How To Use Hammy In A Sentence

Our economy suffered a triple whammy this year - we were hit by Sars, the Iraq war, and then the world economic downturn.
The acting was hammy, the jokes were forced, and the entire thing came across like a high school play - actors overdoing everything in cringe-worthy performances.
The voice acting is deliberately hammy, the sound effects are loud and intrusive and the gameplay is frantic.
Co-op hits back with its own triple whammy timesonline. Times, Sunday Times
BRITAIN'S business leaders were cheered yesterday with a triple whammy of bright economic news. The Sun

But the Conservatives had launched their Labour double whammy and tax bombshell campaigns months beforehand. Times, Sunday Times
So this week I've had the triple whammy of being busy, edgy and suddenly noticing a few people around seem to be looking unexpectedly good.
It said the double whammy of a VAT hike and another rise in fuel duty would push truckers and cabbies to the brink. The Sun
Paul Staines aka hammy blogger Guido Fawkes aka Mr GuF has invented a piggy index for politicians. Archive 2008-02-10
In the teaser for season 4.5 there is a shot of a bunch of Sharons giving Boomer a rubdown - oops, nope, that is not what is happening - it looks upon closer inspection that Tyrol's hammy hand is holding something and aiming for Athena-Sharon's neck as she runs and holds Hera. Archive 2008-11-01
It's never been tried on a scale like this before in the public sector, but D. C.'s 35-year-old [Sivak] hopes unleashing his workers from face-time requirements and office schedules will help him overcome a managerial triple-whammy: punishing budget cuts, a citywide hiring freeze, and the perennial challenge of recruiting talented IT workers to lower government pay. DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 14, 2010
Autobiography used to be the preserve of hammy actors, gammy lieutenant commanders and superannuated hangers-on to the Bloomsbury Group.
With this government we've had a double whammy of tax increases and benefit cuts.
But in the 1970s, the double whammy of radio telescopy and a Mariner 10 flyby revealed a wealth of details needing names. Archive 2008-09-01
It was a double whammy,' the manager said. Times, Sunday Times
Of course for a chammy, I use only the best: free-range squirrel fur. Appealing Package: What's New Is Old Again
The jokes are obvious, but that is part of its charm, and the commitment of the cast makes this hammy comedy soap opera work. Times, Sunday Times
I use the "whammy" setting (Pd for Zoom users) of my GFX-1 to do the dives/reverse dives. TALK @ PhilMusic.com - The Online Home of the Pinoy Musician
I grind my own chammy butter using soybeans from the bulk bin at the co-op. Warming the Cockles: Living, Breathing, Shopping
BRITAIN'S business leaders were cheered yesterday with a triple whammy of bright economic news. The Sun
‘This is Shadowspirit, named after both his dam and sire,’ Lium said proudly, rubbing his hammy hand against the flanks of the huge horse nearest him.
That's the final test of the triple whammy. Times, Sunday Times
Social awkwardness isn't something you can fix with chammy cream. Cross-over Appeal: It Shan't Gonna Happen
Wolfgang Koch sings with well-focussed richness as Peter, the son driven to an excess of hammy acting by Eva's desertion.
If you see archive recordings, some performances seem hammy and cheesy, but in their day we thought them amazing. Times, Sunday Times
So it now faces a triple whammy of big borrowing, a rapidly growing mountain of debt and a global economy sluggish in many areas. Times, Sunday Times
However, the consistently bad dialogue, expensive set design and knowingly hammy acting lifts it almost to pastiche level.
Wits' people put shammy leather over our eyes, shaped our arms with winch rope, and locked us into crates for Labs in a pick-up bed. The Tamarack Swamps
There is some hammy acting, but the film gives an interesting insight into the gangster scene of the Sixties.
Failing to cream up your chammy, and getting road rash. Hacking Away: Epic Schemes and Epic Rides
York Wasps suffered a triple whammy yesterday as the big winter freeze put paid to the New Year's Day clash against Swinton Lions.
The double whammy is we can't take much positives. The Sun
It said the double whammy of a VAT hike and another rise in fuel duty would push truckers and cabbies to the brink. The Sun
In the first show, for example, Dyrdek asks Chanel "West Coast" what comes to mind when she hears the term "double whammy. SFGate: Top News Stories
The track is pure bliss, from the interstellar electrical storm opening to the whammy bar keytar solo that closes it out.
