How To Use Hokum In A Sentence
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This sounds like hokum, but it helped my cat immeasurably (by reducing his stress I suppose).
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One could tolerate this kind of hokum, if only the movie had some fun with it.
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And this ‘mental modeling’ notion is pure hokum.
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Say, for the sake of argument, that this is all unsubstantiated holistic hokum.
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Looking at the film now, it works beautifully as pure family entertainment, heavy on the sarcastic wit and full of unadulterated corn, cheese and hokum, especially in the final family group-hug scene.
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That's bosh and hokum, and it does a disservice to the people.
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Hollow Man is pure hokum, but the visual effects are the true stars.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alternatively, it could be argued that the chart made a dud prediction, and astrology is entertaining hokum that has as much to do with the real Jupiter as chocolate bars do with Mars.
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The film 's hokum is fun for a while, but soon grows dull.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't care whether it is all hokum and a big con trick
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The gusto shown by all the participants makes the film 's hokum more enjoyable than it has any right to be.
Times, Sunday Times
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He fought a long battle against what he called hokum, ideas with no basis, which gain spurious credibility by repetition (in the way that so many celebrities are celebrities for no other reason than that they are regarded as such by the media and society pop pundits).
Club Troppo
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A true love is what doesn't strive for busyness, for extravagance, for luxury, and moreover for hokum.
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So the integrity of the Commission, the veracity of all the testimony it heard, and the legitimacy of its recommendations were, in fact, widely dismissed as hokum because it was clear to "everyone who could read the facts" (or hokum, which is it?) that the whole thing was Jamie Gorelick's fault?
In Letter, Albright And Berger Demand Kean Get ABC To Kill Film
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This may not be intentional, but it makes for agreeable hokum.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is more thriller than sci-fi hokum.
The Sun
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What’s more, you’re “love it or leave it” hokum is the height of anti-American rhetorical irony.
Matthew Yglesias » Good Fences Make Bad Policy
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During its heyday, Hollywood churned out hundreds of such harmonious hokum, trading on everything from ice skating to swimming ability as a reason for breaking into a popular tune.
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It is a film of the purest hokum, but done with a certain charm.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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Referencing the Stoics is not therefore, as far as the Elders of Sodom are concerned, a good foundation for an argument that one's views were born of atheistic rationalism rather than religious hokum.
Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy
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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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That's bosh and hokum, and it does a disservice to the people.
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It is extremely high-grade hokum, which is to say it offers several different and combustible varieties.
Chicagotribune.com - News
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You want conclusive proof that this study is hokum?
The Sun
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Combine the cryptic poetry and riddle-style aphorisms espoused by Richard Arthur,his lack ofany relevant formal training and the fact that People Knowhow conducts corporate workshops, and you have a recipe for hokum, pseudo-science andgeneral malaise.
2009 August 11 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
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The novel has an ending I wish I never read, not because it is "hokum," as one critic wrote, but because it bothers me so intensely.
Dirty Old Men at the Bar
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Pallotti offers this bit of ecclesiastical hokum as it if it made perfect, pious sense: the point of the program isn't celibacy "as much as creating what they call a chaste kind of life.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Is this just another serving of Hollywood hokum?
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Fantastic effects aside, this is a slam-bang, high on the hokum, thrill ride.
Times, Sunday Times
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This film is head and shoulders above Hollywood hokum based in the same situations.
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I mean, there are works which use real science rather than handwaving, works in which the handwaving is indistinguishable from hokum, works which treat hokum as if it were real science, and works which don't actually "rationalise" at all.
The Great Debate
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But one was left wondering at the decision to commit time, money and talent to this dingy piece of hokum.
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This is pure B-movie horror hokum.
Times, Sunday Times
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But to any freedom-loving Ethiopian or any other reasonable human being, the "pardon" is nothing more than the reveries of a self-absorbed megalomaniac garbed in legalistic hokum.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound!
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However this sort of hokum is not proscribed within the class CBlockbuster, is in fact a widely accepted strategy for achieving resolution.
Ethics and Enthusiasm
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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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A true love is what doesn't strive for busyness, for extravagance, for luxury, and moreover for hokum.
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As far as having two thirds seats being "hokum" that is not something you are in any position to declare until AFTER the election.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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You want conclusive proof that this study is hokum?
The Sun
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What does new age hokum have to do with our research?
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All the press stories about this topic are just hokum.
