Barlow also prefers writing songs about issues that currently plague the world, rather than hokey love songs.
Most often this group is targeted with a single approach, a somewhat corny or hokey jingle and stock message.
It's definitely not hokey or unsuitably romantic or otherwise tacky or out of date.
If you can get past the occasionally hokey dialogue, these stories are wonderfully charming, compelling reads, and fantastic value for money.
He's a gruff, funny guy who knows exactly how to deliver the hokey, disjointed dialogue.
It should have sounded hokey, a sentiment like that, but from him, it even seemed slightly impressive.
As I note below, the scheme for stealing the nuclear weapons is exceedingly hokey, and as in the original the story drags at times.
Instead, save the scythe for the kitschy styling, indolent performances, and hokey gags.
It's difficult to describe the plot of film without making it sound hokey and mawkish.
A little hokey, but those kids will remember it for the rest of their lives.
It's not as hokey as a lot of films, and it's not a tear-jerker really, but it's good on more levels than just the jokes, that's for sure.
This might seem hokey, but a love letter laced with concern can be quite effective.
For the most part Daniela is not hokey or cheesy, as many performers who dip into these waters can be.
He does well connecting with a scene, but often comes across as melodramatic and hokey in this silly musical.
Personally, I didn't even like the first one, too much hokey action and not enough philosophy, but the second was better in both regards.
These films are very hokey, more so than normal horror films, very easily parodied, and at least one of the stories tends to verge on comedy.
If only the director could come to terms with the fact that his dramatic tendencies are hokey and unoriginal.
Giddy up into the spirit of the west with timeless, rugged classics rather than hokey duds.
The plot is very hokey, just like any good horror movie, but the scares are genuine.
By hokey, you run an ad on telly with a mother not recognising her own son and wait for the jobbies to hit the fan.
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The gravely, growling voice is shot to bits, the performances are hokey, the ad-libs too frequent, and the constant crowd noises irritating.
We learn the hokey pokey when we're kids and as we become adults, we learn the latest crazes.
That saying about laughter being the best medicine is hokey but true, especially for shaking the blues.
We'll surely all die of skin cancer in the years to come, but by hokey, it will have been worth it.
By hokey, we mean to hold this government accountable one way or the other.
By hokey, she gives an excellent analysis of his article in this morning's Post.
Some of the backgrounds appear grainier than the rest of the picture, and sometimes the special effects look a little hokey.
It's a little hokey, but the approach is sensible and sound.
Still, the band has battled with rock critics who won't take them seriously and with scenester city-dwellers who think a good-time, country-rock theme band is a little hokey.
It's totally hokey and cliched, but there's something reassuring about it all the same.
Maybe you'll also be carrying a door prize because, yes, this hokey show even has an audience-participation moment.
In a hokey question and answer moment, he challenged the crowd to name a commission official.
Sometimes they come back a year later when they realize we're not so hokey after all.
This work has been important to me because, as hokey as it sounds, I do feel a real commitment to public health and serving Canadians.
To counter, Samuel invokes the mojo of beads and hokey mysticism.
There was the morning chat show circuit, a series of hokey exercise videos, even a perfume.
She jumped up and down and did the hokey pokey and shouted to the rooftops from it.
Sadly what follows is a meandering, hokey apocalyptic tale more befitting a Saturday morning of Hanna-Barbara cartoons than a high-concept, big-budget Hollywood movie.
Well sure it's a bit corny, and even frequently hokey, but it's fun, too.
But that's what friends are for, corny and hokey as that sounds.
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This is exactly the hokey kinda song that only Lee can get away with.
The fact that Mitch had gone up to the stage and sang some hokey karaoke song love song, his eyes glimpsing again and again at Jess, had only egged Lynn on.
He recited the words and managed to keep it from sounding hokey or stilted, and the rest of his speech was genuinely inspiring, not just the usual catch-phrases.
On the other hand, this is all hokey second rate filmmaking.
Dessert options include free lime pie, tiramisu, hazey mango verrine, hokey pokey and a flourless, raspberry chocolate slice.
Gone is the hokey croak which saw him verging on self-parody and in comes a delicious lugubriousness that's akin to lumpy honey.
Cowell has affected to chuck him on the scrapheap once before, only to relent, and almost every returning X Factor series has seen similar hokey cokey over the preciousness of Louis' position.
It concerned a mermaid, a mermonster, and a giant turtle in a hokey love story and a murky plot.
The truffle cake was solid, very rich and deemed very good, and the hokey pokey reference.

I saw him some months back down at Sawyer's Forks, and by hokey!

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