IT'S not so much a double as a triple whammy. The Sun
The triple whammy of destruction greatly increases chances of developing an ‘age-related’ eye disease.
But there can't be recovery if we triple and quadruple whammy these reefs.
And foreign creditors are getting a double whammy, as bond prices have begun to fall in sympathy with the dollar.
How are you supposed to follow the story when you're constantly making sarcastic comments about the hammy acting?
You can feel the writers trying to create a new evil nemesis for Steed and the crew, and the surreal set designs and hammy acting by the lead bad guy more than makes up for the 1930s era tin man cyborgs.
He's tasked with playing a man who has embellished his life with dramatic flourishes and histrionics, and he does so without being hammy himself.
Look beyond the ancient effects and hammy acting, however, and you'll find reflected on the movie the familiar gaze of innocent eyes.
If I had the money sure, I would go buy the whole shammy gammy outfit but I don't. Scent Elimination Debate
It is a double whammy that will showcase Brazil's glittering potential and subject it to the glare of global scrutiny. The Sun
IT'S not so much a double as a triple whammy. The Sun
That double whammy puts almost 2,000 full-time and temp jobs under threat. The Sun
In the first show, for example, Dyrdek asks Chanel "West Coast" what comes to mind when she hears the term "double whammy. SFGate: Top News Stories
The scene where the venom symbiote comes to earth was just "hammy". Has Christopher Nolan Signed On For Dark Knight Sequel? | /Film
This time it's a double whammy from a single family, with Federal Housing Finance Board Chairman John T. Korsmo and his wife Michelle, who has worked as deputy chief of staff to Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao, coming under fire from the Justice Deparment for obstruction of justice in an investigation of campaign finance irregularities. Speaking of lists...
You people are so predictable. oh shammy tell me what come next? Think Progress » O’Reilly Gripes That Haiti Benefit Organizers Are Ignoring Him — After His Network Refused To Air The Event
Britain's farmers have faced the double whammy of a rising pound and falling agricultural prices.
(Of course, by another "SNL" tradition, anybody in any given cast can "do" Lorne Michaels; just extend your lower lip, grasp a glass of white wine, and let your words come out as if being squeezed from a shammy.) Tom Shales reviews the opening show of SNL's 36th season
I woke up this morning thinking about Shammies, and how I used to dread every other Tuesday in Grade 5 because it was MY SHAMMY DAY, and I had to go beat the chalk board shammies against the side of the school, and the sweet smell that came out of them was disgusting. Withkerth Diary Entry
The government's policy is higher tax and higher interest rates. It's a double whammy.
But factories face a double whammy because they export 75 per cent of their cars and the rest of the world is suffering, too. The Sun
Chilli has also been shown to be a powerful painkiller, so you get a double whammy. The Sun
The decision to decrease the duration of water supply by two hours in a day is a double whammy.
Soon two large, hammy hands clamped down on his flailing fists and pulled him away, gasping and sputtering, his hair hanging in his face.
Sadly, the acting is never hammy enough to be enjoyable and the sets are well constructed just enough to be convincing.
A player will ‘play for a penalty’ or ‘go to ground’ if there is contact but it won't usually be accompanied by hammy amateur dramatics.
With this government we've had a double whammy of tax increases and benefit cuts.
‘When you have people who have a diet that's very high in animal fat, they get the full whammy of the contaminants,’ said David Carpenter, who supervised the St. Lawrence Island studies.
I wear underwear under my chammy, and now I understand why. A Shot in the Dark: The Art of Appropriating Blame
It's hard now to see the lame special effects and hammy acting of Star Trek without giggling to myself.
The final whammy is the twisted bowel operation.
At some point everybody becomes a bit housebound, and at such times its nice to know that while the serial nature of the soap opera makes the acting seem quite "hammy", at least the scenery is worth checking out. "Gal" Friday! Melissa Archer
The dinosaurs, they say, were killed not by a lone asteroid strike but by the quadruple whammy of global climate change, massive volcanism, and not one but two gigantic collisions.
Ropey dialogue and hammy acting abound, and Zombie seems in no hurry to wind up the proceedings as the film starts to feel interminable.
It will be a welcome boost after being harshly hit by the double whammy of global recession and the attack in which one of its New York hotels was severely damaged.
