- 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...
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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...
- 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...
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goodwill of its
people that
neither revels in
irony nor
descends into
mawkishness. A film
based on the book was
directed by Ed Bye and
starred Tony Hawks...
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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...
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disproportioned structures;
awkwardly unpredictable metrical variation; clashing,
mawkish diction; complex,
wandering syntax; etc." He
occasionally drew from the...
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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...
- film
three and a half out of four
stars and wrote, "This
could have been
mawkish—an "eat your vegetables"
movie about an
inspirational figure overcoming...
