A little fiction is a necessary part of this ultimately sentimental spectacle, which is not, in the end, about dumb adults but about smart children and the simplest, corniest pleasure of school: learning.
The intervening voice was simple, almost corny, for it felt so good: Belong to this.
The artist's touch (or for that matter the mother's, or the lover's) might end up one day as the holding place for some simpler, yes cornier time that even those of us who cannot live without our iToys come to long for.
"I expected a sea of miserable people trudging around and being ripped off, but instead saw a more cheery view of life - how simple and sometimes corny things (fairground rides, soft toys, balloons and hot dogs) can entertain and genuinely lift the mood".
Cass sounds like Ricky Nelson, and his tunes are haunting and simple, but not corny.
Byrne focused on mundane events and attempted to write in a style that was "simple but not corny, basic but heartfelt".
The zoom-to-crop and simple pan functions might seem corny, but when it's baby pictures or high school memories set to Coldplay on MySpace – that's ok.
Some people may think such employee recognition programs are corny, but it's simple psychology: people commit more acts of kindness when they are appreciated for them.
His songs can be maudlin, clever, obvious, as ornate as Versailles, as simple as pencils, hilarious, crude, breathtakingly wise, corny, and so musically rich that he seems to be working with instruments nobody else owns.
