Jeff Ament

I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing.

American Musician

Lev Yilmaz

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

American Artist

Elizabeth Mitchell

Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.

American Actress

Julie Plec

Ghost World' was such an incredibly difficult episode to find the right tone for. I remember at the time it was very divisive because some people hated it - they thought it was cheesy and hokey - and I loved it. When I saw it, I cried my head off, and I was so happy.

American Producer

John Trudell

I find there is room in music to talk with music. It may expand ways people can participate with music. It doesn't sound hokey or like some kind of voice-over.

American Author

Andrew Garfield

I love that idea that if you know someone's story, it's impossible not to love them. This is potentially hokey but incredibly true, as far as I'm concerned.

American Actor

Winona Ryder

It's all about knowing when to listen to that conversation and - without sounding really hokey - when to tune it out and follow your heart.

Kenny Omega

Not to knock TNA, but there's too much hokey talking and segments that don't really involve wrestling.

Canadian Athlete

Robert Urich

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

Stephen Baldwin

Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.

Use 'hokey' when something seems artificially done, not natural or real.

Not Genuine

'Hokey' often implies a playful or light-hearted criticism, not harsh.

Playfully Negative

Recognize 'hokey' in cultural products like movies or songs as intentionally fake.

Cultural References

Use 'hokey' when describing something overly emotional to the point of being laughable.

Excessive Emotion

When emotions don't feel sincere, 'hokey' is the word to suggest artificial sentiment.

Insincere Sentiment

'Hokey' describes using clichés in a way that becomes annoying, not endearing.

Irritatingly Cliché

 We spend so much time talking past each other and not enough time talking through our disagreements. And if we can start to find compassion for one another, then we have a shot at building common ground. It actually sounds really hokey to say it standing up here, but when you try to put it in practice,

Let's try emotional...

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