One maddening stylistic choice the filmmakers stick to is balletic dramatizations, by the British choreographer Russell Maliphant, of scenes from Nureyev's life — a hokey dance riff on a hokey documentary staple.
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The whole thing sounded too hokey — or too horny.
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" I said, "Oh that's so hokey, that is so terrible.
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It's hokey and cliched but it also works surprisingly well.
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Detractors view "Prairie Home" as excruciatingly hokey, syrupy and dull.
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Maybe it sounds hokey but I want people to find peace.
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If that sounds, well, a little hokey, it's supposed to be.
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Sometimes it's hokey, but just as often it hits serious emotional moments.
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It feels hokey to say so, but coming out does still matter.
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This could have led to a hokey redemption arc, but it doesn't.
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It's easy for sophisticated observers to mock this homespun and hokey metaphor.
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That fictional worldview, however hokey, has spilled over into the real world.
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It's a bit like watching paint dry, but it's also charmingly hokey.
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While Lanier has shown a capacity for wit, this book is hokey.
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Its letters were hokey: bright red, outlined in black, their kerning nonsensical.
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But the dramatic asides are hokey, especially in contrast to the powerful artwork.
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Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair To be sure, Justice League is supremely hokey stuff.
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Her portrait of Africa feels subtle and lived-in, never false or hokey.
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I know that sounds hokey, but you saw it with those folks. Yeah.
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Step 10: You do the hokey-pokey and you shake it all about.
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Somebody said 'drain the swamp' and I said, 'Oh, that is so hokey.
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We can tap into that drama in a real way, not a hokey way.
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What we got was a pu-pu platter that was more hokey than hooky.
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That might sound hokey but, the closer you look, the more sense it makes.
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Everything hereafter feels hokey by comparison, not least the swiftness of the heroine's ascent.
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Many of his films were hokey, with absurd plots and over-the-top acting.
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It's a hokey dance instruction song; it should come with a dance-step diagram.
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Every so often, I see a rom-com with a hokey gift-giving scene.
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Maybe that future isn't on ABC, and maybe that future isn't heteronormative, homogenous, and hokey.
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I'm reminded of those hokey old Russian reversal jokes: In Soviet Russia, dog walks you!
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That format might have been clunky or hokey, but Oliver ("Vanishing Girls") makes it work.
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Kringer's Peter, adorable if a bit hokey in his youthfulness, has a fittingly romantic voice.
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The hokey roadside slogans of Florida, meant to be consumed well over the speed limit.
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Initially, Spielberg had three mechanical sharks made, but they looked hokey and frequently broke down.
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"People think it's hokey, but it's actually the hardest, most intellectually demanding game," she says.
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"Dawn," like "Rise" before it, rested on a hopeful, slightly hokey message of interspecies harmony.
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When Mr. Goldwater got started, there was already one LED bicycle light company, Hokey Spokes.
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Olympus kept trying to give its hokey "Die Hard in the White House" premise a solemn,
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It's hokey but true: baseball thrives on hope, and it will look hard to find it.
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We're seeing Linux users in their element, sharing their habits and talents and weird hokey humour.
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Others were a little hokey for my taste, but I can imagine them being useful for somebody.
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I had heard of The Vesper when it debuted in 2014 but I thought it was hokey.
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But in fact, it's just an expansion of the norm — without the front of a hokey name.
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This part seemed a bit hokey, but at the very least I got a gentle face massage.
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For as beloved as his big, sprawling novels are, they can feel a little hokey on screen.
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It's a little hokey, but a fun little minor experiment amongst a set of massively successful experiments.
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It was the kind of moment that might have felt overwrought or hokey in less capable hands.
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They're neither hokey words nor musty concepts, and that's why Republicans have been using (and misusing) them.
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Cheering and sloganeering for hours on end at hokey political festivals, even when his voice is hoarse.
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The movie could be about grace and vengeance, but they're presented as hoary lessons and hokey contrivances.
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As hokey as it can be, it's a formula that works because it can be very touching.
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If you can raise your core body temperature by laughing at hokey puns, that one will do it.
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Maybe it's a little hokey… if it gets women to seek out the information, that's a good thing.
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Granted, while that sounds kind of hokey, I do really wish my car had a built-in vacuum.
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Only if you relish hokey situations, talking points dialogue and a resolution that doesn't pass the giggle test.
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Best friends Yes, there was a lot of hokey special effects, but I really didn't notice back then.
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The album has a few missteps, like the goopy arrangement on the ballad "Sueños" and some hokey lyrics.
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Hokey Pokey, Vanille & Marille, Berlin Homemade, Die Eismacher and Fräulein Frost all provide maximum pleasure on warm afternoons.
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It is chatty rather than polished and occasionally hokey, populated by entertaining allegories and regular flashes of humor.
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She shook her ankle and high-stepped in a circle, as if she were doing the hokey pokey.
