- Look up
hokey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Hokey means corny,
mawkishly sentimental, or
obviously contrived.
Hokey can also
refer to: Hokey, the...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
- Such book
reviews achieved for the
novel a "certain
notoriety for
being '
mawkish and nauseous', 'unclean', 'effeminate' and 'contaminating'." Such moralistic...
-
bonding that
astutely succeeds where tearjerkers like The
Champ (1979) so
mawkishly failed".
Stanley Kauffmann of The New
Republic wrote, "All the people...
-
sepulchral charisma" and that "the original's fine
dance on the edge of
mawkish sentimentality is
disrupted often enough by less-than-stellar acting"....
- 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...
- 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...
