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Example sentences for: cornball
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We're talking cornball kitsch that couldn't even get an audience at a hip coffee bar today.
Based on a short story by Isaac Asimov, the film follows an android that slowly gains human qualities and ends up as "a cornball drone of greeting-card sentiment" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The beginning scenes--when Williams plays a non-human--are the film's highpoint: "[T]he sad fact is Williams is at his best while trapped in [the robot's] original sleek form.
The Alexandre Dumas-inspired swashbuckler The Man in the Iron Mask is thoroughly second-rate--which is to say that it waddles when it ought to whiz, clanks when it strives for cornball poetry, and transforms its august stars into something akin to a manic dinner-theater troupe.
Critics gag on this cornball story of a marriage on the rocks, starring Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer and directed by Rob Reiner.