Sentence examples for somewhat corny from inspiring English sources

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Another answer: To build workplaces where empathy and kindness are rewarded, in the somewhat corny terminology of the speakers, where a go-giver is as desirable as a go-getter.

If we stopped trying to compete with the somewhat corny entries that have won the international competition lately, we could turn the UK show into an event that is relevant to British music fans.

There are moments of somewhat corny chat recreation, but the complete picture of the person behind the titular screen name is chilling enough to forgive those phoned-in reenactments".

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Whether you were white or black, poor or rich, corny or somewhat bearable to talk to, you likely had the pause, to hit one in memoriam—"dab," somewhere in your dance routine.

Call it corny, but this scene felt somewhat like redemption.

It's shamelessly corny but undeniably pretty.

Though they sing live, with limited and corny banter in between, the group is somewhat upstaged by their YouTube videos screening above them.

As grammarist.com points out somewhat tartly: Writers often use it to apologize for a weak phrase--often a bad metaphor, a corny coinage, or a phrase the writer is reluctant to use.

But aside from the 'it's overrated' and 'its corny' sentiments tossed out by the naysayers, the one charge that has stuck is Zemeckis's somewhat foppish treatment of the 1960s radical youth movement that Forrest Gump's childhood sweetheart, Jenny Curran, finds herself involved in.

Sound corny?

Bruce Springsteen "corny"?

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