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Now, here's the cornball stuff everyone said about it:Screen Shot via EurekalertNo.Nope.

Hollywood is bloody and messy, but its aims are sweet, bordering on cornball.

Those who don't take conjugal love seriously may find it saccharine or some cornball shit like that.

It's the movie's hard right turn into tidy, cornball, Sunday school moralism that leaves it unrevivably dead.

It's always been easy to underestimate Biden, with his cornball affect and his motor-mouth verbal tics.

George Eastman's Off Broadway play is lifted by its direction and performances, but often feels like a cornball sitcom.

You might think you're not the right candidate for cornball holiday programming, but I'd suggest you reconsider—and don't overthink it.

"I would feel like an absolute cornball ever taking a video, so Boomerang is like the perfect middle ground," says Ann.

" Dame tells us he specifically got chastised for making fun of the plaintiff's attorney, Christopher Brown ... whom he calls a "cornball.

While others are really only prepared for this level of cornball-ery once a year, so we like to make it count.

With jump scares and cornball demon faces lurking around every corner, the more ambient (and important) existential despair of Aokigahara is lost.

But for many of us, our first encounter with the cornball king's misty-eyed melodramas was A Walk to Remember in 2002.

The pressure to churn out plain vanilla characters and cornball moral rectitude was especially debilitating to franchise players like Superman and Batman.

Or is he the lead cornball running the ultimate expedition to the mountain peak where every Reddit using hip-hop head is born?

Mr. Dan and Mr. Vitagliano together began hosting club nights in Los Angeles that celebrated their fascination with both the cornball and the cool.

Before long, the personal feed that had once been a totem of cornball folksiness included harsh attacks on Megyn Kelly, "Lyin' Ted" Cruz and other perceived antagonists.

For years artists who wanted to cover their tracks, who were determined to escape their past and appear to fulfill some cornball ideal, have dominated the art world.

The one great moment in the cornball-bland "Babes on Broadway," from 1941, shows the nineteen-year-old Judy Garland dancing with the shadows of unseen backup dancers.

Post grunge and its shoutier cousin nu metal reunified the two schools of rock, allowing an unholy civil union that ranged between sappy bro spluttering and cornball WWE exhibitionism.

He was a prolific writer but not a particularly distinguished one (his cornball dialogue paled in comparison the urbane snappiness of Carl Barks's Uncle Scrooge or John Stanley's Little Lulu).

Aside from the struggling Batman franchise, which at the time was plumbing the depths of cornball irony under the direction of Joel Schumacher, superhero movies weren't really a going concern in Hollywood.

That sounds like a bushel of cornball and might have devolved into pure ick if the director, Dave McCary, didn't lead from the heart and wasn't adept at navigating seemingly clashing tones.

There's something stealthily cornball in the show's vision of human character, which renders even a relapsing heroin addict as yet another cute, shaggy sad boy, whose worst act is to help a friend.

The performance baffled the audience and the comics on the dais at first; once it gained cornball momentum, it seemed to be a brilliant spoof of the old-world roots of insult comedy.

Glistening confessional folk-pop, whose automated beats and slickly compressed keyboards barely disrupt its tortured ache, will not improve if the dopey cornball singing the songs also happens to be a master hooksmith.

The sheer grown-upness with which Spielberg tells the story makes its occasional sentimentality endearing — including a shot of Graham outside a courthouse that should be intolerably cornball, but instead is irresistibly tear jerking.

That's probably not the case, and Exit Through the Gift Shop is less a true story than an unintentional presentation of street art's cornball European sense of self-importance, courtesy of Thierry Guetta, a.k.a.

" Think of her toddling down the steps behind the Times Square TKTS booth in "Mistress America," issuing a cornball greeting to her soon-to-be-stepsister standing below: "Welcome to the Great White Way!

As cornball as it sounds, that provided the necessary motivation, and I got through that devilish first "run and gun" level that got VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi in such hot water earlier in the fall.

"On my first episode of Rob's Random Cornball Thoughts is This young lady who grew up to be the woman I love and the mother of my child," Kardashian captioned a throwback photo of Chyna.

The cornball tagline of the project, "He reached the summit, and found rock bottom," is spot on; Sarah explained to THUMP that he created DAS to satirize the wealth, sex, and bravado-soaked club scene.

" For all its storytelling glitches and cornball dialogue, "The Rise of Skywalker" has the kind of gung-ho inspirational spirit that must have elated the Disney Company after the sour response to "The Last Jedi.

Conceived at first in the cornball tradition of comics necromancers like Mandrake the Magician and Mr. Mystic, Doctor Strange gradually staked out a singular position as a master of the mystic arts and, eventually, Sorcerer Supreme.

The irony in this, of course, is that Nazis might have seemed like cornball villains when the show launched in 2014, but they feel very present in 2017 — yet the show has mostly moved past them.

As cornball as it sounds, even in the most hilariously bleak situations we've been faced with, in the back of my head I have that riff from "It's a Long Way to the Top" by AC/DC.

The event is simultaneously good and bad, which befits its status as a thing revitalized by ur-cornball Dwight Howard, who took it and turned it into amateur theater during his run as champ in 21997 and 210.

NBA Hall-of-Famer and Warriors legend Rick Barry appeared on a radio show with Rob Parker—whom we last saw getting fired from ESPN for calling RGIII a "cornball brother"—and things got very heated very quickly.

And sure, it's possible that The Golden Circle's incorporation of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in a scene of heroic sacrifice might have had more impact if audiences hadn't heard it employed for a similar cornball-poignant effect so recently before.

You can listen to the mix in all its audacious glory below—and who else on earth beside Teki fucking Latex can get away with playing Ace of Bass, Perc, Wiley, Madonna, and Pearson Sound without sounding like a cornball.

And if Hilary Bettis's "72 Miles to Go…" is a quiet, conventional drama with a penchant for endearingly cornball humor, that suits the story of a family that wants more than anything to blend in, to live regular American lives.

