Sentence examples for rather corny from inspiring English sources

These choices were imperfect -- rather corny, very country.

"The Seuss Navy was a rather corny outfit," Geisel says now.

His pious young cop in LA Confidential, Hollywood-drawn rather corny Clark Kentish figure, on the side of law and order, brave as a lion when it comes to the crunch, might have been predictably dull, except that somehow, fleetingly, he managed to convey that he actually enjoys shopping his erring colleagues.

"I found myself getting rather corny about doing my civic duty," said Christopher Lofting, who was jury foreman this summer in the trial of an Algerian conspirator in the plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport during the millennium celebration.

For the first time in centuries, it was cool rather than corny to be Irish.

Rather than being corny, it's a chilling, riveting moment in a series stuffed with them.

"I know it sounds corny," Rather says, with uncommon diffidence for a Texan, "but I've been extraordinarily lucky.

Not everyone's experience will be filmed or should be -- how about we just start explaining with facts rather than with corny vapid stunts?

Writing in his "Consumer Guide" column of The Village Voice, Robert Christgau commented that "Lola" had been an "astounding single," but gave Lola Versus Powerman a mixed review, saying that "the melodies are still there, but in this context they sound corny rather than plaintive".

By Joan Acocella In 1909, most Western ballet was a corny and rather disreputable enterprise.

In 1909, most Western ballet was a corny and rather disreputable enterprise.