- 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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described The
Fisher King as "one of the most nonsensical, pretentious,
mawkishly cloying movies I ever had to wretch[sic] through".
Following Robin Williams's...
- 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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bonding that
astutely succeeds where tearjerkers like The
Champ (1979) so
mawkishly failed".
Stanley Kauffmann of The New
Republic wrote, "All the people...
- had written. "Yesterday" has also been
criticised for
being mundane and
mawkish. Bob
Dylan had a
marked dislike for the song,
stating that "If you go into...
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ignore it,
should look
again at Whitman's nationalism: "Whitman's
seemingly mawkish celebrations of the
United States [...] [are] one of
those problematic...
- 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...
- Such book
reviews achieved for the
novel a "certain
notoriety for
being '
mawkish and nauseous', 'unclean', 'effeminate' and 'contaminating'." Such moralistic...
-
eight girl graduates," "so
atrociously staged" and "so
awkwardly and
mawkishly pla**** that it sems not only a
travesty of the nineteen-thirties but an...
- aims for a
story that's
poignant and told sparely, but
comes across as
mawkish,
tedious and self-indulgent. S****
brings a
gravitas to her
character that...
