to sound schmaltzy and hokey — but I think I was able to forgive myself a little bit more. ‘The Glass Castle’ writer Jeannette Walls on the movie version of her difficult life with daddy. 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z I thought it sounded hokey in a total Anne Rice way, until I started dating a boy from New Orleans who swore by Sookie Stackhouse. Saved by Pop Culture: How "Six Feet Under" killed my depression 2011-04-08T12:40:00Z An episode touching on police corruption, sexual hypocrisy and a revelation rooted in the past is the best in the series so far, even if its resolution verges on the hokey. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z A mix of musical performances, ice-skating chorus lines, hokey comedy and celebrity guests, it may have been Generation X’s first appointment television. Donny and Marie Osmond: Cheerfully embracing their teen-idol past It’s not just that what seems hokey downtown can read quirky in Midtown, where overpriced-ticket buyers tend to prefer familiarity to novelty. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z It’s an awkward, somewhat hokey mix that, unfortunately, is entirely in keeping with this awkward, somewhat hokey work. Dance Review: Big Bang Theory From Armitage Gone! Dance 2010-06-04T23:00:00Z “Williams uses some crude film-making methods, and hokey angel and devil costumes, but it’s a religious lexicon that was immediately recognizable and meaningful to black audiences.” Second showing: unearthing the lost history of African American cinema 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z It’s a little hokey in parts and at times distractingly self-referential, but that itself speaks to the nature of the material. The First Reviews For 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Are Here 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z SyFy’s epic, chainsaw-laden preview gives a hint at the cacophony of hokey dialogue we can look forward to for the film’s July 30 release. The Sharknado 2 Trailer Looks Awesomely Bad 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z In his 1972 debut, Luke Cage calls his outfit “hokey”: a low-cut, bright yellow shirt, tight black pants, a metallic headband and wristbands, and giant chains worn as a belt. Costume Drama: The Highs and Lows of Superhero Uniforms 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z She grinds her own paints, and puts hokey images of a lost rural and domestic life through the mill. Saatchi's Newspeak: the good, bad and indifferent 2010-06-06T21:00:00Z For years, it was known as “the Hitler Channel,” because it showed so many documentaries crammed with real black-and-white footage of World War II. Other subjects got the hokey re-enactment treatment. ‘Sons of Liberty’ on History Looks at American Revolution 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z “You could feel it and I’m so not a hokey person.” ‘Bombshell’ almost died; How Charlize Theron helped saved it 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Did Bullock deserve her Oscar, or is the Academy guilty here of rewarding a mushy, sugar-coated slice of hokey sentimentality? You review: The Blind Side 2010-03-29T15:01:00Z And the running gag in which Tino calls a mental-health help line is funny and sad, precisely because it’s so hokey. Theater Review: ‘Silent,’ by Pat Kinevane, at Irish Arts Center 2012-09-10T02:07:31Z Mr. Webb’s narrative frame is a bit hokey, and Mr. Pappas’s performance was at times less than confident, but the music is stellar. ‘Cafe Society Swing’ at 59E59 Theaters 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Erdrich’s heart isn’t really in her dystopian visions, and this novel’s scenes of chases and escapes are hokey and feel derived from films. Shades of Atwood and Vonnegut in Louise Erdrich’s Dystopian Novel 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Heartwarming, often humorous, and, at times, a little hokey, the stories grow on you. Review | ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ may be a dud movie, but it’s a fantastic audiobook 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z An impressively kinetic presence while rapping, his persona veers from hokey to charming. Tinie Tempah ? review 2011-03-01T18:14:57Z In contrast, another tale about a writer, titled “The Reader,” devolves into a sort of hokey ghost story about the relationship between an author and his audience. Books of The Times: ?What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,? Stories by Nathan Englander 2012-02-09T23:41:45Z The formula — a hammy host, a B movie, hokey skits — has barely changed. TV’s Horror Hosts: 70 Years of Screams and Cheese 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The remake remains cursed by a fatally hokey concept. ‘The Grudge’ Review: A Curse That Can’t Be Lifted 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z One thing I love, and this is going to sound maybe very hokey, but I really mean it, is one of the beautiful things about our country is that things are not mutually exclusive. Kal Penn on why Democrats are losing and what constitutes a patriotic comedy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The music that actually is new — that purports to find direction inspiration in either the righteousness of the demonstrators or the plight of the 99 percent — is generally unimaginative, hokey, disappointingly safe. Protest music?s odd conservative turn 2012-05-21T15:38:00Z I always had a great time, but thought I would never take an off-the-rack cruise like this one, believing them to be too hokey for a cool guy like me to enjoy. Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy, meanwhile, said the film was "never less than engrossing, and sometimes more than that" and reactions would range "from the mesmeric to outright rejection for arguably hokey contrivances". Nolan's Interstellar 'a flawed epic' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z “You don’t want it to be hokey,” he said. Pork Filled Productions’ ‘Bloodletting’ asks: Are monsters or humans scarier? 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Not to sound hokey, and maybe I’ve just become a little bit softer with my old age, but I just think it’s daunting out there. The shirt is a vessel. Tap in with Total Luxury Spa 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z The book jacket cut out the word "hokey" so the quote read only: "Wisdom combined with good advice." Jordan Peterson: Critics complain over 'misleading' book cover quotes 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Family and adult-only fun include roller disco night and open skate hours with the hokey pokey, limbo and partner skate events. A mini, flower-filled getaway to Lynden | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z “I think it’s a little bit hokey, to tell you the truth,” Shanna said. Bill Plaschke recalls his most memorable moments inside 100-year-old L.A. Coliseum 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z “How do we take some of the exciting things around that imagery and integrate it into the building in a way that fit and didn’t look hokey but looked genuine to our brand?” Amenities, expectations for Chargers' new facility in El Segundo are building 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z While Proud Boys yelled and shoved outside the entrance, the children inside Loyalty Bookstores laughed, did the hokey pokey and danced