Sentences with phrase «hokey in»

The story sequences themselves have a laugh here and there, but they're also a little hokey in spots.

The story is good, as is the world it creates, but the writing can get a bit hokey in places and doesn't quite work overall.

While that may seem a little hokey in a world where dreams don't always come true, Turbo's success can't happen without the support of others.

There is of course some CGI present throughout which tends to swing from being reasonable (looking back now), to a bit hokey in places, bit plastic looking.

Not exact matches

The hokey slogan has long invited mockery, most famously in a series of skits on Rock et Belles Oreilles (think Kids in the Hall in French).

«We wanted to lift it up out of the hokey, corny wrestling in school gyms with guys in ill - fitting bathing suits.

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.

It actually sounds really hokey... but when you try to put it in practice, it's really powerful.

Belief in hokey religions and fairy tales shows that our leaders do not have those skills.

To someone determined to be cynical, it would have sounded sentimental, antiquated, even hokey — especially since it was sung by four young men in orange suits, faces trimmed with lush mustaches, each sporting his own unattached hand microphone.

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.

In a half - hour, they have to convert you (which trivializes what conversion means), heal you (which is hokey), promise success (people on the shows have overcome alcoholism, are Miss America, or play in the NFL), and entertain (so they find ever more expensive sets with more fountains and glamour (which detract from the world of the sufferingIn a half - hour, they have to convert you (which trivializes what conversion means), heal you (which is hokey), promise success (people on the shows have overcome alcoholism, are Miss America, or play in the NFL), and entertain (so they find ever more expensive sets with more fountains and glamour (which detract from the world of the sufferingin the NFL), and entertain (so they find ever more expensive sets with more fountains and glamour (which detract from the world of the suffering.)

Exactly, how many days / weeks are we going to keep churning the same old Wenger in Wenger out hokey cokey.

Singing «Ring Around the Rosie» or «The Hokey Pokey» with other young children can increase the child's interest in joining in musical play.

bumper sticker seen in historic Saratoga Springs, NY ***** Liberal / progressive bloggers proclaim that the teabaggers did the hokey pokey on Obama.Liberal Robert Reich was given airtime on last night's PBS Newshour.

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

In their first press conference together — a media call - cum - tirade against the Trump tax plan — Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York and Gov. - elect Phil Murphy of New Jersey expressed a chumminess that bordered on hokey.

I know it sounds hokey, but I believe that ideas are swirling around in the ethers and they will «visit» the artists and creators they know are the most reliable to carry them out.

In addition to doing the shower hokey pokey, I take adaptogenic herbs to further improve my stress response.

«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.

Bailey documents sources from Margaret Mead to advertisings hokey hype in her.

«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.

«We're being reared on the notion of our own individuality and the belief that we need tools and filters to find other like - minded individuals, rather than put our faith in supposedly hokey old adages like «opposites attract»,» says Mintel's Richard Cope.

... a small, straightforward story that has its heart in the right place, even if its hokey sentimentality keeps it from reaching the finish line.

Hokey doesn't begin to describe the inanity, the tedium, the utter lack of originality in Dean Pitchford's script.

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

There's a lot of hokey fun in old pulp stories like Burroughs», but John Carter fails to capture any of that charm.

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

Rosemary's Baby gets the sci - fi treatment in this hokey supernatural thriller from the Twilight Zone school.

In fact I enjoyed it a lot more than most of the original trilogy, although much of this is down to natural progression with special effects and much less hokey - ass CGI laden action sequences.

The much - discussed choice to record the actors singing live, instead of laying track over in post, pays off handsomely; the musical numbers are urgent and natural, not the warmed - over, hokey, slick stuff of Nine or Rock of Ages.

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

Add to this some really vomit inducing romance with Picard, really hokey sets, really fake plastic looking props, hokey fights and the very annoying practically perfect farm civilisation in their typically «I'm a goodie» beige / white loose fit garments.

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.

Amy Irving stars as a widowed English teacher wooed by a suave lawyer (Antonio Fagundes), and there are other lovelorns all loose ly connected by friendships who figure in the plot's stubbornly hokey romantic turns.

I thought the translation in the demo was hokey to say the least which doesn't bode well for a game heavily reliant on text.

The first half hour of The Searchers is embarrassingly hokey, with stilted dialogue and goofy characters that are portrayed in over-the-top fashion to provide moments of comedy.

It's also a vast improvement on the 2001 original starring Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, and a pre-Bond Daniel Craig — which, revisited, has the distinct whiff of late - night»90s Cinemax: erotic slow - mo shower scenes, hokey digital effects, prancing villains in George Hamilton tans.»

WHY: It's been over 100 years since Edgar Rice Burroughs published his first Tarzan novel and nearly half that long since the character was last relevant in pop culture, and that's because it's a relatively hokey premise that's firmly rooted in the sensibilities of a bygone era.

Unfortunately, there's a reason Tarzan hasn't succeeded in recent times, and that's because it's a largely hokey premise that is firmly rooted in the sensibilities of a bygone era.

(This film also includes the infamous «Wilhelm scream» which is a kooky hokey scream sound effect used hundreds of times in various films.

However, like the camera movements in general, these dramatic tilts are so hasty and exaggerated that the effect is mostly hokey.

The entire film is filled with the hokiest dialogue and awkward moments I've seen in a long time.

Again, I'll avoid going into any kind of details that would spoil the fun for those blind to what happens in the last 20 minutes or so, but after the intimate nature of the majority of the film, things jarringly veer into a really hokey, odd area that clashes with the rest of the film in a very unflattering way.

In the hands of a lesser director, a movie that features acrobatic sword battles in which the combatants fly through the air might come across as hokey, but Ang Lee strikes the right balance of wonder and hard - edged realisIn the hands of a lesser director, a movie that features acrobatic sword battles in which the combatants fly through the air might come across as hokey, but Ang Lee strikes the right balance of wonder and hard - edged realisin which the combatants fly through the air might come across as hokey, but Ang Lee strikes the right balance of wonder and hard - edged realism.

Sobieski (whose recent choices in movie roles are increasingly disappointing) and Skarsgard do what they can with the hokey script.

There was a time when Roland Emmerich was one of the biggest directors working in Hollywood, both in terms of box office numbers and spectacle, but lately his FX - heavy blockbusters have started to feel somewhat dated and hokey.

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.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.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...

It's a simple love story between a man and his machine, playing out almost like a straightforward romance, but with a tongue - in - cheek style that gives the audience a wink to tell them it's meant to be a little bit hokey.

Trailer Highlight: Got ta be the hokey shot of Landes and Pace's blood mingling in the street after the car crash.