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It's done it for hokey family sitcoms, for cable news, for weird game shows, for bleak antihero dramas.
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This moment tottered right on the edge of hokey, calling to mind hucksterish traditions of parlor-room mentalism.
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"Self-care" has become a hokey phrase, but I do believe in finding healthy ways to relieve stress.
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There are other less hokey parts of the collection if you're not ready to go public with your obsession.
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You know you've seen this argument on Pinterest — hokey though it may be, it's based in real scientific research.
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It sounds a bit hokey, but I do feel like when I'm reading her work, I'm in her work.
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The biggest surprise in this sincere but hokey melodrama is how little Mr Cooper does to update the scenario.
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" After some watch-related announcements, we then were treated to a watch promo video set to "The Hokey Pokey.
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"Honest to God, I really hate that hokey-jokey Hey-us-Southerners-aren't-we-cute stuff," she told me.
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The movie is eagerly revisited by some devotees around this time of year, though others may find it hokey.
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A hokey line like that might be used by someone facetiously called a "PRINCE CHARMING" as a pickup line.
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Nicolas Pesce's new horror movie remake has its chilling moments but ultimately remains cursed by a fatally hokey concept.
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And while it is fun to scoff at her hokey spiritual woo and self-help bromides, it is easy to forget that hokey spiritual woo and self-help bromides are extremely powerful and popular among a massive subset of Americans, many of whom represent the exact sort of voters who decide Democratic primaries.
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By the time she made Summer Night, Wertmüller had more than earned the right to belittle hokey, Hollywood-style eroticism.
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It makes for hokey television, but there's something unselfconsciously enjoyable about a show that leans in to relentlessly positive messaging.
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The door to the House Gallery opened and down the steps came her husband; Trump had brought him home. Hokey?
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But it also sounds like the CIA is just as painfully hokey as any other white collar workplace in America.
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The struggle with doing this project, making songs like this that are unabashedly western, is trying to avoid being hokey.
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The cynic in me found the vision hokey; the dreamer in me would have liked to disappear with them. ♦
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Their flaws seem to emanate from their inner selves, which sounds hokey, but believe me when I say it isn't.
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That's a great love story — so tortured and really hokey in some ways, but it's a classic for a reason.
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She gave "Come to Mama," from "Joanne," a hokey Broadway-cabaret arrangement, but redeemed it with thick Mama Cass singing.
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The somewhat-hokey video announcement aside, this year's list of nominees provided little in the way of huge surprises or shockers.
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It sounds a little hokey, and I'm about as skeptical as they come, but the effect won me over quite quickly.
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There's a hokey appeal to the conspicuous old-fashioned-ness of the crackly broadcasts, all corn-syrup blood and rubber bats.
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Owen Glieberman, Variety: The notion of a digitally animated feature that brings emojis to life does have its hokey-irresistible side.
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All the big A-list metal acts that everyone associates with pot—Sabbath, Pantera, Mastodon—are a little overplayed and hokey.
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Charlie Crist (D-FL), Barr went as far as to use the word "hokey" to describe how critics view his stance.
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Aesthetically, "Like I Love You" is a solid early naughts period piece, and as such, the fashions are kind of hokey.
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Despite the deconstruction, the form Gilman adopts — with its digressions and asides, potted histories and accidental anachronisms — is still pretty hokey.
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According to one TripAdvisor reviewer, it's a "hokey, albeit interesting and absurd, little museum in an out of the way place."
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One of the most amusing, "This Ain't the Hokey Cokey Anymore," caricatures the physical challenges facing older people attempting athletic sex.
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Alternative healing methods like herbal supplements, acupuncture, and meditation are often looked down upon in the U.S. as hokey and unscientific.
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Take "the first hint of stereotypically" — that word's first letter, or hint, is S. Take "hokey material," a synonym for CORN.
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This may sound sentimental and hokey, but to sit behind a sign that says "United States" all the time is incredible.
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Famously hokey, it was spoofed a quarter-century later by "Bubble Boy," a dark satire featuring a very young Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Readers, I promise I won't subject you to a clip of the "Hokey Pokey," so we'll end with this: Your thoughts?
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It's so hokey and funny that I think it's pretty obvious that we're not supposed to be thinking of salad dressing.
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My hair was black and just growing back after letting Vidal Sassoon shave half my head for a hokey £20 modeling job.
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So much so, indeed, that the same tricks that felt new and fresh in 1999 will only feel tired and hokey today.
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I knew I could never play for Celtic or the Toronto Raptors, so putting myself in a game felt a little hokey.
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Still Alice, Certain Women, even the slightly hokey Equals and Café Society—these films together represent the beginning of a serious career.
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Just as it's too hokey for transcendence, it's too much of a music video to make the leap to the proscenium stage.
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Viewers who have embraced the stark realism of shows like HBO's "Girls" and Amazon Studio's "Transparent" often find traditional multi-cams hokey.
