- Look up
hokey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Hokey means corny,
mawkishly sentimental, or
obviously contrived.
Hokey can also
refer to: Hokey, the...
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butchers for his own life and the
lives of his
American comrades verges on to
mawkish twaddle." New York Times: "Tom Skeyhill, Author, Dies in
Plane Crash",...
- her best [...] tone to sell
hokey lines" in a
series it
described as "
mawkish and overwrought". She took on the
leading female role in the
French action...
- were negative;
Chris Nashawaty of
Entertainment W****ly
dismissed it as "
mawkish and melodramatic" but
credited Winslet for
adding layers to her p****ive...
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financial success, but
mixed reviews, with some
critics judging it to be a
mawkish adaptation. It was also
noted for its soundtrack, and
nominated for several...
- Such book
reviews achieved for the
novel a "certain
notoriety for
being '
mawkish and nauseous', 'unclean', 'effeminate' and 'contaminating'." Such moralistic...
- 2023). "'Guardians of the
Galaxy Vol. 3'
sends off its
heroes with a
mawkish mixtape". NPR.
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original on May 4, 2023.
Retrieved May...
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bonding that
astutely succeeds where tearjerkers like The
Champ (1979) so
mawkishly failed".
Stanley Kauffmann of The New
Republic wrote, "All the people...
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Modern British Culture,
Nadja Durbach describes the work as "much more
mawkish and
moralising than one
would expect from the
leading postmodern surrealist...
- throughout, it's
difficult to deny the film's fatphobia,
though its
mawkishness is no less oppressive".
Katie Rife of
Polygon wrote: "If you look at...
