Sentence examples for feel corny from inspiring English sources

JSF Your first book suggested something was possible that I didn't know before: a young Jewish American, writing about the experience of Orthodox Judaism – and other kinds of American and Jewish experiences – in a way that I recognised and that didn't feel corny or sentimental but just the opposite.

Filardi was guilty of a dialogue which "echoes with cliches, while contrived plotting put characters into situations that may be true, but they feel corny and movie-like".

Instead, he made "lyricism"—often a skill in hip-hop that, much like guitar needling, can feel corny or needly pursued over the principle of "making enjoyable music"—sound dynamic and vital, full of personality and energy.

If you don't feel corny about it, wearing some sexy lingerie never hurt anyone.

Just don't overdo it with the emoticons or it'll begin to feel corny for the other person.

Little missteps like a weird use of the word "retweet" chip away and distract from the story; in a serious moment, it takes away from the drama, and in a funny moment, it suddenly makes the joke feel corny.

"I see it as optimistic and positive, though it feels corny to say those things," he said.

I incorporated pauses at first but gradually eliminated them, because they felt corny and because, in general, any noticeable time between fireworks is deathly.

Yet somehow it feels corny and cooked up, whereas beneath the silliness of "General Yen" there simmers an emotional truth, with the heroine half yielding to raptures that she knows to be both improper and doomed.

And when Mr. House belted the chorus of the second one — "Whoa, it feels so good /To have your blood in my veins" — the result felt corny even by the standards of this crowd.

Try out a mantra that will keep you positive, even if it feels corny.