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"I know this sounds hokey, but you get a chance to cross paths with people and you often miss it," she said.
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Hawley finds contemporary ways to explore ancient, potentially hokey ideas, particularly the notion that sanity and madness are not that far apart.
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This is too bad, since "Shadowbahn" is 9,303 times less hokey and more gratifying — more provocative and challenging — than this summary suggests.
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"The latter may sound hokey but it's how he feels," said Laura Ingraham, a Fox News host and close friend of Cipollone's.
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And Declan Lewis, 8, was wondering why the two-wheeled wooden robot he was programming to do the Hokey Pokey wasn't working.
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Though both later starred in hokey feature films of questionable quality, their contributions to the emergence of their respective genres is unquestionable.
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The finale's fantastical us-against-the-world setup was admittedly hokey but looked like the only way out – until Villanelle shot that gun.
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The premise is hokey yet adorable: Bachelor cast-offs from all over the worlds play winter sports and compete for each other's hearts.
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It's about high art, but isn't hokey or pedantic; quite simply, it's beautiful, illustrating the relationships and growth that rise from artistic collaboration.
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Redistricting is a perverse take on that old song, "Hokey Pokey:" you put your right foot in, you take your left foot out.
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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.
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Ms. Peelle entertains in the novel in a folksy way that might lapse more frequently into hokey in a less confident writer's hands.
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The whole thing sounds a little hokey, but if it helps save some zzz's—or a marriage—it might be worth a try.
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Who is only able to speak in self-consciously attributed quotations from humans, which begins to feel a tad hokey by the end.
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These "grad at grad" values, as the Jesuits call them, might sound like a hokey mission statement, but they were taken seriously at Brebeuf.
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By comparison, "Tomorrow Never Knows" is a counterculture manifesto whose hokey interpretations of Tibetan holy texts and Timothy Leary worship haven't exactly aged well.
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Putting the lead foot in and out—the old hokey pokey method—works well to frustrate fighters who are waiting to stomp on it.
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It seemed hokey enough in 1930, in " The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case ," at the end of which our heroes awake from a violent struggle.
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I find it hokey, but it's very efficient if you want to get your exercise so you can stuff yourself later in the day.
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It was the reunion aspect that mattered most, she added, not the trips to Disney World, the jet skiing or the hokey theme nights.
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Rauschenberg had mounted white paintings on the ceiling, and he played what one audience member recalled as "old hokey records" on an antique gramophone.
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Previously seen on jigsaw puzzle boxes around Washington DC, the nightmarishly hokey painting depicts the former reality television host among solidly Republican previous presidents.
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" Asked about the Venice show when it debuted last year, Eli Broad, the philanthropist and museum founder, remarked that it was "kind of hokey.
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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.
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In description, the play's setup sounds hokey, like that of a black-and-white movie thriller with an Oscar-courting star in two roles.
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That entrenched attitude may seem hokey in the Lower 48, but it is etched into the very skin of Alaska residents, winter after winter.
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Klobuchar's authenticity has been at the center of her rise of late but it all seemed too hokey and too forced this time around.
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The novel, written by a self-identified white woman, has come under fire for its stereotypical portrayal of Mexican immigrants and hokey Spanish dialogue.
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His fix for that, moving the DNA one way and the proteins that it produces another, amounts to a kind of subcellular hokey pokey.
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It's an almost hokey touch — especially because there's already a beautiful, digital RPM hockey stick on the instrument cluster just inches behind the steering wheel.
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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.
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If that sounds a little hokey to you, it probably should, with the qualifier being that Sane is so into it that it works well.
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ANONYMOUS, N.J. This may sound hokey, but my parties are much better when I surrender (a little) and give up my instinct to control everything.
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He admits that, while it felt hokey at first, eventually he was visualizing his races and reading a chapter of Once a Runner every night.
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The entire thing is crass and the trailer has a hokey quality that feels a bit like the sizzle reel of a basic cable infomercial.
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It's done it for hokey family sitcoms, for cable news, for weird game shows, for bleak antihero dramas — and now for the prestige finale rollout.
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I know it sounds really hokey and vaguely religious, but it's what helps me personally, and it's something I allow myself to believe because it helps.
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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.
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The chattering barbarians get cut down by the advanced culture of the conquerors; the short is a few hokey-looking costumes away from a historical tableau.
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Those 25 human editors, scattered around the world, are tasked with "creating, cultivating and curating" — an alliterative mission that even Roth acknowledged is a little hokey.
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Mueller has given us the truth of what Trump has done, and in that sense the hokey faith the Resistance put in him was not misplaced.
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The story's characters say deliciously hokey things like "We have word the Order of the White Camellia is active in the city," and it is irresistible.
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Some of its high jinks have a hokey, silly, old-fashioned mad-scientist feeling to them, especially when the dinosaurs are chasing people or vice versa.
