| 单词 | hokum |
| 例句 | Historically, they’ve often been as stuffed with hokum as fact; the stalwart “Old Farmer’s Almanac” weaves pseudoscientific weather predictions and folk remedies alongside its rigorous tables of tides and moon phases. Perspective | Facts, just the facts: My 10-year-old has reminded me of the allure of the almanac 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Early on, he saw beauty and possibility in traditional songs often considered regional hokum or race records unfit for an upstanding white audience. Pete Seeger enters 9th decade as an activist 2011-10-24T09:16:03Z It may be hokum, but it is sophisticated hokum. Movie Review: ‘Café de Flore,’ by Jean-Marc Vallée 2012-11-08T23:54:40Z In almost every other respect, this overbaked romantic hokum is preposterous. Movie Review: In ‘Labor Day,’ Josh Brolin Romances Kate Winslet 2014-01-30T23:07:17Z The young playwright's neighbour Nina stars in this symbolist hokum and takes the stage to perform a long and rambling monologue about the nature of a universal soul. John Mullan's 10 of the best: plays within plays 2012-05-25T21:55:09Z But a big part of me thinks that Mr. Laib is a canny, professional purveyor of New Age hokum, which he dresses up in suave, Postminimalist style. Art Review: Wolfgang Laib’s ‘Pollen From Hazelnut,’ at MoMA 2013-01-31T22:54:04Z One of the film’s pressing questions may be this: Why did these talented performers agree to appear in this piece of hokum? "Seven Days in Utopia": Bland Christian film squanders Oscar-winning cast 2011-08-31T15:32:00Z But there's hokum aplenty — in the script's notion of madness, and the production's stumblebum treatment of the vagrant prospectors. 'The Bells' at Strawshop: haunting landscape, haunting secret 2012-02-03T00:18:04Z Season 3 began with a similar endorsement of hokum. 'Mad Men' Recap: The Long and Winding Con 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The Long Kiss Goodnight also managed to work a decent conspiracy story into its plot, while the cold war hokum in Atomic Blonde just seems to get in the way. Violent femmes: Atomic Blonde and Hollywood’s new wave of killer women 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z One feels for the talented actors swept into such hokum. 'Sucker Punch': Trapped in a bizarro Zack Snyder fantasy 2011-03-24T17:57:04Z Unfortunately, this first section veers — unintentionally, one hopes — toward a parody of the kind of high-toned aspirational lifestyle hokum that one sees in magazines aimed at a certain demographic. Patti Smith’s ‘Devotion’ — equal parts exasperating and inspiring 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Today, Arnold’s vision of culture as “sweetness and light” is often mocked as elitist hokum. For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z That’s really all there is to a movie that is wide open to charges of being a piece of shamelessly sentimental hokum, which it is. Movie Review: ‘The Magic of Belle Isle,’ by Rob Reiner, With Morgan Freeman 2012-07-05T22:10:44Z Barnum commercialized hokum and transformed con artistry into entertainment — long before that, truly. We are all Kim Wexler, part 2: “Better Call Saul” finale taps our love affair with grifters 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The image suggested a brotherly bond between the two and in this case it wasn't just record-industry hokum. Clarence Clemons dies at 69 2011-06-19T02:20:00Z Freudian analyses are démodé today, partly because Freud, a conspiracy theorist of the mind, had problems separating scientific reason from hokum. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z And they offer a welcome respite for theatergoers who have yet to acquire a taste for energetic hillbilly hokum. Review: ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ Is Heavy on the Twang 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Still, one person’s hokum is another’s profound poetry. Theater Review: ‘Bridges of Madison County’ Brings Iowa to Broadway 2014-02-21T03:00:02Z The big night is sheer carnival hokum, an undistilled backwoods theater of makeup, masks, vinyl trunks and relentless pounding. 