Mr Denham's departure was the third blow of a triple whammy that saw Leader of the House Robin Cook and two junior ministers, including Mr Denham, quit their jobs.
But what seems to be a double whammy is that with Social Networks is if you want you can be anonymous and reach out and make a new connection. Changing Direction. « The Paradigm Shift
(Of course, by another "SNL" tradition, anybody in any given cast can "do" Lorne Michaels; just extend your lower lip, grasp a glass of white wine, and let your words come out as if being squeezed from a shammy.) Tom Shales reviews the opening show of SNL's 36th season
It would be hard, for example, for someone playing Bottom (John Ramm, in this case) to preen and swagger, when showing off his hammy acting, if he is barefoot, as was the entire cast here.
But it can't explain how he came up with something like this diabolical double whammy, a lyric that combines apocopation and internal rhyme -- in three-quarter time, no less. Sondheim's Still Here
I masticating most and then prepped my chammy with the leftovers! Anarchy Or Irony? The Veneer of Rebellion
On a night of tidal emotions, the night when Beckham became a fetish, I found my hammy Irish fists jerking themselves convulsively upwards from my pressbox desk and towards the sky when Argentina went ahead.
We'll need to check your chammy for EPO suppository goo. The New Spin: From Fixed to Broken
At the fashion shows, designers and journalists collide backstage with varying degrees of success, but this week issued a triple whammy. Times, Sunday Times
The voice acting is hammy and the humour is akin to a dad repeating his cheesiest jokes. Times, Sunday Times
Just entered Zangamarsh at lvl 64 with my shammy and I love it, it is a herbalists paradise! kyle EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: “The REAL Mushroom Kingdom”
When, as sometimes happens, a fossicker comes in with a "shammy" full of gold, and lays himself out to make himself and every one else happy, then indeed the hotel-keeper's harvest is a rich one. Spinifex and Sand
Last week Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, in his quiet and unobtrusive way delivered a triple whammy.
Just remember to wash your shammy in hot water when you get home. Hell in a Handbasket: More Disturbing Signs
With that unusual double whammy, expect some particularly diverse audiences. Times, Sunday Times
BRITAIN'S business leaders were cheered yesterday with a triple whammy of bright economic news. The Sun
It is a double whammy that will showcase Brazil's glittering potential and subject it to the glare of global scrutiny. The Sun
Expect uninspired direction and hammy performances. Times, Sunday Times
I know it sounds hammy , but I'm a performer, and all my life center stage is where I've wanted to be. This was my comeback performance —my comeback from testicular cancer.
Surely, such a scientific ‘double whammy’ rendered any concept of socialism, of collectivism, of a society based on co-operation and solidarity, a mere pipe-dream?
The camera loved him: handsome without conceit, rivetingly watchable but not hammy. Times, Sunday Times
They used hammy actors to ‘reconstruct’ the alleged plot, with sinister characters smearing a dark substance on door handles.
They are running harder to stand still, having been hit by a triple whammy of big changes. Times, Sunday Times
Autobiography used to be the preserve of hammy actors, gammy lieutenant commanders and superannuated hangers-on to the Bloomsbury Group.
Whammies in general - a whammy being technically a curse - are what they're good at. Times, Sunday Times
Hey, wait, the "honeyed" - "smoked" combo conjures the idea of ham, but pert-faced Breach is in no way hammy. David Finkle: Easy Listener: Why You Should Know Singer Joyce Breach
Other reviews of Star Trek II - The Wrath Of Khan I've read on the Internet have commented on its melodramatics and its hammy acting.
So older people who skimp on protein really get a double whammy, which is why they are often vitamin B12 deficient. Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part I | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
REED: Yes, I think it's such an emotional whammy, which is why, you know, you can forgive the mayor for saying, oh, come on, let's come back in, despite what we just saw on TV. CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2005
This extremely talkative Plateau-born downtown resident has been putting the hypnosis whammy on people for over 50 years now.
Irresistible rhythms, glorious colour and costumes, and oodles of talent melded with skilful direction into a whammy of a production!
If you can put yourself in a mental place to enjoy this completely flawed but eminently watchable sci-fi homage, you will be rewarded with clever twists, enjoyably hammy acting, and great footage of a stunning woman in her prime.
