| 单词 | corny |
| 例句 | Cordelia says, because there is a wave of corny chicken jokes sweeping the school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When I ask how he knows, he says, “True love always wins,” which sounds corny, but I hope he’s right. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I know how corny this sounds, but I could kiss her all day and never get bored. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Her mom and dad, together and apart, weirdly hovering over her hospital bed like aliens from movies even cornier than teenage family dramas. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z You can cross over, or do some corny dips, or even jitterbug a little, and she stays right with you. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He’s only been gone a couple days, but he’d give anything to catch a whiff of the flowery perfume Shenice started wearing at the beginning of the year, or hear one of Drake’s corny jokes. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z The logo was corny, Kathy admitted, but it wasn’t easy to forget. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z When we passed by, they looked up at us, right into our faces and said “Hi” or “Howdy,” and although it sounds corny to say it, we felt right at home there. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I always act corny too. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Mother held out her arms then, and if I ran into them and both our eyes filled with tears, I’m not admitting it, because it sounds too darn corny, and it wasn’t corny at all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It's corny, I realize, but it isn't too corny. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Most of the stuff looks lame and corny when I look back on it, but they’re only for me, no one else.... Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Very brassy, but not good brassy--corny brassy. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Then, like I hadn’t said a word, he continued with the corny poems with lines like “back on your feet” and “love is the best medicine.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The way I wore it, I swung the old peak way around to the back--very corny, I'll admit, but I liked it that way. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Mr. Gore shoots me a corny wink, and then adds, “We good?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m curious but also a little bit scared, and I don’t want to say something corny like “Where’s your broomstick?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z I had first noticed her from the other side of the track and figured she was somebody's mother...until she didn't sit down with the rest of the corny kids' cheering squad. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes a crush is better when it’s a one-way, as long as you keep quiet about it and don’t freak the girl out with creepy leering or unsolicited corny texts or whatever. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z It seemed corny then, the kind of sentiment coaches always tried to invoke. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “You want a corn muffin to go with that cocoa? ’Cause that was kinda corny, Fab.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The words looked like yarn, which was kind of cool and kind of corny at the same time. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z It did sound corny, so I kept it to myself. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She seldom laughed and didn’t offer any of her corny jokes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All afternoon corny people sing about Colorado, about everything being beautiful about how we've only just begun. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Two of those hours were spent watching one of those corny, romantic, mushy-mushy movies with my mom. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It was kinda corny, but Two Step had a point. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Not as corny as your boys across the street, though,” he says, pointing his thumb back at the Darcy house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z We drank wine and laughed at the corny lines. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z No corny hearts on it, but it is red. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I know it’s corny, but I think he’s here. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Okay, it’s all ridiculous and corny, because unfortunately and fortunately, some of life’s biggest moments get wrapped up in corny, Annabelle is beginning to understand. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z So they act all loud and hearty, swinging Jeffrey around and telling corny jokes. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I fell,” Cole said, wishing he could wipe the corny smile off Garvey’s face and show him what fists were really for. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I know that sounds corny, but I feel it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Because, as corny as it may be: I want to be a wobbly people pole that tries to bring joy into the world, not one that takes joy from it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z This may prove me as parsimonious as my father, but who spends that much money on corny inflatable light-up Santa Clauses and spinning, singing reindeer? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z And there’s a level full of corny jokes and silly sayings, with room left for us to add more. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Our eyes meet in a corny cartoon way. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I know it sounds corny, but in that moment, with that one word, I already feel like a different person. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But playing with my guns wasn’t corny yet. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z They were cheesy and corny - two of his favourite qualities. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I give her a real smile in return, not the big corny fake one I’ve been practicing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He must’ve cruised up the hall just in time to hear my corny answer. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “I bet it’s soon, though. I think that new corny health program is starting up.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I thought it was just a corny cliché when I first heard that expression, but I think it actually applies to Coach right about now, which makes me sort of sad. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s terribly corny, but it’s sweet in a Pretty in Pink way, too. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Felt like I woke up one day and it was just corny to do. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z For the first five years, they’d smiled and giggled as their dad cracked corny jokes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I wasn’t afraid because they weren’t accompanied by a tophat, tap shoes, and a corny jingle. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Kinda corny, but at least the prizes look cool. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a corny gesture, but a gesture of awareness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I felt pretty good about not letting Selena get the best of me, even though my Irish spring joke was kind of corny. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “When I’m done, we’ll put on some of that corny Christmas music you like.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “She said she thought it was sweet the way he blushes at the mention of my name. I think it’s sweet too. A little corny, but sweet.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z There's no one from the hood who'll spread a rumor about me getting on the mic to spit some corny rhyme about love or the hood or my sisters. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Hawk began reciting the last sentence Lincoln would ever hear, a series of corny insults that delighted the audience. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking back, it’s pretty corny, but it still makes me smile. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z In order from most corny to least, this is how the laboratory measured our meal: What looks like a meal with lots of variety turns out to be mainly corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He started off with about fifty corny jokes, just to show us what a regular guy he was. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I thought it was corny as hell, but Jupe got this look on her face like she was seeing a sunrise for the first time. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z And the sort of son every father secretly wants: big and good-natured and not awfully bright, fond of sports, gifted at backslapping and corny jokes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z What does he do, memorize a whole page of corny jokes every Wednesday night? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Her corny buildings were taking away from my own creations. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I slapped it, even though it felt kind of corny. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Like one of those corny after-school television specials. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She started jitterbugging with me-- but just very nice and easy, not corny. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Then Spoony and Ma would go back and forth trading corny jokes, which I was usually all about, except on Sundays. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He's so good he's almost corny, in fact. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z "Nice hair, Patty. Different," he said, which of course caused a few giggles, the loudest coming from corny Curron. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “I made you promise no corny puns. I made no such promise.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She was so sweet, but man was she corny! All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They played movie themes, polkas, anything familiar you could hum along to; the corny songs were all dedicated to "Poppy" or "his lovely lady." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It was such a corny, baby thing to say. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Old-timers would lean against the corny papier-mache coral reef, sip their drinks, and mutter about the jovenes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Even if it’s corny,” he said into Moss’s ear, then he kissed him on the cheek. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It was a very corny book--I realize that--but I couldn't get that violin stuff out of my mind anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Love is corny, when you get right down to it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Still, it’s amazing how easily it comes back to mind, this corny and falsely gay sexual banter. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “So corny,” I say, spotting one of Guillermo’s notepads on a stack of mail. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A little corny, but it does the trick. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z But he did draw a picture of a new superhero—his own original character called Knit Man, which Needles and I both thought was corny, but we told Noodles it was cool. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Z, why you so corny? You should have this instead of that,” Layla says, swirling the glass around while holding up her pinky. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Whatever, girl, listen: I need you to suppress the urge to make a corny pun about what I’m about to say.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z No matter how much Dad is trying to keep things normal with his New York City scavenger hunt, no matter how much we all try to laugh at his corny jokes, these tears are here. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z I guess I chickened out, afraid that to offer words of thanks for the pig and the mushrooms and the forests and the garden would come off sounding corny. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My mom and dad lived the corniest of love stories, and as 1 got older, it embarrassed me to no end. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “Get out of here with that corny line,” she said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Maybe give it some kind of catchy, corny name like All Sauce. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The maze known for its corny themes strikes again with “Pirates of the Corn-ibbean.” At corn mazes, getting lost is part of the fun 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z “It’s not pretentious that I’m an artist. It’s not corny to sing songs that maybe other people think are depressing. It’s not embarrassing.” Cat Power Has a Lot to Be Proud Of. Now She Knows That. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Could you not wait another second for the corny toasts? Social Q?s: Nice Daguerreotype! 2010-10-07T22:02:00Z "It would get corny as hell to have several stunt categories. Do you give an Oscar for people getting blown out of windows?" An Oscar recognizing stunts? Jack Gill urges academy action 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z It’s a charmingly corny moment that rarely fails to earn a chuckle from the audience. 