"On my first episode of Rob's Random Cornball Thoughts is This young lady who grew up to be the woman I love and the mother of my child," Kardashian, 30, wrote about Chyna, who is sitting on a bed in the old photo.

Ever since Tim Burton gothed up the wonderfully cornball Batman of Adam West, Gotham has largely been a bleak, godless place, where the richest man in the city lives underground and the only heavenly illumination comes in the form of a bat signal.

LAKE OF THE OZARKS My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America By Bill Geist As a journalist, Bill Geist has traveled the same cornball, goofy and sometimes unimaginably wistful back roads of America as long as I have: for over 40 years.

The show often feels like a cornball sitcom, milking the indignities of old age for laughs and offering "aw"-inducing nuggets of wisdom — in this case Harry's adult version of the facts of life, which begins and might as well end with gas.

Hacksaw Ridge's square-jawed, cornball storytelling seems to be a reflection of Doss' unfussy sincerity—the film's first half is a paean to virtue and integrity—but it also helps Gibson more effectively blindside us when he moves to Japan for the film's second half.

"On my first episode of Rob's Random Cornball Thoughts is This young lady who grew up to be the woman I love and the mother of my child," he captioned a (now-deleted) throwback photo of his ex, whom he split from in February after a tumultuous on-and-off year.

More classical in its narrative, "Tokyo Godfathers" pays tribute to one movie in particular — John Ford's 1948 western, "Three Godfathers," an insufferably cornball saga in which three cattle rustlers (John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz and Harry Carey Jr.) find themselves as the three kings in an allegory about a Christmas foundling.

In fact, Adu herself is so unremittingly cool that's it's not surprising in the slightest that a cornball like Drake—a man who screams desperation in a voice even louder than a sixth former with a Mubi account and Strong Opinions on the future of the Labour party—has aligned himself with her.

Ice Cube has been a cornball for a minute now—hell, he's turned it into a brand—and so you can't really knock him for tacky moments like "Real People" from his new Barbershop movie, a well-intentioned but forgettable duet for which he trotted out co-star Common, and flanked with film clips and animated barber poll overlays.

If that sounds a tad cornball, think of it like this: Knowing your "thesis" will help you define your goals, help you present yourself to others in an interesting, honest, and authentic way, and will help you move past the "this is where I work and this is what I do" kind of small talk that has people looking over your shoulder for an escape route.

It is not what I would call a good book, although its combination of cornball macho grandiosity ("I've always contended that I psychologically beat Jordan") and crocodile-tear smarm—Esquinas said he wrote the book because "it was right for my recovery from my addiction to gambling and the right way to reach out to a friend I perceived had the same problem"—it probably qualifies as ahead of its time.

Per Boston Globe reporter Matt Peppin, the beer will be released on Thursday from the depths of the seventh level of Boston: Sam Adams apparently is trying to play both sides here, saying that Tom Brady is both the GOAT, and that the team is a ragtag group of underdogs: Mind you, Tom Brady recently addressed comparisons to LeBron James, with his own cornball assessment, joking that, "we're similar athletes" before admitting he was just kidding!

With such sizable, advertiser-tantalizing audiences at stake, networks aimed to cultivate a sunny air of big-tent fun and milquetoast diversion, as suggested by the cornball promos ABC, CBS and NBC used to market their offerings: "Twin Peaks" crashed the party like a goth at a debutante's ball: (This didn't stop ABC from adding the show to the next season's promo, with predictably awkward results.) With its swollen melodrama and serial structure, "Twin Peaks" arguably had more in common with nighttime soaps than with anything else on prime time, though such shows were then falling out of fashion.

Cornball Express is a wooden roller coaster at Indiana Beach in Monticello, Indiana. The ride was designed and manufactured by Custom Coasters International. It opened on May 18, 2001. The Cornball Express had gained critical acclaim among enthusiasts, being named the #1 wooden roller coaster in the world by website ThemeParkCritic.

Rocky's Rapids is a Log Flume ride at Indiana Beach, in Monticello, Indiana. The ride is located next to the Cornball Express, and boats occasionally duel with trains from the roller coaster. The park does not have a Rapids ride, so this is one of the park's only water rides. The ride is located near Cornball Express and is also not far from Indiana Beach's two other coasters, Hoosier Hurricane and the steel coaster, Steel Hawg.

In 2005, the song ranked #308 in Blender's list of the 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born, describing it as "a new wave let's-stay-together plea" that is "so cornball it works".

Chance wrote a piece for the first issue of East Village Eye, praising disco and denouncing "outdated, cornball 'new/no wave' drivel". Off White includes contributions from Lydia Lunch, Robert Quine, and Vivienne Dick.Masters 93.

Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times thought the film was "often fun" but criticized the "cornball, patently phony audience reaction shots."Thomas, Kevin (October 27, 1984). "'Terror': Dipping Into Bucket of Blood". Los Angeles Times.

Enjoy it as a time capsule or as eighty minutes of attractive naked women and cornball humor, but either way the film is a blast and comes recommended to those with an appreciation for such things.

Shubha Shetty Saha from Mid Day described the comedy as "random and silly", but commented that "it is this randomness that also makes it a breezy, entertaining film".'Singh Is Bliing' – Movie Review . Mid Day. Devesh Sharma from Filmfare wrote that filmgoers should "watch the film if you like cornball comedies".

There's something rotten at the core about a movie that would recycle lines like "That's mighty white of you." Even sadder is the realization that some of the old cornball movies are still fresher, more alive, than this regurgitation." The Lexington Herald-Leader critic claimed "This film is bad. The acting is terrible.

Film critic Dennis Schwartz wrote a mostly positive film review, "The story was well told, but the acting left a lot to be desired. And all that religious stuff thrown in, about how God listens to you, was strictly cornball. But as far as B-films go, this one is above average."Schwartz, Dennis.

Upon its theatrical release, Only You received mixed reviews. In his review in the Chicago Sun- Times, Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half out of four stars, calling it "an endangered species in today's Hollywood." Ebert singles out Tomei's performance as particularly noteworthy. In her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin called the film "frankly touristy" and Jewison's directorial approach "cornball".

