corniness

The bad news is that Lee and Fields have managed to update 1950s corniness to 2000 corniness, which is still, well, corny.

La Boheme 2007

The bad news is that Lee and Fields have managed to update 1950s corniness to 2000 corniness, which is still, well, corny.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

The corniness is a good call, I tend to picture Asimov and Heinlein as a couple of blowhards cracking wise at a Rotary meeting.

Reading older scifi Tripp 2008

It made a complicated (some may say convoluted) story out of it, with a corrupt and negligent corporation responsible for a series of viral outbreaks, creating a lore which not only adds to the appeal of the series for die-hard, but injects a much-needed sense of "corniness" as well.

Kotaku 2009

It's not that he wants to - it goes beyond the kind of corniness of fetishism, sadism.

Culture | guardian.co.uk Simon Garfield 2009

That's the music with the wild accordion, the metronomic 2/4 bass beat, and a wonderful corniness that only hick cultures i.e., Mexicans, Czechs and Poles can truly love--mostly because the music was introduced to the borderlands between northern Mexico and Texas in the mid-1800s.

Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Is that Polka or 'Conjunto Norteño'? Gustavo Arellano 2011

That's the music with the wild accordion, the metronomic 2/4 bass beat, and a wonderful corniness that only hick cultures i.e., Mexicans, Czechs and Poles can truly love--mostly because the music was introduced to the borderlands between northern Mexico and Texas in the mid-1800s.

Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Is that Polka or 'Conjunto Norteño'? Gustavo Arellano 2011

After many years of searching for just the right wine for Mexican style dishes I discovered a wine from Southern Italy that is a perfect match for the spicy, tomatoey corniness that makes these foods a favorite.

Seven layer dip: impossible food-wine pairing?!? | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

I looked down on Star Wars when it came out, for reasons comprehensible only to other young sci-fi addicts not long out of their teens: I knew too many of the cultural references, was embarrassed by the corniness of the plot and characters, and thought it wasn't true enough to the physical reality.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Dear Speaker Boehner: Thanks for Quoting Me, But You Left Out Jobs -- and "Star Wars" Movies! RJ 2011

I looked down on Star Wars when it came out, for reasons comprehensible only to other young sci-fi addicts not long out of their teens: I knew too many of the cultural references, was embarrassed by the corniness of the plot and characters, and thought it wasn't true enough to the physical reality.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Dear Speaker Boehner: Thanks for Quoting Me, But You Left Out Jobs -- and "Star Wars" Movies! RJ 2011