Sentences with phrase «ya hokum»

Dan McTeague, a former Liberal MP who runs tomorrowsgaspricetoday.com, says the Long Weekend Price Gouging Theory is hokum.

Scheer had been noticeably tightlipped about Trump's exit; some Conservative supporters were pretty happy that Trump was giving the bum's rush to climate science they view as hokum, while others had, well, supported Michael Chong and his carbon taxes for the Conservative leadership.

Carbon dating and such seems like hokum.

So a proven, verified, science is hokum to you, but a book written by ignorant men all about god magic makes sense?

At some point they met reason and figured out it was all a bunch of hokum with no more reason to believe in it than any other god or religion.

There is no way of knowing how many people have given up the practice of prayer because it seemed to them hokum — in plain language «the bunk» — but the number must run into many millions.

True — a lot of it is indeed hokum, Deepak Chopra type stuff, but it is far, far better than being a Bible believing Christian or Koran believing Muslim.

Disbelieving a bunch of credible evidence and disbelieving a bunch of hokum are two different forms of disbelief.

All of that science stuff is really hokum for people like you who are above that sort of nonsense.

Of course it means nothing if you think it's all hokum.

Now for the hokum: his claim that there are no persisting internal desires in the vast majority of men and women that are properly ordered toward others of the opposite sex.

Much of the recent literature about Jesus is pure hokum.

It's the same thing and it's all hokum.

Michael Hannon's essay was the most volatile mixture of truth and hokum I have read in a long time.

The beginnings were hilarious — and profitable - but then hokum took over as Hollywood made hundreds of sport movies, most of them stinkeroos

The hokum comes thick and fast.

Ho ho hokum.

And we found that mischaracterizations, overreaching rhetoric, and folksy hokum are essential ingredients of every American campaign.

Evangelists say it has the power to upend entire economic systems; others, such as Emin Gün Sirer, a blockchain researcher at Cornell University, warn that while the technical core is «fascinating and disruptive, there's also a lot of hokum out there.»

First, he says, it is hard to find real cases, since many turn out to be «hokum.»

HARDGAINER is free of mainstream hokum, but crammed with practical advice, and wisdom, to show you what really works for drug - free bodybuilders and strength trainees with normal genetics and busy lives.

I ask because I've noticed that on many failed attempts to follow this 100g intake, I always become hypoglycemic (or just develop every symptom of it — shaking, lightheaded, can't concentrate) and disregard the carb intake as hokum — raising it to attenuate whatever symptoms the relative lack of them induced.

In its final lap The Winning Season collapses into a sentimental farce that even Mr. Rockwell, now playing the clown, can not redeem from cringe - inducing hokum.

The kind of manipulative, cliché - infested hokum that alienates moviegoers by its insistence on hogging all the tears.

A caper flick grafted onto historical events, a winking inside - showbiz satire and an exercise in inspirational patriotism, Argo is a movie of many parts, the sum of which can probably be best described as enjoyable Hollywood hokum.

It's not that the climax is over the top hokum, but rather that it deals with human reactions that play false given the realism (an interesting term considering that this is a ghost story) that has gone on before.

To the notion of battling robots the filmmakers have taken two parts Rocky and one part The Champ (either the 1931 or 1979 version), and cobbled together an exercise in Hollywood hokum.

Most of its 101 minutes are filled with routine slasher scenes and flecks of pop - Freudian hokum about why the infamous Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) is such a murderously unhappy guy.

Earnestly ersatz down to every spangle, dance move, plot turn, and line of hokum dialogue, Burlesque is a showbiz pic for these American Idol times - a time when we agree to pretend that mediocre mimicry of better artists is good enough to keep us entertained.

This is gloriously self - aware hokum, a fantasy movie that is, above all, about our need for fantasy and escapism — and even our need for movies like The Astronaut Farmer — to help us combat the depression and disappointments of the everyday.

moments that the movie starts to play like an unintended parody of overblown hokum.

Amid the special effects and general hokum of its storyline, Black Panther retains its edge.

«Casanova» only gets into trouble when it wants to mean something, and the more pointedly emotional moments seem cooked up to the point of hokum, but it's fun when it wants to be, and most of the time it just wants to be fun.

The whole idea of humans only being able to use 10 % of their brains is a lot of hokum, with Besson suggesting that as Lucy is able to use more of her brain (with us frequently getting titles telling us what level she's at — video - game style) she'll essentially become invulnerable.

The problem for Mr. Krieger is that his film has been trying to dazzle us with all manner of sleight of hand and hokum and now undertakes the construction of a conventional romance.

As nuts - and - bolts politics, Dave is softheaded hokum.

Beyond his struggles with an unwieldy accent and the screenplay's hokum, Mr. Pitt gives a sincere if labored performance enhanced by a sense of genuine struggle.

Director Jake Schreier and author John «The Fault in Our Stars» Green lay the Manic Pixie Dream Girl to rest in this insidious piece of YA hokum starring Cara Delevingne as an enigmatic free spirit.

Convinced that all magic is for show and all spiritualism is hokum, Stanley observes the glamorous Sophie Baker (Emma Stone) at work, only to fall under her spell, and question his lifelong disavowal of love and metaphysics.

The film is complete historical hokum of course.

The story, for what it's worth, is largely hokum; its main objective is to give the developers an excuse to have these almost entirely unconnected characters all on the same battlefield.

The opposing forces are a direct reflection of the challenge undertaken by director and co-writer Craig Brewer, who only half sells out as he tries to leave an auteur's mark while remaining faithful to a source that's loaded with dated, studio - friendly hokum.

While some humorous amusement is to be had from these lighter threads, they degenerate into the manipulative, melodramatic hokum of those sappy «very special episodes» of sitcoms or, in the case of David, disease - themed afterschool specials.

This punishingly predictable tale will test whether sci - fi action fanboys can stomach having their cherished genre infiltrated by sentimental hokum about a down - on - his - luck dad and his spunky long - lost son.

The plot — some hokum about young bikers in a remote house terrorised by a demonic 1950s gang — is well - nigh incomprehensible.

It's pure Hollywood hokum, with the Vikings reduced to pagan cartoon barbarians who make sport of terrorizing women and take pride in the torture and murder — the fact that Janet Leigh's character lives in constant threat of sexual assault makes for uneasy viewing when the film plays it as some kind of «Taming of a Shrew» situation — but it is spectacular hokum.

Serena - «something you'd expect to find on some TV channel specialising in melodrama and period hokum»

As a result, the story of would - be lumber magnate George Pemberton (Cooper) and his strange, controlling wife Serena (Lawrence) resembles something you'd expect to find on the outer fringes of some TV channel specialising in amped - up melodrama and period hokum.

This dodgy haunted house hokum brings a whole new meaning to the phrase «get down the bleeding stairs».

The Age Of Adaline's central premise is preposterous, but its justification for that premise is brilliant: The unseen forces keeping its titular beauty preserved as an unaging 29 - year - old are not chalked up as strange magic or spiritual hokum.