The ride weaves through and uses portions of the Hoosier Hurricane's structure in some parts, glides over the Kiddieland section of the park, wraps around the park's Tig'rr Coaster, and may sometimes 'duel' with the Rocky's Rapids Log Flume attraction. The name Cornball Express was also a candidate to be the name for the Hoosier Hurricane while it was being designed, however the name was tossed in favor for the latter.

Prior to joining KABC in July 1989, Donoho received nearly all favorable reviews for his work. Early in his tenure at KABC, Donoho was criticized by local columnists and viewers for being "too cornball." Former LA Times columnist Jim Healy referred to Donoho as "Dorkoho". Early on, Donoho was rated by the LA Times and the TV Times's Steve Harvey as the worst sports broadcaster in Los Angeles.

A criminal known as "The Bat" (X 490231, alias Willy Garrity, alias Cornball Smith, etc.) unwittingly hides a top secret formula in Woody's house. The bird mistakes "Formula 7 3/8 (One Drop = 50,000 Horsepower)" for his "Redwood Sap" tonic and turns into a multicolored Superman, gaining super strength whenever he ingests it. The chase is on. The bat tries to kill Woody but his tricks backfire on him and the bat is captured.

Upon release, Disorganized Crime was met with mixed and overall poor reception by top critics. Both Siskel and Ebert gave it thumbs down; reproach was aimed at the lack of detail given to the bank heist plan. They also claimed that the film relies on "slapstick and cornball barnyard humor," cited its frequency of chase scenes and moments where characters fall in mud and manure. However, Ebert did credit the actions of Lou Diamond Phillips's character as a highlight.

Ryan Hadfield of Consequence of Sound also praised Usher's vocals, with "Dive" and lead single "Climax" showing his "superior R&B; vocal range". Pitchfork's Carry Battan wrote that Usher's "vocal mastery" allows him to turn the chorus of "Dive"—which she viewed as "cornball"—into something "more specific, as if he were addressing just one woman [...]". PopMatters' Matt Cibula saw the lyric's as "clever" for incorporating a triple-entendre. Cibula further lauded Usher's falsetto, which he wrote Usher sings in an "urgent" whisper.

After that, the ride then circles the Tig'rr Coaster's area into more airtime hills. After a third airtime hill that soars over the lake, the fourth hill takes riders into the Hoosier Hurricane's structure and mimics the "S-bend" turn of the Hurricane. The ride then soars over the Kiddieland section and goes into a helix. Following the helix, riders are treated to two more bunny hills of airtime before turning into the brake run, ending a ride on the Cornball Express.

ESPN, however, has commented that "'Fight On,' USC's official fight song, is a little cornball, but the Spirit of Troy more than makes up for the hokum with the stirring 'Tribute to Troy'", while USA Today has described the tune as "a great tradition that fans and non-fans alike can appreciate". "Tribute to Troy" is often erroneously referred to as "Conquest". "Conquest," a different song, is performed following USC football victories and is adapted from the score of the 1947 film Captain from Castile.

Ebert called it "a skillful, efficient film that involves us in the clever and deceptive game being played", while Gene Siskel commented on the film's technical achievement and Baldwin's convincing portrayal of the character Jack Ryan. He directed Medicine Man (1992), about a medical researcher in a rainforest, starring Sean Connery. Medicine Man was poorly received. Roger Ebert gave it one-and-a-half stars, saying that although the film had "some beautiful moments", it never really came together and had "a cornball conclusion".

Shilpa Jamkhandikar, writing for Reuters, stated, "Welcome Back is sporadically funny, one that ebbs and flows; but it just about passes the 'guilty pleasure' test thanks to Kapoor and Patekar". Filmfare wrote, "watch the film if you like cornball comedies. It's a pure massy, masala entertainer that's good to go on a lazy weekend". Rediff's Raja Sen, while giving the film 2 stars out of 5, wrote, "Welcome Back is dumb yet entertaining, utterly silly but made with a kind of absurd, warm energy".

Years later, he said of that opportunity: "I got on the puppet project of the W.P.A. and helped write and put on shows for the Federal Theater. We did puppet shows at the World's Fair in 1939 and 1940, and I served as narrator, a kind of Hoosier cornball in beard." Following his experience with puppets, Ford worked as an attendant at a gas station before turning to acting for a career. His first professional acting job was in an Off-Broadway production in 1939.

Through the show's success, First Take has experienced substantial controversy and faced increasing criticism, mostly concerning perceived sensationalism. Among claims have been that First Take has used hot button racial issues to create inflammatory debates and increase ratings. Most notably, during a discussion regarding Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, frequent guest Rob Parker asked whether Griffin III was a "brother" or a "cornball brother." When pressed by host Cari Champion as to what that meant, Parker mentioned that Griffin III had a white fiancé and mentioned claims that Griffin III was a Republican.

The Cornball Express starts off with boarding the trains (designed by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters) and pulling down the "buzz bar" restraint before dispatch. The train then crawls out the station and starts the trek up the lift hill. As soon as the train crests the chain lift hill, it nears the first drop, a twisted drop then rockets the train to speeds of 45 miles per hour. After the drop, the ride soars over the Hoosier Hurricane and into a turnaround the then heads towards an airtime hill.

" Dread Central offered a similar opinion about the film's packaging and wrote, "The character of Andre the Butcher is a complete joke resembling a poor man's Leatherface. Most of the time it's not even Jeremy playing him." They expanded, "It's a dumb, poorly written, mind-numbingly bad experience that doesn't even begin to tread the type of ground that it was attempting to cover." In their own mixed review, Film Threat wrote, "If you enjoy the intentionally cornball lowbrow of Troma, this trashy treat is right up your manure-slathered alley.

Glenn Erickson of DVD Talk reviewed the DVD release of Hellcats of the Navy and thought that although the direction was "competent", the script was "completely derivative and cornball". He went on to criticize the lack of realistic supporting characters and the film's use of obvious stock footage, especially that of a U. S. Navy patrol boat portraying a Japanese ship. Overall, he described the film itself as "fair". David Krauss of Digitally Obsessed described the production values as "bargain basement" and found that the cast's stiff performances alienated viewers.