as drag queen Charlemagne Chateau, dressed as a princess, read stories, they said. Montgomery police to patrol drag story hours after Proud Boys protest 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z A hokey, old-fashioned painted curtain covering the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage was not an encouraging first sight. Review: James Gray's traditional 'Marriage of Figaro' at L.A. Opera is not what it seems 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z It was a matter of finding a balance where it didn’t look hokey, given that it’s referencing these things from 40 years ago, but still paid homage in some way to those movies.” How a director known for drama made ‘White Noise,’ the strangest disaster movie of the year 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Not only does the pronouncement ring hokey, it’s delivered in the presence of their waiter, eager to transmit any news to his back-of-the house colleagues, some of whom are anxiously gathered behind a kitchen window. Perspective | A real-life food critic reviews on-screen food critics 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z "My concern was I just didn't want to manipulate it and over-dramatise it, and make it into some sort of hokey grab at empathy or whatever for entertainment," he said. Chris Hemsworth: Alzheimer’s risk prompts actor to take acting break 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Just click play on the incredibly hokey music video above and remember — good friends stick together through thick and thin. Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta were hopelessly devoted to each other for decades 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z But he may just be the first one to see his career take off in retirement, as the darkness lurking under the hokey surface of his paintings meets our new, dark time. When a Professor Trades the Academy for an Art Career of His Own 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z The hokey green trolley that runs 1,600 feet through the complex carries more people per mile than any railroad in the state of California, says Caruso. Column: If Rick Caruso becomes mayor, will Los Angeles be all dancing fountains and trolley rides? 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Leaving aside the hokey “light of consciousness” bit, the idea that Musk alone can fix Twitter is a popular one in certain tech circles. Analysis | Elon Musk and tech’s ‘great man’ fallacy 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z AR shopping seems sort of hokey, but Snap says it’s catching on The big challenge for Snap will be to grow its catalog to bring all the things people can buy into those AR experiences. Snapchat’s Dress Up feature turns your phone into an AR shopping mall 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z If this sounds hokey, well, it’s because it is. Hernández: Dodgers, Angels shooting for it all this season 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z In particular, Mark Meadows' game of "hokey pokey" has vexed the panel, which has subsequently been forced to push back its planned public testimony to April or May. Jan. 6 committee says Mark Meadows' "hokey pokey" has slowed down plan for primetime hearings 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “I don’t necessarily have an issue with people swinging their arm, but the whole war chant, that’s hokey,” he said. M.L.B. Commissioner Can’t Hear Native Voices Over Atlanta’s Chop 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z It wasn’t just hokey but disingenuous as well. Column: Not exactly a united US team at Ryder Cup 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z And even though I thought they were hokey, that was all I needed to hear. 'A magic world': An oral history of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik' 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Scott professed to being a country boy at heart, and he was the first to acknowledge that his on-air style was hokey. Willard Scott, ‘Today’ show weatherman and resident merrymaker, dies at 87 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Scott professed to being a country boy at heart, and he was the first to acknowledge that his on-air style was hokey. Willard Scott, ‘Today’ show weatherman and resident merrymaker, dies at 87 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z The BET Awards are hokey but necessary, like a family reunion, attendees on their best behavior. The Subversive Joy of Lil Nas X’s Gay Pop Stardom 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z That prompted an outburst of hokey metaphors — maybe “the mist would lift” from the deliberations of the leaders, one said — as the hosts did their best to entertain their news-starved guests. Question Looms Over This Year’s Group of 7: Where Are All the Protesters? 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z It’s a hokey answer, but it is real. Another transplant's book on L.A.: Does Rosecrans Baldwin know his stuff? 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Cuomo was never the public orator his father was, but he could inspire fierce loyalty, fusing his unsparing political Darwinism with hokey paeans to government service. Andrew Cuomo’s White-Knuckle Ride 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z It’s also about reminding myself constantly of things that sound really hokey and mindful. How to Stop Doomscrolling News and Social Media 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z The result is a patter of hokey jokes and straightforward references to wildlife, spring flows and history. Florida attraction to get glass-bottom boat for wheelchairs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z “In its best stretches — the first hour of the film, let’s say — ‘WW84' sweetly revels in its old-school trappings, its hokey mystery, its goofy villain, its resourceful hero. We lassoed some 'Wonder Woman 1984' reviews. Here's what critics are saying 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The cliffhanger infused the hokey White House tradition with genuine theatrics — just as the master of ceremonies relishes. No, President Trump Did Not Pardon Himself 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z You might be tempted to roll your eyes at some hokey political theatre, but a dog in the ballot room killed the cynicism of at least one journalist. The Countdown: Election anxiety? Try these warm moments 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Like sitcoms with laugh tracks, documentaries with literal re-creations now seem painfully hokey. Inside the once-controversial trend that took over true crime TV 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z “We haven’t overdone it, I think, to make it sound hokey, but I think it’s a nice mix, not too much and not too little.” Column: NHL continues to adjust on the fly in the COVID-19 era 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z “It may sound hokey, but anarchism is about love as much as it is rage; there is a certain utopian romance to it.” Washington Post accused of printing pro-Antifa 'propaganda' 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Yes, it sounds hokey, but this might be a time for hokeyness. Opinion | The Bay Area Billionaires Are Breaking My Heart 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z So let's go streaming service by streaming service, hokey motivational speech by hokey motivational speech, and see what we'll be watching. The best sports movies to stream during your self-isolation - Golf Digest 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z It may border on hokey — costumed locals reenact gunfights on the weekends — but it’s fun for families. Take a break from spring training in Arizona on these 7 great side trips 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Over 157 pages, Dalio shares his insights, a five-point system for assessing our weaknesses and overcoming problems, and somewhat hokey aphoristic formulae like Dreams + Reality + Determination = A Successful Life and Pain + Reflection = Progress. 