Sentences with phrase «hokey about»

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Think about the Apple store, for instance — would it look half as appealing if it had all the hokey fake wood and exposed brick of an Urban Outfitters?

You put your left poll in, you take your left poll out, you put your right poll in and you shake it all about... and that is how you get the hokey POLLKEY.

First you can, and then not Again you can and your mind is skull f * ucked So you do the hokey - pokey and turn yourself around That's what it's all about.

That strategy applies to the Bible as well and I saved myself much more than $ 12... talk about «hokey nonsense».

You don't see anything deeply inane about basing 21st Century health care policy on the perceived $ exual wishes of some hokey Bronze Age sky - god invented by ignorant Palestinian farmers 2,000 years ago?

An announcer congratulated all the runners and I wondered if some hokey ceremony was about to start, if we were to receive T - shirts or key chains or something.

A hokey and often silly commentary about the medical industry, and corruption within the establishment.

Emerges as an engaging if occasionally hokey inspirational melodrama about the importance of community in the face of life's disappointments.

If that sounds too brittle a dramatic core, Berg tempers the spartan ideal with some pretty hokey but probably authentic touches: the soldiers quote Ron Burgundy, bellyache about domestic chores back home, Skype their families and, in a scene that is later echoed darkly, argue over whether to shave off a comrade's eyebrows as a forfeit.

With its hokey humour, routine acting, and lack of genuine scares, the only thing this supposed «offbeat comic thriller» has going for it is about 10 metres of robotics and foam latex.

Herman Melville, onetime sailor, never set foot on Nantucket before publishing Moby - Dick, but in In The Heart Of The Sea — which adapts Nathaniel Philbrick's non-fiction book about the Essex whaleship disaster as a hokey origin story for Melville's novel — he arrives on the island, hoping to find the man who had been the...

One extraordinary, discombobulating sequence sees the film transform into a Youtube video of a hokey»90s TV movie about a Victor Hugo séance.

The special effects are cheap and hokey but that really isn't the point here; this is all about the laughs and there are plenty to be had.

Jeff Goldblum's queasily eloquent performance as a genetically modified scientist, along with that of Geena Davis as a charmed journalist who becomes worried about him, elevate this remake well above its hokey»50s predecessor.

The extraordinary thing about Pride is that, underneath the mainstream presentation and heartstring - pulling manipulation (which never feels hokey, since it's largely based in fact), it quietly expands the horizons of queer cinema: Gays are portrayed not as frail victims, but as powerful heroes and defenders, and they aren't sexualized in the slightest (sex and romance are virtual non-factors).

With Captain America now firmly ensconced in the 21st century, and apparently no longer required to wear that hokey old 40s stars and stripes costume, the sequel to 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger already has a brusque, confident air of topical currency about it.

Wrote Morris: «The movie could be about grace and vengeance, but they're presented as hoary lessons and hokey contrivances... There's no reckoning with anything, no introspection, just escalating mayhem.»

The movie has a great message about the power of music, and despite the fact that it's very hokey at times, it's also uplifting and moving.

While the Boogeyman plays on a common childhood fear, the conclusion will likely leave more audience members horrified about the price they paid for their ticket than terrified by this hokey closet dweller.

In fact, it took me a little bit to get into it because some of the dialogue is a bit hokey, especially when they're about to sing a song.

«The first thing I would point to about our success, and it may be a bit hokey, but believing that all kids can do it and having high expectations for students when they come in,» Alliance spokesperson Catherine Suitor said.

That hokey cokey pricing does allow the Nissan Murano to give the more upmarket alternatives something to worry about.

Also, the Hokey Pokey, a water taxi service between Placencia and Mango Creek / Independence / Big Creek, runs about every two hours.

You put your Blu - ray in, your Blu - ray out, in, out, in, out, shake it all about, the Xbox Hokey Cokey continues.

With due respect to the Hokey - Pokey... THIS is what it's all about.

Tobias Rehberger's installation, a masterful appropriation of the Venetian art of glassmaking, introduced the exhibition with a recognition of place, history and craftsmanship coupled with a charmingly hokey, Internet - based, multi-city conceit about light and global harmony.

But seriously - you are a TreeHugger because you give a damn about the world around you, and it's a lot more than the Hokey Pokey that gets you out of bed in the morning.

It looked like on of those sappy, hokey forwards when I opened the email about black bear quintuplets.