She finds it awful and describes it scene by scene, but is increasingly caught up in replaying the cornball plot, especially the big escapist musical number "Island Magic". Suddenly she returns to reality and rushes home to make dinner. Young Sam approaches his front door that night with his trophy, but with dread — even winners "must pay through the nose". As the jazz trio sings of evening shadows and loved ones together, Young Sam and Dinah try to have a talk after dinner, but they cannot make any headway.

"The Colours of Life" was influenced by what Michael Silver described as "some really cornball music." Silver wanted to make music similar to the song "Hand in Hand" by English singer Phil Collins; he intended to produce "call waiting background music, just the most pleasant thing and kind of trying to push to the edges of tolerable cheese in some places, but also have it be totally sincere and not ironic, like actually purely pleasurable music." He wanted "The Colours of Life" to have the vibe of a "weird, transporting nostalgia" to "faded media memories of utopia."Hockin, Johnny (October 5, 2016).

Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weeklys PopWatch complimented the episode, writing that "the series finale of Smallville did what it needed to do: It completed the circuit on an epic coil of story that began 10 years ago." Jensen was critical of the first half of the episode, noting that the pre-marital tension between Clark and Lois did not bode well for the story. However, he felt that the last 10 minutes made up for the slow parts in the episode. He ultimately concluded that the finale was "radically cornball and goosebumpingly geektastic, and the fanboy in me was satisfied".

Mark Schilling from The Japan Times, criticized the film for using "cliche after cornball cliche from local "guts- to-glory" films, while inflicting shot after shamelessly adorable shot of its title pooch and teen trainer" and gave the film a rating of 1.5 out of 5. He also derided the film's actress Kaho whom he described as "a bit old to pull it (her role) off". The reviewer also added that "the best actor in the film is the dog" and advised viewers who are looking for "stress relief with funny animal tricks" to "save time and try YouTube".

The album was being prepared for release on digital audio tape in 1996, but when the format failed commercially the plan was scrapped. In 2014, The Beatles' Story was made available on CD for the first time as part of the Beatles' box set The U.S. Albums. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic describes it as "a tedious neo-documentary record" and "cornball show biz, with radio announcers delivering a spit-shined script designed to bridge segments between canned interviews". In his review for the Toronto Sun, Darryl Sterdan said The Beatles' Story was a "cash-grab" by the record company and a "50-minute mish- mash ... dashed off for early Christmas shoppers".

"The Colours of Life'" is a composition written and recorded in 2011 by Canadian electronic musician Michael Silver, known by his stage name as CFCF. The 40-minute, twelve-movement track was influenced by what Silver described as "some really cornball music," such as the works of singer Phil Collins and the Windham Hill label. The style Silver went for with "The Colours of Life" was "call waiting background music, just the most pleasant thing and kind of trying to push to the edges of tolerable cheese in some places, but also have it be totally sincere and not ironic, like actually purely pleasurable music." "The Colours of Life" was first submitted to RVNG Intl.

Brett Todd of GameSpot scored the game 5.5/10, saying that despite the attempt to appeal to a new audience, it "won't win the franchise any new fans", due to its "predictable, abbreviated campaign". He described the story as "turgid", with the player's suspension of disbelief "derailed" by "cornball villains". While complementing the sound design as "thundering and atmospheric", he stated that the combat quickly becomes "mind-numbing" due to its repetitiveness. Noting that its boss battles can drag on to a half hour in length due to "absurdly overpowered" bosses and an overabundance of health pickups, he states that they are so slow that you "just want to give up on the whole thing".

'" Nathan Rabin from The A.V. Club views the collaboration as a demonstration of how West's a broad musical palette can occasionally get him into trouble, saying that Chris Martin doesn't embody the rich musical heritage of Chicago. exclaim's Del Cowie remarked that due in part to Martin's guest appearance, "Homecoming" doesn't evoke the emotional connection that a hometown ode should elicit. Labeling the track as one of the album's transgressions, Noah Love of ChartAttack stated that he could have done without Chris Martin crooning over the record and believed West was still finding his lane as a lyricist. Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot was dismissive of the song's instrumentation, saying, "Chris Martin coos over a cornball piano riff.

Main, who is best-known for playing "raucous, rough, and cantankerous women" on-screen, was characterized as "soft-spoken, shy," and "dignified" when she was off-screen. Main became a popular character actress of the 1940s and 1950s. She appeared in diverse roles on the stage and in more than eighty films, including some that became classics, such as Dead End (1937), Dark Command (1940), The Shepherd of the Hills (1941), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), and Friendly Persuasion (1956), but is best known for her Ma Kettle role in the Ma and Pa Kettle film series. The "cornball humor" of the Kettle films endured in subsequent television shows, such as The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres series of the 1960s.

Edna Gundersen of the USA Today said that Spice "is assembly-line dance-pop", adding that "only the funky 'Say You'll Be There' and touchingly cornball 'Mama' hint at depth". Steve Dollar of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said of the song "it's all pure confection more sugar really than spice", adding that it "even includes a Wonderesque harmonica solo among other obvious sources". Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune said that their first album "is a compendium of slick secondhand urban pop encompassing [...] G-funk synths on 'Say You'll Be There' [...] and Babyface's guitar and strings balladry on '2 Become 1'". Larry Flick of Billboard magazine compared it to "Wannabe" saying that it "is as immediately infectious, though it's not nearly as silly and novelty-driven".

Game designer Rick Swan noted the apparent lack of a central vision for Greyhawk material, describing the Greyhawk setting up to this point as "a crazy quilt, where odd-shaped scraps of material are randomly sewn together and everybody hopes for the best. How else to explain a setting that encompasses everything from the somber A1-4 Scourge of the Slave Lords adventure to the King Kong-inspired WG6 Isle of the Ape to the cornball humor of WG7 Castle Greyhawk? It makes for an interesting mess, but it's a mess nonetheless... The City of Greyhawk [is] the most credible attempt at smoothing out the rough spots." In 1990, TSR decided that the decade-old world of Greyhawk needed to be refreshed.