'It's not fair, it's not productive': the billionaire investor urging capitalism to reform 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Our lives, lived online and deeply connected at all times, have made us simultaneously more attuned to the significance of the everyday, while also distancing us from things that might appear hokey or overly sincere. BoJack Horseman is a cartoon about a horse, so why does it feel so profound? | Eli Goldstone 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z After so many months of proceedings, posturing and the usual political hokey pokey on the Hill, one is almost tempted to query: Is that all you got? Opinion | Thanks to Trump, we are living in a world of sleaze 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The point is the big funny hats and the hokey, jokey ceremoniousness. The Senate goes to Gobblers Knob 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s true you don’t get much policy detail at a Biden rally, but you do see plenty of slightly hokey appeals to the better angels of America’s nature. How to dump Trump: Rick Wilson on Running Against the Devil 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z But it was Bill Clinton’s patronage that turned politicians’ visits to Mexican restaurants from hokey affairs into serious stops. For 2020 candidates, eating tacos is the kissing babies of stumping for Latino votes 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z All this may sound terribly hokey and sentimental. Review: Tom Hanks becomes Mister Rogers in the stealthily moving 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Their quiet moments at home may be a little hokey but are a welcome relief to the roar of the track. Review: ‘Ford v Ferrari’ is a very pleasant (fast) ride 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But the potency of the grinding din they create is inarguable, elevating Young’s hokey lyrics – Mother Nature pushing Earth around in a pram, etc – adding an unmistakeable edge. Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Colorado review – a direct, disgruntled din 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z His hokey saying, about focusing on the present, induced eye rolls from media and some fans as the 2019 club languished before going over .500 for good June 30. Left for dead in May, Nationals now head to World Series 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The plot, by writer-director Paul Downs Colaizzo in his feature-film debut, might sound like the kind of hokey motivational story that only a proselytizing jogger or a sneaker clerk would dream up. Review: In ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon,’ a breakout for Bell 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Ah, the hokey sounds of minor league baseball, at the Potomac Nationals’ stadium in Woodbridge. Opinion | The hokey sounds of summer baseball are leaving Woodbridge 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z It all may sound a bit hokey — altruistic, even. With 'Sky,' thatgamecompany's Jenova Chen wants to fix what's broken with games 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z "This 'hokey cokey' of staff moves is clearly going to damage some of the other work of the civil service," said Joe Owen, of the Institute for Government, Civil servants do 'hokey cokey' on no-deal Brexit 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z It’s a script that sounds too hokey for Hollywood. Blue no more: Patrick Maroon’s perfect St. Louis homecoming 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z “You say that administration’s position is hokey and then you say the sky is falling?” Barr offers unemotional defense of Trump’s position on health-care lawsuit: “I’m a lawyer. I’m not in charge of health care.” 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z A CBS camera dedicated to one player might seem hokey or unwarranted for almost any recent figure in college hoops. Perspective | The mission: Guarding Zion Williamson. The plan: ‘Make him human.’ 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Its letters were hokey: bright red, outlined in black, their kerning nonsensical. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Honesty Is Still in Style’ 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The idea seemed hokey, not to mention absurd. How a Beloved Canadian Novelist Reckons with Her Mennonite Past 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The programs were low-budget and hokey, but with flashes of zany charm. From the archives: 'Soul Train,' a snapshot of black Los Angeles life 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “If this was such a hokey position to take, what are you worried about?” Barr offers unemotional defense of Trump’s position on health-care lawsuit: “I’m a lawyer. I’m not in charge of health care.” 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z “A bit hokey”: Culpeper is the destination for groceries, but a few beloved specialty shops line Main Street. Civil War history, small-town friendliness along the Rappahannock River 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z “I know that sounds kind of hokey, but that’s why I started this work. I do believe that everyone is welcome.” He Was a Gay Man on Staff at a Catholic Parish. Then the Threats Began Coming In. 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z That entrenched attitude may seem hokey in the Lower 48, but it is etched into the very skin of Alaska residents, winter after winter. In unfazed Alaska, a major quake is just a bump in the road 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z It might sound a little hokey, but after one use you'll be convinced. The best golf gifts under $75 - Golf Digest 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z “This is going to sound really hokey, but we’re a species, right?” How Guy Raz Built ‘How I Built This’ 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Everything hereafter feels hokey by comparison, not least the swiftness of the heroine’s ascent. Lady Gaga Tips the Scales in Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z It can make some media folks look more regal and less hokey. Spotlight: Not hard to illustrate just how big an upset this was - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z It’s a hokey phrase, but after interacting with Vector, I started to understand what it meant. The new Anki Vector robot is smart enough to just hang out 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Sure, a lot is hokey, you must buy a ticket and, if you don’t already care about baseball, FanFest probably won’t convert you. Perspective | 49 years after D.C. last hosted, MLB All-Star Game remains a ‘You Had to Be There’ experience 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z New Orleans-themed restaurants have come and gone in New York; the infectious charm of the Crescent City hasn’t tended to travel particularly well, often translating into hokey caricature. Lowerline and Café Booqoo Translate Classics of New Orleans Cuisine 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z The cynic in me found the vision hokey; the dreamer in me would have liked to disappear with them. The Sonic Fury of the Ojai Musical Festival 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Its hokey and ebullient name is “I Love Capitalism” which I think makes his stand clear. Wisdom of a Non-Idiot Billionaire 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z She sometimes makes hokey jokes to leaven the mood in the briefing room and is known to wish some reporters a happy birthday from the lectern. As a willing warrior for Trump, Sarah Sanders struggles to maintain credibility 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z His first book was called Proust is a Neuroscience, and though it was hokey, and though he’s since been disgraced, that particular claim wasn’t wrong. Today is World Book Day — here’s what we’re reading 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Down the road, for the strong-of-stomach, the Museum of Death mixes gruesome imagery with hokey black humor, such as “Top Ten Signs Your Neighbor Is a Serial Killer.” Surreal Los Angeles: Touring the City’s Strangest and Most Strangely Compelling Museums 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z If the purpose of motor-bias research is not yet clear, I assure you laterality researchers are not trying to organize a well-attended round of hokey pokey. New Research Questions "Pawedness" in Dogs 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z The crowd roared when he danced the hokey pokey on the field during an early Marlins game. Wayne Huizenga, who built his fortune from trash, dies at 80 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z He added: "They thought it sounded a little hokey and called it something else. I liked the first one better." In fundraising speech, Trump says he made up facts in meeting with Trudeau 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z He added: “They thought it sounded a little hokey and called it something else. I liked the first one better.” In fundraising speech, Trump says he made up facts in meeting with Trudeau 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z It’s precisely as hokey as you recall, but there’s something you may not remember, something with a darker tinge through the lens of #MeToo. Opinion | Romance, Rough Sex or Rape? 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z “Our country will slide further into a police state. . . . It sounds hokey, but this is kind of a noble battle to fight.” A Florida provocateur has his day before the U.S. Supreme Court — again 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z It was photographs and images about climate change, which sounds like it would be hokey and horrible – agitprop sort of art. On my radar: Richard Sennett’s cultural highlights 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z Donald Trump long thought the phrase "Drain the Swamp" was a little hokey, he has confessed to crowds. Trump shifts meaning of 'Drain the Swamp' from ethics to anything he objects to 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z And, like all “Star Wars” movies, its dialogue is sometimes laughably hokey. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: a great force is with us 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z IPC President and CEO Frank Muir initially worried the truck would be “hokey” if the potato wasn’t convincing. Meet the makers of Idaho’s biggest potatoes 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z “And it sounds hokey but there is this interconnectedness of our narratives. It’s not this separate your history and my history,” she said about what she hopes audiences take away from the picture. Dee Rees gave 'Mudbound' a personal touch with the help of her grandmother's journal 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z But the chart itself, he said, “is a bunch of hokey.” Spurious Chart, Data on N.R.A. Spending Mislead in Gun Debate 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z To write about it risks making the presentation of Kushner's release seem hokey, but it is not. My Father's Vietnam 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Driving that same road Wednesday, they pass clusters of rental homes with sun-bleached siding and hokey names such as “Sea Whisper.” The weather is beautiful, but these Outer Banks beaches have been desolate. They might get vacationers back Friday. 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Rauschenberg had mounted white paintings on the ceiling, and he played what one audience member recalled as “old hokey records” on an antique gramophone. The Audacity of Robert Rauschenberg 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The method was initially considered hokey, but is now recognized for both its raw excitement and basic fairness, and the NFL would be wise to open its eyes, lose its pride and steal it whole. Don't tweak the NFL overtime rule, fix it 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z But I ask you — how can something that hokey choke me up like this? Stars share their best memories of the Chinese Theatre 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z And if that’s too hokey for you, well, a nice brie is pretty beautiful, too. How beauty giant Dove went from empowering to patronising 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z His fix for that, moving the DNA one way and the proteins that it produces another, amounts to a kind of subcellular hokey pokey. Silicon Valley’s Quest to Live Forever 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z But once Mack is at the God Spa, despite all the hokey walking on water and magical gardens, the things that Papa, Jesus and Sarayu have to say are pretty profound. ‘The Shack’ review: a faith-based journey out of darkness 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Some critics attacked Gibbons for being a war monger, and his style, Warren admits, can strike modern audiences as hokey. Perspective | How a torpedoed ocean liner boosted the career of a D.C.