Sentences with phrase «by corny»

It's pretty basic math that can't be blurred by some corny analogies.

Steven Spielberg's high - octane pop culture bonanza is hamstrung by its corny, treasure hunt plotting.

And it's weakened by some corny dialog, a cliched story and not - that - impressive...

Actual depiction of the Civil War is pretty much limited to a single gory battle scene at the opening, followed by a corny sequence where Lincoln chats with some young soldiers.

Some are simply disturbed by the corny suspense tropes and clunky dialogue that plague the 13 - episode series.

A middle - aged man with a formal manner occasionally lightened by corny jokes, Ma isn't rushing into any hasty unions.

We aren't given many details in the abstract or interviews, and there are still some good studies showing otherwise (eg, those by Cornier, Pittas, Ebbeling, and Gardner himself), although this one is bigger (n = 609) and longer (1 year).

Bateman is very good, even at the sentimental stuff, although he is at times defeated by the cornier lines and a frankly bizarre voice - over narration.

Not exact matches

The copy may sound corny, but Campbell came away favorably impressed by the site's offerings.

«An old and rather corny comedy line has it that the only part of an automobile that can not be made foolproof by a safety device is the nut that holds the wheel.

He always has corny excuses at the ready meaning he expects failure, and then he does not seem to want it badly enough, the reason for all them sh *** y excuses in the first place.He made the bed and now he is lying in it whether he believes it or not.The sooner he comes to his senses the better for the club and its real drivers, the FANS.But my sixth sense tells me he should be gone by season's end.

«It's so unusual to have a man in school foodservice, so he stands out just by being a man, but I would also say that we just had a connection — which sounds so corny!

At 9 a.m., actor Gbenga Akinnagbe, NYC Councilman Robert Corny and representatives of the groups Black Lives Matter and The Coalition for African Peace and Justice hold a news conference to call for federal officials to send humanitarian aid and take further action in response to attacks in Nigeria by supporters of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.

I'm so grateful for each and every one of you that stops by on the daily to read my posts, corny jokes and daily happenings.

My hope is, by putting my un-edgy, probably somewhat corny, over-50, un-cool, always - a-little-disheveled, classic - bent self into a blog / YouTube channel for the world to see, I might be of some support to other women who also just want to be their classic selves.

He captured our fits of laughter, the times when Sarah busts my chops (which by the way is all the time) and even some great shots of our corny matching plaid button down tops from Charlotte Russe (similar available from Target).

I am a very transparent person, Tired torturing thyself by dieting but never seemed to succeed.Always wan na make people laugh though i'm becoming corny sometimes.UNFAITHFULNESS, ARROGANCE, PRIDE, EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE turns me off.I have big ears to listen, a big heart to offer a hand and I am a good...

mexican guy dating korean girl foto 25 Mar 2016 won over by a handful of corny chat - up lines in a funny skit with BBC Radio.

Maybe it's corny to start a review by pointing at writer / director Shane Black's previous outings (not to mention his credits as one or the other).

Even in that corny scene where he gives her an orgasm just by trailing a flower up and down her body I was in into it.

Boiled down into concrete words, this sounds corny, but in execution on screen it's all rather affecting, with Stoltz's understated but sure direction eliciting vivid, multi-dimensional, and highly appealing turns by Holt and Gisondo, who are equally adept at selling both the absurd humor of August's characters and the genuine, relatable emotions that drive their behaviors and goals.

It's one thing for a film to have corny dialogue that makes audience members involuntarily laugh but Sucker Punch somehow manages to unintentionally cause sniggers by its music cues and the way it uses costumes.

For a film produced by and starring John Cusack, this is unusually corny.

After the snappy, clever 2011 original, this sequel feels rather lazy by comparison: it's still visually colourful and sometimes witty, but the overcrowded story is all over the place, mixing wacky slapstick and corny satire...

For all the hype about exploring Batman's damaged psyche, Nolan and Goyer haven't added much beyond a corny opening in which he falls down a well and is attacked by bats.

At first glance, that opening raid points to a toned - down Predator reference, but it's really just a paint - by - numbers scenario meant to demonstrate how pretty much everything from that decade is stilted, corny, and hopelessly dated.

Landis has shown some wit and imagination with his past screenplays for «American Ultra» and «Mr. Right,» but the script for «Bright» — reportedly rewritten heavily by Ayer — is laden with glib and corny attempts to reference real - world racial animus.