When you've washed the car, wipe it down well with a shammy leather.
he put the whammy on me
MG was back in business this week with a double whammy. The Sun
I am all for the idea of chucking every fcuktard we can find in the Channel tunnel, then blowing it at our end therefore giving all lower echelons of life to France and, double whammy, we also cut all ties with France. Army Rumour Service
Manufacturers are scaling back investment plans as the sector struggles against a 'double whammy' of weak demand and political uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
But the Conservatives had launched their Labour double whammy and tax bombshell campaigns months beforehand. Times, Sunday Times
A double whammy if you have a mortgage. The Sun
It has a fairly light basswood body, a knife edge whammy which has three springs tightened down and maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard.
While the films are plagued by poorly developed plots and hammy acting, the fight sequences are excellent in that they reveal the true roots of Jackie's training.
This disc escapes the electric chair only due to the judge's fascination with William Shatner's hammy acting.
'You will have to take on a mate or two in the polishing line,' said Jack to Killick, who was gazing round with a kind of imbecile rapture at the number of surfaces that he might now attack with powdered chalk and shammy leather: like many seamen he had a passion for making metal shine, and he had already reduced Jack's earliest silver plates to something not far removed from foil. Archive 2009-04-01
His hammy hand did a roll-down motion and I engaged the power window on his side.
If I had the money sure, I would go buy the whole shammy gammy outfit but I don't. Scent Elimination Debate
Unrelenting tosh, it mixes dodgy accents with over-ripe dialogue, hammy performances and the kind of pell-mell pace that leaves little room for subtlety or reflection.
It is a double whammy that will showcase Brazil's glittering potential and subject it to the glare of global scrutiny. The Sun
Thus did light and darknes stryve within the realme of Scotland; the darknes ever befoir the world suppressing the light, from the death of that notable servand of God, Maister Patrik Hammyltoun, unto the death of Edwarde the Saxt, that most godly and most verteous King that hath bein knowin to have rounge in England, or elles whare, these many yearis bypast, who departed the miserie of this lyef the vj of Julij, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
In terms of calibre, it delivers at least a triple whammy. Times, Sunday Times
But then the organisers came in with a whammy that left the undefeated team and its supporters scratching their heads!
If you tweak a hammy, which I have many times, pushing it only increases the chance of pulling it. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
How are you supposed to follow the story when you're constantly making sarcastic comments about the hammy acting?
Unsurprisingly, then, this double whammy has met with a cynical welcome. Times, Sunday Times
Because my current project is kinda about genres of interiority howzat for a double whammy? Ferule & Fescue
Perhaps that's all we should expect; but that opening double whammy suggested there might have been more. Times, Sunday Times
The steak combined the double whammy of being simultaneously tasteless and chewy, while the haggis was simply superb.
He said: ‘This is very much a triple whammy for the motorist and even a quadruple whammy if you happen to drive a diesel-powered vehicle.’
It was basically a triple whammy: Housing prices kept falling, oil prices kept rising and both lenders and borrowers grew more cautious after five years of incaution. Three-Ingredient Recipe for Recession
Empty calories, fat and sodium deliver a triple whammy that is the downfall of many.
You've got your brownie underbelly base with a crackly crispy chocolate chip cookie top to create a double whammy of perfection! TWD: CHIPSTER TOPPED BROWNIES
After wiping his shoes with a cloth he calls a shammy, Grandpa puts them on. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
His speech was a lamentable effort - nothing about it was convincing, from the hammy acting to the misfired soundbites.
That double whammy puts almost 2,000 full-time and temp jobs under threat. The Sun
Farmers have faced the double whammy of a freeze and a drought this year.
Residents are bracing themselves for the annual double whammy: a hike in council tax bills, and swingeing cuts in services.
Wrigley had either seen a professional wrestling match or read about one in which a wrestler used an assistant to cast spells and hexes or otherwise put a 'whammy' on his opponent. Beachwood Reporter
The arguable brilliance of the casting choices comes from having so many comic actors and comedians cast as those straight men, avoiding any kind of hammy portrayals and giving entirely sincere performances. Rabid Rewind: The Informant
Discrete little chunks of Thursday, that weren't goo-worthy in themselves, seem to have joined forces in the night and put the goo whammy on me this morning.
