Sentences with phrase «of hokey»

There are several proxies, used in almost every reconstruction, that have been demonstrated to be highly suspect, but can't be removed without making the handle of the hokey stick look too much like the blade.

And you guys are starting your descent and accelerating like the slope of a hokey stick.

I almost got bored, but was drawn back in when it became obvious that there was a clear IPCC intent seemingly supported by the scientists themselves, to paint a fraudulent picture of past temperatures by the strange structuring of the hokey - stick chart — it inferred a stable past temperature, but I knew it had been naturally oscillatory.

Unfortunately Double Helix decided to wrap this delicious meaty core inside a fetid mess of hokey narrative, awful voice acting and some deeply linear levels; turning a great experience into a deeply flawed that's difficult to recommend to the mainstream audience.

This makes for both a bad game and for the worst rendition of the Hokey Pokey ever.

The combat here isn't nearly as fluid as it is with ICEY, and it could probably use a once - over to downplay some of the hokey dialogue, but the art style and concept could be enough to push this into must - play territory.

Sung to the tune of the Hokey Cokey.

As a performer, Bolton's voice is his greatest weapon: his soaring, smoky tenor has always been over-the-top, but that kind of vocal bluster works perfectly for his persona's new blend of hokey cool.

Weir and co-writer Keith Clarke don't fill out these opening scenes with a lot of hokey Hollywood theatrics.

The script, by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeeley (with a light, uncredited polish by Avengers director Joss Whedon), is sharp enough to remain just this side of hokey.

Directed by Martin Campbell who also handed the original TV version, The Edge of Darkness is a political potboiler / revenge flick featuring an uneven mix of hokey sentiment (ala the ghost of Emma intermittently appearing to daddy) and two - fisted fare (ala Gibson kicking butt).

What could be an interesting reflection on an actress's breakout feature film experience is rendered kind of hokey because Howard's narration is overdramatic, as are the images and James Newton Howard score selections that are set to it.

Steely blue cinematography is not enough of a mood - maker to cover up a director struggling to wrangle tension out of hokey material.

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.

That it succeeds in capturing the essence of the hokey adventure and horror films of the 1930s, I'll grant you, so long as you grant me the fact that its source material isn't exactly quality filmmaking either.

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

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

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

Sure, a couple of the hokey lyrics... slightly taint the return.

It may sound kind of hokey, but that made all the difference for me.

Spokesman Paddy Power said: «After a bit of hokey - Stokey filling the manager's job, Stoke have plumped for Paul Lambert, which has surprised everyone.

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?

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.

i really do enjoy music and i totally know what you mean when you say you are tired of the hokey feel good stuff.

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

But practically every line of dialogue delivered by Jaeden Lieberher (who co-starred with Watts in «St. Vincent») is either correcting someone or saying something profound, including in one of the hokiest movie classroom presentation speeches I've ever heard.

A rousing — and, in light of recent events, a little bittersweet — story of women conquering patriarchy (for a day, anyway), the film, from Little Miss Sunshine directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, has a righteous kick that excuses a lot of its hokier qualities.

Not exact matches

Most are nothing but endless pages of meaningless numbers, hokey photos, and mindless marketing blather.

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?

The borderline hokey display — with its rows of apples, potatoes and onions, not a burger to be seen — is a useful symbol of McDonald's new image.

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).

Ever heard of Solomon's 700 wives, of Lott sleeping with his own daughters (both) of Moses giving up his wife to be one of the Pharoh's concubines, all with apparent smiles from the hokey Yahweh sky - fairy?

I'm sorry but any hokey religion that gets their teaching form a guy reading it out from a hat, and go out of their way to harass people who speak out against Mormonism isn't apart of the christian faith.

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.

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 suffering.)

It's a little hokey, but I think I have the hang of it now.

We played pass the parcel, did the hokey cokey and got lots of pictures.

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

The spontaneous self - combustion of Christine Shawcroft and Jon Lansman's general secretaryship hokey cokey were clodhopping politics, not surefooted manoeuvres.

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.

It may sound hokey, but it works, says Scott Hagwood, a memory contest champ and author of Memory Power: You Can Develop a Great Memory — Americas Grand Master Shows You How.

If you've read the sales pitch on the Lipovox and Leptovox websites, the hokey «stories» of how each product was developed no doubt left an impression - it certainly did for me.

While the concept and execution of warrior diet may be helpful, Ori's thoughts on metabolism and physiology / biochemistry / metabolism are verging on being totally hokey and unfounded.

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.

The character just seemed hokey and daft, and not really a good reflection of the industry.

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.