- Look up
hokey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Hokey means corny,
mawkishly sentimental, or
obviously contrived.
Hokey can also
refer to: Hokey, the...
-
described The
Fisher King as "one of the most nonsensical, pretentious,
mawkishly cloying movies I ever had to
wretch 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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sepulchral charisma" and that "the original's fine
dance on the edge of
mawkish sentimentality is
disrupted often enough by less-than-stellar acting"....
-
disproportioned structures;
awkwardly unpredictable metrical variation; clashing,
mawkish diction; complex,
wandering syntax; etc." He
occasionally drew from the...
- all its
contrivances and
occasional lapses into On
Golden Pond-style
mawkishness, this is a
richly crafted yarn that
boasts barnstorming, if very showy...
- 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...
- 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...
-
expressed the
opinion that, "It has
become an embarr****ing memory, like a
mawkish, self-pitying
teenage entry in a diary ... we
cringe to
think about it...
- 2023. Loughrey,
Clarisse (5
October 2023). "The
Great Escaper review:
Mawkish patriotism lets down the
wonderfully paired Michael Caine and
Glenda Jackson"...