Sentences with word «hokum»

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.

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.

There's been a lot of speculation about what this means for future games in the next generation, but most of it has been answered with pure hokum dictated by the console manufacturers, as in this IGN interview with Mark Rubin of Infinity Ward.

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.

Despite plenty of typical Creed maguffins there's a distinct sense of fun pervading the story missions too, with a sprinkling of Hollywood hokum as you experience a surprisingly interactive initiation into the Brotherhood and chase a hot air balloon across the rooftops of Paris.

But Brigadoon indulges in drawn - out hokum with the townspeople going about their quaint daily routine («Down on MacConnachy Square»), cow milking, and grand spectacle wedding dancing.

Even as the film smothers him in hokum, Per Christian Ellefsen delivers a well defined, well layered performance.

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

by Walter Chaw Deadening, dull, sepia - drenched faux - noir period hokum of a suddenly popular stripe, Allen Coulter's Hollywoodland casts lantern - jawed, wooden - countenanced Ben Affleck as his way - back literal and metaphorical doppelgänger George Reeves.

If Ginsberg defined a «naked lunch» as a junkie at dawn «looking for an angry fix,» A Beautiful Mind is tailor - made for consumers of mainstream hokum looking for a languid fix.

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

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

Carbon dating and such seems like hokum.

Ho ho hokum.

Physicist James Kakalios, author of The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, wants people to know what quantum physics has done for them lately — and why it shouldn't take the rap for New Age self - realization hokum such as The Secret

Such enjoyable hokum should be celebrated not debunked.

To put it mildly, Coppola could not salvage this dismal bit of sci - fi hokum.

Patch's guru - like demeanour may seem like marketing hokum, but colleagues and friends say it all flows from his own life.

For me SBNR is just full of hokum from start to finnish.

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.

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

His claim that he has battled every day to stop right wing Tory policies is obvious and transparent 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.»

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.

It's guilty of some sleight - of - hand hokum, but in pulling the rug from under the norm, Magic Mike turns a trick.

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.

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.

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

Taylor appears in nearly every scene, gracing the blockbuster with a sense of performance that invites De Bont and his computer - generated hokum to outdo the wringer she puts herself through.

Needless to say, all this pseudo-spiritual hokum, along with the overamped onslaught of special effects — some of them quite amazing — will hold 14 - year - old boys in rapture, not to mention those of us of all ages and genders who still harbor a 14 - year - old boy somewhere inside.

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

What could have been tired Hollywood hokum massively benefits from a funny and tough Geena Davis performance.

The Errol Flynn version while hugely entertaining is pure hollywood hokum.

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.

From White House Down's first scene, which illustrates young Emily Cale's (Joey King) presidential obsessions via political Google alerts and a nightstand full of White House snow globes, the director makes love of country into a thing of unabashed hokum, which bleeds through every nook of this overstuffed jumble and leaves no character untouched.

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.

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.

Drag Krzysztof Kieslowski's profound vision of a universe stitched together with coincidence and love out into the real world, and it starts to smell like New Age hokum.

Both pictures suffer from their immaculate reconceptions in that the expert scrubbing has revealed the essential ugliness of their colour schemes: primary hues rule the day in Francis of Assisi, making it look like a Teletubbies version of religious hokum; A Farewell to Arms, steeped in a palette of gunmetal grey and rock, only takes a break from the tedium to splash on nurse whites and red crosses.

It's the very definition of undistinguished hokum — can it be any wonder, given the company responsible?

Emancipation for Delia (Kyra Sedgwick), battered wife and renowned slut, comes in the form of a handjob given a grateful backwoods hokum in the front seat of his beater; for book editor Greta (Parker Posey), in the separation from the mediocrity of her milquetoast husband and pocket dictator boss; and for runaway Paula (Fairuza Balk), in the latent maternal instinct she discovers through the betrayal of a young hitchhiker.

But to enjoy the film's arresting musings on language, time and how much we can ever understand others, you'll have to close your eyes and ears to the wealth of schlocky hokum surrounding them.