24 Years Later, Roberto Alagna Steps Back Into ‘Bohème’ at the Met 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z In that final moment, corny and profound, Dylan makes the foundational paradox of his music feel clear: Whenever he holds his mirror up to that failing thing called America, he has to see himself, too. Review | Bob Dylan holds a mirror up to America and sees himself 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Hollywood movies are too corny and cheaply sentimental? Perspective | D.A. Pennebaker revolutionized film while living in a New York that revolutionized culture 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z My friends roared with laughter at the corny name and told me that I absolutely had to go back and buy the book. A sip of David Lebovitz's L'embrassadeur is the next best thing to being embraced by the warm sun 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z I fully don’t understand those relationships, but I am grateful for them as corny as it sounds–there were sweet aspects to those relationships. “I’m the parent who wants their kids to have sex”: Mary Louise Parker talks poetry, nudity, one-night stands and her brilliant new book 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Yet Shannon’s halting, withdrawn presence in Michael Maren’s “A Little White Lie,” an otherwise atrocious literary farce, burns an unpredictable black hole in the movie’s froth of clichéd exchanges and corny musical cues. ‘A Little White Lie’ Review: The Not-So-Great Pretender 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z But the worlds of George Lucas — “Star Wars” and later the “Indiana Jones” franchise — are a little corny, with cartoonlike violence and goofy jokes. ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ to debut at Disneyland, with much more Marvel to come 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Henson thought it too camp, plus, as she wrote in the memoir, “hip-hop? Please. Stupid, corny as hell.” Taraji P Henson: 'I'm glad I kept my ego in check' 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The premise may sound corny, but there’s an atmosphere of genuine enthusiasm and kindness here that will charm even the most cynical of listeners. 6 Podcasts to Make You Feel Good 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Then he immediately dives into a plot that is both corny and confusing, like a flash mob. The Essential Philip K. Dick 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “It sounds corny, but history was always part of who I am,” she said. Unearthing the Roots of Black Rebellion 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z The story may be corny, but there’s a terrific party scene set in a grand old hotel that luxuriates in one last night of glory. From Drug Cartels to the Mafia, Crime Runs in the Family 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z It read, “Last night was a smashing success … it was warm but not corny, humorous but not frivolous, love-filled but not forced, elegant but not gaudy and welcoming to all with joy and happiness.” Slow to Take Off, After a First Date They Cruised 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z I think because it is relatively ambiguous and unknown it doesn't seem too corny, which can be a problem with a lot of tattoos. 'I have a tattoo of Bruce Springsteen wearing 3D glasses on my leg' 2011-02-08T11:56:00Z Critics, Westerberg explains, taught him that Top Forty singles and album-oriented-rock tracks were corny and hackneyed, and that punk rock—Johnny Thunders and the New York Dolls especially—was the way to go. Why Rock Criticism Was Essential to the Replacements 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Music visualization sounds so corny now, but I do think it’s a bottom line of why people dance. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The director and designers avoided the neo-Classicism of Gluck’s time in favor of a style more authentically pagan, although with some risible hand gestures and corny dance moves for the chorus. Music Review: In Dark Temple, Antiquity?s Sober Doings 2011-02-14T05:11:48Z I don't want to get corny on you, but I am kind of corny, and that's one of the greatest things about my career, I get this incredible feedback from people all the time. 'Pee-Wee's Playhouse' comes to Blu-Ray; Paul Reubens speaks 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Jokes can be corny, but self-consciously so; almost always, they bear a vague but unmistakable stamp of something more grotesque. On ‘Beef House,’ Family Sitcoms Get the Tim and Eric Treatment 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z They understand the necessary components for giving us exactly what we want, right down to the corny titles. Love is (still) in the air: how the romcom came back from the dead 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z And I fell for some hopelessly corny coasters with cartoon black-faced sheep on them. Medieval meets modern in charming Kilkenny, Ireland 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Fitting in with skateboarders means adopting an almost constitutional resistance to corny gestures. The Flourishing of Skate Culture in a Sellout Era 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z And there were darker occurrences, as when, after a corny passage in which a distraught Mr. Spanos sought the attention of actors playing passers-by, he was similarly ignored by actual passers-by. Theater Review: Jonathan Solari?s ?Love Letter? on a Sidewalk Stage - Review 2011-09-30T23:22:12Z Halley Came To Jackson by Mary Chapin Carpenter is another corny song that never fails to move me. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z It doubled as a kind of kiddy resort with an arcade, a bowling alley for toddlers, laser tag, arts and crafts, and corny kid-oriented dance parties. A winter break cheat code for old dads like me 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z It's a heavily fictionalised version of events, complete with a full, corny complement of cliched characters and situations. Red Tails – review 2012-06-07T22:00:01Z The benefit of leads with decades of personal chemistry, plus the classic studio ingénue training to hoof it through corny material, is that Marvin is freed up to lavish attention on his bit players. ‘80 for Brady’ Review: Remember These Titans 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z My praise is not for this ballet, which features human trafficking, deplorable ethnic stereotypes and hopelessly corny scenarios. Perspective | Storytelling is the key ingredient in the year’s best dance works 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z As the story swings from military jargon to corny implausibility, the fate of the Earth hangs from a thread of rapidly mutating cells. Review | Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z And speaking of mash-ups, that's exactly the genre that forces the film's female singing group out of its comfort zone of conservative choreography and corny vocal arrangements. Review: `Pitch Perfect' is infectiously catchy 2012-09-26T19:21:12Z One thing that really bugs me about Native writing for kids, whether written by non-Natives or Natives, is how corny it is. “There’s nothing worse than a white liberal who thinks they’re doing the right thing”: Sherman Alexie on Hollywood diversity, “The Revenant” and why he’s “not the proper kind of Indian” 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Yes, the show had its corny moments, and perhaps no one but Petri herself would be persuaded by the German "accent" she affected in her stage patter. Suzanne Petri conjures Marlene Dietrich at Millennium Park 2010-12-21T15:48:00Z In the supernatural horror movie “The Djinn,” a dramatic, somewhat corny fairy-talelike voice recites the contents of a mysterious book of spells to the audience. ‘The Djinn’ Review: A Boy Whose Wish Comes True 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Nearly all his novels delivered — it sounds corny — a quiet happiness: They aimed to give pleasure and they did. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Getaway Car,’ a collection of Donald E. Westlake pieces “For the first time, it looked like there was a sparkle in his eyes. It sounds corny, but he just looked so much brighter.” Expots: medical marijuana draws parents to US for their children's treatments 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z For the new version, he removed a corny jailbreak intro and put considerably more heft and crunch in the beat, and he brought in strings and horns. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z That earnest modesty was undermined only by a superfluous use of recorded sounds, including a rainstorm cornily tacked on as the voices drifted away. Review: Katarina Livljanic’s ‘Heretical Angels’ Contemplates Mortality 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z And so now, buying a pair seems kind of corny, yet I still do. Sneaker Release Trauma is real. Just ask any suffering shoe collector 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Even at the singalongs’ height, many Americans considered them hopelessly corny. Mitch Miller, Maestro of the Singalong, Dies at 99 2010-08-02T16:28:00Z Once the strains of Hamlisch's jaunty score begin - an ideal accompaniment to the faded cinematography and Matt Damon's helmet of hair and corny sportswear - you know you're in some vividly retro, comic parallel universe. Hamlisch left his signature on decades of films 2012-08-08T09:01:04Z Growing up poor in what he terms “New York’s rawest, remotest, cheapest ghetto,” he embodied the kind of corny truisms about reading you might find embroidered on throw pillows or painted on nautical-style wood signs. Alfred Kazin’s “A Walker in the City” charts an intellectual awakening, block by block 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z “Maybe it sounds corny, but there’s sort of a wisdom to elephants,” InStyle quoted Mr. Wilson as saying. How the Elephant Became the Newest Celebrity Cause 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z His doleful eyes are so good at communicating sorrow, but he is so natural on screen, he never seems corny. Is Lakeith Stanfield the coolest actor of 2018? 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z The girls’ dismayed faces, reacting to Leonard’s corny delivery, are the punch line. How “The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z He was a computer geek: tall with a great, Gandalfy beard and a sweet but corny sense of humor. What Death Can Teach You About Living a Passionate Life 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Her enthusiasm works as a sweetener; she knows that students enjoy both corny jokes and groaning at corny jokes. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z No, I was still as corny as they come. They don’t make them like Ralph Bakshi anymore: “Now, animators don’t have ideas. They just like to move things around” 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “I think artistic practice and this kind of devising process, it sounds corny, but it really has the potential to heal a lot of trauma.” Performing and Creating as Equals Across the Age Gap 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z “Talking about this stuff felt kind of corny. To me, it felt like it had been done to death,” Kondabolu says. He loved ‘The Simpsons.’ But Hari Kondabolu has a problem with Apu. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The number may be “as corny as Kansas in August,” to quote another phrase from “A Wonderful Guy.” Music Review: A Star Takes an Excursion Out of Her Comfort Zone 2010-10-20T21:25:00Z And there are far greater things about Rumpole to prevent us worrying too much about a few corny jokes and soft-centred jibes against political correctness. Forever Rumpole by John Mortimer – review 2013-02-05T07:00:06Z Mr. Beal seemed not to care if his work was considered corny. Jack Beal, Optimistic New Realist Painter, Dies at 82 2013-09-08T00:44:24Z The couple’s romantic banter in this scene is cute if somewhat corny but it’s hard not to be amused by the affable performers. Gotta Dance: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone manage to live up to the hype in Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Miller is a good interviewer, but a corny writer. ‘Tinderbox,’ an Oral History of HBO From Modest Beginnings to TV Revolution 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z "I know that was corny, but it was fun," said Dolly, after she played Benny Hill's theme song on a rhinestone-encrusted saxophone. 10 things we learned at Glastonbury 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Plus, he wanted to emphasize the disquieting phenomenon of seeing white faces rapping a particular racial epithet: “I’ma show you exactly what you like. You look corny.” Meet Aminé, a Joyful Rapper With an Eye on Politics 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z It sounds corny to say it like that, but I don’t know how to say it and be believed. The plight of the bitter nerd: Why so many awkward, shy guys end up hating feminism 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The swoony intensity makes a certain sense in the context of Hasidic Brooklyn, but seems corny when exposed to the air of the wider world. Theater Review: ‘My Name Is Asher Lev,’ at the Westside Theater 2012-12-05T04:57:17Z Somewhere in this great land on Thanksgiving Day, a guest on the corny side will arrive at the feast, grinning and bearing a bottle of Turkish wine. Even Bad Jokes Can Make Good Thanksgiving Wines 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z On those rare moments where he chose poorly — listen to his corny take on the Beatles classic “Something” — the singer still feels 100 percent committed. Why Frank Sinatra still matters 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z But is there a good reason to revive “Oh, You Kid!,” a 1999 vaudeville-style evocation of the ragtime era that ends up being just plain corny? Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-22T21:52:10Z Even if the show was corny and manipulative, audiences of every age returned each week to Waltons’ Mountain, finding an emotional authenticity in a family that seemed to embody the country’s best ideals. Earl Hamner Jr., Virginia-born writer who created ‘The Waltons,’ dies at 92 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Which is poetry that tells a corny joke. Gene Weingarten: What rhymes with ... religion? 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z She found the moniker, which was often shortened to “Ball of Fire,” corny. Betty Rowland, One of Burlesque's Last Queens, Dies at 106 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The crowd sings the stirring, irresistible, howling chorus, corny and manipulative and earnest as it is. Tim McGraw sings. Jon Meacham talks. This is not your regular book tour. 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z For a long time, I thought this band was corny. What We’re Reading This Summer 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z I'm an enthusiastic baker of cookies, watcher of corny Hallmark movies and surveyor of stocking stuffers. Forget tradition: Why not have a happy non-holiday instead? 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch. Laurie Anderson: music for dogs and Obama 2013-02-13T20:00:01Z The main problem — as the show’s corny title indicates — is that the gallery images seem to have been selected mainly for their abstract impact. Art Review: An Artful Environmental Impact Statement 2011-01-13T22:44:37Z In the twentieth century there was a strong anti-narrative trend in some quarters of the ballet world: storytelling was seen as corny. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z But if you reflexively dismiss modern verse as dauntingly esoteric or embarrassingly corny or tediously singsong, you need to try Ted Kooser. Poetry review: ‘Splitting an Order,’ by Ted Kooser It felt to me like a corny “Welcome to Fantasy Island” moment. Frugal Traveler Blog: Fiji for the Rest of Us 2012-05-01T20:26:09Z “There’s lots of corny words for it, like magic,” said Compton. The Wide World of Puppetry Converges on New York 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z "When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it." The Ira Glass / This American Life way of reporting the news 2013-06-23T18:30:03Z It's corny as hell, but that was a big moment for me. I can hear Julia Child's voice in my head again after six weeks of "The Julia Child Challenge" 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z "Not to be corny, but OneTribe really does mean something. We're appealing to a Burning Man vibe, but also to EDM fans. People will see the difference, but all those fans are our fans too." Can One Tribe find new territory in L.A.'s dance music scene? 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Not to be corny, but that thing in the air? An Evening of Ronald K. Brown Lifts Alvin Ailey’s Season 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The sentiment is perfectly corny and naїve, and at the end of an amazing saga, it sounds like George Lucas’s preferred way of saying goodbye. George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits 2012-01-17T16:33:29Z “The Ranch” is only a middling comedy, loaded up with corny and broad gags. Review: In ‘The Ranch,’ Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson Reunite as Cowboy Siblings 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z It often has the feeling of the classic, corny entertainments in which someone proposes, “Hey, kids let’s put on a show.” Theater Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Intimacy’ Makes Sex Neighborly 2014-01-30T03:00:17Z Some of the music maintains a precarious balance between chanson and yé-yé, which sounded hopelessly corny at the time, but now has a curious charm. Richard Williams on France's brilliant early-60s pop radio 2010-08-26T20:59:00Z “I’m not trying to be corny; it’s just really how I felt.” ‘Somebody Somewhere’ Celebrates a Life With Tears and Jokes 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z After not speaking for a year, Mr. A started politely peppering her with “corny” e-cards and messages from AOL Instant Messenger. Deported and 9,000 Miles Apart, but ‘You Stay With the Person You Love’ 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z That rousing rallying cry of the Obama campaign, “Yes We Can”? It was Axelrod’s idea, which Obama thought corny, until Michelle said it wasn’t corny at all. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z But for all its tickling blips of farce and droll bits of drive-by theology, “Miracle Workers” is fundamentally corny, which may be a proof of its sincerity. Starring Steve Buscemi as God, “Miracle Workers” Is Sappy, Juvenile, and Sharp All at Once 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Her observations nonetheless have a mercurial illumination that’s tinged with an occasional flash of charmingly corny humor and folksy wisdom. A Brilliant, Unknown Memoir About Classic Hollywood 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z They call what they do "gritpop", which is corny but neat. New band of the day ? No 880: Brother 2010-10-05T15:41:00Z Nothing that is hokey or corny — but we sort of stay in character, in a sense.” It’s got that swing: ‘Cotton Club’ coming to Benaroya Hall 2013-05-30T19:47:55Z When Jack proposes to Ally using a twisted guitar string as a ring, that’s corny. “A Star Is Born,” fails to thrive: Bradley Cooper’s vanity project is more corny than compe... 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Torn went into entertainment with a name that many assumed was a corny, ill-conceived stage name. Rip Torn, Emmy winner and Oscar nominee, known as a trouble-maker,... 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z The “Make America Great Again” Hat: A workaday cap with a corny slogan rendered in capital letters, this hardly seemed a candidate for iconic-object status when the year began. The Year in Nine Objects 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z And despite the talk of “creative direction,” I would submit that Rebeck delivered exactly the show the pilot implied: big, broad, kind of corny and unapologetically earnest. Smash Gets an Encore. Its Creator Doesn?t. Can the Show Change Its Tune? 2012-03-23T13:47:28Z If you haven’t started watching the show yet but plan to start: yes, the first scene of the first episode is off-puttingly corny. How “Billions” Became One of TV’s Sharpest Critiques of Power 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z If I'm being honest, I thought the performance, at times, was kind of corny. Spoiler alert! We're live-blogging tonight's 'American Idol': Top 12 perform 2010-03-17T01:18:00Z Davis is happy to recount his life to Bahrani, peppering his anecdotes with corny jokes and wild comments or outright lies as well as deflecting some of the tougher questions. Meet the narcissistic inventor of the bulletproof vest who "endangered as many lives as he saved" 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z And they have a right to have it kind of Hollywood-ized and aggrandized and made corny and wonderful just like anybody else does. George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits 2012-01-17T16:33:29Z Evans agrees: “I don’t want to sound corny, but the word kismet comes to mind.” Taye Diggs writes a children’s book about racial injustice 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z The writing, like the title, is a little corny. Fire up your grills for recipes from the season’s best barbecue books 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z That may sound corny; it’s not — it’s irresistible. ‘Give Me Liberty’ Review: A Wild Ride With a Virtuoso of Chaos 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Here was a classic Golden Age puzzle — Ellery Queen’s first case, in fact — and virtually all the characters were caricatures, the dialogue was stilted and corny, and the elaborate plot verged on the ludicrous. Review | Stilted dialogue, a ludicrous plot: On the pleasures of the vintage whodunit 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Look, there's a scowling Clint Eastwood, a cubist Picasso and a toothy Tom Cruise, as crude and corny as one of those caricatures in Leicester Square. Cannes 2013: The Congress – review 2013-05-16T13:42:34Z Many, many years ago ABC premiered a family-friendly comedy block that was, to put it in scientific terms, corny as hell. What to watch after "Stranger Things" season 3: Start with "Harlots" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Everything from Miles Davis to corny Latin American love ballads. In "Raymond & Ray," adult sons must bury their well-liked dad who was "inarguably a monster" to them 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z At first, people were coming up to me like, “Man, why you working with him? He corny, he this, he that.” With ‘Dave,’ Lil Dicky ‘Achieved My Destiny’ 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z I hate to be difficult, but I’m pretty sure these men are cracking a corny joke. Shoppers Should Wear Masks. Shouldn’t Protesters, Too? 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z So when I queued it up this week it was with a sense of dread, trying to remember what corny, problematic jokes I’d earlier ignored or let sail over my head. Perspective | How I learned to stop worrying and love ‘White Christmas’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z He represents a corny, nostalgic, utopian fantasy of popular culture at the heart of both Hollywood and network television. Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott on the Oscars 2012-02-18T02:03:03Z But what you get with Jigsaw are performers who radiate enjoyment and ease with a crowd, and a hell-for-leather pace that means – however corny the last gag – something amusing is never far away. Jigsaw ? review 2011-08-22T17:00:08Z "Not to be too corny, but almost every minute of it is revelatory to me," Reubens told me recently. A fresh visit to 'Pee-wee's Playhouse' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z DUNST: Oh yeah, when we first saw the film I said, “This will get a lot of shrimps,” which is a code word me and my girlfriends have because it’s corny to talk about awards. Q&A: Jane Campion and Kirsten Dunst, together at last 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Some Christmas specials and Christmas episodes of variety shows from the 1960s and ’70s can be found on DVD, and as entertainment, they’re hard to get through: sluggish, sloppy, corny, rarely funny. Critic’s Notebook: Long-Ago Shows From Stars Like Perry Como and Dean Martin 2013-12-22T21:24:18Z "At the risk of sounding corny, it's about the absolute bliss of the grooves," he says. Disco gets lucky 2013-05-31T08:58:13Z Lacking the budget of previous opening ceremonies, Meirelles’s team made elaborate and inventive use of projections—a device that would have been corny in less gifted hands but that was splendid in theirs. The Olympics Opening Ceremony in Rio: Let the Games Begin 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z One might be moved to say, corny as it sounds, “All hail King Hu.” ‘Raining in the Mountain’ Review: A Martial Arts Gem From 1979 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z "He's a little bit corny sometimes," added Tyler, "but he's funny." Does Sen. Ted Cruz have what it takes to be on 'The Simpsons'? 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z To accomplish that, he and his associates blew up the prevailing notion of rock tours, built on the corny old Vaudeville model where bands simply ran through their hits. The legendary promoters of rock: inside an eye-opening new documentary 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z His Gen X friends, struggling with parenthood and the specter of middle age, look corny and compromised in her millennial eyes. ‘The Worst Person in the World’ Review: Oslo, Her Way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Scalpels lead to scruples, though the obsessive brutality and bloodshed continue right up to the corny, predictable surprise ending. Repo Men 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z The game's zany writing and voice acting alternate between corny and hilarious. Review: 'Lego City' builds fun for Wii U 2013-03-14T14:45:15Z It sounds corny, but they helped me through that extremely difficult period of my life in a way that nothing else really could. It's more than just a parasocial relationship: BTS and their impact on my mental health 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z But he “found some of the high school story line characters a bit corny and stereotyped.” Ralph Macchio Will Always Be ‘The Karate Kid.’ He’s Finally Fine With That. 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z The manager I had at the time said it was too corny. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Bill Condon's drama was not half as corny as that dubious honour might suggest. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z The musical, a perky, loving send-up of 1930s movies musicals with plenty of corny jokes, received a few strong reviews, but most were mixed or disappointed. 'Dames at Sea' Will Close on Broadway 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z “It’s corny and it’s cliched as hell, but I definitely stopped having a lot of fear after this experience. I used to second-guess every decision I’d make, but I just wasn’t scared any more.” The Big Sick's Kumail Najiani and Emily Gordon: 'In America, the idea of a cross-cultural relationship is still controversial' 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z The characterizations and dialogue — clipped, noir, corny at times — seem just right. 