How To Use Honky In A Sentence
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The music is the best thing about the film, which includes spirituals, work songs, a lullaby, and a great sequence in a saloon with honky-tonk jazz.
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The author vividly recreates the nature of the Phenix City honky-tonks and brothels and the recurrent violence so often directed against the soldiers of Fort Benning, Georgia.
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The pianist had grand piano, harmonium, honky-tonk piano and celeste, and the percussionist had a range of tuned and untuned percussion.
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I know he was an alcoholic thanks to the barflies in honky tonks like the Bloody Bucket who gave him beer.
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He's a decent, hard-working guy who's still got that riotous honky cat spirit lurking in his diva soul.
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Introducing block rockin 'honky-tonk, New American music for the 21st century, built with love in a little studio, hand crafted, running on inspiration and imagination and duct tape, calling on the spirit of Gram Parsons and Otis Redding and KRS-ONE and Dolly Parton and Nina Simone and Willie Nelson and Missy Elliott and Johnny Cash, to write about what we feel and play what our hearts tell us, because to make it happen is reason enough, and to share it with the world is all the reason you need, because we tell the truth with music and the truth is beautiful.
Boing Boing
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Over an adventurous career he has been a carpenter, welder, Vietnam combat veteran, honky tonk guitar picker, maker of custom Damascus knives and machinist.
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‘My dad was a great pianist and he was always playing honky-tonk and jazz music, so I grew up with it,’ he said.
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The beautiful vocals and instrumentals make memorable moments in each piece, whether a honky-tonk, a love ballad or simply a swinging tune.
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But they sit around like a bunch of jukeboxes in a private honky-tonk, playing the same sad country songs.
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It is more of a honky-tonk than a restaurant but it is boasting an oyster bar.
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Aubrey ‘Moon’ Mullican encountered Holiday frequently in the honkytonks and barrelhouses around Houston.
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Does it make you a honky or a redneck if somebody calls you that?
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This is kind of facile (and not a little bit peurile), but I used to select the wider blades of grass that I could find, and pinch them between the balls of my hands (paddy part at the bottom of the thumb) and the tips of my thumbs, and when you blow through the resulting gap with the grass blade, it made a very obnoxious, honky kind of sound, in the same general sonic family as listening to Mr. Punch speak through the swazzle.
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Its mix includes “born again” or vintage cowboy boots — “half the retail price and half the work to break them in”; ranch home decor, such as knotty pine log beds; “saloon girl” lingerie; exclusive designs, such as tank tops with “Honky” on the front and “Tonk” on the back; Pocahontas and Indian chief prints; and novelty gifts that baby boomers played with as children, such as candy cigarettes and badges.
The Volokh Conspiracy
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The pianist had grand piano, harmonium, honky-tonk piano and celeste, and the percussionist had a range of tuned and untuned percussion.
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As per the 'shonky' shops mentioned by Sir Terry in the Discworld books.
Kateelliott: Question for the Hive Mind
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It manages to stay above the pack thanks to Lovett's laconic drawl and some fine honky-tonk piano.
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Why is it that it's ok to call a white person a "honky," "cracker," "trailer trash," or any other racist comments, but for a fictitious character to portray as having a TRAIT of an ethnic people is vulgar and offensive?
No One Wants To Own Up To Racism In Transformers | /Film
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The songs have a bit of a barroom sound, and there are a few blues numbers, and even one honky-tonk piano song.
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Tim, take comfort in the fact that teachers may be too busy teaching to the tests to teach children how to write essays quickly and consistently well on such topics as why you are a honky racist, war-mongering, meat-eating, SUV driving evil person who should hate yourself.
Matthew Yglesias » Is Our Children Learning
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As someone who has sometimes wondered about her own capacity to drink herself to death, I was also intrigued by the shots of men and women inside honky-tonks and other bars, sometimes at after-show functions.
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Then I came back here and I was just another honky walking the streets.
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'Look, Em, the fact that Tommy Hanson kicked you out of a car in Brixton and you met some black man who called you a honky cockteaser doesn't give you any right to lecture me about my life.
High Society
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But we had an interest in him for a while - he's always been on the shonky side.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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I wanted to give credit to Australia and not to get caught in some kind of shonky business, and I can assure you now that we didn't do anything that was improper in this whole period.
WalesOnline - Home
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Jeanne Moos tells us about an event that's being called honky-tonk meets the White House wonk.
CNN Transcript May 15, 2007
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Nb 'shonky' is strictly a Discworld term in this context.
Kateelliott: Question for the Hive Mind
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I'd hope to see the site redeveloped in a tasteful way and not in a honky-tonk fashion.