'Fake It So Real': a vivid look at wrestlers' shams, slams 2012-03-22T20:05:06Z Called “Cascabel,” the show is a sliver of romantic hokum that is mostly used as a platform for a series of Cirque du Soleil-style diversions. Theater Review: ?Cascabel,? With Rick Bayless at Lookingglass in Chicago 2012-04-08T21:41:43Z But while some of the dramatic conventions Ms. Buffini employs can be classified as antiquated hokum, her thoughtful writing steers clear of melodramatic cliché, grounding the play’s events in emotional truth and complex characterizations. | 'Gabriel': World War II Melodrama at Atlantic Theater Company 2010-05-14T03:55:00Z By then, my view of the novel had progressed from an admiring “What lovely writing!” to a weary “What pretentious hokum!” Dean Koontz’s ‘Ashley Bell’: A colorful tale that veers toward the otherworldly 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The sense of are-these-guys-for-real? continues when you hear their back-story, which is either pure hokum or the bare bones of a great documentary. New band of the day: Dom (No 989) 2011-03-18T19:05:41Z McCarthy’s screenplay has the Counselor absorbing an extraordinary amount of hokum. The Counselor: Hard-Boiled Hokum 2013-10-24T09:45:41Z The sentimental hokum is the best thing about the picture: The violence may be abundant, but it’s not particularly gratifying, and the repetitive plot mechanics don’t help. Review: Ryan Reynolds Smirks Out Loud in 'Deadpool' 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Her strange fusions of the earthy and the factory-produced point up the hokum in certain lifestyle ideologies, be that the purity of handicraft or the totems of eco-living. Artist of the week 103: Claire Barclay 2010-09-02T10:53:00Z It’s a moment that summons the New Testament prophecy about the blind seeing, but it’s also old-fashioned movie-made hokum. A Mobster’s Tale in ‘Salvo,’ With Saleh Bakri 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z “The African Queen” is Hollywood hokum of the craftiest kind, but it offered the sight of two older characters — and the famous stars playing them — falling in love as equal partners. This Summer’s Action Heroes Are Several Shades of Gray 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Given his genius for bunkum, hokum, hooey, hoopla and ballyhoo, “I think we can call Barnum the Shakespeare of advertising,” Professor Hoh said. ‘Circus and the City’ at Bard Graduate Center Galleries 2012-09-20T22:40:07Z Twin Peaks exchanged inscrutable hokum for the charm of a murder mystery set in small-town USA. Twin Peaks recap: episodes one and two – crazy town just got much, much weirder 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z But one of Mr. Eastwood’s great and undersung strengths as a director is his ability to wade into swamps of sentimental hokum and come out perfectly dry. | 'Hereafter': The Dead Have Messages for the Land of the Living 2010-10-14T21:49:00Z Murder on the Home Front was silly hokum, a sort of Foyle's War-goes-CSI, except it shared a fascination with mutilated naked female bodies that would not have looked out of place in Hannibal. Rewind TV: Hannibal; The Apprentice; Life of Crime; Murder on the Home Front; Great Artists in Their Own Words – review 2013-05-11T17:00:05Z Still, one reader’s hokum is another reader’s happiness. Dean Koontz’s ‘Ashley Bell’: A colorful tale that veers toward the otherworldly 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The movie and Hanks’s performance itself is a richly satisfying mix: just the right amount of hokum — homely, wily and kindly. The 50 best films of 2015 in the US: No 5 – Bridge of Spies 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Do you think I should tell my therapist that I reject such hokum, or find another person to tell my troubles to? Perspective | Ask Amy: Worker wonders how to respond to slur 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z It may be absolute hokum, but it works. Aw, shucks! "12 Mighty Orphans" is the Depression-era underdog sports hokum you've been missing 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z No wonder the film can’t sustain a tone, wavering between realism and Bollywood hokum. Movie Review: In ‘Highway,’ a Bride Falls for Her Kidnapper 2014-02-20T23:40:13Z “It’s got to be mostly hokum …,” Ro concedes. 'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z My favorite is the chunky, trotting blues track "Boodle-De-Bum-Bum," the nonsense chorus of which affectionately conjures the hokum street-corner entertainment the Chocolate Drops specialize in. New CD shows Carolina Chocolate Drops at their best 2012-02-28T01:02:08Z Along comes cultural critic Ben Yagoda to argue that “Doggie,” far from being a one-off excrescence, was an all-too-typical product of its time — that benighted era of “novelty numbers, lachrymose ballads, simplistic jingles, hillbilly hokum.” ‘The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z But Mr. Woodbury’s comment struck me as hokum. Taking the Plunge at the New Volcano Bay Water Park in Orlando 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Its title, “The Mass Demon,” suggests a connection to worldly politics, and the tendency of gullible crowds to be taken in by the colorful hokum of