-born newsman 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z I heard the hokey trochee at least a dozen times as I sat at the interminable Wacker and Madison red light. I Can’t! I Can’t! Listen to a Boring Chant! writes Gregg Opelka 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The Gridiron Club, that exclusive group of Washington journalists, is following tradition and inviting President Trump to its annual dinner, where the fourth estate puts on hokey musical skits and roasts the administration — and itself. Why an exclusive club of journalists invited President Trump to its white-tie dinner 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Hawley finds contemporary ways to explore ancient, potentially hokey ideas, particularly the notion that sanity and madness are not that far apart. The Absorbing Nightmare of “Legion” 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z This was a bit of a hokey undertaking, in my opinion, and because it’s nearly February, feels a bit tardy as the first month of 2017 draws to a close. TRAVEL: Jacksonville, Florida, golf culture includes Players’ Club, Hall of Fame 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z As a rule, “A Dog’s Purpose” is hokey but harmless bunkum. ‘A Dog’s Purpose’: Heart-tugging hokum, at the end of a leash 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The real problem here, though, is that it's painfully cheesy pablum, relying on hokey burger joint and Friday night football game stereotypes to take the place of character development. Canine drama 'A Dog's Purpose' is a fleeting experience 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Somebody said “Drain the swamp,” and I said, “Oh, that is so hokey. That is so terrible.” Draining the Swamp 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z However, Wood also said a former CIA officer who had spoken by phone to a serving FSB officer who talked about supposedly compromising videos of Trump had concluded: “It’s hokey as hell.” BuzzFeed editor defends decision to publish Trump dossier 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The plot is at once frustratingly vague and overly elaborate, bogged down by hokey, imprecise mythology. 'Emerald City' takes a dark but ponderous journey down the yellow brick road 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z “I tell everyone, I hated it. Somebody said ‘drain the swamp’ and I said, ‘Oh, that is so hokey. That is so terrible.'” Trump adviser says he is ditching 'drain the swamp' 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Plenty of films use flashbacks or prologues featuring a younger version of the protagonist to telescope an adult hero’s journey, and it can be a hokey device for any number of reasons, including misbegotten casting. The Year’s Most Captivating Film Performances 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Win Forever and All In might seem hokey to some. What do you expect from us writers when the Seahawks coach can’t predict an outcome? 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z There are hokey re-creations, lots of generic stock footage, an interview with Remini that has the look and feel of a “Real Housewives” confessional and superfluous montages highlighting the drama in episodes ahead. 'Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath' is a compelling, if unsophisticated, investigation of church 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z While these scenes are firmly grounded in an established vernacular of African American film, especially Spencer Williams’s “The Blood of Jesus,” they feel hokey and stylistically discordant compared to the rest of the movie. Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ finally makes its mass-audience debut 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z That sounds hokey — the kind of phrase someone might drop while giving you a sales pitch on being “born again” — but I mean it literally. I lost my faith in God. Then I found it. Now it’s complicated. 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z As for Kelly, she says, “It sounds hokey but I'm just thrilled I got to share this with others.” Cottonmouth vs. Copperhead: Watch First Mating Duel Seen in the Wild 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Not only would I refuse to write scenes which offered any hokey psychological explanation for Irving’s character outside the court, I would also be bound to stick rigidly to the exact words used inside it. David Hare – nothing but the truth about a Holocaust denier 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z I watched a line of women do the hokey pokey, dancing up to the very edge of the base property line, wiggling their feet over it while singing, “Put your left foot in!” Martin Sheen: 4 Pieces of Advice for the Next Generation 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z It sounds hokey until you look up one day, and there is a roster full of football fiends pushing each other. Redskins want more ‘football players.’ They have one in Josh Norman. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z For most hitters, altering something as tricky as a swing to compete in an endlessly boring and unnatural batting practice that serves as a hokey baseball publicity tool is a questionable idea. For the Dodgers, Corey Seager in the home run derby could be a disaster 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z But replacing the musical’s dated, hokey book with a well-meaning but unconvincing vision of egalitarian values is quite a challenge. ‘Paint Your Wagon’ retouched with too many modern mores 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z As recently as a year ago, this area was covered with small stalls selling souvenirs for Western tourists: fur hats, nesting dolls, and hokey McLenin T-shirts. Why Moscow Has Suddenly Been Filled with Tacky, Terrible Art 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z While it’s no doubt difficult to create photo-realistic creatures that, well, don’t exist, some of the beasts in the trailer looked a tad hokey. CinemaCon 2016: Universal unveils 'The Girl on the Train' 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z As hokey as that "one last time" scene might have been, it's also maybe the briefest but most accurate assessment of the person Laurel Lance blossomed into. 'Arrow' kills off a character with a well-placed gut-punch to the soul 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Lepper had painted a few of them himself, including one of Sanders dressed as his hokey namesake, KFC’s Colonel Sanders, with double vision. Looking for America: Awaiting a political awakening 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Gruters took some flack for handing the award to Trump twice and privately even many Republicans still eye-roll at the honor as hokey. Donald Trump's Florida Man 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z "I could make up some hokey inspirational thing," she said. Gamergate's Anita Sarkeesian has a new focus: History's overlooked women 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z According to the Toronto Star, the attraction was “filled with hokey clichés, and was causing embarrassed snickers among Canadians who saw it.” Virtual-Reality Movies: Get Ready for the VR Revolution 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z And although the Canadian do-gooders who seek to free him may be a little bit hokey, the broad strokes of the story are not. Five films that may explain why Democrats love Denzel Washington 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Not to get hokey, but it’s a testament to the power of a good story. Oscars 2016: The snubs, surprises and outrage 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z As Solo alluded to in the trailers, the Force is probably still considered some hokey religion. A complete guide to the new Star Wars canon before The Force Awakens 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z And while Abrams captures the lively, hokey and practical visual fun of the originals, he occasionally slips into generic blockbuster mode. Review: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ is fun fan service 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z A couple of silly songs that could easily seem hokey — “That Man Over There,” referring to Kringle, and “My State, My Kansas,” an attempt to butter up a judge from that state — are unexpectedly appealing. A Review of ‘Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical’ 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Despite dated, hokey representations perpetuated by inaccurate education, sports mascots and the media, Native Americans are still here. Your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce is poisoning Native American lands | Tara Houska 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z I thought it was kind of hokey but when he told me, it made perfect sense.” Hanover street preaching with a hot dog twist 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z “It sounds very hokey, but some basic truths do sound very hokey, and I learned it from Siegfried and Roy.” ‘I’d better get the shoes right, and I’d better get the ballgown right’ 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Sadly people so enjoy true life crime stories and this one has a hokey TV setting that recalls many fictional plots of films and TV programs. The Virginia shooting's 'reality show' paradox: people on TV don't seem real | Jonathan Jones 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z That starts with its surfeit of hokey dialogue, including lines like, “We’re not as strong as he is individually, but we’re stronger together.” 'Fantastic Four' Won't Please Fans But Isn't Fantastically Bad (As Many Claim) 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z They will squeak with joy at the sight of Holmes entering a cinema and watching an actor play “Sherlock Holmes,” in a hokey black-and-white movie that never existed. Amy Schumer Comes Clean in “Trainwreck” 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Invoking a deceased child in some cases might sound hokey or even in poor taste. What Joe Biden should say to win the nomination 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z "I thought there was nothing hokey or crazy with any pin positions or how it played," Mickelson said. Stenson, Johnson share early lead in US Open at Chambers Bay 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z “I thought there was nothing hokey or crazy with any pin positions or how it played,” Mickelson said. Stenson, Johnson share early lead in US Open at Chambers Bay 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z This latest trailer shows that it's maybe kind of hokey. 11 new trailers you should watch this week 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z What was once a charmingly hokey, if fatally misguided island resort off Costa Rica created by a wealthy, wide-eyed carnival showman has grown into a sprawling, monorail-traversed theme park worth billions. Review: ‘Jurassic World’ bites into the modern blockbuster 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z It sounds hokey, but this is the central appeal of Esperanto. Why a made-up language from 1887 is making a digital comeback 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z This design represents all of NZ because we have lots of sheep and love hokey pokey ice cream. New Zealand's new flag: 15 quirky contenders 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z “It’s hokey and it’s corny, and — if you’re easily annoyed like me — it’s a bit off-putting in its sappiness. But there was never any mistaking its sincerity.” Indiana Residents Rue Damage to State’s Welcoming Reputation 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z These videos were nothing like the hokey, whitewashed skateboarding we saw in Hollywood movies like “Back to the Future” or “Thrashin’”. “I felt the handrail rise up and smack me dead in my pre-pubescent crotch” 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z This isn’t just some hokey folk medicine, this is like, real science and stuff. Can Turmeric Prevent or Cure Disease? 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z “The book is, like a lot of books from musicals in the ‘20s, kind of hokey. George C. Wolfe on how a 94-year-old show sparked creativity 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The skits are a mixture of hokey and slick, the journalists dressed in elaborate costumes but often bolstered by strong-voiced ringers for the song parodies. President Obama jokes about Clinton’s e-mails, Scott Walker and marijuana at Gridiron Club dinner 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Of course, the real point of all this is the annual dinner, where hokey jokes meet super produced musical sketches backed by the U.S. Marine Band. One of the youngest members of the old-school Gridiron Club spills some of the society’s ‘secrets’ 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Hughes may deserve more plaudits as a social worker than a filmmaker, but you have to admit his hokey situation plays. 'Newsweek' Gave 'The Breakfast Club' a Lukewarm Review in 1985 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z His rambling, ad-libbed, no-eye-contact explanation for his decision to leave “The Daily Show” was pure Stewart, down to his hokey imitation of a Frankenstein monster trying to fight back tears. It was time for Jon Stewart to wrap up the joke anyway 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z And as hokey as the name of their fictional act is, it’s actually not the worst name of a band made up of guys who make laws for their day jobs. ‘Across the Isle’ is not the dumbest political band name 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z You don’t hear the word “hokey” much anymore. When reality TV started to sink in, I realized how bad most of it was. Shouldn’t it be better than it is? 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Tourists, legislators, and students embraced the humble farmhouse aesthetic, with its rough-hewn wood floors and hokey vinyl letters over the entrance. The Farm-to-Table Restaurant Chain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z As hokey and limited as they are, they’re one of the only times a big, diverse school like ours gathers for something that’s so personal to us all. My Jewish child was asked to wear a Santa hat at school. Should I care? 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Sounds hokey, but it has worked for a number of my clients. 4 Steps to Reducing--And Eliminating--Procrastination 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Also, the one bit of his internal monologue we hear is the bit I quoted above, and it is hokey. Constantine: alas, this comic book exorcist is demonically dull 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z With its artificial challenges, its manufactured suspense and its faux tribal mumbo-jumbo, “Survivor” was hokey, hokey, hokey. When reality TV started to sink in, I realized how bad most of it was. Shouldn’t it be better than it is? 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The big news is the theme song, a darkly hokey country tune that doubles as Saul's official jingle, telling tales of murder, kidnapping and arson. 