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"The Git Up" is the Hokey Pokey, the Hustle, the Macarena (which is not, in fact, about a dance, though it was popularized via a dance).
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It's hokey, sure, but it also seems so inexpressibly comforting that even in the horrors of Gilead, you can turn on the radio and hear Oprah!
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In part because the accompanying book is short enough to keep viewers' attention focused on the paintings, the exhibit manages to stay intriguing rather than hokey.
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And anyone who thinks that Lady Liberators sounds too hokey to ever make it to the big screen, Mark Ruffalo suggested "The Fevengers" and was quickly dismissed.
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The fourth edition of the VR headset gives the device a cool new look, replacing the hokey white body (with black accents) with a midnight blue chassis.
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They don't need the product, don't understand anyone else's need for it, and they think the main issue is the loud and hokey-looking guy selling it.
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Overall, the app is a bit hokey and doesn't really offer much gameplay backstory, but the sound effects are fun and the controls are simple and obvious.
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The dramatic tension built up by this dialogue with the audience disappears when Moore segues to a hokey segment of what he'd do if he were president.
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But AHS has always had a problem with hokey characters and mismatched ideas, B-plots that get abandoned, gratuitous, stylized sexual violence, and odd notions about race.
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Natalie showed me to my room, a simple dormitory-like space with hokey pastoral paintings on the walls, a few pieces of wicker furniture, and little else.
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While I'm sure some wrote Ramesh's lines, I refuse to believe anyone other than Shoukath Ansari himself came up with his Vogue-meets-the Hokey-Pokey poses.
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Having goals can be healthy, not hokey, and allows you to set intentions to move forward in your relationship, while keeping you from stagnating, Dr. Zeising says.
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Sure, the tech isn't top notch—it's basically the same "shooting gallery" you see in hokey Western restaurants—but it's primarily for kids and so good-natured.
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However, because synth sounds in the 80s were a little hokey, his post-retirement work sounds quite dated; Tutu (1986) is the highlight of this Miles era.
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Clearly peaking, (it was 1997, after all) Novak's tour suggested sniffing paint and doing the hokey-pokey, but only after keeping the first three minutes entirely accurate.
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Instead, it rides on the edge of hokey (the snapping and scatting) and settles for cute (a bit of Esther Williams-style water ballet on dry ground).
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Sartori's God is male, jokey and, in Frederika Randall's translation, fairly hokey, with a colloquial diction out of the 1950s and a propensity to wink and nudge.
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The plot dissolves into incoherence: in one scene Johnson, Blair, Thatcher and Churchill perform the hokey-cokey; in another, Johnson gets into a televised punch-up with Gove.
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It's both as manipulative and hokey as that sounds, but occasionally it works well enough that you might find yourself getting choked up against your better judgment. B-
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It can be kind of hokey, but no one's getting hurt, everyone appears to be enjoying themselves, and every now and then, some good old fashioned fun emerges.
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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.
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But those multifingered swipes have always seemed giant and ungainly, simian, and a bit hokey at best when you have to lift an arm up to the screen.
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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.
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Some, like "Working in the Coal Mine," could be downright hokey, playing on post-war commercial ditties to distort Lee Dorsey's 1966 original into an eerie capitalist commentary.
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It might sound hokey, and Donovan sometimes comes across as if he could give a keynote in motivational speaking, but he wanted the players to know that he cared.
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If Gossage hit a straight flush on the river at the World Series of Poker with David Price money on the table, he might just do the hokey pokey.
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The official conference is as dull as ditchwater: wooden speeches by politicians and hokey testimonials from "ordinary people" about how this or that government scheme had helped them out.
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But where The Pioneer Woman is drenched with hokey sentimentality for old-fashioned life on the farm, Girl Meets Farm boasts a winky playfulness that I find incredibly captivating.
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When you look back at the original series, it feels in many ways retro, even hokey (and that's the price you pay for influencing everything that comes after you).
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We just created a really comfortable environment where artists trusted us because of our backgrounds, and brands were able to get integrated without feeling hokey or over the top.
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Sounds hokey, doesn't it, like 3-D glasses or one of those gimmicks that the moviemaker William Castle touted in the 1950s, using names like Percepto and Illusion-O.
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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.
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This feature also really seems like the early stages of something that could lead to more sophisticated advertiser profiles, but at the moment the questions are honestly pretty hokey.
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The pilot episode was eventually released on iTunes, and it is readily available for those who want to experience the rough C.G.I., hokey dialogue, and mid-2000s bleached hairstyles.
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His co-host is Bill Sorensen, a former mayor of Bismarck who specializes in genially hokey humor, the kind designed to make the children in the audience laugh, too.
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First appearing in the late 230s, these hokey sculptures were sold as three-dimensional greeting cards, each embodying a different emotion, phrase, or sentiment, from the saccharine to the irreverent.
