Sentence examples for as a corny from inspiring English sources

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Even though it has a talking car, I never played it as a corny situation.

"SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" writers have devastatingly lampooned Mitt Romney as a corny, coreless candidate who evokes an "Eh, I guess" response in voters.

The novelist Salman Rushdie savaged the novel as "a corny potboiler" and "the kind of fantasy writing that gives fantasy writing a bad name".

This confusing sci-fi story of a virtual-reality trip into the mind of a girlfriend in a coma plays like a cross between Total Recall and The Descendants, but comes across as a corny soap opera.

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We have to quit -- one day at a time, as corny as that sounds.

Ripping through dense grass and spinning through lengthy tunnels is par for the myriad courses here and it soon becomes clear that developer Playground Games has, indeed, created a playground, as corny as that sounds.

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.

Addison travels to Hawaii, where a trio of actors carrying spears and masks stand behind him as he sings a corny Don Ho-type song about missed opportunities, which bears a marked resemblance to Blitzstein's "Honolulu".

It's suggested to omit Southern crunk out of the rap genre, as it has a corny style to it and won't really match well.

Even so, the family's secrets feel as contrived as the play's regionalism — a corny mint julep laced with Valium.

In the sort of plot twist that you'd dismiss as too corny in a fictional tale, the great fertility god has a problem with his own sperm count, although his loving wife is unaware that the fault lies with him and not her.

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