charismatic Machiavellians. Art Review: A Perverse Mind Populated by Devils, Snakes and Buxom Nudes 2011-03-31T22:27:26Z It may be hokum, but it gets to you. Movie Review : In ‘Unfinished Song,’ Vanessa Redgrave Lives for Music 2013-06-20T21:51:31Z As a whole, however, the Wyeth family tradition of art is populist hokum that appeals to boardroom philistines – the entire collection on view at Dulwich is owned by the Bank of America. Why middlebrow Americana will always beat 'good' British art 2010-07-06T10:19:00Z The moment they run away together, the already flaccid film deteriorates into sudsy hokum that not even Ms. Mirren, with all her wiles, can redeem. | 'Love Ranch': Attraction and Possibility When Sex Is Just Business 2010-06-29T22:43:00Z Similarly, the way “Good Night Oppy” anthropomorphizes the robots might sound like pure Hollywood hokum. ‘Good Night Oppy’ Review: Life (Kind of) on Mars 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z His ability to suggest the light of God’s presence may have the simplest of explanations: It was derived from the visual hokum of the stage. Phillips Collection’s Neo-Impressionism exhibit captures movement’s escapist mood THE BIBLE: “Theological hokum! Egregious babble! Insipid balderdash!” Style Invitational: Tinker with the recipe — slightly change the name of a food 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Not so their scenes, all hokum and working-class Jewish clichés. Review: ‘The Flamingo Kid,’ a Musical Not Yet in Flight 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z High-class hokum it may be, but when "Adriana Lecouvreur" is cast with terrific singers and staged with old-fashioned opulence, who cares? Review: 'Adriana' a treat at Covent Garden 2010-12-05T12:31:00Z Two of the greats, Pauline Kael and David Thomson, later filed dissents, she dismissing the film as “frenzied hokum,” he as “pedestrian.” Review | Just in time for an updated ‘West Side Story,’ a look back at the 1961 classic 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z A few years ago "The Anarchists" may have seemed more engrossing than it does now when the hokum spewed on Anarchapulco's stage gets heavy play on Fox News and others in the far-right ecosystem. "The Anarchists" is HBO's chaotic examination of fear, loathing and a crypto-bro con in Acapulco 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z The moment they run away together, the already flaccid film deteriorates into sudsy hokum that not even Mirren can redeem. 'Love Ranch': Brothel drama descends into sudsy hokum 2010-07-22T21:49:00Z In its less satisfying second act, a tavern spectacle suffers stylistic and structural oddities more typically found in Broadway hokum. New twists and turns enliven 'Don Quixote' 2011-04-22T15:34:23Z But “Lullaby,” the directorial debut of Andrew Levitas, a jack of all artistic trades, is the kind of manipulative, cliché-infested hokum that alienates moviegoers by its insistence on hogging all the tears. ‘Lullaby’ Features Richard Jenkins and Amy Adams 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Such borrowings and revisions are, at best, a stretch, but Brooks has often managed to make hokum sound like good, open-hearted truth. Garth Brooks: Country Music’s Square, Liberal Dad 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z If the exhibition is uneven — part true grit, part diva hokum — it is rarely uninteresting. Art Review | 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present': At MoMA, a Performance Artist Endures 2010-03-11T22:56:00Z “The Ottoman Lieutenant” is deliberately superficial, a handsomely mounted bit of hokum featuring beautiful people in an exotic setting. What is Sir Ben Kingsley doing in “The Ottoman Lieutenant”? 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The ending is a pulp story hokum, calculated I suspect to affirm that it has all been in gory good fun; the nightmare was only a dream. L.A. Times' original 1975 review of 'Jaws' unearthed: We hated it 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Chris Wall in the Los Angeles Times called it “an impressive, expertly crafted work of sensitivity and detail, absent the hokum that usually accompanies sad tales of simple women and their domineering fathers.” Kent Haruf, acclaimed novelist who chronicled small-town intrigue, dies at 71 A century on, what are we to make of a story that attributes groundbreaking artistic innovation to séances, telepathy and spiritualist hokum? Review | Hilma af Klint, the woman who painted the future 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z My hokum detector is mostly set at Defcon 1 or 2. In ‘Virtual Unreality,’ Charles Seife Unfriends Gullibility 