Sentences with phrase «hokey romance»
There's also a spark of lively chemistry that makes the hokey romance somewhat amusing.
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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.
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.
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).
It is definitely one of those books that if I read it for the first time now I would probably think it was hokey, but when I read it for the first time as a child I was swept away with the romance....