The rest of them are various incarnations of nerdiness, from Dawntreader Bob and his hermit - like existence, to Doctor Dave (Nick Frost), the unlikely and beefy ladies man, to Angus (Rhys Darby), the corny jokester, to Simple Simon (Chris O» Dowd), the sweet one with a big, innocent heart, to Felicity (Katharine Parkinson), the bubbly lesbian who is becoming increasingly alarmed by her burgeoning sexual appetites.

In her mature incarnation, Latika is played by Freida Pinto and is impossibly model - gorgeous, and Slumdog Millionaire turns more floridly corny and movie - ish.

For as the butt - kicking heroine sets about exacting her vengeance, the epic battle of good versus evil is so undermined by cheesy special effects and corny dialogue that the spectacle adds up to an experience that is best described as laughable.

The ideal candidate for this material would be David Fincher or perhaps Steven Soderbergh; Stone's corny, indiscriminate direction recasts Snowden (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) as the brooding, fist - clenching hero of a bogus spy movie, complete with a couple of fictional mentors played by Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage.

But this message is somewhat watered down by the rather corny zaniness that fills the screen, including several massive action set - pieces that not only make very little sense but feel like scenes we've seen before.

In this shamelessly corny directing debut by screenwriter Dan Fogelman («Last Vegas»), Pacino's Danny Collins rethinks his hedonistic lifestyle after his long - suffering manager (Christopher Plummer) presents him with a just - found l971 letter from John Lennon urging young Danny to be true to himself and his music.

Corny, predictable but visually interesting, the film was directed by Paul Anderson.

Even by early»60s standards when incorporation of the method was common operating procedure, he seems positively corny.

Along with the web of writers connected by censored and suppressed works, we follow the thugs doing the dirty work for a vicious minister, including a man whose motivation is simply money to pay for his son's operation (it's not a corny as it sounds).

I'll admit that the movie is a little corny and the chemistry isn't the best between Cooper and Helen Hayes, but overall it's a beautiful example of early filmmaking and this new release by Kino is exemplary.

«Joke Corral: Herd of Jokes» (4:34) is montage of corny jokes performed by characters in the style of the bonus short.

«On My Way» by the Neighbors plays during the closing credits, marking the the most egregiously corny song to be featured on an Eastwood movie since the barfworthy «Colorblind» in Invictus.

«Blackhat,» written by first - time screenwriter Morgan Davis Foehl, opens with a riff on one of the corniest sequences in contemporary cinema: the zoom - in on a computer's wiring and circuits to show the movement of data.

Even the corniest old gag is enriched by Andersson's unblinking gaze and densely detailed shots: when a joker at a family banquet insists on performing that old parlor trick of yanking the tablecloth out from under the dishes, he not only shatters a huge collection of crystal and china but also reveals a vintage table inlaid with swastikas.

In Boosting Idaho Students» College Prospects by Expanding Access to Great Teaching, Bryan Hassel, Shonaka Ellison, and Jeannette P. Cornier of Public Impact examine the challenges that prevent rural schools from accessing great teaching and present four strategies for increasing access to highly effective instruction in rural Idaho.

School Transformation: Apply a Research - Based Definition of School Turnaround to Illinois Data presented by Jeanette P. Cornier

It's a little bit corny and occasionally embarrassingly flashy, but as my younger brother pointed out, it may be a real selling point if you could customise the image displayed to greet you by your name.

It may sound corny, but the quotations are pithy, interesting and certainly more grammatical than advice given by friends and family.

The term anti-romance is prompted not by the absence of true love in the novel — in fact, honoring it is a thematic keynote — but because romance is considered corny in the antifamily, libertine Safe Lands, where a pandemic decades earlier has made reproduction problematic.

I first played The Secret of Grisly Manor by Fire Maple Games and really enjoyed it (although the ending is a little corny), so when their second game, The Lost City, was available in the Amazon App Store I didn't have to think about it twice, I instantly bought it!

The device was offered to me by RIM (thanks to Luca Filigheddu) in order to port Pop Corny to it.

Gears lives on, locusts are still alive, queen is Marcus» mom after all, locust were made by niles in a lab, baird is still corny and gets chainsawed after cole does, and they can still melt adam fenix cuz that was awesome.

The lighthearted tone of the story and gameplay elements are to thank, and the corny jokes uttered by the digital cast really are constantly smile - enducing.