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z This may sound like heavy stuff, but B-movie fans will recognize it for what it is: good old-fashioned hokum. ‘Hand to God’ Melds Gore and Giggles, Each Often Elicited by a Puppet 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z An audience charmer peddling romantic hokum, the play is satisfying despite being scarcely credible and touchingly sweet even when flagrantly sentimental. John Patrick Shanley's 'Outside Mullingar' is just the thing for a happy cry 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z This last trapping of kingly power, as you might expect, impresses his subjects who believe the hokum that he wrestled the big cat into submission. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z As directed by the seemingly ubiquitous , Mr. Russell Beale rides high across more than two hours on a piece of theatrical hokum by that, 32 years after its New York debut, still delivers. Review: A Shakespearean Sparks Revival of 'Deathtrap' in London 2010-09-21T13:30:00Z The plot of River of No Return, loosely derived from Vittorio De Sica's 1948 film Bicycle Thieves, is a lot of hokum, of course. John Banville on Marilyn Monroe 50 years after her death 2012-08-03T21:55:13Z All the same, jingoism may have played a part in our academy’s choice of a single-shot gimmick piece of hokum over an Asian masterpiece. A female director Oscar? Three ways to fix film awards season 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z To others, like the critic Sam Sacks, her writing is “dead-eyed and apathetic,” her crudeness a “dubious trademark,” amounting only to “hokum.” Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z For all the creakily derivative supernatural hokum on display, the ghosts that haunt this movie turn out to be all too persuasively real. Review: With ‘A Haunting in Venice,’ Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie series hits its stride 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Continued research into emergent branches of regenerative medicine is still a worthwhile pursuit despite the anti-aging hokum, particularly given the need to advance therapies around stem cells, immunomodulation and transplantation. Bloodthirsty Silicon Valley vampires won't stop: It's time to stake our claim 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Many of the other candidates, especially DeSantis, seem to have absorbed the pernicious Trumpian assumption that Republican voters are so stupid that they can be won over by hokum. Nikki Haley is the best Trump alternative | David Brooks 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z The explosive documents from the Dominion case showing Fox News hosts privately said Donald Trump’s election lies were hokum but promoted the lies on air anyway? Opinion | Kevin McCarthy joins the insurrection 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z What does is the same molten core of rock-’em, sock-’em hokum we’ve come to expect from almost every other film of this ilk. Review | ‘Black Adam’: Dwayne Johnson is nobody’s hero 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z What makes me grumpy these days is less the market than the hokum and inanity that would-be experts are using to calm investors right now. Bear market brings out bad advice 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z But despite this incisive dramatic perspective, Diallo is determined to make a horror film, and soon these well observed moments are engulfed in a deluge of supernatural hokum that paradoxically makes “Master” much more mundane. Review: Terrifying racism-in-academia is trapped in the far less frightening horror of 'Master' 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z When I first saw the movie in the late 1960s, I thought it pure hokum. Robert Reich has the perfect answer to Trumpism 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z This 1954 holiday classic is corny, sentimental, funny, colorful and pure Hollywood hokum, and it charmed its way to becoming the biggest hit of its year. 10 Christmas classics to stream in 2021 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The Opening Ceremonies spent so much time justifying the existence of these Games — with hours of pageantry, hokum and solemn commemorations more rote than heartfelt — that the joy of athleticism was mostly missing. Perspective | A glimpse of the Olympic myth 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z After nine months in The Big Apple he secured a deal with Colombia Records, feeding the company's PR executives "pure hokum", as he later put it. Bob Dylan: 80 things you may not know about him on his 80th birthday 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z In some surely unintended way, it feels like a corrective to the glamorous, shallow, uptown hokum of “The Undoing” — HBO’s most-watched show of 2020, so I use the term “corrective” advisedly and personally. Need a really good mystery to watch? 