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The hokey restaging of recent political history -- including protest signs reading "Join the Conversation"-- was instantly attacked on the Internet for its insensitivity, specifically to the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Yes, back in the '80s, a talking car with AI built-in seemed far-fetched, and very futuristic — but even when the original "Knight Rider" was on, it was hokey.
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And though Biden had what appeared to be a dossier of opposition research at his thumb, Booker did what he does best: He uttered a hokey yet easily quotable analogy.
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There's a somewhat hokey saying among outdoor enthusiasts that goes, "Take only pictures, leave only footprints," and while unstated, I assume this applies to hauling your literal crap out, too.
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It is a spot that is both exclusive and a little hokey, where those with jet-setter schedules, gilded tastes and an appreciation for luxury, models and discretion come together.
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Crawling on the floor, the performers press their hands, fingers spread, to the back wall like lizards; when upright, they swoop and lunge with a longing that feels increasingly hokey.
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This is one of those roles, and yet it is also the perfect role, one that finds him screaming the lyrics to "Hokey Pokey" while destroying his home with a sledgehammer.
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For years, he has dispensed hokey sayings about his mom, who he eulogized in 2010 as "Heroic in her ideals but solid in her expectations," and his dad, an unlucky businessman.
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I'd like to preemptively beg forgiveness for the following phrase, but Unforgettable is one film that does not deserve to be forgotten — or, more pressingly, remembered as a hokey camp artifact.
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Rather, the awards show gained most of its star power from a slew of inanimate objects, from the gag book Aziz Ansari read in the audience to Jonah Hill's hokey bear hat.
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No matter how much I make fun of it, I can't get that song out of my head — the one that sounds so hokey but tells it so plain: Who can survive?
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" Though Fierstein has taken much of the text from his subject's speeches and writings — inserting hokey segues like "Speaking of buttons" and "Oh what fun we had with that wacky Joe McCarthy!
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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.
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I, for one, think a woman can play a bullwhip-wielding doctor who saves the world without a hokey feminized name, but especially in the case of Indiana Jones, it's literally not necessary!
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Not old in a stale or hokey way, but in a classic way, the way Abbott and Costello or the Marx Brothers can still have you rolling on the floor after 75 years.
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If The Allman Brothers Band's songs sound a bit cliche or even hokey now, that's only because of how foundational they were for the next 50 years of music that came after them.
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It was basically Cena's last shot, and he debuted it in a Halloween skit while dressed as Vanilla Ice, betraying a certain self-awareness on everyone's part that the gimmick was always hokey.
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Her instructors suggested she remove it, freeing the work of the hokey symbolism that afflicted most of the other 1,420 projects, many of which Reston illustrates, surely to the chagrin of their authors.
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No one from her past seems remotely on her level, and even her new love interest, Clyde (Jake Lacy, perhaps ringing more "Girls" bells than the show would want), seems hokey in comparison.
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I also believe, not to sound too hokey or hippy-dippy, that we're all reflections of one another, and that everyone can relate to stories and to artists, whether queer or straight or whatever.
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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.
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" GRAHAM BROOKS "The movie did an amazing job tackling a controversial subject for children (death), highlighting specific details from another culture, and the depth needed to portray it so beautifully, without making it hokey.
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That might sound hokey, but it highlights a basic challenge for any external actor in China today: how to convey new ideas and criticism to a government that is increasingly set in its ways.
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R. Kelly's got a full plate of problems right now -- but at least he also had a full plate of decent grub while he was in the hokey waiting to be released on bond.
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But even with stories this hokey, the series retained an essential charm, because of the durability of its cast and characters, and because both its head and its heart were always in the right place.
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This may sound a bit hokey, but like great dance, Basil Twist's musical puppetry blurs the line between the eye and the ear; the dancing feathers intensify the experience of Berlioz's score and vice versa.
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Some displays, like the truffle garden outside, were completely hokey: Of course, truffles didn't actually grow there, the guide had explained with a laugh, they were simply buried in the ground for truffle-hunting demonstrations.
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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.
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The New Zealand-made Tip Top ice cream would be sold in 2 liter tubs identical to those sold domestically and come in six flavors, including a honeycomb variety popular in New Zealand called 'hokey pokey'.
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This week they gave us a HOKEY medical emergency plot, yet another conversation between a woman and a disinterested animal, and a very odd North by Northwest visual reference that didn't really do it for me.
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It sounds dizzying, but the multiple story lines are dexterously juggled and well paced, even if the joints between the novel's 10 sections are a little creaky, with flashback-priming segues out of a hokey screenplay.
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In isolation, these paintings are striking, but I can see how exhibiting them alongside Harris's later works would have the effect of diminishing their visual impact and heightening the risk of eliciting an almost hokey theatricality.
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For much of Dillashaw and Cruz's fights, they don't present that leg, or they will do the hokey pokey, putting that lead foot in, out and shaking it all about until their opponent swings and misses.
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And yet of all the American Realness shows I attended, this one — often hokey, sometimes profound — made me think the most about the insides and outsides of bodies, about social perception and the experiences of others.