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Kids of all colors flocked to see Reggie Hammond (Murphy), the cool black dude with his Armani threads and Porsche wheels, outslick Jack Cates (Nick Nolte), the slob honky cop with his gangrened convertible and epithetgrowling mouth.
The Boys Are Back In Town
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To soak up a little of the famous Nashville atmosphere, head for the honky-tonks in Downtown, a row of rough-and-ready bars all playing covers of your favourite country songs.
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Building workers have uncovered shonky immigration scams involving the employment and exploitation of illegal immigrants in the industry.
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There's no sign officials will try to remove the forbidden music from the honky-tonks where it first emerged.
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Hightower writes, ‘I've been in Oklahoma honky-tonks, Portland brew pubs, Boston neighborhood bars, Napa Valley wine bars - but I've never been in a place like the O2 Spa Bar in Toronto, Canada.’
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It's part of the band's strategy to play as many different types of venues as possible, from traditional bluegrass festivals (including the band's own Mountain Song Festival in Brevard) and sit-down venues, to places that used to be called honky-tonks.
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I've been twice and had shonky service, terrible food and eye-watering bills.
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You don't hear me calling white folks honky and flat - ass!
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It's set in a honky-tonk hall and it's just a very colourful piece that's a great way to finish the show with a ragtime band on stage.
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Hottle said some of Cline's original costumes, still faintly smelling of the cigarette smoke that hung in the 1950s honky-tonk air, are in climate-controlled storage for display in a museum that Celebrating Patsy Cline hopes to eventually open elsewhere in Winchester.
Patsy Cline's House Opens to Public
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And how can you say someone like Maven Huffman, who had a professional career that seemed to barely last as long as Honky Tonk Man's IC title reign, "overstayed" his welcome?
Scott's Blog of Doom
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Danny´s new partner is experimentimg with salsas and has come up with some good ideas although his salsas need more spiciness so I have suggested he have regular "honky" salsa and a more picante "Dawg" salsa for the more adventurous diner.
General Lee - Burgers & Booze
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On this album he experiments with honky tonk rhythms, string arrangements, and sassy backing vocals.
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The town is but a decayed, honky-tonk version of the company town, with everything and everybody in it owned by Mr. Potter, the rapacious banker (and the town itself is, of course, Pottersville).
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But when the foursome kept playing ragtime and honky-tonk music into the early hours the council decided to pull the plug.
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This makes sense, since we're living in the Age of Irony, and people now seem to be flocking to the city only to transform it into some kind of honky-tonk theme park.
Ambiguity: Mixed Messages and Style Overlap
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The music is the best thing about the film, which includes spirituals, work songs, a lullaby, and a great sequence in a saloon with honky-tonk jazz.
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Rather than concentrating on shonky design, the legislation puts in place an inspection regime.
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I am really surprised that a New Zealand political party should advocate shonky protectionism against our trading partners.
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But if you'd rather stay warm, Billy Bob's is a couple of blocks over and calls itself the world's biggest honky tonk.
Dallas Preps For Influx Of Visitors For February Super Bowl
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As the honky-tonk piano of Elliott Smith's ‘A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free’ fades into silence, there's one moment from this compilation that stays with you.
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The label printed some 3,500 copies of a 45-rpm with I'm a Honky Tonk Girl and Whispering Sea.
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AmericanaRama plays music the way we wish others did, as a rich mix of blues, Celtic, Cajun, western swing, honky tonk, singer-songwriters, alternative country pick up bands and even a few string-bending jazzbos.
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The gorgeous honky-tonk ballad would have made Patsy Cline proud, but it has never cracked the Hot 100 on Skid Row.
Music where they live: Singer Mary McBride's unconventional tour
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‘Sin City’ is a traditional honky-tonk duet with Beck and Harris, complete with pedal steel and fiddle.
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A night in a honky-tonk ensues, during which Henry and Carol dance the night away as Wayne glowers and fumes on the sidelines; he's actually jealous of this old guy out there with his young wife.
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Crazy Chomsky-reading nut that he is, he at least deserves some coin for 30 years of honky-tonk labor.
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Here, you can get a taste of Memphis nightlife, where the blues continues to play in classic clubs and honky-tonks.
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She was playing the harmonica and I was playing the honky-tonk piano.
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Kids of all colors flocked to see Reggie Hammond (Murphy), the cool black dude with his Armani threads and Porsche wheels, outslick Jack Cates (Nick Nolte), the slob honky cop with his gangrened convertible and epithetgrowling mouth.
The Boys Are Back In Town
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It's a great honky-tonk, with live Texas-style country music most nights of the week.
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And I would fall asleep lying on the floor of my room with my pillow and my blanket, because he had an old honky-tonk piano that he'd play just all night long.
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Sending a triumvirate of trained pollsters and media men into the bumpkin's backwoods barrio, he hopes to help the honky-tonk hick win more than his fair share of the illiterate Appalachian vote.
