(1) EU hokey-cokey: in, out, shake it all about (not necessarily in that order) | Letter Read more “It is interesting that both sides want to adopt Boris,” one Johnson ally said.
(2) Justice League is supposedly due in just two years' time, and we still don't have the standalone Wonder Woman movie required to bring that rather hokey old character into the burgeoning "darker" Nolanesque take on the DC universe.
(3) Last May’s bizarre resignation hokey cokey – was he out or was he in?
(4) Would MPs from Scotland be brought back in what a Scottish Labour MP George Foulkes called a kind of 'legislative hokey-cokey', to vote just on these particular clauses?
(5) Nick Clegg is adopting what we might call the hokey-cokey position.
(6) Two years prior to this, Kearney condemned the, er… hokey cokey .
(7) I don’t mean nice in the “Aw shucks, little ol’ me?” hokey Tom Hanks kind of nice .
(8) Rise began a little hokey, and no one is going to accuse Freida Pinto of giving a good performance, but take state-of-the-art motion capturing, ambiguous moral culpability, a few bananas and you have a thrilling action film.
(9) Admittedly a little hokey, as films about the Irish by the English tend to be, it categorically did not deserve the backlash it received: 'The art it represents belongs to that school of very classy calendar art supported by airlines, insurance corporations and a few enlightened barber shops.
(10) But as a Cambridge University study has shown, the process is likely to prove little more than a game of Euro hokey cokey, with the risk that Britain ends up compromising its ability to police international crimes such as terrorism and drug trafficking.
(11) 9.51pm BST 90+2 min: … after the ball hokey-cokeys in and out of the box, it eventually drops to Sergio Ramos who can't make a clean connection from eight yards out.
(12) He delivers a homespun message of hard work and self-reliance, of dreaming big and being able to look in the mirror each night and be proud of yourself which verges on the hokey, but the rapt attention of his audience makes it hard to be cynical.
(13) That Easton crossover, from local girl made good, through the agency of hokey telly and novelty-song pop charts, to global star, riding high in the Billboard charts, the chosen workmate of this extraordinary creature, Prince?
(14) Game stories are often pretty hokey, but they're compelling because we're in control.
(15) Photograph: SA Mathieson The last event is held alongside Rhymetime, whose infant participants fill the library with Hokey Cokey.
(16) and hapless cod romance, interspersed with hokey landmine photo-ops and scenic cultural detours through Lahore".
(17) The Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, branded Robinson’s move as “hokey-cokey” politics with one leg in the devolved government and one leg out.
(18) I know it sounds a bit hokey, but we’re closer to nature.
(19) Ed Miliband mocked the prime minister for a "weekend Hokey Cokey".
(20) Given the way Warner allowed Entourage to lampoon the king of Atlantis a few years back, you might think the studio would be loth to include that slightly hokey old character in the more realistic universe it launched with last year's Man of Steel.
Kitschy
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(1) "We wanted something kitschy, sexy and glammy," explained John Hassay, who commissioned the video.
(2) Especially on-trend these days is an ersatz, kitschy friendliness .
(3) K-pop is kitschy, catchy, highly produced, seamlessly choreographed, skilfully marketed and performed by (mostly) young, unthreateningly good-looking boy and girl bands with devoted, tech-savvy followings.
(4) He told the Observer that he wants to create a sculpture that is "deeply rooted" in the great tradition of Islamic architecture: "When Louis XIV was building that kitschy castle Versailles, the greatest architecture in the Middle East had incredible simplicity … and play with colours."
(5) Think PVC raincoats, retro jacquard prints and kitschy fascinators.
(6) What started last Monday as a relatively small, peaceful protest to save an inner city Istanbul park from having to make way for a kitschy Ottoman-style shopping centre, rapidly snowballed into the largest and most violent anti-government protests that Turkey has seen in years.
(7) New attractions include an ice rink, a bowling alley, a water park and a dolphinarium with a kitschy show.
(8) At Electric Daisy Carnival and similar dance festivals, the look has evolved from the child-like "candy raver" of the 1990s, with their pigtails and cuddly toys and pacifiers (dummies), to a slick and sexified yet also kitschy-surreal image midway between Venice Beach and Cirque Du Soleil, Willy Wonka and a Gay Pride parade: girls in Daisy Dukes and bikini tops (or even bare breasts daubed in glittery body paint) but who also wear tutus, giant furry boots in turquoise and hot pink, and fairy wings.
(9) And finally – the weirdest one for me – there's Jeff Koons, known for his vast, kitschy sculptures and his unparalleled ability to make money.
(10) Were it not for their kitschy pop antics, I might not be the massive feminist I am today.
(11) It's true that some people run as a kitschy, corny, tourist-like thing to do, but many of these people are still surprised at how emotional they feel at the top of the steps."
(12) Together they've made an album of duets that's neither kitschy nor cutesy, but full of sincere, deceptively gentle songs that carry lightly the pain in their lyrics.