However this sort of hokum is not proscribed within the class CBlockbuster, is in fact a widely accepted strategy for achieving resolution. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics and Enthusiasm] Reference
It is extremely high-grade hokum, which is to say it offers several different and combustible varieties. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
As far as having two thirds seats being "hokum" that is not something you are in any position to declare until AFTER the election. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Literature] Reference
Health strategy is 'hokum' that reveals little to public. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Network Rail must keep West Hampstead rolling] Reference
This song was the only example of a southern medicine show "hokum" song that Robert recorded. From Wordnik.com. [They're Red Hot] Reference
The bears, on the other hand, bellow economic hokum. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Dorfman: Up, Up and Away, But Bring a Parachute] Reference
“So much hokum I daresay, but listen, all the same.”. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
The GOP has been trying to sell this hokum for 75 years. From Wordnik.com. [Robert J. Elisberg: The Happy Funtime Super Republican Party] Reference
Billions of dollars have been expended based upon this hokum. From Wordnik.com. [Printing: Bio-Politics; Nature vs Globalism, Conservatism and Libertarianism] Reference
That's realist hokum that I'm not subscribing to, Mr. Stinson. From Wordnik.com. [How Do You Reconcile With Obama's Record and Ultimately Vote for Him on Election Day?] Reference
It takes a lot of hokum to simulate value where there is none. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Dubno: Post-Madoff: The Final Insult] Reference
“It had all the appearance of a piece of full-sized hokum.”. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
I know only too well that families are drawn to quackery and hokum. From Wordnik.com. [Harold Pollack: No, Vaccines Aren't Behind the Rise in Autism] Reference
Luntz is quite a package himself, a peculiar mix of insight and hokum. From Wordnik.com. [The Gop's Three Amigos] Reference
What really gets me, though, is that so many people fall for this hokum. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Garibaldi-Frick: Huckster's Cuddly Appearance on the Tonight Show] Reference
"And there's just enough hokum in that to make everyone back at the Academy happy.". From Wordnik.com. [The Space Pioneers] Reference
It was at this point that the hokum level in Skip Woods's script reached tidal proportions. From Wordnik.com. [Bigger And Bigger 'Swordfish' To Fry] Reference
But few investments seem to attract more myths and hokum than gold and other precious metals. From Wordnik.com. [The 10 Biggest Myths About Gold] Reference
He brings both the high-flown hokum of Reagan and the rather menacing shrewdness of Bill Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost (s): Of Tony Blair, Roman Polanski, and A War on Terror] Reference
For the past two years most statements coming from him were mired in presidential campaign hokum. From Wordnik.com. [Dwayne Raymond: Planes, Pains And Automobiles] Reference
Indeed Mr Stephenson - labour can say the most outrageous hokum and the beeb have to treat it seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
GE officials, who say the company shouldn't be responsible for defense policy, says the claims are hokum. From Wordnik.com. [Do Boycotts Work?] Reference
They tried to sell the hilarious "We're for stronger Wall Street reform" hokum, and now they may be trapped by it. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [121] -- Swampy Muck] Reference
"Yes, there was some hokum about the man having the doctor killed, but wouldn't he have knocked off the girl instead?". From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
Preaching free market hokum, she claimed deficit spending was the culprit, not two oil shocks causing 18% UK inflation. From Wordnik.com. [F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" - Part II] Reference
Goldman was unsuccessful in misleading me, but what chance would non financial professionals have against Goldman's hokum?. From Wordnik.com. [Janet Tavakoli: Goldman Sachs: Bullies on the Block] Reference
Will it be the usual cascade of lies, half-truths, buzzwords, platitudes, clichés and boiler plate economics hokum bunkum?. From Wordnik.com. [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Mr. Zenawi Goes to College!] Reference
Will it be the usual cascade of lies, half-truths, buzzwords, platitudes, clichés and boiler plate economics hokum bunkum?. From Wordnik.com. [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Mr. Zenawi Goes to College!] Reference
The schizophrenic hokum of Libertarianism has always had a strong streak of liberalism though most have been retread Republicans. From Wordnik.com. [Will New Hampshire's Decision To Pass Civil Unions Upend The Primaries?] Reference
Ted seemed to be impressed with this bit of hokum, as if this kind of wind just quite settled the matter of doing war for profit. From Wordnik.com. [Kerry Candaele: Ted Koppel: Still Embedded?] Reference
They knew the 'Domino Theory' was hokum (as events proved), and that the United States had nothing to gain by the war and much to lose. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Slater: The Cowardice of Machismo] Reference
But to a voter who only watches Fox News, this sleazy appeal-to-their-baser-instincts hokum may sound true enough to win over their vote. From Wordnik.com. [Truly scary: A Republican campaign ad with a "Leave it to Beaver" theme song!] Reference
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