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"A few years ago, sleeper sofas were all very heavy and hokey, because in order to fit that mechanism inside, the base had to be so thick," said Janice Barta, an interior designer in Los Angeles.
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On "It Must Have Been Love," the ballad that was Roxette's biggest hit, it verged on melodrama, but never felt hokey — singing at her outer limit, she rendered the song with a kind of affectionate bombast.
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Up to that point, my familiarity with The Beach Boys was limited to a synch in Look Who's Talking; I'd never been to California, and thought they were some hokey, uncool oldies band that people's parents liked.
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There are stories that justify these valuations, this time as ever, the most recent being that companies in the U.S. have become more effective, through technology, regulatory hokey-pokey or other means at insulating themselves from competition.
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Who knows if that's hokey nonsense or not; the point is, don't be too surprised if you see this group gel together and make a run at the division, despite their slightly weaker roster on the whole.
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This hokey effort by the government probably won't get young Americans excited about the fundamentally unsustainable program, but millennials are already ironically taking part in the celebration by being saddled with debt from this outdated federal system.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 gave us a hokey, frustrating, and largely feature-less bit of non-verisimilitude cloaked in a grubby, era-appropriate model of the original Eastman Kodak box (shout out to the artists on that).
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Mostly I delivered to frat houses, so that job forced me to get over my own embarrassment about driving a tacky van and wearing a hokey uniform and doing my job while other people were having fun.
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In December, amid speculation he was dropping the slogan, Trump stated that although he had originally found the phrase "hokey," the public loved it so much that it grew on him, and that he would continue using it.
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It's just cheesy and hokey, but if [David] Lynch came up to Dylan and I and was like: 'I have this creepy project that involves twins,' I'd be hard-pressed to think Dylan and I would say no.
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One way to do that — and this may sound a little hokey — is to use emoji, or the hashtag #BeStrong, these symbols of compassion, support, empathy for the person who is on the receiving end [of bullying behavior].
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Usually the dinner passes in a flurry of photos and articles about who wore what, which celebrity sat at which publication's table and a recounting of the hokey jokes told by whichever safe comedian they wangled into hosting.
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Isabelle's search for love lacks the satisfying ending of a typical romantic movie, but there's a sense of learning, and even a sense of optimism, however hokey Depardieu's medium feels (maybe this is the optimist in me speaking).
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Theranos may have attracted consumers with the promise of fixing something that was so broken it demanded a solution—much like Goop's hokey product line that has found a market by relying on the failures of women's healthcare.
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It sounds hokey, but taking a deeper look at this entrepreneur's wisdom, backed up by her own story and training in psychology, might just make you want to pull up a Google spreadsheet and give your budget another chance.
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But unlike some apps on the market today, 21.4% Happier aims to be meditation for the "rest of us" – that is, those who are turned off by the idea, thinking it's some kind of hokey, hippie, crystal-waving practice.
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Klobuchar did her hokey midwestern thing that probably read as more relatable outside the borders of Brooklyn -- and she powerfully illustrated her points with memorable anecdotes, emphasizing that her campaign is about people as much as it is issues.
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It's there on the hokey song (with an unprintable title) about imagining a world in which white people were treated the way black people are now ("Hope you know how to fight crime, 911's no longer your lifeline").
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I'm not saying hokey merch should be given an "all good" simply because I've indulged in it, but maybe I should do others the courtesy of giving their chosen presentation of values and beliefs some more generous critical thought.
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At one point, standing in the stark white room with four of her sculptures, I was reminded of the hokey science fiction plot in which time has collapsed and the camera pans talismanic objects to evoke an unknown culture.
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The reality is that I'm a caretaker for a part that will be somebody else's someday, but there's no doubt that—not to sound too hokey—as long as I have it, I'll respect it and think it's really awesome.
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And Neil Gorsuch, the newest justice, used a hokey riff on his steak seasoning to deride the plaintiffs' approach as "a pinch of this, a pinch of that", with too little guidance for how to apply the test in practice.
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The strength coaches, in turn, define their jobs over the summer less around conditioning and more around character, which, as hokey as it can sound to the unseasoned ear, may end up defining how a team performs under late-season pressure.
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" Jason Reynolds, a writer of children's and young-adult books, says Woodson has spent her career challenging the industry to help children understand themselves and their surroundings: "It doesn't have to be this hokey, you know, apple-pie type of story.
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Sure, feel-good slogans about "Morning in America" and "Hope and Change" can come off as naïve or hokey, but there's something to be said for a positive vision, especially when the alternative is 18 months of vicious political knife-fighting.
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" The extension is super sensitive, meaning you'll almost certainly get a lot of false positives when you use it — the extension tried to block me from Priceless Misc's homepage, informing me that "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for spoilers, kid.