Coyly billed as 'the story of a boy and his equipment,' the movie has plenty of paraphernalia, but no notion of how to use it. Director Alan (Welcome to L.A.) Rudolph has signed on Hank Williams Jr., Alice Cooper and Blondie to lend musical authenticity, yet there is no semblance of a story line, apart from an unlikely love affair between Loaf and a tiresome groupie, Kaki Hunter." The Radio Times wrote, "Alan Rudolph punctuates this straightforward tale with tiresome bar room brawls and noisy knockabout comic moments made bearable only by the occasional celebrity cameo". The Austin Chronicle wrote, "Upon actual viewing of Roadie, I admit to being something less than rollicked, but damned if Roadie didn't try with all its cornball might.

1, A9 Hadley Barrett (1929-2017), for twenty-eight years the voice of the San Antonio Rodeo, had just completed announcing twenty-one rodeo performances a few days before he died of heart failure in Colorado on March 2, 2017. According to the San Antonio Express-News, Barrett was known for his "distinctive voice and folksy blend of cornball jokes, faith, patriotism, and rodeo wisdom." A native of North Platte, Nebraska, Barrett was reared on a ranch, was a weekend bull-rider, and a traveling musician who with his brothers under the name Hadley Barrett and the Westerners performed with, among others, Carl Perkins and Little Jimmy Dickens. He also announced for other rodeos, the Calgary Stampede, the Canadian Finals, and Cheyenne Frontier Days in Wyoming.

Sure, her vocals are on point and the music is adequately slick." Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone wrote, "While she oozes charisma and has a fine voice, Beyoncé isn't in a class with the likes of Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey as a singer, a fact that 'The Closer I Get to You', her duet with the effortlessly smooth Luther Vandross, also makes clear." Jason King of Vibe magazine wrote that Knowles had some "cojones" to follow up a Jay-Z duet with a Luther Vandross duet on the album's track-listing. Rob Fitzpatrick of NME stated that "it's the irredeemably cheesy ballad with 80s cornball Luther Vandross that will make the voices in your head demand hot, fresh blood.

By contrast, Mautner in particular thought Habibi was a smoother read than Blankets, which he felt featured too many subplots. Hart and McCullough agreed that Thompson's tendency to delineate every little detail which such obviousness left little to the reader's imagination or interpretation. The most recurrent complaint was with the book's bleak outlook on life and humanity, and the sexual cruelties inflicted upon the characters, which some of the reviewers thought was excessive, in particular Hatfield and Haegele, who felt that Thompson was condemning such atrocities while simultaneously luxuriating in them. Haegele did not care for the depiction of black characters in the book, finding them comparable to racial caricatures, and calling them "inappropriate" and "disgusting", and pointed to the "cornball" humor in these scenes in particular, and throughout the book in general.

'", and also praised Nelson's acting, stating that "Nelson himself provides the most valuable support in the colorful if variable cast." Rex Reed of New York Observer was extremely critical, particularly of Nelson, saying "It’s just another oblique backfire from Tim Blake Nelson, whose work as a writer- director in general wallows in a bog of mediocrity" and that "Nelson, a cornball actor at best, is over the top as a larcenous Pa Kettle of a redneck sidekick." He finished his review stating that "The mirror-has-two-faces-idea is nothing new. From Bette Davis in Dead Ringer to Sam Rockwell in Moon, dozens of seasoned actors have lit each other’s cigarettes while the audience thinks it’s seeing double, and they’ve done it in much better pictures than this one.

Dean Carlson of AllMusic gave note of how the record consisted of "an angular, symphonic sweatshop of mid-tempo beats" that acted as a palette for the group's penchant for "scatter-shot rhymes and paranoid rhythms" concluding that, "[I]t might take some time for Jedi Mind Tricks' sound to fully mature, but their metaphysical peculiarity is a promising new glow in the dark hip-hop underground." B. Ridge from RapReviews gave praise to the idiosyncratic "sci-fi lyrics dealing with spaceships, Atlantis, and ancient prophecies", "heavy use of religious references and imagery", and Stoupe's production giving off the required soundscape needed to complement the lyricism. He found criticism in the occasional flatness of the beats, odd use of pop culture references disrupting the overall atmosphere and the cornball tendencies in the lyrics that may turn people away from listening to the album.

Even when he looks like an unholy mess, he transcends the movie he's in." Steven Rea of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film three out of four stars, saying "What keeps this cornball business from getting out of hand is the commitment of Gyllenhaal, whose performance is fierce and muscular, in and out of the ring." Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "The script may have hamburger for brains, but Fuqua slams it home with the help of actors who give their all – even when giving a little less might have made things more interesting." Peter Howell of the Toronto Star gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "This isn't great cinema, but it's satisfying movie-making, with nothing more on its mind than telling a heart-tugging story.

But it's exceptional on a number of levels and is so because of a powerful director and some great acting." Scott Weinberg, writing for Fearnet, praised the acting and wrote, "[T]he director's steadfast insistence on presenting a potentially outlandish horror tale as plainly and realistically as possible that elevates Jug Face beyond that of a mere curiosity." Rob Nelson of Variety described it as "an impressively oozing slab of indie horror that bodes well for first-time writer-director Chad Crawford Kinkle." While the film is mainly praised for its script, effective low-budget filmmaking and performances, the story's supernatural elements received some criticism. In a Fangoria review, Samuel Zimmerman wrote: "While Jug Face is clearly on a tiny budget, it’s never bothersome until the frankly cornball appearance of the dead is revealed." Zimmerman adds, "These rough patches are slightly alleviated thanks to grounded work from Jug Face’s cast and Kinkle’s own depiction of this small community.

