Sentence examples for painfully corny from inspiring English sources
With so much scripted material (a lot of it painfully corny), there was no time for acceptance speeches, or even for the winners to appear onstage.
The moment where a real Rockette pops out of the star-marked dressing room door is painfully corny (or kitschily adorable).
As he slipped on his first Green Jacket, with all the awkwardness that this sometimes painfully corny ceremony can offer, thoughts wandered off already to where he might go next.
Obviously lots of graff writers have managed to navigate the art world without becoming painfully corny, but Robbo's stuff was from a world of wildstyle that worked when it was pulling up on the side of a Thameslink carriage, and kind of got lost sitting in a Shoreditch gallery surrounded by punters holding plastic cups.
Chevy advertising was almost painfully wholesome and corny back then: "New fire, new flair, new freedom from care!" Why go further?
Television pundits have criticised the writing of the programme; Robert Hanks of The Independent calls the scripts "often corny, even painfully so", using Monty Everard's line "You'll come to regret crossing swords with me, sir!" from "Health Hazard" (2003) as an example.
As paterfamilias Fredric March says to his daughter's suitor, Dana Andrews, in William Wyler's painfully intimate probing of American domesticity, "The Best Years of Our Lives": "We seem kind of corny and mid-Victorian, but we talk about things".
Bruce Springsteen "corny"?