'Mare of Easttown' is just the ticket 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z We mostly trusted Walter Cronkite and it was harder for crackpots and propagandists to widely spread hokum. Editorial Roundup: Nebraska 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Those who do will be rewarded by fine performances from Winslet and Ronan, who develop a credible chemistry despite the fact that it’s probably hokum. Review | Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan bring heat to an otherwise chilly lesbian romance 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z “It first seemed like stress induced hokum,” Mr. Coghlan said of the Marines in a recent interview. An Ancient Hill and Forgotten Dead: Afghanistan’s Haunted Outpost 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z He doesn’t need to stick around on the task force to add a measure of sense to what has turned into a cesspool of debunkable theories and hokum about herd immunity. Opinion | Fauci’s refusal to quit shouldn’t surprise anyone 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z And like a lot of hokum, Barry Levinson’s lacquered ode to the majesty of baseball — and Robert Redford — is still hard to resist. ‘Bridesmaids’ or ‘The Fifth Element’? It’s Week 2 of the #UltimateSummerMovie Showdown 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Buttigieg is a practiced debater and delivers his lines well, and his polished hokum about how “Washington” doesn’t respect small-city Rust Belt mayors clearly gets on Klobuchar’s nerves to no end. Michael Bloomberg was mercilessly attacked in his first debate – and he flopped | Nathan Robinson 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The movement was abetted by the widespread embrace of pseudoscientific hokum about nonwhite racial inferiority. Studying Seattle’s Roaring ’20s history might help us get through this next decade 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Too many of us dismiss the warnings as hokum, a conspiracy. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z But according to Isaac’s book, that was all hokum. Uber’s $1-per-ride "safe rides fee" had nothing to do with safety 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z “The thing I’ve learned is that the American people after four years, after three years already of this guy, have decided that a lot of what he’s talking about is hokum.” Biden charm, message resonates with Iowa voters 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z But, risking a digression into hokum, I’d argue that the spiritual side of golf also plays a key role. The beautiful weirdness of golf's senior tours - Golf Digest 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z But amid all the action and the derring-do, between the hooey and the hokum, there’s room for real emotion. Review | With humor and heart, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is a fitting send-off for Marvel’s superheroes 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z But Lady Gaga seemed so engaged in these boldly ambitious concerts that you were willing to indulge her in a bit of real show-biz hokum. Review: In Las Vegas, Lady Gaga solves the problem of 'A Star Is Born' 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Music, solemn and fun — marching bands, children’s game, fireworks, funeral marches and sheer hokum — mingle and explode into exuberant musical chaos. Review: Ives' 'Holidays' at the L.A. Phil, but not those holidays 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z The sooner this and other magical hokum is thrown on the garbage heap of history - the better. Why They Stay. Why They Can’t: New York Catholics Wrestle With Their Faith Over Abuse Allegations 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z With the possible exception of Stephen Bannon or Hannity himself, there are few media gadflies as adept as North at selling hokum and stoking anger within the Republican base. Opinion | The NRA’s descent into crackpottery continues 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Has anyone in the Democratic Party challenged this hokum called excited delirium? Opinion | Virginia Democrats can’t claim superiority in the treatment of black citizens 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Sounds like a rather dry and unexciting study, perhaps, unless you’re a media outlet that likes to use these opportunities