He continued to work as much as possible, although—as the film historian Geoff Mayer pointed out—the situation "reduced his film career to supporting roles and cameos". The lucrative voice-over role of Sir Hiss in the 1973 Walt Disney film Robin Hood was one notable part, while others were less well-known, such as The Vault of Horror, a film described by Richard Ross as a "cornball terror", in which he starred with Curd Jürgens, Tom Baker and Denholm Elliott. He also continued to appear on television shows in both the US and UK, as well as advertisements, including appearing with June Whitfield for Birds Eye fish fingers, a series of vermouth advertisements filmed in Italy, and an award- winning series for Benson & Hedges along with Eric Sykes. During the 1970s he starred in a series of low-budget British films, including two in 1975, Spanish Fly—called a "gruesome smutfest" by the writer Christopher Fowler—and The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones, described by the Film Review Digest as a "cheap, crude, sexed-up rehash" of the other film adaptations of Henry Fielding's source novel.

Now, here's the cornball stuff everyone said about it:Screen Shot via EurekalertNo.Nope. from Gizmodo
Hollywood is bloody and messy, but its aims are sweet, bordering on cornball. from The Verge
Those who don't take conjugal love seriously may find it saccharine or some cornball shit like that. from Vice
It's the movie's hard right turn into tidy, cornball, Sunday school moralism that leaves it unrevivably dead. from People
It's always been easy to underestimate Biden, with his cornball affect and his motor-mouth verbal tics. from Politico
George Eastman's Off Broadway play is lifted by its direction and performances, but often feels like a cornball sitcom. from The New York Times
You might think you're not the right candidate for cornball holiday programming, but I'd suggest you reconsider—and don't overthink it. from Vice
"I would feel like an absolute cornball ever taking a video, so Boomerang is like the perfect middle ground," says Ann. from Mashable
" Dame tells us he specifically got chastised for making fun of the plaintiff's attorney, Christopher Brown ... whom he calls a "cornball. from TMZ
While others are really only prepared for this level of cornball-ery once a year, so we like to make it count. from Mashable
With jump scares and cornball demon faces lurking around every corner, the more ambient (and important) existential despair of Aokigahara is lost. from The Verge
But for many of us, our first encounter with the cornball king's misty-eyed melodramas was A Walk to Remember in 2002. from Refinery 29
The pressure to churn out plain vanilla characters and cornball moral rectitude was especially debilitating to franchise players like Superman and Batman. from The New York Times
Or is he the lead cornball running the ultimate expedition to the mountain peak where every Reddit using hip-hop head is born? from Vice
Mr. Dan and Mr. Vitagliano together began hosting club nights in Los Angeles that celebrated their fascination with both the cornball and the cool. from The New York Times
Before long, the personal feed that had once been a totem of cornball folksiness included harsh attacks on Megyn Kelly, "Lyin' Ted" Cruz and other perceived antagonists. from The New York Times
For years artists who wanted to cover their tracks, who were determined to escape their past and appear to fulfill some cornball ideal, have dominated the art world. from Hyperallergic
The one great moment in the cornball-bland "Babes on Broadway," from 1941, shows the nineteen-year-old Judy Garland dancing with the shadows of unseen backup dancers. from New Yorker
Post grunge and its shoutier cousin nu metal reunified the two schools of rock, allowing an unholy civil union that ranged between sappy bro spluttering and cornball WWE exhibitionism. from Vice
He was a prolific writer but not a particularly distinguished one (his cornball dialogue paled in comparison the urbane snappiness of Carl Barks's Uncle Scrooge or John Stanley's Little Lulu). from New Republic
Aside from the struggling Batman franchise, which at the time was plumbing the depths of cornball irony under the direction of Joel Schumacher, superhero movies weren't really a going concern in Hollywood. from Vox
That sounds like a bushel of cornball and might have devolved into pure ick if the director, Dave McCary, didn't lead from the heart and wasn't adept at navigating seemingly clashing tones. from The New York Times
There's something stealthily cornball in the show's vision of human character, which renders even a relapsing heroin addict as yet another cute, shaggy sad boy, whose worst act is to help a friend. from New Yorker
The performance baffled the audience and the comics on the dais at first; once it gained cornball momentum, it seemed to be a brilliant spoof of the old-world roots of insult comedy. from The New York Times
Glistening confessional folk-pop, whose automated beats and slickly compressed keyboards barely disrupt its tortured ache, will not improve if the dopey cornball singing the songs also happens to be a master hooksmith. from Hyperallergic
The sheer grown-upness with which Spielberg tells the story makes its occasional sentimentality endearing — including a shot of Graham outside a courthouse that should be intolerably cornball, but instead is irresistibly tear jerking. from Buzzfeed News
That's probably not the case, and Exit Through the Gift Shop is less a true story than an unintentional presentation of street art's cornball European sense of self-importance, courtesy of Thierry Guetta, a.k.a. from Vice
" Think of her toddling down the steps behind the Times Square TKTS booth in "Mistress America," issuing a cornball greeting to her soon-to-be-stepsister standing below: "Welcome to the Great White Way! from The New York Times
As cornball as it sounds, that provided the necessary motivation, and I got through that devilish first "run and gun" level that got VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi in such hot water earlier in the fall. from Vice
"On my first episode of Rob's Random Cornball Thoughts is This young lady who grew up to be the woman I love and the mother of my child," Kardashian captioned a throwback photo of Chyna. from People
The cornball tagline of the project, "He reached the summit, and found rock bottom," is spot on; Sarah explained to THUMP that he created DAS to satirize the wealth, sex, and bravado-soaked club scene. from Vice
" For all its storytelling glitches and cornball dialogue, "The Rise of Skywalker" has the kind of gung-ho inspirational spirit that must have elated the Disney Company after the sour response to "The Last Jedi. from The New York Times
Conceived at first in the cornball tradition of comics necromancers like Mandrake the Magician and Mr. Mystic, Doctor Strange gradually staked out a singular position as a master of the mystic arts and, eventually, Sorcerer Supreme. from The New York Times