'Sutton': conscience-ridden bank robber becomes a national hero 2012-09-19T21:10:11Z “Patriotic,” “jingoistic,” “old-fashioned,” “corny” and “inspirational for teenage boys.” | 'Red Tails': ?Red Tails,? George Lucas?s Tale of Tuskegee Airmen - Review 2012-01-19T13:00:00Z At times, the humor is more corny than funny, but even after “Dust” settles into its rhythm, a problem remains: Nothing can rival Ms. Rainer’s startling and dazzling beginning. Review: Yvonne Rainer’s ‘The Concept of Dust’ Keeps Viewers on Their Toes 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The show is best when it’s shamelessly corny, as when Gonzo pitches a parody, “Dancing With the Czars,” featuring “Catherine the Great … dancer and Ivan the Terrible … dancer.” Review: In ‘The Muppets’ on ABC, Kermit Is in a Mundane Midlife Crisis 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z He was funny, maybe a bit corny, but that is what one would expect with a seasoned entertainer. Revisiting the joys of going solo at Disneyland 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z “As corny as it sounds, when I was talking to Jason I felt like I had known him my entire life,” she said. After a Marathon First Date, a Warp-Speed Romance 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z In fact, they walk among you, even as the magazine itself became as much a corny mainstay as Wonder bread. I Never Planned on Being a Playboy Pinup 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Each and every attempt to make use of the form as a joke medium or storytelling device has been astonishingly corny and surprisingly forced. The Simpsons mixes The Great Gatsby with hip-hop in misfiring special 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Somehow “The Office” managed to drag out a ships-passing-in-the-night love story much longer than was logically tenable and never once played it too corny or predictable. Five things we learned from “The Office” 2012-08-27T20:43:00Z I had the pleasure of meeting her and her coach a few years ago in New York, and the movie does them justice without being too corny. Cal Ripken’s favorite baseball movie, and 24 others on the best film about their profession 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z They say it’s OK to be a little corny, because there’s sincere joy in the corny. Back off, haters! Hall & Oates rule 2013-12-17T19:54:00Z But – and this will sound absurdly soppy and corny of course – this is an uplifting film as well as a very sad one. TV review: Alex: A Life Fast Forward; Art of Survival 2011-07-21T21:30:03Z The show has provided you with hours upon hours of '...corny, predictable and often ear-piercing' musical delight all with the hopes of being in on the ground floor when we discover 'the next big thing.' 'American Idol:' Idol Gives Back 2010-04-20T07:39:00Z This is going to sound corny but I found that people were more about the Christmas spirit than they were about the materialism of the holidays — they invited me into their homes, their businesses. In Connecticut, a Quintessential Christmas 2017-11-18T05:00:00Z He is at his best in a corny but clever scene late in the film where young JR converses with older JR. In George Clooney's coming-of-age flick "The Tender Bar," Ben Affleck provides the gooey center 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine entertainment this wholesome and corny still exists, stuck in a time before the winking self-awareness of movies like Frozen. Ring Leaders: Meet the Women Behind Disney's Ice Empire 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z “I don’t want to sound corny, but it was a kind of soul-searching journey,” Lee says. | A Baroque-Folk Troubadour Takes Flight 2013-12-09T17:07:04Z “It’s super corny and takes itself really seriously.” ArtsBeat: The Characters Are Dead, the Soundtrack Is Live 2012-06-15T19:36:06Z It's supposed to be corny, to do that," she says, "but I think that's a privileged perspective. Venus X: 'I don't like pretending to be stupid' 2012-06-09T23:05:07Z This may sound corny, but tell her what you love about her. Social Q’s: The Downside of Dressing Sexy 2012-06-01T19:16:47Z It features one of his classic and most-quoted lines - "I'll be back" - and allowed us all to put the suffix "-ator" at the end of any word to describe him in a corny way. 5 best Arnold Schwarzenegger movies 2011-05-26T21:38:08Z It’s going to sound so corny, but I was looking for some kind of sign. Roz Chast in Full View (Body Scan Included) 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Now the corny but rock solid guy is gone and Hopper has a window. Our Biggest Questions After the 'Stranger Things' Season 2 Finale 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Not all of the “Spectacular” scenes use the Rockettes wisely, like a corny sightseeing sequence. Big Critic, Little Critic? Me, My Daughter and the Rockettes 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z And let's not forget the festive Thanksgiving and Christmas posts, complemented by a snappy Drake lyric for the caption next to whatever the couple's corny hashtag is that season. Gabrielle Union on why women can stop chasing after balance: It's "fictitious BS that doesn't exist" 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Where some are regrettable is in padding them out with corny ballet tricks. Critic?s Notebook: ?Nutcracker? Nation: Yes We Can! 2010-12-08T23:32:00Z It seems corny to ask you about the healing power of music ... After a long journey from lymphoma, Bernard Labadie is back in the conductor's stand 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Lee excels as Kim, rendering her with a dignified stoicism that imbues her sorrowful ballads with pathos — despite the music being objectively corny. Can ‘Miss Saigon’ Be Saved? Two British Shows Disagree. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z “I find all that corny: ‘Oh, this is my struggle.’ Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I'm not a spokesman. No one’s expected to speak for all white people’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Rambunctious and bright, “Time Spell” is a theatrical jumble — both affecting and corny. Review: A Ballerina With Jazz in Her Bones Takes Over 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Last Christmas is deeply corny, but it gets this. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The anti-Trump sentiment continues here on the well-intentioned and outlandishly corny “Like Home,” in which Alicia Keys sings a toothlessly uplifting chorus while Eminem likens the president to Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan. Hip-Hop Changes. Eminem Doesn’t. 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The film was so corny in its utopian depiction of the Soviet Union that it was impossible, even for a committed Stalinist, to take seriously. Richard Collins obituary 2013-02-20T18:14:54Z It's so corny, in my opinion, because this fake White House is supposed to be an administration that has a focus on business, yet your politics allow so many businesses to suffer. Chef Marcus Samuelsson: "Look out for the Black-owned restaurants … because we need you right now" 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z It sounds corny and manipulative and like the 5,000th thing that is not going to unite Americans of all colors and creeds. Tim McGraw sings. Jon Meacham talks. This is not your regular book tour. 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z But Mr. Parker’s character was never corny, probably because he brought such conviction to it, and the shows never seemed preachy. An Appraisal: Fess Parker, Davy Crockett and the TV Tie-In 2010-03-21T21:41:00Z I don’t understand its appeal, given the competition — the trite, corny final movement really sinks the piece for me — but such artists as Heifetz, Perlman and Hahn have championed it. BSO at Strathmore: A well-balanced ensemble that hits right at the surface I really thought it sounded cool — not corny. Sudan Archives Plays the Violin a Bit Differently 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z This was the last stop on Jaga Jazzist’s first North American tour in seven years, and the band sounded tight and twinkly, corny and rugged, quite episodic. Music Review: A Little Bit Like a School Orchestra 2011-07-04T20:29:29Z Q: You call your outrageous yet lovable Jinkx persona “corny and cheesy,” a “dumb blonde.” Jerick Hoffer flips his wig for ‘Hairspray’ at 5th Avenue 2013-06-19T19:14:18Z “I always thought of cruises as corny vacations for the elderly,” said Mr. Brown, 32, a member of the logistics team at the New York streetwear company Supreme. Are Cruises ‘Corny’? Some First-Time Passengers Looking for a Deal Say Maybe Not. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z "I know it sounds corny but Martin Scorsese was my idol," Winter says. Empire state of mind 2011-01-20T07:57:00Z A few sardonic shots suggest an eye for corny absurdities, but the director indulges in more than a few of his own making.—R.B. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z As well, younger Chinese audiences tend to view features such as this as corny, Western wannabes, often preferring Hollywood fare over such homemade properties. “Wolf Warrior 2,” China’s answer to “Rambo,” is a map of the nation’s future 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z He plays great music and fills the rest of the show with his trademark corny banter delivered with a mid-Atlantic, jolly smoothness that hasn't altered a jot. Radio head: Tony Blackburn 2010-10-06T07:00:00Z There were no spandex bodysuits — just a tank top, baggy cargo pants and Doc Martens boots — and although choreography isn’t her forte, she moves across the stage with charmingly corny, and endearing, dance moves. Ellie Goulding brings pop-star panache to Merriweather Post and still keeps it real 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z I make jokes — not corny dad jokes, good ones to lighten the mood. My baby's being born same time my man is murdered — the beginning and end 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z Margene is deemed so mindless that everyone around her believes she is in cults — Barb telling her that Goji Juice is a cult, and Michael Saint, cornily telling her the Henricksons are a cult. ArtsBeat: 'Big Love' Watch: A Night of Horrors 2011-03-07T18:25:26Z The most sustained engagement we get with Byron’s work and themes is a corny YouTube tribute video of inspirational quotes that is projected onstage during the show. Review: Byronic Heroism Can’t Save ‘Sardanapal’ in Berlin 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z I’m wondering more how the no-BS Stern persona fits in with what is, after all, a grandly corny and ridiculous show. NBC Announces: America?s Got Howard Stern 2011-12-15T14:44:47Z But the perpetual corny innuendo of the rather flat dialogue, Ms. Muz’s air of artificial innocence, and Mr. Fraser’s wry delivery means that he never appears particularly threatening. Dance Review: A Fairy Tale, With Nudity, at Abrons Arts Center 2010-04-20T22:32:00Z “She seemed entertained by my corny humor,” he said. Unreliable Witnesses to Their Own Meeting? 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z To keep him close, to hear his smiling voice and corny jokes, to see him. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Most episodes have the same rhythm as the Sunday funnies, with similarly corny punch lines. After a Climate Catastrophe, These Birds Flocked to the Moon 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z A corny and sometimes clumsy one, it scatters pleasures here and there, Mr. De Niro’s alert performance among them. Review: ‘Hands of Stone’ Returns Robert De Niro to the Ring but Pulls Its Punches 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z We wrote our own vows, and a friend who had been worried they would be corny later told me they were beautiful and she was moved to tears. When It Comes to a Veil, Brides Can Take It or Leave It 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z “It’s become a bit of a corny word,” he sighs. Idris Elba: ‘If I'm going to watch TV it wouldn't be a period drama, put it that way' 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z The occasional appearance by a dynamic artist offered little relief from corny joke routines, mediocre singing and group numbers populated by performers with lackluster technique. Dance Review: Syncopated Tap Rhythms Tattooed Onto the Floor 2011-07-10T21:39:12Z And the humor can be corny, although the sheer charm of Mr. Neshyba-Hodges wins us over, so we are ready to forgive him that third pratfall, and the fourth too. Theater Review: Dancing to Twyla Tharp and Sinatra?s Music 2010-03-26T04:27:00Z The latter piece, titled “The Barmecide Feast,” is well built — down to the corny Late Empire porcelains employed as backdrop on the luminous white set. Oh, the selfies you'll make at L.A.'s 14th Factory, where the art is so social. Our Instagram tour 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Grand Royal started because we were on the Lollapalooza tour and we wanted to send this message to people that the mosh pit is corny. The Beastie Boys Put Down the Mic and Pick Up the Pen 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The pair’s narrative passages between songs were a little too obviously canned and at times unforgivably corny. The Byrds’ ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’ was resurrected Monday night, and it was a complete joy 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Paying for a blue check is the corniest thing you can do. RIP Twitter: You were once cool 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Growing up, I found family photos corny and rote. Why I can’t stop posting my kid’s photos and sharing him with the world 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z As corny as that sounds, it's a really pro move. "It's a pro move": What Leslie Bibb learned from acting vets, from Robert De Niro to Carol Burnett 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z They knew him from the iffy rom-coms, corny psychological thrillers – or simply because Mom was a big fan. John Cusack: ‘Hollywood is a whorehouse and people go mad’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “It sounds corny, but I try not to get distracted by the negative and to focus on all the gifts I’ve been given by God.” On the Runway Blog: Marisa Berenson, Embracing the Positive 2011-09-09T18:28:57Z Each regret always somehow resonates with her current situation, but the show manages to be wistful and gentle, not corny or contrived. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘The Last Man on Earth’ and ‘Being Erica’ 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z “There’s no way I would have been able to get through this diagnosis without Wade. I appreciate him more every day. I know that sounds corny, but it’s true.” With pancreatic cancer, what Stephen needs is legalised cannabis 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z “I am interested in hearing about people’s feelings, and as corny and hippie-granola as it sounds, it is the root of everything,” she said. Sarah Silverman Wants to Pop Your Bubble 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z This isn't corny ape makeup and leather jumpsuits. Monkey business: primates on film 2011-08-03T20:00:00Z It's possible to breathe startling new life into corny characters and situations. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z Reviewers praised Mr. Garner and co-star Sally Field, playing a single mother who starts a horse ranch, for elevating an otherwise corny drama. James Garner, disarming leading man of film and television, dies at 86 As has always been true of Mr. Brooks, there is no correlation between the quality of a song and how well he sings it: His most affecting moments are often his corniest. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z “Things like cowboys and Indians that we think are corny, they think are totally chic.” Paris Fashion Week: The Americanization of the Rue St.-Honor? 2011-03-09T23:16:55Z And it's corny, but I really miss Dutch cheese … and liquorice! Martyn: 'Dubstep in the US has taken the place of nu-metal' 2012-06-13T11:59:00Z This lavish three-week retrospective, spanning almost 60 years of work, has demonstrated that this sometimes irritating and corny dance maker is one of the superlative and more disconcerting artists of our time. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-30T20:37:16Z His daughters find his music corny – "techno-pop" is more to their liking – but now and then a song will appeal to them. David Hasselhoff: 'If we have to go with the Hoff to pay the rent, let's go with the Hoff' 2012-08-05T19:00:01Z The film is called Begin Again and that title is so freighted with corny significance that she keeps nodding at the poster, as though it is there as her prompt. Keira Knightley: 'The criticism was tough' 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Artistically, it seems rather corny in retrospect — more "modernistic" than modern. LACMA's 'Space Sculpture' shot from center stage to oblivion 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s not just the corny jokes and goofy puns, either, although those are plenty bad. Eminem is back with “Kamikaze,” a surprise album for his day-one fans 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z I just didn’t want it to be cheesy or corny. 'Hamilton's' Leslie Odom, Jr. Has Your Holiday Soundtrack 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z There is crazy greatness in “Young Mungo,” along with corny lapses and moments with the expository flatness of a TV voice-over. ‘Young Mungo’ Explores Love and Violence in Emotional Technicolor 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Viewed historically, “One Day at a Time” represents the most recent phase of that often corny, but obviously durable, convention. A Very Special Episode, but Maybe Not So Precious 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z But the topic seemed corny and overworked to him. You Love ‘The Simpsons’? Then Let’s Talk About Apu 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z No spoilers here, except to say that barring some corny it-was-only-a-dream twist the episode’s outcome will mean that Season 2 will be noticeably different from Season 1. The Week Ahead 2012-03-03T22:06:02Z Mr. Takei is also, as he calls himself here, a born ham, which helps him seem cornily genuine as he capitalizes on his pop currency. ‘To Be Takei,’ a Documentary About George Takei’s Life 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z We know it’s corny, it’s a fantasy and it’s not really about us. Seeing Native Americans Nowhere, and Everywhere 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z But this is also why Hardwicke’s film is gleefully entertaining in a B-movie kind of way, zesty yet also corny at times. Try to keep up with "Miss Bala": Gina Rodriguez stars in this entertaining if bumpy ride 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Animals and humans in this particular world are the same, with subtly humorous — even happily corny — results. ‘BoJack Horseman’: The equine ennui of a Hollywood stud This club revels in the comfort of the familiar: corny jokes, off-key singing, skits lampooning the politics of the moment. At the Gridiron dinner, a Republican governor roasted Trump 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z “I mean, even though they’re dirty and messy and corny and clichéd.” Sympathy for Todd and Margo: Clark Griswold’s childless yuppie scum neighbors are holiday heroes 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z I found the jokes at best corny, and at worst, buffoonish. A not-so-fond farewell to 'Sábado Gigante,' a corny, buffoonish show 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Pass Out was the first big hit of the UK's rap renaissance not to rely on a corny sample or a Day-Glo blast of Ibiza trance. The best No 1 records: Tinie Tempah – Pass Out 2012-05-31T20:02:00Z Instead of the usual insults, he told corny one-liners from an old joke book, but with commitment. Norm Macdonald, Comic Nonpareil. (That’s a Word He Might Use.) 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Jack Pierson revels in corny fantasy in his carefully composed photo portrait of a buff, chiselled guy falling out of his clothes. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z No surprise: who else could ever have been so corny? Top 10 Worst Songs 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The verbalization of what feels good in the form of thoughts running through her mind, instead of corny praise of her partner’s prowess, is what makes it work. Porn without the visuals: I tried audio erotica – would it turn me on? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Thus was born the idea of making “field” recordings of railroad songs, which sounded as corny as a campaign slogan when I heard about it. Billy Bragg’s Railroad Songs 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The lowered curtain at the end feels amateurish, as does that sound wave projection, which seems too obvious, even a little corny. Review: Alexei Ratmansky Finds a New Voice at City Ballet 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Frankly, Shaw explains, most English translations of “Abduction” are pretty dated. “They come off as a little corny at best,” he says, “and a little racist at worst.” Captain Kirk, Klingons and an aria: How the Pacific Opera Project remade Mozart, 'Star Trek'-style 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z I know this sounds corny, but it's my joy. Hasan Minhaj on the joy of making “Patriot Act” and keeping the political personal 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z But its premise was too vague, and its pop covers too corny. From Supertrain to The Crown: TV's most expensive shows ever 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Which is why, even if some of the final speeches of the episode might have sounded corny out of context, they were utterly fitting. The Office Watch: That’s What She Said 2013-05-17T13:18:33Z The show is both about corn, and corny in an audacious way. ‘Shucked’: A Broadway Musical That Doubles Down on the Corn 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z They say it’s okay to be a little corny, because there’s sincere joy in the corny. Back off, haters! Hall & Oates rule 2013-12-17T19:54:00Z Macdzl in Georgia maintained that “Straight Outta Compton” is not a good film, writing, “The story is sloppily written and at many times painfully corny, and the acting is generally sub-sub-par.” Readers Respond: Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The show could be boring, corny, vulgar, but always in an unpredictable mix. Film: Best Movie Query? You Win 2011-02-23T17:20:40Z The gigantic swoop of strings that Sherrill tacked onto the beginning of the final chorus may be the corniest thing ever put on record, but just try to listen to it without shivering. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z “I’m the hope guy,” he said to Springsteen on an April episode of “Renegades,” a series of corny but sincere conversations about the beauty, pain and future of the American experiment. Obama at 60: Feet on the dance floor, eyes on the future 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z “He would never have me doing something corny,” Rocky said The album’s breakout single — which has an unprintable title, “Problems” for short — is an outlier in the Rocky ouevre. ASAP Yams, Partner to Hip-Hop’s ASAP Rocky 2013-01-25T13:00:00Z And like audiences before them for the past 53 years, they’re eating up the corny antics of Kreutzberger, the show’s creator and only host for its entire run. For more than 50 years, Univision’s ‘Sábado Gigante’ was truly a giant 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z If you commit to romance, seeming corny is a risk you have to take. ‘Waiting for Bojangles’ Review: Endless Love 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z “It’s that corny. If someone offered me my life story to film, I’d turn them down flat.” Kirk Douglas, Hollywood legend and star of Spartacus, dies aged 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The advice is common-sensical, a little corny and hardly a panacea for the multitude of problems she’s spent the previous 200 pages describing. Review | Why are Gen X women struggling? A new book explores the many possible reasons. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z This sounds corny, but that’s what I love about art, especially comedy. How a Review Changed Both Sarah Silverman and Our Critic 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z And in a show with a stated aversion to starches, the jokes are deeply corny. ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Review: An Adaptation That Needs Tailoring 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z “It’s corny, but I try to make a difference,” he said. Glastonbury Festival Celebrates Its 45th Anniversary 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z And once he hits on the concept for a movie called “Zombie Wars,” he’s determined to carry his corny, apocalyptic treatment to its painfully derivative last line. ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z I wasn’t always a believer, originally finding the show, with its sleeves-rolled-up capableness, a little corny and overly idealized. ‘Call the Midwife’ Deserves More Respect for Its Depth and Daring 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z His comments, in fact, serve as rather corny epigraphs to each chapter. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown – review 2013-07-13T08:30:11Z It would be a corny moment in many TV shows, a classic example of the pathetic fallacy. Enlightened: The Best New Show No One But You, If You Are Bothering to Read This Post, Is Watching 2011-11-08T15:44:38Z “Remember When,” for instance, might’ve been a corny assortment of family memories, easy pickings with Jackson’s middle-aged crowd. Alan Jackson remembers the good times at Nokia Theatre 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z That was without the Star Destroyers — it was just Lucas’s corny self up on the screen. George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits 2012-01-17T16:33:29Z NBC’s detective drama was at heart an unremarkable, old-fashioned, corny whodunit. The 10 Worst TV Shows of 2014 (That I Watched) 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z It used to be that the show was merely tacky and corny and distastefully gladiatorial. Rihanna’s “Savage X Fenty Show” Puts a Super-Fun Face on End-Stage Capitalism 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The awards were handed out in the celebrity-stuffed Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, and the corny bits were about TV clichés, not masks and social distancing. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2022 Emmys 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Even when there's been more money on the table, "cartoon" work has sometimes been viewed as corny. Look who's talking 2011-03-05T00:05:00Z Here’s another batch of “Pokes,” Poems retelling corny jokes. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Corny jokes for preteen folks inspired this edition of ‘Rhymes Against Humanity’ 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Not to be corny, I love my country, and in my bones the reason I love 'The West Wing' is they got that right. Rob Lowe on the high road 2011-04-29T20:35:00Z It’s corny, it’s spiritual, it’s New Agey — and you know what? A skeptic goes to yoga 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z It’s so corny – and so against the grain -- that it feels like an act of bravery. Still a maverick, Garth Brooks returns with 'Man Against Machine' 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Upon View-ing the show, one gathers that this means: on a couch, with coffee, and only in light bits and bats, freely interspersed with corny jokes of the ilk even a dad would wince at. Barbara Walters’s real legacy is “The View” — and that’s worse for women than we realize 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Yeah, it’s cheesy, corny and overshadowed by newer TV singing contests. Staff picks: ‘How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia,’ food trucks, ‘American Idol’ 2013-04-24T22:18:57Z A lot of the humor is also pretty corny: Indian food is so spicy! Review: `Marigold Hotel' offers safe escape 2012-05-02T20:42:09Z Farrell doesn't get to utter any corny one-liners as he rips off a bad guy's arms. Review: New `Total Recall' slicker but soulless 2012-08-02T17:46:04Z Poor pacing and editing result in a lack of transition between scenes; poignant moments are punctuated with distracting music; and the dialogue is overstuffed with platitudes that land like corny messages from fortune cookies. Movie Review: ‘Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara,’ a Gangster Sequel 2013-08-16T20:50:01Z “It’s corny,” said Dave Hickey, an art critic and a professor in the art and art history department at the University of New Mexico. Southern California Claims Its Place on the Art World Map 2011-10-12T13:27:24Z It was one lyric, and it was very corny, you know, like ‘Kick it MC’, and I thought: ‘Oh God, we can’t possibly do this,’” he recalls. 'They're damaged': Succession’s Jeremy Strong on sibling hell – and that cringey rap 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “I Want You Back” isn’t particularly clever or emotionally stirring, but it does briskly deliver on the corny promises of the genre, navigating relatable relationship issues by the least relatable means. ‘I Want You Back’ Review: Scheming Hearts 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z So having a child – it's kind of corny – realised the whole cycle of life. Cult artist Marcel Dzama: 'I try not to censor myself' 2013-04-02T17:00:27Z There wasn’t a corny bone in his body. ‘The Cool Guy’: Pop and Theater Stars Celebrate the Composer of ‘Hair’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Mostly, I enjoyed how ordinary the evening felt with its corny jokes, gaudiness, desperation and self-congratulation. This Year, a Plain Old Ordinary Oscars Was Something to Savor 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Ted is corny and wise, guileless but not gullible, forgiving to everyone but himself. Keep on believing in "Ted Lasso" because its second season is richer and sweeter than the first 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z What always struck me about Fred’s early black-and-white pictures is how verbal they feel, but not in the corny sense in which every picture tells a story. Gay Pride and Stonewall, Through the Eyes of Fred W. McDarrah 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z I think that role was seen as corny. You Won’t Have Andy Richter to Sidekick Around Anymore 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Because as corny and silly as that troupe of aspiring pop singers may be, as dopey as that franchise may seem, right now, they're our life raft in a sea of hurt. "American Idol" is saving my family 2011-03-23T15:55:00Z I'm starting to think the worst part of today is making it through corny TV spots. How the news covers Friday the 13th 2011-05-13T17:14:00Z “Being scared of a role, of an opportunity, being challenged, that’s what I’m looking for. Maybe it’s corny or too actorly, but I do like finding closed doors inside of me.” How Chris Messina Forced Matt Damon to Up His Game in ‘Air’ 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z It’s funny, sad, loose, dirty, humane without being corny—it opens doors. Great TV 2014: Not a List, Not in Order 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z An Interview With Janusz Kaminski The story, in its early chapters, also takes you back to an older — you may well say cornier — style of entertainment. | 'War Horse': ?War Horse,? Directed by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-22T13:00:00Z The reason I disliked this book so strongly was because of it's corny and childish theme, I found some parts excruciating to read because of the pure melodramatic tone. The Fire Chronicle by John Stephens 2013-01-18T09:00:00Z That script, about a woman who is turning 40 and her relationship with her dying father, may have been corny but it got her an agent. Jennifer Salt: The Story Behind the Writer 2010-07-21T22:30:00Z The concert, a benefit for the Blues Foundation, with proceeds supporting a building fund for its Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis, could have succumbed to corny maxims about the mortal wages of the blues. Music Review: ?Robert Johnson at 100? at the Apollo Theater 2012-03-07T19:51:48Z It was about lots of things actually, including issues considered too corny for "smart" comedy. Cast of 'Parks and Rec' off to greener pastures 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The actor continues to be such a likable on-screen presence that it is easy to overlook some of the really corny lines he's asked to deliver. In 'Transformers: Age of Extinction,' things get Bayed — big time After a corny goodbye, Killam's character says, "You be careful OK." 'SNL': Fake ISIS ad with Dakota Johnson divides Twittersphere 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z “It’s tricky enough to accurately depict history without seeming didactic or corny,” he explains. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z An effort to mirror the samurai costumes “would have been corny,” he offered with mock disdain, “and corniness is something that terrifies fashion people.” Film and Fashion: Just Friends 2010-03-04T16:34:00Z “It sounds kind of corny, but it’s all about the music there.” MUSIC: Flying Lotus and the Los Angeles Electronica Scene 2010-05-29T04:26:00Z “It’s corny and supremely touching and exciting,” Morris says. Perspective | The Rockettes, still kicking after 85 years. Here’s why we love them. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z “It’s a miracle, as corny as it is, that we found each other,” Mr. Lambie added. From Three Troubled Lives, a Play and a New Family 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Obama thought it corny, but his wife, Michelle, disagreed; it stayed in and became the rallying cry then and in future campaigns. David Axelrod’s ‘Believer’ 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Those little updates are kind of corny or zany or kind of eye-rolling at times. My phone helped me fall in love with books again 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z We were told to run through the moonlit corn maze if we wanted to live; as we ran, armed soldiers yelled contradictory instructions while hissing zombies emerged from the corny darkness. My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead 2010-12-03T15:18:00Z Well, it gave them the confidence in the rehearsal zone to bring ideas forward to speak up when something seemed corny. From Fleetwood Mac back to Crowded House, Neil Finn weighs in on the band's open-hearted new album 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z But not before this half-hour, one of the series’ finest, made the corny but well-earned argument that those differences shouldn’t get in the way of important things, like human connection, or waffles and bacon. Parks and Recreation Watch: We Didn't Start the Fire 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Wedding receptions require flexibility on the part of guests, no doubt about it: so-so food, cheesy music and corny toasts — all to let other people play king and queen for a day. Social Q?s: Questions and Answers on Wedding Etiquette 2010-06-24T21:09:00Z It’s a silly film with some fun slapstick and corny wordplay, such as “You just mermaid my day!” and “Drew! Barry! More Power!” “Drew! Barry! More Power!”: The 10 best penguin movies ever made 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z This type of humor — silly, playful, straddling the fine line between witty and corny — runs through the work of this Berlin-based collective. These Artists Bring Pickles to the Party 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z And he made the corny traditions of New Year's a bit cooler with rock stars on hand. AP PHOTOS: Dick Clark, America's top pop host 2012-04-19T02:31:04Z Now, the exuberant, sentimental esprit of “Bojangles,” from its impassioned sex scenes to its moments of tender longing, puts it in constant jeopardy of seeming maudlin or, worse, a little corny. ‘Waiting for Bojangles’ Review: Endless Love 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z People clapped at the end of some of the over-the-top action sequences, laughed at the corny jokes and maybe felt something when Cena and Diesel worked out their sibling issues. ‘F9’ Review: Objects in Rearview Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z It's a moderately interesting history, but watching a peer of the realm tell you about it can't quite compare with the experience of witnessing the slightly corny magic of panto actually happening. TV highlights 20/12/2012 2012-12-21T10:01:02Z It’s corny but I’ll admit I like the community of it. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Sarah Vowell 2012-02-23T20:24:02Z My Family, that warhorse of ever-so-slightly risqué sitcoms, will reach its last corny punchline later in the year; the show following the travails of dentist Ben Harper is apparently just too long in the tooth. Why the writing was on the wall for My Family 2011-03-25T14:26:02Z Despite the protestations of a million corny lyrics, music tends to divide people, not bring them together. BBC Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw stumbles as it turns to age-old strategies 2013-05-19T17:00:01Z I realized it looked too corny, if I was overreacting. Cate Blanchett and Cindy Sherman: Secrets of the Camera Chameleons 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z I know it’s a little corny, but I like having quotes from artists I admire with me. A Choreographer in Quarantine (the Kind With a Guard in the Hall) 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z No. 3: “You can’t be too corny at Christmas. You totally get a free pass.” Sleigh Bells Ring, Everyone’s Streaming: Christmas Music Is Back 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z And we were reminded that Drake is still corny. At the VMAs, ‘this is fame, bruh!’ And not much else. 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Its tone shifts uneasily between acrobatically sexualised partnering and corny romance. English National Ballet: Black and White ? review 2011-03-20T17:31:00Z The lines are corny, but that's part of the point — clowns, after all, are not known for their cutting edge comedy. The case for Tim Curry's Pennywise 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z Your critic can toss out adjectives — lively! amusing! corny!— but can’t say all that much about what happens. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Review: Listen Bud, No Spoilers Here 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z There have been some crazy offers; I always say that if I was corny, I would be so rich. For the Producers Raphael Saadiq and Steve Lacy, Collaboration Is Key 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z “It’s so dated, it’s so corny, it’s so bad,” the choreographer and director Mark Morris said of this daunting appendix of instructions over a drink at the bar of a restaurant here. Critic’s Notebook: Mark Morris Directing Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2013-07-30T20:59:50Z And while the stagings of the tales can sometimes be a little corny, at their best there's a visceral, enchanting power to them. Underwater grotto meets aerial acrobatics in the Cabiri's 'Devil in the Deep Blue Sea' 2010-10-27T20:42:00Z Sato is the perfect unfazed hero, containing both the ability to kill someone in six seconds or less, and a love for corny soap operas. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Constandin, an inexhaustible talker, overflowing with corny wisdom, snippets of poetry and philosophical musings, resembles one of Mr. Tarantino’s garrulous bounty hunters. Review: ‘Aferim!’ Traverses an Unforgiving Romania in the 1800s 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z That they are just people, after all, people who give my daughter plush dinosaurs or make corny jokes. What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z It may be a corny sentiment, but it’s clearly not an obvious one these days. Louis CK Talks Daniel Tosh Rape-Joke Furor on Daily Show, Gives Classically Louis CK-ian Response 2012-07-17T14:26:56Z Which is: the funny, weird and warm — but not corny — story of Lillian, a rudderless woman who signs on to care for twins who catch on fire when they’re agitated. Don’t Hate Kevin Wilson, but He Wrote His Best Seller in 10 Days 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z In all cases, the slightly greasy chili matched with the corny, salty crunch of chips proves addictive. Frito Pie: The halftime indulgence that has made it to restaurant menus 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z As hoi polloi gobble up cheesy romances and corny thrillers, guardians of the literary flame rest assured that they’re playing the long game, investing in the future of great art. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Brooks: I don’t want to be corny, but it was like watching your kids’ recital in front of a real audience for first time. ‘Go Go Live’: An oral history of the genre’s biggest night 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The microphone, like the man hunched over it, imparted a corny notion of importance, an attempt to lend authority over the still-nascent cable feed of the 1980s. Perspective | Larry King’s long run made the case that there’s no such thing as a dumb question 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Although way less gory than the games and full of corny dialogue, it stayed pretty true to its gaming roots. Are there any good movies based on video games? