Sentences with phrase «hokey at»

Q: I was fascinated with the structure of your book, which I found tedious and hokey at first, but I grew to like it.

I was fascinated with the structure of the book, which I found tedious and hokey at first, but I grew to like the intriguing and novel approach.

I did think the idea of having Alfre Woodard play a grieving mother who blames Tony Stark / Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and the Avengers for the death of her son, both affecting and hokey at the same time.

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.

It definitely got a little hokey at parts but never enough to take me out of the experience.

Tidy little morality play is hokey at times but the star pair have chemistry to burn and both look great.

Yes, it does seem pretty hokey at first blush.

Not exact matches

Do you honestly think that hokey picture of Jesus knocking at the door, holding up his lamp by William Hunt (an English Victorian) is an historical depiction?

or have dodgy social or political origins, whether it is Jack and Jill who were definitely up to more than drawing water, Goosy goosy gander making snide sideswipes at the Jesuits, Ring a ring o» roses listing the symptoms of bubonic plague or the hokey cokey parodying the Mass..

Today, too many of us roll our eyes at evangelism strategies, calling them hokey and ineffective, and, instead of coming up with other evangelism strategies, we just don't evangelize.

I have very little doubt that our generation will be looked back upon with jaw - dropping incredulity by future historians who will marvel at how, in the 21st century, having peered at the mind numbing infinity from Hubble, delved into the quantum irrationality of CERN and unraveled the beautiful simplicity of the DNA codons, we still made important life decisions based upon the presumed wishes of some hokey, invisible, all - powerful sky - fairy dreamed up by some illiterate Arab tribesmen in a tent in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

It found prayer was not effective, and even less effective than the hokey quack medicine «techniques» which at least helped people by giving them positive human attention.

The GM debate at times seems much like the Hokey Cokey (or Pokey, if you're US - based).

That will now happen when pigs do the hokey pokey.Liberal Keynesian Paul Krugman and George Will went at it Sunday.

At the risk of sounding hokey, you are in my prayers.

«When I first met Markus at a conference in 2006,» recalls Mark Brooks, a consultant for the Internet - dating business, «he said, «I'm going to be the biggest dating site in the U.S.» I pooh - poohed his hokey little site.

OPW Interview — Feb 21, 2006 — I met Markus at iDate2005 and barely gave him the time of day; a hokey little site called Plentyoffish.

Don't worry if you have «two left feet» - I spent six years training at the Gangnam - Style School of Dance, and can teach you how to do the hokey pokey for a nominal fee

OPW INTERVIEW — June 30, 2006 — I met Markus at iDate2005 and barely gave him the time of day; a hokey little site called Plentyoffish.

«When I first met Markus at a conference in 2006,» recalls Mark Brooks, a New York - based consultant for the Internet - dating business, «he said, «I'm going to be the biggest dating site in the U.S.» I pooh - poohed his hokey little site.

Do nt worry if you have two left feet - I spent six years training at the Gangnam - Style School of Dance, and can teach you how to do the hokey pokey for a.

At first it was fun in a hokey, over-the-top way, but it gets ridiculous to the point of being annoying eventually.

Hokey dialogue mars the otherwise stellar presentation and flight sim fans will balk at the simplistic controls.

MTV's big swing at epic fantasy is a lot of hokey bombast, wasted on a cast of callow babes in the exotic woods.

Dustin wages a one - man campaign against Global while at the same time waging a (hokey) war with Steve for the affections of a local schoolteacher (Rosemarie DeWitt).

The actual combat mechanics that define the game seem hokey and ridiculous at first.

The acting isn't always the best, nor the behavior of the characters at times, but the two leads are entertaining enough to forgive the hokey qualities of rest of the film.

Devotees of Cage at his most unhinged won't want to miss his performance here, during the course of which he smashes a pool table to smithereens with a sledgehammer while singing «The Hokey Pokey.»

The backstory is so unnecessary in Rodriguez» mind that there's a hilarious gag involving a missing reel that happens at the climax of an appropriately hokey sex scene and bypasses key plot points.

It's not unbearably horrible, but at times the dialogue came across as hokey and cheesy.

One could at least give the script by Schenk (Turkey Shoot, Barquero) and Simon (Phase IV, Marooned) some credit for taking the basic premise into a different direction, but not when that direction is this predictable and hokey.

At its best the film has the endearingly hokey qualities of a late Eighties straight - to - video romp.

These three possibilities are somewhat at odds with one another: the interpersonal relationships of Walsh's truckers on the Warners back lot are far from the closeted group dynamics of Hawks's aviators within a metaphysical void conjured out of hokey sets at Columbia, while Kubrick's film focuses on the relationship between humans and their artifacts.

Hostage pulls out some hokey and sentimental moments, and it can get silly at times.

The concept was hokey — gargoyles come to life at night and fight crime.

The acting is capable and the suspense is effective at times, but the gore is grisly and the climax is surprisingly hokey.

As Horacia puts two and two together at a key point late in the film, Diaz gives his own spin on a hokey, century - old visual trope by placing the entire scene out of focus; his heroine only comes into sharp definition as she walks away, toward the camera.

No hokey out - of - place intro sequences like that at the beginning of Superman III, for example.

Did You Know: Guests at Babe's Chicken Dinner House enjoy some of the best home - style cooking around, but you'll need to bring your dancing shoes if you want to join in when the wait staff does the Hokey Pokey.

Hokey dialogue mars the otherwise stellar presentation and flight sim fans will balk at the simplistic controls.

It's not unbearably horrible, but at times the dialogue came across as hokey and cheesy.

[KG] I will answer with one of my favorite quotes of all time, «Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.»

The voice acting keeps you engaged, especially when you get to hear the voice of Elijah Wood providing Shay's adolescent voice and Jack Black does a good job at playing a hokey, laid back prophet.

In the final gallery at MoMA, a slide show pays homage to this, his last major work, in an earnest, if a bit hokey, presentation.

It feels a bit hokey to make nature paintings, so I'm trying to play up the kitschy imagery; at the same time, I am sincerely interested in delving into all the diversity and visual richness of plants.

The serpentlike form was borderline hokey, something you might find in a puppet theater or at a child's birthday party.

At a glans the 2009 graph by Mann et al. doesn't look anything like the «hokey stick» (or are the most recent decades still differing from the others?).

At risk of sounding hokey, I like to «greet the day» by stepping outside on the porch, looking at the sky, feeling the temperature (which saves me checking on my phone later to know how I should dress), and simply taking a moment to see how the day feelAt risk of sounding hokey, I like to «greet the day» by stepping outside on the porch, looking at the sky, feeling the temperature (which saves me checking on my phone later to know how I should dress), and simply taking a moment to see how the day feelat the sky, feeling the temperature (which saves me checking on my phone later to know how I should dress), and simply taking a moment to see how the day feels.

At any rate, I'll simply point you to Google Street View, a new feature imposed on Google Maps (hat tip to beSpacific) where you'll find a video featuring a Google engineer dressed up in a body suit and required to act out a hokey tutorial.