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The pair seems to believe in the Force as an actual (hokey) religion — Malbus, perhaps, a little more disillusioned than Chirrut — and while it's unclear if they possess Force abilities or just believe in the concept, there's clearly more to be explored here.
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It's hard to talk critically about this stuff — girls and young women, manipulated images, and the implicit assumption of what those images are doing to their self-esteem — without coming off as a little bit hokey, or at the very least tiresome.
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The movie could be about grace and vengeance, but they're presented as hoary lessons and hokey contrivances — happening upon a deer, sharing your orange juice with the madman who tried to murder you, juxtaposing the reading of an inspirational letter with an inferno.
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His book "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" has sold a million copies, combining hokey self-help bromides, like "Make friends with people who want the best for you," with cosmic explanations drawn from Babylonian myths or from Darwinian biology.
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"Four Weddings and a Funeral" asks us to buy a lot of hokey nonsense, and sure, I'll accept people being way too good at dressing up for costume parties and having laughably stupid habits of writing longhand letters that never get sent.
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"Four Weddings and a Funeral" asks us to buy a lot of hokey nonsense, and sure, I'll accept people being way too good at dressing up for costume parties and having laughably stupid habits of writing longhand letters that never get sent.
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Hicks retains an air of coy mystery while talking vaguely of "charitable endeavors" and time served in the military—but even with the production team's ruses, it's hokey as hell, and later in the series Copeland realizes the deception and is duly sent home.
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Arrival announces itself as a procedural, at least somewhat rooted in the real world, and it even walks you through its specific trade tools in a somewhat hokey but basically plausible way—by which I mean, Amy Adams literally gives a speech about pronouns.
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Spirituality has always been a prominent part of the Star Wars universe, from Han Solo dismissing the force as a "hokey religion" in 1977, to more explicitly organized versions of the Jedi Order in 2016's Rogue One and the most recent The Last Jedi.
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Halloween's praise is well deserved, but what stands out most about it is how well it wraps these themes into itself without straying even for a moment away from its status as a cheap little genre pic, perfectly in line with its hokey predecessors.
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In addition to the fresh approach — which includes swearing and hokey graphics, making it the antithesis of "Chef's Table," another Netflix foodie hit — it's a really interesting examination of Asian-American culture, and what parts of that culture are so rarely represented on television.
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But the accumulating impression is of a monotony that isn't really disturbed by the rather hokey crashes of thunder in the score or the plastic-tube furniture and transparent panels that are lowered on wires to hover for a moment before rising and retreating.
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While the United States has "honeycomb" and New Zealand has "hokey pokey," South Korea calls its spongy toffee candy "dalgona" or ppopgi, a candy that's made by heating sugar, oil, and baking soda; mixing until it's thick and fluffy; then letting the mixture harden.
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Yet his process is transparent, not guarded, and it's even a little hokey through its earnest use of materials and structural simplicity, as he doesn't want the illusion to persist, returning our attention to his role as the artist or the lead magician of sorts.
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On the whole, however, the movie looks exactly like what you'd expect: a little hokey, a little dramatic, but a whole lot of fun to watch along with literally the rest of the world, because we can't get enough of Harry and Meghan, even the fake ones.
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This is a much more internalized part of King's narrative, and it could make for much less compelling drama — just look at the 1990 miniseries adaptation, which worked brilliantly when it focused on the children but felt hokey and forced when it shifted to the adults.
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But the second, more interesting half of the film shelves the populist appeals and hokey doomsday gags for a misty-eyed paean to Clinton that eloquently—even reverently—re-frames the beleaguered candidate as a deserving, patient, ultra-competent politician whose election will empower women worldwide.
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Nabokov, who had quite a rich dream life and often used dreams in his fiction, was briefly taken by a hokey theory that dreams were precognitive, but otherwise he maintained that they were without significance, a stance probably influenced by his extreme antipathy to Freudian theory.
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Ness, who wrote each episode, doesn't help here: Again and again, he takes great but tropey ideas — Buffy-esque family drama, hokey Star Trek-ian puzzle episodes — and fills them with vapid, generic writing that does little but mark time, without any major plot or characterization development.
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There's something cinematic, even self-consciously hokey, about the paces they are put through, with Connell sweeping in repeatedly to rescue Marianne from awful men, most memorably her brother, Alan, a figure of such one-dimensionally motiveless malignity that he seems transported from another book entirely.
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The show, designed by James Morgan as a kitschy American-style Arcadian bower, may sound hokey when it speaks, but when it raises its voice to sing (oh, the bliss of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" and "Old Devil Moon"), it flies to immortal heights.
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As Vox's Todd VanDerWerff has already pointed out, Hodgson has taken great pains to make the new season feel as retro, low-budget, and jocularly hokey as MST3K ever was, while updating the riffs with modern references and a whole new slate of terrible B movies to mock.