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The network opened its coverage on Wednesday with a nauseating ode to the “American spirit,” one of those corny, morning-again-in-America spots with music, waving flags and slow motion. The TV Watch: Daytime Show About Women Isn?t Soap Opera 2011-07-13T23:01:09Z As titles go “Gathering” may at first sound kind of corny, but it is broadly and complexly apt. Alex Katz: Six Ramps of a Painter’s Progress 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z "The early life and career of legendary singer-songwriter Carole King surely deserves more imaginative treatment than the corny chronological storytelling and old-fashioned musical format of 'Beautiful'," said the trade magazine Variety. 'Beautiful: The Carole King Musical' star wins critical praise 2014-01-13T19:28:19Z It would feel corny if it weren’t so triumphantly fun, and the Friday night crowd was certainly along for the ride. Abba Voyage Review: No Ordinary Abba Night at the Club 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z And it may sound cheesy or corny, but it’s really not. A Word With: Javier Muñoz, the New Hamilton on Broadway 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z As is, the show is a cobbled-together hour of corny humor featuring what may be the best dancing at Fringe. Dancing is Tapman’s strength, but production values are his Kryptonite As crude as it was corny, the gesture felt like an abuse of the soft power he’d worked so sensitively to establish. Romeo Santos comes on like a king at Staples Center 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z “It sounds so corny, but almost immediately, it was no more gothic churches, no more electronic music. It was guitars and it was schoolhouses and ‘Little House on the Prairie.’” The Most Famous Girl at the Waffle House 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Over breakfast at a Clinton Hill cafe near her home, Ms. Williams, 27, sometimes spoke like a human Twitter feed, punctuating intentionally corny jokes with an audible LOL. Jessica Williams Charts Her Course: ‘I Know What I’d Be Incredible At’ 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z These vehicles are trucks that belong to David King, president of King’s Moving, known throughout the New York metropolitan area for its corny TV commercials. The comedic clash of an American businessman and an Israeli innocent abroad 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Glee is so corny it's The Waltons with musical interludes by Lady Gaga. Hall of TV Shame: #1 Glee 2011-01-26T12:54:17Z And: "This is going to sound so corny and terrible and I'm going to hate reading this later. If I read this." 'Foxcatcher' star Channing Tatum still wrestling with his ambitions 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z “It will either be totally rapturous or totally corny.” The Brilliant Alchemy of Rick Owens 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z “Here’s how corny I was — my dad died in 9/11 and people still” were mean. Pete Davidson Nuzzles Up to the Prickly Joke 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Also, this tired “edginess” just makes you look super corny. Lights, camera, depression: Why does mental illness on TV rarely look like real life? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Randeep Hooda plays his foil, a kingpin deputy whose ruthlessly efficient violence is inflected by its own, corny undercurrent of paternal pathos. ‘Extraction’ Review: All Fight, No Fun 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z But most of the time it’s sort of corny. A Family Drama in Three Acts 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Wahlberg is in town to promote his role in Broken City, a big, corny crime thriller, full of flashing police lights, blazing revelations and swooping helicopter shots over the streets of Manhattan. Mark Wahlberg: 'I've been hustling my entire life' 2013-02-17T20:00:03Z Do you like when I write “pokes” — Poems telling corny old jokes? Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Rhymes against humanity 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “It’s always been corny to rap and be from Dublin,” Rejjie Snow said in an interview in his dressing-room in the Olympia Theater, a plush 19th-century concert hall in the Irish capital. Hip-Hop With an Irish Lilt 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z “It’s hokey, and corny, and cheesy — but it works,” he said. Reintroducing Sam Sanders 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Of course, he's pretty corny on the page, but it works with the music. Swans' Michael Gira: how I write lyrics 2010-10-19T12:55:00Z He also bought a sheaf of Wal-Mart patterns but soon decided they were too “corny.” 2010-02-13T02:22:00Z This version includes a new rap number that, like a lot of the contemporary jokes, somehow strikes a corny note. | 'Godspell' : ?Godspell? at the Circle in the Square - Review 2011-11-08T03:00:04Z It doesn’t make me proud to admit that until last week, Lucille Ball was a vague shadow on my consciousness, indistinct from the corny motifs of rockabilly hairdressers and vintage food truck logos. From Python to Seinfeld - are these 12 classic comedies still funny? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z My corny encouragement usually broke down people’s walls. Trying to Feel Love-Worthy (While Working for a Dating App) 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Dunn aims, he said, to bring in “the idea of older/younger without being corny.” A Choreographer on Finding the Edge of Ecstasy 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Even the corniest summer blockbusters now regularly clock in at two-and-a-half hours. Running times: when to go for a pee during classic movies 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z It feels almost corny to say this now but at the time I needed reassurance that no matter how ugly the divorce was, my parents had nothing but love for me. Why Robin Williams Was a Millennial Hero 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z So close to being corny, the ballet still works today for a clutch of reasons. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center 2012-10-17T22:19:58Z For real excitement and emotion you’d be better off watching “America’s Best Dance Crew” on MTV.com, where there’s less corny dialogue and hokey contrivance to get in the way of the moves. | 'Step Up 3D': Moose and Camille Return in Another Dance Story 2010-08-05T23:53:00Z “There is less of a stigma, which is positive,” Richard Holley-Byrd, 45, told me as we exited the Country Bear Jamboree, a corny musical review that takes on a double meaning during Gay Days. After a Political Storm, Gay Days Return to Disney 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z If you're familiar with that corny "Footprints in the Sand" poem frequently spotted in Christian grandmothers' powder rooms, you may recognize this as a well-earned bit of turnabout. "Reservation Dogs" ends its high-spirited second season by reminds us why we still believe 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z It was brazenly profane and lovably bizarre, a karaoke staple without being corny; Humpty describes himself as MC Hammer on crack, tickles girls “in the biscuits” and hornily shouts the song’s “Do me baby!” refrain. Perspective | Shock G of Digital Underground was a psychedelic rap pioneer who helped hip-hop crossover 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z “As corny as it may sound, she made a massive impact on my life, and I think I’m changed for it,” Ms. Watts said, adding that it was a performance that would stay with her. For the Oscars, Vying for One Best-Actress Slot 2012-12-12T23:38:51Z “Will it become a thing that’s real? Or will it be a corny marketing term that nobody uses?” The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Those on Twitter began chastising the commercial – and the actors in it – as patriarchal, sexist and “corny.” 'Peloton Husband' confused by viral fame: 'I’m grappling with the negative opinions' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z It was just corny enough to rise to the occasion. 'Dancing With the Stars' Recap: Threesomes Mean Triple the Fun 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z To be clear, Alexander and Peak turn in able performances with what they're given, including navigating a wreck of a subplot that involves a corny, shallow revelation about bullying. HBO Max's "Gossip Girl" reboot introduces a new class treading the same tired path 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z She added: “It’s so corny, but, like, it’s good.” It’s Emma Rogue’s Downtown Now 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z But the skippers and their spiels — corny jokes and bad puns, the cringier the better — have been the real stars of the Jungle Cruise attraction since the first one opened at Disneyland in 1955. No Lion, the Skipper Is the Real King of the Jungle Cruise 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z This sounds corny but every day I’m so grateful to be here with you, to be here with everyone, to work through this winter onstage. Hari Nef and Parker Posey: Two ‘It’ Girls Whose ‘Humanity Peeks Through’ 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Bud is hired by a stable to deliver rental horses to production companies that crank out corny westerns at the rate of one per week. In Molly Gloss’s “Falling From Horses,” a cowboy goes to Hollywood to play one Sometimes, it looks like cheerleading without acrobatics, sweetly bland, and Al Crawford’s corny lighting doesn’t help. Trinity Irish Dance Company Review: Those Flashing, Percussive Feet 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The artist also had some strong words for the release plan, calling it "corny." Wu-Tang Clan's Method Man gets serious about a career in Hollywood 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z I incorporated pauses at first but gradually eliminated them, because they felt corny and because, in general, any noticeable time between fireworks is deathly. The Pyro-American in Me 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Thankfully, the younger Rose shares none of Swift's proclivity for the corny and the lachrymose. Caitlin Rose 2010-09-05T21:00:00Z It’s the Lake Wobegon of higher learning whose entrance exam, available at the store’s three locations, is 20 corny word puzzles. In Iowa, an Oasis of Family Vacations Past 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z But — without the transparency, attenuation and Muybridge-like staccato that enliven the vitrines — the results read as strained and ludicrously corny, a horror-movie rendition of angst-ridden “New Images of Man” figurative sculpture. Art in Review: David Altmejd 2011-04-07T22:33:49Z And the film proudly served up jokes so astoundingly corny that they somehow managed to circle around the bend and become hilarious. Film: Surely It?s 30 (Don?t Call Me Shirley!) 2010-06-26T12:47:00Z I can’t think of a better time for America to embrace such an unrepentantly corny event. Why the US embrace of Eurovision is good news for planet Earth 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z The New York Times deemed it an "uneven night," and Variety said Spacey "fell flat," while the Los Angeles Times said Spacey was "sweet, corny and touching." Tony Awards TV audience slumps without 'Hamilton' 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The painterly tableau lends a dignity to Wilder’s tale that keeps it from getting philosophically corny. Deaf West and Pasadena Playhouse populate 'Our Town' with fresh faces 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z “Proud of it. Proud of what it stood for. I share the corny family values espoused on that show. . . . So if that’s what goes on my tombstone, I’m perfectly comfortable with it.” Alan Thicke, mainstay of TV comedy and star of sitcom ‘Growing Pains,’ dies at 69 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z “I don’t want to be all corny and call myself a f–king artist, but at the same time I don’t want to say I’m exclusively a comedian,” he says. Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Saddled with a corny and overtly patriotic script, the Navy Seal cast deliver some poor acting but at least there's plenty of strong and authentic action throughout. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-07-13T23:11:01Z It sounds corny but I know Ziggy recognized him after all those years, he showed Tabs how to eat out of his bowl again.” Family finds missing cat 6 years later, only to get terrible news 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z "It sounds really corny, but it feels like they're supporters rather than fans, you know what I mean?" he continued. For Mumford & Sons, dropping banjos for synths on next album is a natural move 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z It was the corniest thing you could ever imagine. Chef Toya Boudy’s “Cooking for the Culture” is a celebration of Blackness through place and plates 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Redemptive and uplifting and all those corny words. Molly Shannon’s Memoir Is Filled With Mischief and Pathos 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z The photographer at the centre of the play, said to have taken pictures of Tiananmen Square but not based on an actual snapper, is a corny amalgam: idealistic but personally absent, charismatic but negligent. Chimerica; Race – review 2013-06-01T23:06:18Z It just doesn't have the same sacrilegious flavor of "Like a Prayer": In straight narrative terms it's more like one of those corny "updated" Bible stories you'd hear in Sunday school. Lady Gaga fails to provoke Catholic Church with "Judas" 2011-05-09T14:40:00Z Staggering between corny conventionality and zesty, upbeat weirdness, “Don’t Worry” never fully acknowledges the cruelty and selfishness required to sustain a longtime habit. Review: Joaquin Phoenix Treks the Long Road to Sobriety in ‘Don’t Worry’ 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Something he admits is frankly corny: Nature offers us joy, wonder, the chance to feel the electrostatic charge of being alive — “it still holds its magnetism for countless unpolemical minds.” Review: ‘The Moth Snowstorm,’ and Other Natural Bliss-Outs 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Pages could be filled with Moore corniest antics, but perhaps this scene when Bond escapes pursuers in a hovercraft gondola, causing a bird to do a double take, is all we need. Roger Moore wasn’t a good Bond, but he was my Bond 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Like Rockwell, he elevates everyday Americans with somewhat corny portrayals that are more interesting as images than as art objects. Review: ‘Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z But, corny as it is, at Joseph’s words my heart melted. Lost in Jerusalem 2012-01-13T15:42:55Z When the voice of Amazon’s Alexa read the nominees in one category, the joke proved eerie and corny at once; an artificial intelligence had been ordered to deliver our yuks. The Joyous, Fragmented, and Slightly Anxious 2019 Emmy Awards 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Instead “Captain America,” like its unapologetically corny hero, is propelled by unpretentious and plucky ingenuity. | 'Captain America': Hey, Brooklyn, Where Did You Get Those Muscles? 