'Better Call Saul' teaser arrives with terrifying country music and a flailing balloon man 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z “She was a very modern woman; she wanted something cosmopolitan, not hokey,” said Avideh Ghaffari, a fellow Iranian exile who redesigned the space in the 1990s and is now selling it with Brown Harris Stevens. For Iconoclasts of Decades Past, Design Took Wing on Secluded Beekman 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z This is partly presentational: Obama has always found showy rhetoric in the face of serious problems hokey. Obama’s dilemma is America’s appetite for power and disinterest in political risk 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Asking what is goodness in a machine meant to be perfectly engineered evil felt kind of hokey throughout, especially when we're diving into such morally gray territory. Last night on 'Doctor Who:' journey to the center of a Dalek 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z When I want a reality show uncorrupted by hokey story lines, the made-up stress of a ticking clock or jump cut after jittery jump cut, I watch “How It’s Made.” When reality TV started to sink in, I realized how bad most of it was. Shouldn’t it be better than it is? 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z After an outcry from the police community,Obama backed off of his initial comments and eventually convened the decidedly hokey “beer summit” among Gates, the arresting officer, himself and Vice President Biden. Obama’s vision of a post-racial America looks even more distant than before The spirit is a mysterious thing, and it felt awfully hokey to see it displayed in brightly colored pie charts and bar graphs. Big Data for the Spirit 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Every schoolchild in America should have to read LeBron James’ marvelously hokey essay in Sports Illustrated explaining why he’s going home to northeast Ohio. How LeBron James Is Just Like Us 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Yeah, it’s kind of hokey, but hokey is OK today, too. Mariners fans, keep hope alive — at least for opening day 2014-03-31T01:52:04Z As hokey as this might sound, like a sentiment scribbled on a Hallmark card, Mr. Blum takes it seriously. Wealth Matters: The Family That Talks Money Together, Stays Together 2014-03-21T15:39:46Z “I know it sounds cliche and hokey, but he’s such an amazing kid,” Goncharoff said. Bellevue’s Budda Baker picks Huskies 2014-02-05T06:12:40Z It sounds hokey until he does exactly that. Pete Carroll has made Seahawks better by offering second chances 2014-02-01T02:24:05Z If that strikes you today as incredibly hokey and naïve, consider it a measure of how much the culture of Washington has changed in the past 30 years. The Insiders’ Game: The transition from power or money to power and money 2013-12-27T16:22:47Z “But most of the data is confirming what I already knew,” he said, adding that he found the community aspects “hokey.” Turning Tennis Rackets Into Data Centers 2013-12-24T02:15:20Z “People who dismiss It’s a Wonderful Life as being too hokey should have been in that room,” he says. Declara Co-Founder Ramona Pierson's Comeback Odyssey 2013-09-26T10:11:20Z Still, Yahoo’s current logo does look a little … hokey? Yahoo Wades Into Perilous Waters With a Logo Redesign 2013-08-07T17:46:07Z Apart from the hokey Russian aphorism – one of Putin’s elocutionary staples – the President seems to be reveling in the chance to lecture Washington from a moral pedestal. Snowden's Fate Now Lies in Vladimir Putin's Hands 2013-06-25T22:05:25Z No, it's not some sort of hokey holistic cure; it really works because the disease tends to cause infected individuals to eventually self-destruct. How to Cure Office Politics 2013-06-17T18:09:33Z But he has not found ways to finesse the meandering story line, hokey interplay among characters and woeful lack of consistent themes. | Long Island: A Review of ‘Grease,’ at Gateway Playhouse 2013-06-01T02:18:35Z Even for a jaded tax lawyer used to hokey schemes to avoid taxation, Apple’s arrangements were surprising. How Does Apple Avoid Taxes? 2013-05-28T23:46:55Z It’s a bit hokey, falling as it does on May 29, as in 5/29. A way to celebrate savings 2013-05-29T10:41:49Z The film’s premise sounded fun and wry and a little hokey. When Hollywood Wants Good, Clean Fun, It Goes to Mormon Country 2013-05-23T11:01:10Z It is a hokey Highlands tale, crammed with dodgy kilts and still dodgier lyrics—“Don’t ye ken, There’s a fair, Down on MacConnachy Square?”—but the premise is oddly moving. Lexington: Brigadoon politics 2013-05-09T15:00:32Z From their seemingly hokey introductory presser in which they preached collaboration, Schneider and Carroll have gone out and fulfilled their mission. Seattle Seahawks' NFL draft approach is ideal, not unconventional 2013-04-25T03:13:03Z Beyoncé brings sass, style, energy and a hokey charm that allows you to nearly forget that she sang at a party for Colonel Gaddafi's son. Beyoncé has earned our respect 2013-02-03T16:00:01Z Some of these schemes sound simply too hokey to work. IRS Tips Won't Protect You From Identity Theft Tax Fraud 2013-01-29T19:04:06Z In his only NFL season, Holtz did hokey things like write a Jets fight song and line up players for the national anthem by height. Coaches, look before you leap to NFL 2013-01-05T23:32:00Z Tell the Truth Monday, Competition Wednesday and Turnover Thursday are all hokey ways of getting players to prepare for the next game without regard for the previous outing. For Seahawks, momentum is on the line in Week 17 2012-12-30T02:35:32Z And hokey smokes, it’s made right here in the U.S.A., by Organic Transit, in a renovated furniture warehouse in downtown Durham, NC. The solar-powered bike-car thingy we've all been waiting for 2012-12-17T21:45:06.277Z It is not set in a vaguely steampunked fanatasy world – its urban fantasy setting may be still be a little hokey, ut it is a very different kind of hokey. Cthulhu Could Have Predicted? The Secret World Goes Guild Wars 2012-12-12T12:41:12Z They were focused on building it--sometimes more than their product or operations--through various hokey methods. Building Your Company's "Why" 2012-11-21T13:41:06Z “People maybe think this is schmaltzy and hokey, but he’s very, very patriotic,” she said. Krzyzewski Nurtures Champions, With Women at His Side 2012-08-12T02:31:46Z While it might sound hokey, the strategy works. In Energy Conservation, Utilities Focus on Bragging Rights 2012-07-23T22:20:29Z After I shared it with people who trust me, who then turned around and shared it with people who trust them, it dawned on me there was something hokey going on. Facebook Using Our Photos in Their Ads- a False Rumor that Won't Die 2012-06-05T18:10:52Z Anything less than, say, Green Lantern-level effects and audiences will complain about things looking hokey and unbelievable, and credibility is lost. Are Superheroes Too Big For Television? 