(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.
Maudlin
Definition:
(a.) Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
(a.) Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
(n.) Alt. of Maudeline
Example Sentences:
(1) No, he says, he didn't get intimations of mortality, he didn't get maudlin, he didn't think about how he'd never work again.
(2) A key scene sees a puppet Kim Jong-il sing a maudlin number by that name.
(3) The first day (there is more in front of the Senate Thursday) was like an endless wake, which led to rambling meditation, many maudlin congratulations, thanks and eulogies from representatives who will, at most, regret losing the chance to whack their favorite economic piñata.
(4) Why am I suddenly maudlin about old photographs of tiny children in school uniform and haunted by memories of nursery teas and long afternoons in the park watching small boys chase a ball?
(5) The endless mawkish comparisons, wailing headlines and maudlin snippets.
(6) But his ability to abruptly switch tack and tone, into poetry or maudlin song, makes him a fascinating performer.
(7) But you listen to the music and it has this maudlin depression and beauty at the same time."
(8) Gilbert is against a kind of maudlin attachment to grief, which doesn't progress.
(9) I trust the confessional quality will be instructive and not taken as maudlin or pseudo-Proustian.
(10) But being focused on making plans, such as arranging my own funeral, has stopped me from becoming maudlin.
(11) After the shooting, the boys’ respective journals were found and while Dylan’s was full of maudlin and often nonsensical dreams about killing himself, Harris’s was full of violent and sadistic fantasies about hurting others.
(12) She is far from maudlin, having expressed a wish to be cremated in a vodka-bottle shaped coffin before having her ashes scattered on the island of Lindisfarne, off the north-east coast.