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In terrific clips, we see the scampish gleam of mischief that shot out of Atwater's steely eyes, giving him the look of a honky-tonk Daniel Craig.
Brad Listi: Politics as Bloodsport: A Conversation with Stefan Forbes, Director of Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
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I suspect he preferred the novelty of being a black man who sang like Elvis in mostly white honky-tonks to being a nearly blind visitor to the king of rock 'n' roll's court.
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gradually changed from blasé to concerned as the death-toll grew sort of knew a sure-fire way to sublimate angst – gave to the first relief collector who happened to call a shonky deal; seems all he collected was for himself they said on the news, not
Bush Fire Shame
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At 16, Anneth compulsively sneaks out at night to flirt and drink at honky-tonks, dancing to the latest songs by Elvis, Patsy Cline, and Sam Cooke.
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So why is there nothing protecting us from people who deal with shonky affairs of the mind?
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Dear Polack-Honky: I think what you think is mariachi is actually conjunto norteño, which is the Mexican music form that most approximates traditional polka--mostly because that's what it is.
Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Is that Polka or 'Conjunto Norteño'?
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How disappointed all of you human baktags will be when you find out He is just an Irish/German honky from the Midwest USA.
R-RATED WALK HARD TRAILER
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First and foremost, does this guy have some shonky connections?
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We're having good times again in old honky-tonk bars/Staying out late again, making love 'neath the stars," he sings.
Album reviews: Willie Nelson, "Country Music" and Merle Haggard, "I Am What I Am"
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Stuart began offering what he called hillbilly rock,'' an amalgam of energized honky-tonk and rock 'n' roll that he rode well into the '90s.
Boston.com Top Stories
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But I also thought you could have been alluding to "honky" with "honk honk.
EAGEAGEAG
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Nashville's downtown honky-tonks have helped launch the careers of such greats as Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.
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And the latest entertainment for the regulars is the new honky-tonk / boogie-woogie piano nights with Karl Mullen on ‘as many Fridays as possible’.
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She wore hip-hugging tight jeans most of the time, and when she went out to sing at what she called another honky-tonk, she usually tied the bottom of her blouse so there was a little midriff showing.
Lightning Strikes
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There is music for everyone in this city - traditional jazz, honky-tonk piano, Cajun, zydeco, rhythm and blues, gospel, rock, and country.
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Two shonky financial advisers have dudded more than a thousand people out of their life savings.
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As I say, it is constitutionally very shonky and very dodgy.
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Adam had gone into the small apartment at the back of the white clapboard house, which was pretty quiet, but up front, the sound of a honky-tonk piano tried to rise above talk and laughter.
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(See: falling into stalker-level love with Jillian after one cowboy-themed date at an empty honky-tonk bar.)
Jake is the new Bachelor. What, was a box of rocks not available? | EW.com
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Navy, singing six nights a week in a honky-tonk band, selling cars, building houses, managing a coffee house, and half a dozen other jobs.
An Author's Path To Success: Quitting Your Day Job
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So when he takes honky-tonk style, for example, he pushes its virtuosity to the highest degree.
Denk and Ives, Partners in Pianism
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The mood in their haunted honky-tonk runs from lugubrious laments to boisterous boogies, drawing in touches of ragtime, country, blues and cabaret.
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The music is the best thing about the film, which includes spirituals, work songs, a lullaby, and a great sequence in a saloon with honky-tonk jazz.
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But I couldn't help but wonder, if that's how an innocuous honky is treated, what's happening to the swarthy bearded types?
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Well it's not a new technology or some great discount deal for satellite Net access or shonky scam.
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There's a scene at a honky-tonk in which Melanie lays into all her old friends in a way that's vicious and very real.
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The flat came part-furnished - and part-finished too - sloping walls and ceilings, shonky partition walls thrown up.
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There is music for everyone in this city - traditional jazz, honky-tonk piano, Cajun, zydeco, rhythm and blues, gospel, rock, and country.
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Migrants from the Texas and Oklahoma dustbowls in the 1930s kept their music alive in the honky-tonks and juke joints of California's San Joachim Valley.
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I used to do, you know, 260 days a year on the road doing fairs and festivals and honky-tonks and symphony dates and whatever.
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The word is that when the market crashed he was mixed up in a couple of shonky ventures and his minders got him out just in time.
MURDER SONG
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Songs performed by women country singers of the 1960s and 1970s that promoted motherhood, chastity, monogamy, and child rearing outsold country songs about women expressing their sexuality, cheating on their mates, dancing at honky-tonks, or drinking.
A Renegade History of the United States
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The interior of the honky-tonk was no sightlier than the exterior.
Where There's Smoke
