hokeyness

"There is something incredibly sweet about the hokeyness and simplicity of this."

But more often, the production's hokeyness and exaggerations simply add helium to the proceedings.

We had to come up with a way to avoid the 'hokeyness' factor and give it the impact it deserves now."

Somehow Mr. Nelson gets away with this hokeyness.

Mr. Viola's devotion to slow motion creates an esthetic waiting game, during which the underlying hokeyness of much of his art emerges.

For all its heavily perfumed hokeyness, "Salome" was written as a deeply personal cri de coeur about the poisonous nature of erotic passion.

The broad strokes are made effectively, and Beth Greenberg's stage direction, despite occasional hokeyness, poses relatively few obstacles for good singers or actors when they turn up.

In different hands, the premise might have felt gimmicky, but the meticulousness of Mr. Blier's preparation and the quality of his programming choices brought a sense of depth rather than hokeyness.

Melissa Maerz of Rolling Stone felt that "[s]omehow, the music melts away the potential for hokeyness ... Khan proves she's a powerhouse under her billowy sleeves."

Getting through her prose requires some tolerance for hokeyness; the figures populating Trynin's remembrances are affixed with cutesy pseudonyms like "Preppy Boy," and they do things like "crack wise."

But for all the hokeyness, the show touches on some sensitive themes, for example, the uneasy relationship between music born of the church and the glamorous life style to be had by making it big as a gospel singer.

But decrease speed to take in the individual works, and the hokeyness of his strategy's metaphors and themes becomes clear: the slow-motion images, the obvious juxtaposition, the idealization of children of nature, the New Age family values.

As a ceramic artist, he may come closest, in terms of his technical skill, sense of scale, elaborateness of subject, careening intelligence and outright hokeyness, to filling the shoes vacated by the death of Robert Arneson.

I don't think Barber knew how to dramatize the issues of public and private, duty and desire; the musical drama takes place in isolated characters, in moments of strain and yearning, in instances of excess, just this side of hokeyness and kitsch.

Although this climax is extremely powerful within the story's context, at the same time "Intensive Care" shows some of the weaknesses of Ms. Smith's work: that it too often wanders, that some scenes appear to have been transplanted into stories where they don't belong, that the voice occasionally lapses into embarrassing hokeyness.