The irony in this, of course, is that Nazis might have seemed like cornball villains when the show launched in 2014, but they feel very present in 2017 — yet the show has mostly moved past them. from Vox
As cornball as it sounds, even in the most hilariously bleak situations we've been faced with, in the back of my head I have that riff from "It's a Long Way to the Top" by AC/DC. from Vice
The event is simultaneously good and bad, which befits its status as a thing revitalized by ur-cornball Dwight Howard, who took it and turned it into amateur theater during his run as champ in 21997 and 210. from Vice
NBA Hall-of-Famer and Warriors legend Rick Barry appeared on a radio show with Rob Parker—whom we last saw getting fired from ESPN for calling RGIII a "cornball brother"—and things got very heated very quickly. from Vice
And sure, it's possible that The Golden Circle's incorporation of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in a scene of heroic sacrifice might have had more impact if audiences hadn't heard it employed for a similar cornball-poignant effect so recently before. from Buzzfeed News
You can listen to the mix in all its audacious glory below—and who else on earth beside Teki fucking Latex can get away with playing Ace of Bass, Perc, Wiley, Madonna, and Pearson Sound without sounding like a cornball. from Vice
And if Hilary Bettis's "72 Miles to Go…" is a quiet, conventional drama with a penchant for endearingly cornball humor, that suits the story of a family that wants more than anything to blend in, to live regular American lives. from The New York Times
"On my first episode of Rob's Random Cornball Thoughts is This young lady who grew up to be the woman I love and the mother of my child," Kardashian, 30, wrote about Chyna, who is sitting on a bed in the old photo. from People
Ever since Tim Burton gothed up the wonderfully cornball Batman of Adam West, Gotham has largely been a bleak, godless place, where the richest man in the city lives underground and the only heavenly illumination comes in the form of a bat signal. from Vice
LAKE OF THE OZARKS My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America By Bill Geist As a journalist, Bill Geist has traveled the same cornball, goofy and sometimes unimaginably wistful back roads of America as long as I have: for over 40 years. from The New York Times
The show often feels like a cornball sitcom, milking the indignities of old age for laughs and offering "aw"-inducing nuggets of wisdom — in this case Harry's adult version of the facts of life, which begins and might as well end with gas. from The New York Times
Hacksaw Ridge's square-jawed, cornball storytelling seems to be a reflection of Doss' unfussy sincerity—the film's first half is a paean to virtue and integrity—but it also helps Gibson more effectively blindside us when he moves to Japan for the film's second half. from New Republic
"On my first episode of Rob's Random Cornball Thoughts is This young lady who grew up to be the woman I love and the mother of my child," he captioned a (now-deleted) throwback photo of his ex, whom he split from in February after a tumultuous on-and-off year. from People
More classical in its narrative, "Tokyo Godfathers" pays tribute to one movie in particular — John Ford's 1948 western, "Three Godfathers," an insufferably cornball saga in which three cattle rustlers (John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz and Harry Carey Jr.) find themselves as the three kings in an allegory about a Christmas foundling. from The New York Times
In fact, Adu herself is so unremittingly cool that's it's not surprising in the slightest that a cornball like Drake—a man who screams desperation in a voice even louder than a sixth former with a Mubi account and Strong Opinions on the future of the Labour party—has aligned himself with her. from Vice
Ice Cube has been a cornball for a minute now—hell, he's turned it into a brand—and so you can't really knock him for tacky moments like "Real People" from his new Barbershop movie, a well-intentioned but forgettable duet for which he trotted out co-star Common, and flanked with film clips and animated barber poll overlays. from Vice
If that sounds a tad cornball, think of it like this: Knowing your "thesis" will help you define your goals, help you present yourself to others in an interesting, honest, and authentic way, and will help you move past the "this is where I work and this is what I do" kind of small talk that has people looking over your shoulder for an escape route. from Vice
It is not what I would call a good book, although its combination of cornball macho grandiosity ("I've always contended that I psychologically beat Jordan") and crocodile-tear smarm—Esquinas said he wrote the book because "it was right for my recovery from my addiction to gambling and the right way to reach out to a friend I perceived had the same problem"—it probably qualifies as ahead of its time. from Vice
Per Boston Globe reporter Matt Peppin, the beer will be released on Thursday from the depths of the seventh level of Boston: Sam Adams apparently is trying to play both sides here, saying that Tom Brady is both the GOAT, and that the team is a ragtag group of underdogs: Mind you, Tom Brady recently addressed comparisons to LeBron James, with his own cornball assessment, joking that, "we're similar athletes" before admitting he was just kidding! from Vice
With such sizable, advertiser-tantalizing audiences at stake, networks aimed to cultivate a sunny air of big-tent fun and milquetoast diversion, as suggested by the cornball promos ABC, CBS and NBC used to market their offerings: "Twin Peaks" crashed the party like a goth at a debutante's ball: (This didn't stop ABC from adding the show to the next season's promo, with predictably awkward results.) With its swollen melodrama and serial structure, "Twin Peaks" arguably had more in common with nighttime soaps than with anything else on prime time, though such shows were then falling out of fashion. from The New York Times
Cornball Express is a wooden roller coaster at Indiana Beach in Monticello, Indiana. The ride was designed and manufactured by Custom Coasters International. It opened on May 18, 2001. The Cornball Express had gained critical acclaim among enthusiasts, being named the #1 wooden roller coaster in the world by website ThemeParkCritic.
Rocky's Rapids is a Log Flume ride at Indiana Beach, in Monticello, Indiana. The ride is located next to the Cornball Express, and boats occasionally duel with trains from the roller coaster. The park does not have a Rapids ride, so this is one of the park's only water rides. The ride is located near Cornball Express and is also not far from Indiana Beach's two other coasters, Hoosier Hurricane and the steel coaster, Steel Hawg.
In 2005, the song ranked #308 in Blender's list of the 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born, describing it as "a new wave let's-stay-together plea" that is "so cornball it works".
