corniness

All that time gave him a chance to reconsider the virtues of corniness.

When the documentary presents an excerpt from the speech, you may be struck by its corniness.

Bear with the corniness and hear my examples.

At that point the only crime Stargirl could have been accused of would be corniness.

"I was interested in the poetic paradox between high and low, without escaping into kitsch or corniness," she said.

Under the deliberate corniness exists a logic of homilies.

But make no mistake about it, this is one case of coral corniness that actually cures what ails you.

I like its corniness and its technology.

In this context, the corniness of the jokes doesn't really matter, as long as someone engaging is cracking them.

It's a fear of corniness.

That worked to his advantage in "Apollo 13," in which concentration, ambition and corniness meshed.

What was once beautiful seemed banal; coyness - those hearts - was revealed to be just corniness.

Perhaps that's because teaching amorphous concepts sometimes lends itself to overreach, righteousness and corniness.

Mr. Leonard insists all the corniness is good business, and traces two recent successes to ideas from the customer suggestion box.

Hammerstein's lyrics project warmth, sincere optimism, and occasional corniness.

Some viewers find entertainment value in watching the Super Bowl just to be offended by the hype, corniness and overindulgence.

Cheerful to the point of corniness, Mr. Card works ruthless hours, often arriving at his job before dawn and leaving after the dinner hour.

The sparklers, explosions and mandatory flying dancers conformed to the corniness of theme park entertainment".

So, the disappointments are double, the predictability double and the corniness even more than double."

There is some gimmickry and corniness, and there is more pop music than world music.

These lapses only sometimes sapped the energy of the songs, which still hit with their odd blend of kinkiness and corniness.

As well as one of the few remaining human beings capable of using the word "jiffy" without corniness or ironic intent.

Although staged as a competition, Theatresports has the philosophy that corniness and gags tend to lower the quality of scenes.

Weegee's corniness threshold is sometimes too high: J. Edgar Hoover with a third eye, for example.

(Such action-hero corniness becomes his stock in trade in the two sequels, which made them increasingly more irrelevant.)