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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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He handles the far-fetched hokum very well and with a constant sense of humor - the cat being eaten off-screen is hilarious.
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Rarely a week goes by without similar flights of fantasy, the latest being some hokum about Prince William, the very mention of whose name is said to send sales of newspapers into the stratosphere.
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Film review: A brilliantly made piece of sci-fi hokum.
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You want conclusive proof that this study is hokum?
The Sun
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There's too much of this kind of prima-donna diving going on in football already and to see a player of Kelly's outstanding calibre resort to that kind of hokum is as disappointing as it is pathetic.
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Despite the laborious backstory and mood lighting, the movie is chock full of standard comic book hokum.
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Whatever the case, the young Englishman's account is pure hokum.
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It was fertilized by blues, gospel, string-band hoedowns, Appalachian balladry, work songs, and vaudeville hokum.
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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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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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This may not be intentional, but it makes for agreeable hokum.
Times, Sunday Times
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A true love is what doesn't strive for busyness, for extravagance, for luxury, and moreover for hokum.
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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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The plot and characterizations have been whittled into the barest of Hollywood hokum.
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Do not be tempted to dismiss such corporate homilies as boardroom hokum.
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You want conclusive proof that this study is hokum?
The Sun
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To date, yes: we've peddled tartan schlock in the form of hokum Burns Night suppers to generations of tourists so we can't blame them for finding novelty in the trappings of the occasion.
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There's even a book called Snake Oil Science, written by a biostatistician and senior Research Methodologist at the University of Maryland, that tells us why alternative and complementary medicine lies somewhere between bunko and hokum.
Lee Schneider: Snake Oil Medicine
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All that talk is just a bunch of 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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For some of today's filmgoers, it's outdated hokum; for others, it's one of the all-time greatest love stories on film.
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In this case, moving the funny-page content to a page formerly devoted to the news just might notch up the credulity paid to what would normally be considered standard WSH editorial right wing "hokum," to borrow a word from Li'l Abner's mammy, Pansy.
Printing: Rove's Obama Hit-Job Re-Run Oozes Out of Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Section
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Hence the tired refrain about what they did is a load of emotional hokum - argument by outrage.
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A true love is what doesn't strive for busyness, for extravagance, for luxury, and moreover for hokum.
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This may not be intentional, but it makes for agreeable hokum.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was a diversion from the profitless discussion, and Kohokumu and I dipped our paddles and raced the little outrigger canoe to the dancing pole.
The Water Baby
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You want conclusive proof that this study is hokum?
The Sun
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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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The plot, pure hokum, revolves around a whirlwind waterfront romance between Bill Roberts (Bancroft again), an independent-minded stoker, and Mae (Betty Compson), the ostensibly weak woman he just rescued from suicide.
Master of the Mise-en-Scène
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The hokum and horsefeathers are, alas, infectious: here and there in this wretched text are signed interpolations by the eximious director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery himself, snippets of schoolboy art history declaring, for example, that in The Runaway and Young
Evening Standard - Home
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What a bunch 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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Do not be tempted to dismiss such corporate homilies as boardroom hokum.
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All that talk is just a bunch of hokum.
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The premise of the series was pure hokum.
Times, Sunday Times
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No, this "unnatural" nonsense is merely the superstitious hokum of the creationist who believes in behavioural decrees as aspects of a grand and unified design, an absoute truth writ in the spiritual order, manifest in the natural order and to be obeyed in the social order.
The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom
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And yet, coming out of the preview, marvelling at the sheer gall of such hokum, I overheard fellow reviewers earnestly discussing how ‘real’ the film was.
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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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But if you can get past that, it looks the part and is enjoyable enough hokum.
The Sun
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“What the Kabbalah Centre is, is equal parts of nonmystical and traditional Jewish wisdom and one part snake oil and hokum,” said Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, chairman of Jewish law and ethics at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and an Orthodox rabbi who has taught classes in cabala.
A Jewish Madonna? Is That a Mystery?
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But it's nicely shot hokum, and almost instantly forgettable.
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It just adds to the hokum overload in this disappointing novel.
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It is perceived as "hokum" because on one hand Edwards denounced 527's along with other special interest groups (as detailed above) but on the other refused to request that one operating on his behalf cease their advertising.
Krugman Hits Obama Yet Again -- This Time On Battle With Edwards Over 527s
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This was clearly hokum as subsequent details of Denis's comfortable bank balance became apparent.
