| Despite the laborious backstory and mood lighting, the movie is chock full of standard comic book hokum. |
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| If hokum like that can find its way into the final film, why not some more over-the-top musical numbers? |
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| I hope the rest of the country moves on, refusing to join you in your stagnant backwater of 18th century hokum. |
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| The plot and characterizations have been whittled into the barest of Hollywood hokum. |
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| This was clearly hokum as subsequent details of Denis's comfortable bank balance became apparent. |
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| But for the most part our endless classifying, grouping, and arranging is nothing but high-grade hokum, mixed with a lot of bunkum. |
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| What we have here is addictive old-school hokum, an American Gothic comic-strip with a whiff of Wise Blood to its lurid design. |
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| But I would say this whole hokum about these missile agreements, these negotiations, has now broken into a total farce. |
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| It was fertilized by blues, gospel, string-band hoedowns, Appalachian balladry, work songs, and vaudeville hokum. |
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| This film is head and shoulders above Hollywood hokum based in the same situations. |
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| The first thing to forget is any notion that all this hokum is based on proper science. |
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| Say, for the sake of argument, that this is all unsubstantiated holistic hokum. |
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| These episodes do have messages, but they're buried under so much '60s television action series hokum that they are difficult to find and are rendered almost meaningless. |
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| Sadly, he could have done with a meatier storyline to rescue the movie from well-crafted hokum, which is a bit of a shame, given the money, the stress and a year's work. |
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| What's left, then, is a lot of hokum about evil-minded Southern power-mongers and their minions. |
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| It just adds to the hokum overload in this disappointing novel. |
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| An ability to rise above it and project sincerity amid the hokum is a skill not to be under-rated. |
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| While the programmes chronicle real-life Irish incidents, their producers are clearly besotted with the whizz-bang of American television's hottest slice of hokum. |
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| Without the historical fantasy, what's left is one long, pretentious kvetch, larded with hokum about forgiveness and redemption, that some men are geniuses and others are not. |
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| That's bosh and hokum, and it does a disservice to the people. |
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| It is quite possible that the article was published in the full knowledge of the author and the editor of this magazine that it is all hokum, but fun. |
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| If you're a nightly news devotee, then the 30-second hokum that often passes for nutrition science may confuse you at the very least or derail your long-term health at worst. |
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| It's surprising, then, how a couple of strangely touching notes toward the close redeem a work that boldly straddles the line between total hokum and the very stimulating. |
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| Whatever the case, the young Englishman's account is pure hokum. |
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| But it's nicely shot hokum, and almost instantly forgettable. |
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| Yet, though the piece is preposterous hokum, the show is put across with enormous zest. |
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| Talking-shops, such as the current crop of top-heavy reform committees, are known around the world for their tendency to drift into bureaucratic hokum. |
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| Slick, hammy hokum, with McGregor giving a surprisingly unengaging performance. |
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| The moral dilemma thrown up by this terrorist proposal was just as gripping, if not more so, than the whizzbang action of this intelligent hokum. |
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| Anyway, as a result of this hokum, we are now embroiled in an unwinnable war without end, but which may escalate to threaten each and every one of us. |
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