to create more old-fashioned hokum about gender. Men better at Scrabble than women? I know a four-letter word for that | Phoebe-Jane Boyd 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Only four or five years after they came out, Presley 's music had virtually become a patented mixture of heavy breathing and hokum. Read TIME's 1977 Obituary for Elvis Presley 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z By the time we hear the quintessential line, “Excuse me, I need someone to die for me while I play the piano,” the laughter is finally outpacing the hokum. Review: ‘Murder for Two’ is something we’ve seen once before 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Reputable newspapers – OK, the Daily Mirror – fill their pages with hokum and woo about the need to “re-alkalise your system” by eating “plant algaes which help your body detoxify quickly”. Dishing the dirt on detox | Jay Rayner 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z In the realm of foreign policy, meanwhile, all of the hokum about the United States serving as the world’s “indispensable nation” provided a rationale for perpetuating and even expanding the national security state. Donald Trump’s election reveals that we are two nations 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Fraud is especially egregious because it is committed when a seller does not himself believe the hokum he foists on an unwitting public. Exxon-Mobil is abusing the First Amendment 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Still, this is boxing; on a night when the great Panamanian Roberto Durán was introduced at ringside as Mexican, we were reminded that myth and hokum are perennial ingredients of the pie. Canelo Álvarez knocks out Amir Khan and eyes Gennady Golovkin fight 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z "While some of these ancient remedies might well be hokum or snake oil, it's likely that over thousands of years our ancestors hit on something that actually worked." Tea, honey, hops and sponges: The antibacterials hunt - BBC News 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z But after 2½ hours of this down-home hokum, the answer is clear: No, we don’t. Review: ‘Bright Star’ is cliche-ridden, over-eager show 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Quite a lot of this marketing was hokum, or close to it. The meaning of blue jeans 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z But it’s a shallow experience, and its attempt at narrative depth - the yarn connects the memories of a sad old woman’s life - is sentimental hokum. Review: Indie games ‘Firewatch,’ ‘Unravel’ fall short 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z But it's a shallow experience, and its attempt at narrative depth — the yarn connects the memories of a sad old woman's life — is sentimental hokum. "Firewatch" and "Unravel" look pretty while demonstrating the ambitions and shortcomings of indie video games 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The supernatural thriller "The Forest" begins with an intriguing premise and fun, ghost story-type potential but quickly devolves into convoluted hokum that produces more laughs than scares. Review: 'The Forest' doesn't live up to its ghost-story potential 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z When pressed, others in the crowd acknowledged that Mr Trump’s biggest pledges, the wall, the mass deportations and so on, are probably hokum. The greatest show on earth 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Spassky’s classy gesture to join in the audience applause after Fischer’s brilliant Game 6 win looks like Hollywood hokum but in fact actually happened. DAVID R. SANDS: Hollywood sparks an unlikely Boris Spassky chess boom 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Buckley disparaged Lindsay’s qualifications and his ten-point proposal to revive the city’s economy, which he ridiculed as “sheer and utter rhetorical hokum.” Did Bill Buckley Dream Up Uber Before There Even Was an Uber? 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z This wasn’t ideological hokum, we were assured — despite its strong resemblance to the prophecies of Karl Marx turned upside down. Rebel alliance: How Bernie Sanders’ unlikely rise, the Greek mini-rebellion and crazy Donald Trump (!?) have fueled the climate of resistance 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z “It seems like hokum to me, but more power to him,” said Robert Passikoff, president of Key Brands, a consulting firm. You Can Create Your Own National Day on This Website 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The faculty in the University of Wisconsin System isn’t buying this hokum, and you shouldn’t, either. Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z But they are piling flimsy evidence on dubious argument to produce politically correct hokum. Sex in the boardroom 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Even typically mild-mannered Sen. Dan Coats of Indiana was peeved with his fellow Republican for promoting “a siren song” and “a bunch of hokum.” It Might Not Last, But Rand Paul Nixes One NSA Program 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The skipper of front-running Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, Ian Walker, didn’t commit hokum when he said, “Everybody here is achieving something.” In the Volvo Ocean Race, a trip around the world is survival of the fittest 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z It is fair to say that the computer programmers themselves, whose motives were solely to create world-beating chess algorithms, thought this was hokum. Has chess got anything to do with war? - BBC News 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Yet Republicans don’t want to admit supply-side economics is hokum. Robert Reich: Republican economics is “magical-mystery math” 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Those who dismiss Dr. Wilbur’s work as hokum say that induced false memories lay at the heart of her work with Ms. Mason. Debate Persists Over Diagnosing Mental Health Disorders, Long After ‘Sybil’ 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Washington can do this in his sleep, so it is to his credit that he remains utterly committed to the hokum. Review: 'The Equalizer' Could Be Denzel Washington's First Franchise 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z It's the familiar sweeping hokum of the space-opera genre, but the appeal of Destiny lies in its open gaming framework. Destiny: behind the scenes of the world's most expensive video game 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z This logic, and indeed the very notion of an empirically rigorous UFO-spotter, is guaranteed to provoke snorts of derision from sceptics who regard ufology as a blend of pseudo-science, conspiracy theory and mystical hokum. They are still watching 2012-09-25T09:34:23Z In some ways, this sounds like a fairly typical slice of action adventure hokum, but the hacking element is the key to a more stimulating world. Watch Dogs – preview 2012-07-10T06:07:07Z The lesson of the financial crisis is that this is complete hokum that serves the political and personal interests of the very rich. The economy: a calamitous strategy, with no end in sight 2012-05-19T23:03:44Z Again, I have no intention of engaging all his points– I hope that regular readers of CardioBrief have been inoculated against this sort of hokum. Resveratrol and Fraud 2012-01-16T20:52:52Z The Hollywood Reporter said it “plays like hokum.” The Saturday Profile: Filmmaker Zhang Yimou Walks a Fine Line in China 2012-01-07T03:30:46Z I have always thought the British-French dichotomy to be hokum of the highest order. Sex, power and the French 2011-05-21T07:18:34Z Every time the supposed facts his crack team of investigators discovers in Hawaii are exposed as hokum, he doubles down. Trump’s Diggers Should Look for Real Idea: Margaret Carlson 2011-04-27T14:17:02Z His potential candidacy for anything is transparent hokum, which means everyone on television is treating it very, very seriously. Donald Trump is America's most famous birther now 2011-03-28T16:29:00Z "There's a lot of hokum in those books." Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z The setting sounds like familiar RPG hokum but Demon's Souls is not your average dungeon crawler. Demon's Souls: 5 tips every new player should read 2010-09-27T07:30:00Z The authorities brush it off as just hokum. The Flying Stingaree Senator Gonzales was fond of the Society's crackpot receptionist, and he knew exactly what kind of hokum would please her most. Psichopath "And there's just enough hokum in that to make everyone back at the Academy happy." The Space Pioneers "Perhaps," suggested Ruth Hale of the visiting party, "a grand duke would say there was a lot of hokum in that." Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z I gave them gravy, and hokum, And when they ate it up I came through With the old jasbo, Than which there is nothing so efficacious In vaudeville, polite or otherwise. The Broadway Anthology Honest, to hear him spring that sure-fire hokum you would have thought he believed it. The Sorrows of a Show Girl If he does, we'll go right into some hokum drama stuff. Merton of the Movies Why, if you give 'em hokum they don't even demand acting. 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