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The latest incarnation of the E.T.A. Hoffmann story is Lasse Hallstrom and Joe Johnston's "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms," a hokey oddity that glissades along with a few charms and a pleasant score by James Newton Howard heavily incorporating themes from Tchaikovsky's ballet (though there's little dancing).
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I know it sounds hokey, but, after Charlottesville, I thought about how people really had to fight hard to protect those kinds of values, and how we've made so much progress and yet we know more has to be made—so for God's sakes don't fucking throw the thing in reverse.
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It featured rollercoasters dedicated to Led Zeppelin and The Eagles, a sensory-overloading ride based on The Moody Blues' love song "Nights in White Satin," and live performances from a family of metal-playing bears, called Bear Metal Family (sample lyrics: "Look out, Yogi/step back, Smokey/Country Bears are too hokey-pokey").
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From trippy animations in the 21998s that tried to speak to the era's hep cats by labeling weed "the hoola-hoop of the jet generation," to this 22000 spot featuring a sadly judgmental dog, hokey ads trying to scare or shame teens away from the demon weed have been an eternal TV trope.
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You might be a match for the show if you have a high tolerance for New Age woolgathering, if you consider hokey dialogue and amateurish characterization a fair trade-off for luminous atmosphere, if you enjoy ordering the most exotic item on the season's video menu for the experience of having tasted it.
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The film sometimes pretends to be a classical tragedy about bereavement, motherhood and mental illness, but with its regular scares and its rudimentary plotting, "Hereditary" is fundamentally a hokey Halloween haunted-house chiller, complete with spooks, séances and people who are foolish enough to run upstairs rather than out of the door when they're being chased.
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When: March 3–8 / Thursday: 6–10pm; Friday–Sunday: 11am–22pm ($26) Where: 28 W 210th Street (Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Perhaps more so than any other Armory Week fair, Scope is full of extremes: it includes very sharp conceptual work, legitimately cool street art, kitschy Pop paintings, and laughably hokey art that is trying really hard to be, well, extreme.
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But because shouting about gay rights wasn't an explicit component of Taylor's work until recently — and we should remember her roots are in Nashville, which plays by different rules — the video is seen as more jarring than the arrival of something as bluntly hokey as Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," because Gaga had nurtured her gay audience from her earliest days.
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That's partly because, for viewers of a certain age (ahem), It functions as an effective big-screen time machine: Unlike King's book—which was adapted in the early 1990s as a hokey, if sincere, TV miniseries—this big-screen version takes place in the summer of 1989, a period of ample pop pleasures (Lethal Weapon 2, New Kids on the Block) and zero bike-helmet laws.
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It was a given, of course, that host Chris Rock—whose opening monologue, about the decades-long history between blacks and Hollywood, was just as raw and flawed as it had to be—would serve as a superior host over recent one-and-doners like Neil Patrick Harris (too hokey) and Seth MacFarlane (too bro-key), and that the #OscarsSoWhite controversy would add a layer of necessary tension to the show.
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This includes Lana Del Rey fans who listened carefully to the pop queen's advice on how to hex the president and play with magical orbs inside the Hollywood sign, as well as tarot-readers, hokey emoji spell enthusiasts, serious students, and those who just enjoy a general aesthetic of "witchiness" as it relates to lifestyle blogging, interior design, food, self-help, or internet-y expressions of modern feminism.
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Bruce has treated us to five, rhyming _ _ _ _ Y - _ _ _ _ Y phrases that cross at the middle letter: 17A/3D: "Useful" = HANDY-DANDY 19A/11D: "Snobbish" = HOITY-TOITY 153A/29D: "Sophisticated" = HOTSY-TOTSY 58A/48D: "Affectionate" = LOVEY-DOVEY 60A/51D: "Weak and indecisive" = NAMBY-PAMBY Themes don't get much more straightforward than this, but this is cute and well-crafted, especially since all answers are adjectival phrases as opposed to, say, HOKEY POKEY or LAFFY TAFFY.
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But that will require more networks taking chances on these sorts of shows, more creators who might rather make a single-camera show trying them out (as Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld did when network executives persuaded them to film Seinfeld in front of a live studio audience), more critics and scholars who can write about the shows outside of the context of "old-fashioned with a laugh track," and more viewers who don't write off the form as needlessly hokey.
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Wade; an old Chinese saying; the futile math of working and paying for childcare; single-parenthood; an ad he ran in 1978; universal pre-K; the Violence Against Women Act; how women know the men who respect them and the ones who don't; military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan; medical response times; Agent Orange; PTSD; expanded funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs; that Kim Jung Un "blew his uncle's brains out"; this hokey setup about what's inside the secret box of American ingenuity; our American distaste for orthodoxy; the continuing American immigrant story of optimism, determination, commitment, and absolute resilience; "The Henry Kissinger of Asia"; his interaction with an electrical worker in St. Croix; societal detachment; high school kids breaking up over text; the "good and decent" Mitt Romney; China's one-child policy; and what the Chinese government is doing to the Uighurs.
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