BRITISH holidaymakers face a triple whammy of strikes after Spanish taxi drivers and bar owners joined airport staff in announcing walkouts. The Sun
And the triple whammy of falling housing prices, rising oil prices and both lenders and borrowers growing more cautious after five years of incaution suggest a combination that may be simply too much even for the impressively resilient U.S. economy. Merrill's Blowout Write-Down
The former features the great baritone Alfred Drake at his exuberantly hammy best; the latter boasts an incredibly catchy, tune-filled score by Hollywood stalwarts Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. Mining Broadway's Musical Riches
IT'S not so much a double as a triple whammy. The Sun
You're still banned from the comment section until you submit your chammy from yesterdays sprint. Wednesday Competition of the Knowledge of the Bicycle Snobs NYC! (And Announcement of Short Recess.)
His use of bleach to paint directly onto unprimed canvas was a conceptual double whammy - not only did the works have a convincing and beautiful singularity, the subject was reinforced by the connotations of the materials.
I also like roasting some veg off before adding them for a triple whammy of tastes. The Sun
Eric Roberts plays a hissable former CIA operative (he's so hammy you know he can't be trusted), Mickey Rourke turns up as an ex-mercenary/nonparticipant (via a long monologue, he explains that he left his heart in Bosnia), while Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger appear in cameo roles (the governator has nothing more urgent to occupy his days?). The Seattle Times
And in a double whammy, oil prices are also rising. The Sun
The play area for the school is directly below your window and offers the acoustical double-whammy of a concrete floor covered by a corrugated tin roof. Hospeder�a Del Truco 7, Guanajuato
With that unusual double whammy, expect some particularly diverse audiences. Times, Sunday Times
Their undubbed efforts add rough gusto to the film's hammy drama. Times, Sunday Times
Rather than seeming hammy and forced, it all feels natural as it comes from something within. Times, Sunday Times
Wednesday's opener was full of all those little traits viewers have come to equate with ITV drama: hammy acting, excruciating dialogue, stereotypes and ludicrous plots.
Britain's farmers have faced the double whammy of a rising pound and falling agricultural prices.
Bad history, a silly script and hammy performances. Times, Sunday Times
Co-op hits back with its own triple whammy timesonline. Times, Sunday Times
Motorists face a double whammy. Times, Sunday Times
Maumere Bay is slowly recovering from a triple whammy: earthquake, tidal waves and a cyclone.
I know most folk who ride a 'bent don't use chammy butter, but I suffer from excessive cockling. Warming the Cockles: Living, Breathing, Shopping
Scottish Natural Heritage is facing a triple whammy of objections which are to be lodged with the Scottish parliament calling for an investigation into the activities of the conservation quango.
Like a hammy actor, " wrote New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini on November 27, Lang Lang "has a penchant for interpretive exaggeration.
The steak combined the double whammy of being simultaneously tasteless and chewy, while the haggis was simply superb.
In the television ads,[sentence dictionary] he cheerfully delivered some hammy lines before falling backwards into a swimming pool.
But then I realized it was just my home-made chammy cream which is mostly Prell and pineapple juice. Controversy: Twitter for Tat
They have to think of one policy package and strategy to stop the triple whammy of falling stocks, bonds and the yen.
There is a triple whammy on Super Sunday. The Sun
Which singer will die next and have his dumb musician's problems re-enacted by a hammy actor who wants an Oscar really bad?
In the television ads, he cheerfully delivered some hammy lines before falling backwards into a swimming pool.
The government's policy is higher tax and higher interest rates. It's a double whammy.
As an expression for an evil influence or hex, a "whammy" was added to the vernacular in 1941 when a boxing manager said a "double whammy" was the only way African-American boxer Joe Lewis was ever to be knocked out. The Triple Whammy of Bigotry in the 2008 Election
Some fun can be found in hammy supporting performances by Paul Bettany as the oleaginous Prime Minister Lord Melbourne and Jim Broadbent (sporting an absurd white wig) as the dying King William, Victoria’s predecessor. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
The quadruple whammy is hitting winemakers like a 10-ton barrel.
It had a triple whammy of problems: poor content, latencies and content not suitable for the format, as well as a bad UI.
He felt a big, hammy hand land on his shoulder and tug him out of the chair, which toppled to the ground.
Using 11 ‘magical crystals’ and a giant crystal ‘to receive and transmit positive thoughts,’ Geller put the whammy on the opposition.

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