Sentence examples for corny notion from inspiring English sources
Coleman handles the split time frame expertly, mustering a special love-hate for the 1970's, and his portrayal of Prager redeems the corny notion of the haunted cop.
When the show débuted, it struck many casual viewers as another anti-hero drama, the latest in a set of vicarious cable thrill-rides that let viewers experiment with how it might feel to be a truly free man, the "one who knocks," released from society's corny notions of virtue — the existential winner.
So soaked with sentimentality, bogus emotion and cliche, to watch it is to feel as if one is being pelted by a spongiform romance novel soaked in alcopop, this St Petersburg-Paris set drama is the very embodiment of the Russian notion of "poshlost", a kind of corny vulgarity that Nabokov dissected at length in his book on Gogol.
With a score largely made up of fragments of standards that jumble every genre, it flaunts the notion that all love songs are equally corny, regardless of style.
Its hero, Liberace, as portrayed (or, rather, channelled) by Michael Douglas, is a ludicrous figure, a talented pianist who plays drivel, whose stage persona exudes self-satisfied vanity, whose shtick is woefully corny, whose garish taste is painful to the eye, whose boasts of innovations (including the extraordinary notion of putting a candelabra on his piano) are trivial.
Bruce Springsteen "corny"?
Sweet, corny, heartbreaking stuff.
