- Look up
hokey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Hokey means corny,
mawkishly sentimental, or
obviously contrived.
Hokey can also
refer to: Hokey, the...
- were negative;
Chris Nashawaty of
Entertainment W****ly
dismissed it as "
mawkish and melodramatic" but
credited Winslet for
adding layers to her p****ive...
-
described The
Fisher King as "one of the most nonsensical, pretentious,
mawkishly cloying movies I ever had to
wretch through".
Following Robin Williams's...
- 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...
- 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...
-
transition between age and appearances, but even she can't
salvage a
rather mawkish finale to the film". She
received two more
Filmfare nominations for her...
-
disproportioned structures;
awkwardly unpredictable metrical variation; clashing,
mawkish diction; complex,
wandering syntax; etc." He
occasionally drew from the...
-
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...
- all its
contrivances and
occasional lapses into On
Golden Pond-style
mawkishness, this is a
richly crafted yarn that
boasts barnstorming, if very showy...
-
Women &
Children "pla**** like a spoof" with
others agreeing the film was "
mawkish and clichéd". "Men,
Women &
Children (15)".
British Board of Film classification...