2012-05-23T12:07:18Z Who knew the combo of hokey marketing and hometown pride still worked so well? Phillies fans can?t keep Nationals fans from taking back the park; can Phillies take back the NL East? 2012-05-05T04:38:31Z By hokey, won't I take this out of him with a wicket? The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z After last week’s naked scene, the romantic whispers between those two felt less pure, and more hokey than ever. Downton Abbey Finale Recap: Life Is a Game 2012-02-20T17:05:21Z Roll the intro montage: “Welcome to the South, the heart of the Republican Party,” says the hokey disembodied voice, doing his best imitation of a Stephen Colbert send up, “where tradition lives and values matter.” What You Missed While Not Watching the Last South Carolina GOP Debate 2012-01-20T05:25:00Z The models “seemed hokey,” Dr. Lander said, “but the brain was interesting.” | Eric Lander: Broad Institute Director Finds Power in Numbers 2012-01-02T16:20:05Z Once, she was invited to appear on a talk show and was told at the last minute that the show planned to dress her in a hokey Halloween costume. Character Study: Lady Rhea, a No-Nonsense Bronx Witch Without a Pointy Hat 2011-11-26T05:28:20Z The last group of works in the show is a series of prints that, while skillfully designed, are a little hokey and obvious. | New Jersey: ?Marina Zurkow: Friends, Enemies and Others? at the Montclair Art Museum ? Review 2011-11-20T02:38:42Z “As hokey as some people may think it is, I'm selling South Carolina as this great, new, positive state that everybody needs to look at.” South Carolina Governor Forces State Employees to Greet Callers Cheerfully 2011-09-28T11:40:00Z For as hokey, idyllic and dramatic as Baylor’s victory was Friday night, it failed to transcend the recent defining themes of college sports: scandal and uncertainty. College Football: Baylor Upsets Pecking Order in What?s Left of Big 12 2011-09-03T18:06:28Z “It sounds like a hokey story, but in middle school I became obsessed with this show and the use of science to solve crimes,” Heurich said. For Charles Heurich, manager of database of missing people and ?Sammies? finalist, it started with ?Quincy, M.E.? 2011-08-24T23:15:00Z In public, Romney tends to be a very hokey guy, who loves telling jokes. Understanding Romney's Sense of Humor: 'I'm Also Unemployed' 2011-06-17T00:30:48Z And whether you found her final spiritual meditations to her audience profound or hokey, they were above all proof again of what a fantastic broadcaster she is. Her Final Episode: Spreading the Gospel According to Oprah 2011-05-25T23:45:54Z It sounds hokey, but he usually closes by simply saying, "We're going to win this game." A step ahead: Stevens' cool gives Butler edge 2011-04-03T02:52:09Z So get ready for more of Greenberg's hokey platform this weekend. Teams make their cases for NCAA tournament committee 2011-03-10T04:06:04Z Wedge worries that last line might sound too hokey. Finding the edge to Mariners manager Eric Wedge 2011-02-27T02:45:10Z Pitch and toss is not sufficiently scientific; “hokey in the hole” is too childish, and it ends in a trial of strength and activity. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z A lot of the stuff sounds hokey and adds complexity to situations where the current order of things works just fine. You Too Can Join the Internet Of Things 2010-09-20T18:05:00Z The system, which blends elements of psychotherapy with classic self-help techniques, may sound a bit hokey. Khan Yunis Journal: In Gaza, Finding a Steadier Path Through Shaken Lives 2010-09-08T00:00:00Z That introduction for Mama Grizzly Palin, who derives much of her clout on political issues from her personal history, was apt, and she delivered to a thrilled audience with her usual brand of hokey sass. Demonstrators in D.C. Agree on Two Things: the Military and God Are Good 2010-08-28T14:30:00Z “Pat and I have been friends since we were 14 years old,” he said, “and this sounds hokey, but I don’t think we’ve ever had an argument.” Trojans? New Athletic Director a Man of Many Fields 2010-08-23T01:50:00Z Robert Rodriguez, who's producing, got to dust off an extremely hokey screenplay he wrote more than a decade ago when studio 20th Century Fox was trying to entice Arnie back to the franchise. Predators: Can buffy Adrien Brody slay the Twilight vampires? 2010-07-09T12:13:00Z The plot is predictably hokey fare - retrieving an ancient artefact to save the world. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light preview 2010-06-30T17:10:00Z It was way past midnight, I was half asleep and whoever was transfusing me was distracted — maybe by the cockroaches doing the hokey pokey in the bathroom. In Blood, Life's Ebb and Flow 2010-04-19T20:52:00Z There are parts of Stevens’s rise to stardom that are hokey. Butler Coach?s Tournament Run Began in His Driveway 2010-04-03T02:37:00Z It's not like when it was one of those hokey, sideline craft businesses, like before. 'Small Time Operator' In the Internet Age 2010-03-31T11:00:00Z It’s easy enough to forget all about your own model’s hokey name — unless, that is, you choose to replace the Icon’s default female voice with one of the six available on the Jawbone Web site. State of the Art: Playing It Cool With a Jawbone in Your Ear 2010-03-17T23:27:00Z When the players say they are all best friends, it almost seems too hokey, to the point where the former assistant coach Zach Spiker joked that they are “sorority sisters without the drama.” At Cornell, the Team That Lives Together, Wins Together 2010-02-20T20:02:00Z But I looked out again, and, by hokey! The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories Und she asks her auntie for a penny for buy hokey pokey. Little Aliens An' he wouldn't let it be a Parlimint at all—it must be a leg-is-la-ture, by the hokey, it must, no less. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule And, by the hokey, I can afford it.” The Tale of Timber Town "O, I said over all the bad things I could think of; not the swearin' words, you know, but 'shucks,' and 'gallus,' and 'bully,' and 'by hokey,' and 'by George;' and it's the last time." Captain Horace Mrs. Geraghty and the two housemaids are rioting in the long gallery, dragging the furniture about and, generally speaking, playing old hokey. Priscilla's Spies “He hasn’t got a tooth in his head, but it wants no chewing, hokey does na’.” Clayhanger "I made sure you was due to keep things agitated around here for a couple uh days, at the very least, or I never woulda drove a nail, by hokey!" The Uphill Climb Desperately I pointed to the fading charms of East River Park—the convent round the corner, the hokey pokey cart by the curbstone. Shandygaff I know it's hokey, but the Founding Fathers had a plan, and so far it's survived two hundred years of scrutiny and division. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel "The full set, by hokey!" marvelled the Harvester. The Harvester He had scarcely opened the door when he started back in surprise, exclaiming: "By hokey, if there isn't a basket on the steps!" Jack's Ward Bill took a long breath, observed meaningly that "He'd better go—whilst his credit's good, by hokey!" and for the first time that day sat down with his back toward an outer door. The Uphill Climb By hokey, I'm the luckiest chap in all Christendom. Marguerite Verne By hokey, young man, you are a bonanza. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance "By hokey!" he groaned, "it is hard to have to play second fiddle to this purblind old Scotchman." A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story "Dern it," hissed he, "there goes my teeth; blowed out again, by hokey!" The Fiend's Delight "You was goin' to kiss the bride—that was it, it was you goin' to kiss her, and she slap—no, by hokey, she didn't slap you, she just—or was it Rock, now?" The Uphill Climb He had scarcely opened the door when he started back in surprise, exclaiming, "By hokey, if there isn't a basket on the steps!" Timothy Crump's Ward A Story of American Life By hokey! it's almost made one of me. The Four Million "A reg'lar skunk—by the living hokey!" he panted, pointing to the faint haze that was again slowly rising above the invisible road. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's "He better think twicet before he comes bothering around me, by hokey!" The Uphill Climb |
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