2011-07-21T12:00:01Z And maybe it’s corny to say, but it’s the truth. ‘We’ve Experienced the Stories We’re Telling’: ‘The Jungle’ Is Back. 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z It may sound corny, but I wanted to give these women some inner life.” Cornering the Market on Nanny Novels 2010-07-13T22:34:00Z Indeed, when the chips are really down the clan rallies together, sings a goofy song and delivers a solid lesson about togetherness or understanding or some other corny value. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: short on drama but lots of fun – first look review 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z It may seem corny, but a mai tai at House Without a Key in the seafront garden at the Halekulani Hotel in late afternoon is perfection. What to Do in Honolulu 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z I think the “Star Wars” series “Andor” is one of the franchise’s most sophisticated and artful products to date; but I did enjoy returning to the lighter, cornier, more old-fashioned adventures of “The Mandalorian.” ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 Premiere Recap: Together Again 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z “They are both goofy and super corny,” he said, laughing. Adding a Wedding to the Highlight Reel 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z It never happened in video form, but both Malia and her sister were photographed rolling their eyes while enduring their father’s corny jokes during the annual White House turkey pardoning. A departure Obama is dreading: Leaving the White House? No, Malia moving out. 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Mainly, though, it tracks the tone of the songs, at once cleareyed and wistful, and sometimes, as in Ms. Mitchell’s lyrics, “a little bit corny.” Review: A Quieter, Virtual Fall for Dance, With Starriness Intact 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Comedy seldom travels well — the jokes in “Tantalus,” like those in “Ta-Ta,” struck me as corny — but talent and skill require little translation. Dance Review: Cloud Gate 2 at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-11T01:06:45Z Critics sniffed that the scores of sculptures he created for civic plazas and private clients around the world were corny. 'Waiting for the Interurban' sculptor Richard Beyer dies at 86 2012-04-13T14:43:09Z “I made the typical corny and embarrassing jokes about the Liberty Bell,” Rachel says with a laugh. On Love: Rachel Levick and Jonathan Corley But what journalist’s heart does not beat faster at the sound of Bogart’s corny declaration, and at the sight of thousands of newspapers with a gotcha headline rumbling off those gritty, beautiful presses. All the News That’s Fit to Screen: Movies About Journalism 2012-06-08T18:19:24Z “That sounds corny, but I wanted to talk about all the scars we carry with us. We can embrace them but also not live in that darkness forever.” Better Than Besties: Why Gay Holiday Films Matter 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z There was a time when I felt embarrassed about a fair number of them, mostly because I thought they were kind of stupid or corny. ‘The Far Side’ Is Back. Sort Of. Gary Larson Will Explain. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z And it arrives one corny aphorism at a time. ‘Bad Seeds’ Review: A Scam Artist Teaches From the School of Life 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z “It sounds corny,” he said, “but the lines bring to mind the image of the cigarette holder on the ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ poster, and the line of Hepburn’s arms.” Alexander Calder in 1941, at the Pace Gallery 2011-10-18T15:27:51Z Blomkamp digs into the emotions when Jann has a setback, but this narrative pit stop does not feel corny or contrived. Get revved up for "Gran Turismo," the summer's suspenseful thrill ride based on a true story 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Unless you're off in the corner finding it all very corny, you're probably feeling some hefty emotions watching them holler down the eternal void, clawing at their instruments. The Avett Brothers bring the campfire wave to Everett 2011-07-14T15:01:05Z “I hate saying this, because it sounds corny, but skating is a lifestyle,” he said. Sunny Suljic of ‘Mid90s’ Checks Out His Favorite Skate Shop 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “This is going to sound corny, but Vogue Patterns was my dream job,” Ms. Cafaro said. Sewing for the Instagram Generation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z “This sounds corny, but it’s true: I care just as deeply about Jay’s well-being and feelings as I do about my own.” Filmmakers Mark and Jay Duplass’s New Book Explores Brotherly Love, With Occasional Sibling Rivalry 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z The show mixed corny jokes and novelty songs with performances by some of the biggest names in country music. Gordie Tapp, ‘Hee Haw’ Regular of ‘Pfft! You Was Gone’ Fame, Dies at 94 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The incredible voice work and puppetry more than compensate for slightly corny scriptwriting. Atlanta Family Weekend On the Cheap 2011-10-14T15:20:00.890Z "It would be easy to be snide about them but they're supposed to be corny." The search for the funniest Christmas cracker jokes 2010-12-19T00:06:25Z And while it might be corny to say that you make euphoric or uplifting music, it's generally happy emotions that I'm interested in. Hudson Mohawke: beats, rhymes and lasers 2011-08-12T23:11:01Z “I tell dad jokes all the time just for myself, literally just for myself. I know they’re corny.” Cautious Clay Makes Music About Love in the Digital Age 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Even the priest is not some corny bad guy. 'Beyond the Hills has no obvious villains': Cristian Mungiu 2013-03-07T17:35:43Z For fans of corny action films, Real Heroes's low-fidelity charm will be hugely endearing, but it does lack the certain polish many technophiles long for. Real Heroes: Firefighter 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Unlike the uniform quality of masarepa, the texture of freshly milled corn is coarser and more diverse, resulting in masa that fries up with more surface area, more crunch and more corny flavor. A Colombian Chef Shares His Secret to Better Empanadas 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z No cliché was too corny for our agenda: mezzanine seats for Balanchine’s “Nutcracker,” pictures in front of the Rockefeller Center tree, a sing-along Messiah and Christmas dinner at the River Café, with its touristy view. My holiday shakeup: How my mom and I made our own traditions after loss 2013-12-24T12:44:00Z Yet the story of slave escapes and outwitted slave traders is, even by ballet standards, implausible as well as distasteful, and the evening moves from one corny scene to another. An 18-year-old new ballet star salvages an outmoded tale of pirates, slaves and stereotypes 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Suddenly, all sound is music, and all life is art—a corny idea, maybe, but also a powerful way of humanizing the world. The Restorative Pause of Silent Record Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “Things that might have once been corny to me don’t feel corny anymore,” Myles said as they began peddling their bike back to the East Village. Eileen Myles Watches Over an Ever-Changing New York 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The tale is at once baroque and corny. Mila Kunis’s Dizzying Orbit in ‘Jupiter Ascending’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The New York City-based hero earns her living as a private investigator, which gives the show its engrossing noir vibe, along with Jessica’s deadpan — occasionally corny — narration, which is delivered sporadically throughout each episode. For Marvel’s ‘Jessica Jones,’ the struggle is real 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z On "Maths," the corny digital samples feel extremely dated and required a much smarter approach than this. Review: Deadmau5 doles out lackluster EDM 2012-09-24T16:16:06Z It's three hours packed with cameos, crazy stunts, corny one-liners and ridiculous subplots. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'New Year's Eve' 2011-12-08T14:01:43Z There are tons of examples of lovelorn men standing outside a window to signal their devotion– it’s a romantic staple that’s so common it’s become a corny trope. New Adam Levine Video Confuses Violence and Love 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z You'll have seen the footage a hundred times, sliced and diced, but the original six-minute item, despite the corny background music and the rather flat commentary, is an important document. Pop at the pictures: Beatlemania begins 2012-11-28T15:29:00Z "I know it sounds corny in this day and age, and there are cynics who don't believe that anyone can take a stand," she said. Authors' boycott cancels Teen Lit festival after Ellen Hopkins 'disinvited' 2010-09-07T15:37:00Z It’s as corny as an Iowa summer, corny enough to make you weep. Review: In ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Spielberg Considers the Cold War 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z This does not mean a nasal affectation, along the lines of that corny old nerdy-voice stereotype that mid-level black comedians do. Sorry to Bother You: is this the most shocking anti-capitalist film ever? 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z You weren’t there, so it probably sounds corny to you, but we loved it. My weekend with Oprah Winfrey and trying to find the life I want Many years ago, I learned that readers hate two specific things the most: poetry, and corny old jokes. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Welcome to another edition of ‘Rhymes Against Humanity’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Some people find him pernicious and manipulative; others think he’s hopelessly corny. Andy Cohen Had a Year 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Create these “corny” treats by using orange and yellow food coloring. 5 easy Halloween treats to make this year 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z “But I wanted more than anything in the world to get out of acting, and so I plugged away at a corny screenplay for two years.” Jennifer Salt: The Story Behind the Writer 2010-07-21T22:30:00Z Sentimental and a little corny in parts, “Percy” is protected from bathos by Walken’s proudly minimalist performance as an intensely private man reluctantly drawn into an uncomfortably public fight. ‘Percy vs Goliath’ Review: Growing Pains 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z I'm not going to be the corny guy popping up in their mentions like, "Not all Black men!" or "But what will you tell your Black son?!" I grew up surrounded by toxic masculinity, but I evolved: We have to give people a chance to grow 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z She cites a drill sergeant who, hearing that she was in the band, subjected her to corny musical references for the rest of her training. Military bands offer musicians great jobs, similar challenges to orchestras Shipping wars and love triangles can feel tedious and juvenile at times, especially in an age of corny social media hashtags and "fan-cams." From "Twilight" to "Never Have I Ever," here's what makes the greatest love triangles so potent 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z The two literally save each other's lives, which may sound corny and feel-good, but Lillard shows a deft touch and finds just the right balance of absurdity and uplift. Matthew Lillard picks top 5 moviegoing memories 2012-10-04T23:43:08Z “I shopped that to 10 different producers and they all said, ‘That’s corny.’ How Peter Asher, a Jack-of-all-Trades in Music, Mastered Them All 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z But that was a satire — excessive and corny, but intentionally so. A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z That not-so-politically-correct song, performed at Walt Disney World since 1971 as part of a corny Magic Kingdom revue called “Country Bear Jamboree,” would never survive an impending modernization, fans worried. ‘Country Bear Jamboree’ at Walt Disney World 2012-10-20T01:34:03Z |
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