Chance wrote a piece for the first issue of East Village Eye, praising disco and denouncing "outdated, cornball 'new/no wave' drivel". Off White includes contributions from Lydia Lunch, Robert Quine, and Vivienne Dick.Masters 93.
Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times thought the film was "often fun" but criticized the "cornball, patently phony audience reaction shots."Thomas, Kevin (October 27, 1984). "'Terror': Dipping Into Bucket of Blood". Los Angeles Times.
Enjoy it as a time capsule or as eighty minutes of attractive naked women and cornball humor, but either way the film is a blast and comes recommended to those with an appreciation for such things.
Shubha Shetty Saha from Mid Day described the comedy as "random and silly", but commented that "it is this randomness that also makes it a breezy, entertaining film".'Singh Is Bliing' – Movie Review . Mid Day. Devesh Sharma from Filmfare wrote that filmgoers should "watch the film if you like cornball comedies".
There's something rotten at the core about a movie that would recycle lines like "That's mighty white of you." Even sadder is the realization that some of the old cornball movies are still fresher, more alive, than this regurgitation." The Lexington Herald-Leader critic claimed "This film is bad. The acting is terrible.
Film critic Dennis Schwartz wrote a mostly positive film review, "The story was well told, but the acting left a lot to be desired. And all that religious stuff thrown in, about how God listens to you, was strictly cornball. But as far as B-films go, this one is above average."Schwartz, Dennis.
Upon its theatrical release, Only You received mixed reviews. In his review in the Chicago Sun- Times, Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half out of four stars, calling it "an endangered species in today's Hollywood." Ebert singles out Tomei's performance as particularly noteworthy. In her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin called the film "frankly touristy" and Jewison's directorial approach "cornball".
The ride weaves through and uses portions of the Hoosier Hurricane's structure in some parts, glides over the Kiddieland section of the park, wraps around the park's Tig'rr Coaster, and may sometimes 'duel' with the Rocky's Rapids Log Flume attraction. The name Cornball Express was also a candidate to be the name for the Hoosier Hurricane while it was being designed, however the name was tossed in favor for the latter.
Prior to joining KABC in July 1989, Donoho received nearly all favorable reviews for his work. Early in his tenure at KABC, Donoho was criticized by local columnists and viewers for being "too cornball." Former LA Times columnist Jim Healy referred to Donoho as "Dorkoho". Early on, Donoho was rated by the LA Times and the TV Times's Steve Harvey as the worst sports broadcaster in Los Angeles.
A criminal known as "The Bat" (X 490231, alias Willy Garrity, alias Cornball Smith, etc.) unwittingly hides a top secret formula in Woody's house. The bird mistakes "Formula 7 3/8 (One Drop = 50,000 Horsepower)" for his "Redwood Sap" tonic and turns into a multicolored Superman, gaining super strength whenever he ingests it. The chase is on. The bat tries to kill Woody but his tricks backfire on him and the bat is captured.
Upon release, Disorganized Crime was met with mixed and overall poor reception by top critics. Both Siskel and Ebert gave it thumbs down; reproach was aimed at the lack of detail given to the bank heist plan. They also claimed that the film relies on "slapstick and cornball barnyard humor," cited its frequency of chase scenes and moments where characters fall in mud and manure. However, Ebert did credit the actions of Lou Diamond Phillips's character as a highlight.
Ryan Hadfield of Consequence of Sound also praised Usher's vocals, with "Dive" and lead single "Climax" showing his "superior R&B; vocal range". Pitchfork's Carry Battan wrote that Usher's "vocal mastery" allows him to turn the chorus of "Dive"—which she viewed as "cornball"—into something "more specific, as if he were addressing just one woman [...]". PopMatters' Matt Cibula saw the lyric's as "clever" for incorporating a triple-entendre. Cibula further lauded Usher's falsetto, which he wrote Usher sings in an "urgent" whisper.
After that, the ride then circles the Tig'rr Coaster's area into more airtime hills. After a third airtime hill that soars over the lake, the fourth hill takes riders into the Hoosier Hurricane's structure and mimics the "S-bend" turn of the Hurricane. The ride then soars over the Kiddieland section and goes into a helix. Following the helix, riders are treated to two more bunny hills of airtime before turning into the brake run, ending a ride on the Cornball Express.
ESPN, however, has commented that "'Fight On,' USC's official fight song, is a little cornball, but the Spirit of Troy more than makes up for the hokum with the stirring 'Tribute to Troy'", while USA Today has described the tune as "a great tradition that fans and non-fans alike can appreciate". "Tribute to Troy" is often erroneously referred to as "Conquest". "Conquest," a different song, is performed following USC football victories and is adapted from the score of the 1947 film Captain from Castile.
Ebert called it "a skillful, efficient film that involves us in the clever and deceptive game being played", while Gene Siskel commented on the film's technical achievement and Baldwin's convincing portrayal of the character Jack Ryan. He directed Medicine Man (1992), about a medical researcher in a rainforest, starring Sean Connery. Medicine Man was poorly received. Roger Ebert gave it one-and-a-half stars, saying that although the film had "some beautiful moments", it never really came together and had "a cornball conclusion".
Shilpa Jamkhandikar, writing for Reuters, stated, "Welcome Back is sporadically funny, one that ebbs and flows; but it just about passes the 'guilty pleasure' test thanks to Kapoor and Patekar". Filmfare wrote, "watch the film if you like cornball comedies. It's a pure massy, masala entertainer that's good to go on a lazy weekend". Rediff's Raja Sen, while giving the film 2 stars out of 5, wrote, "Welcome Back is dumb yet entertaining, utterly silly but made with a kind of absurd, warm energy".
Years later, he said of that opportunity: "I got on the puppet project of the W.P.A. and helped write and put on shows for the Federal Theater. We did puppet shows at the World's Fair in 1939 and 1940, and I served as narrator, a kind of Hoosier cornball in beard." Following his experience with puppets, Ford worked as an attendant at a gas station before turning to acting for a career. His first professional acting job was in an Off-Broadway production in 1939.
Through the show's success, First Take has experienced substantial controversy and faced increasing criticism, mostly concerning perceived sensationalism. Among claims have been that First Take has used hot button racial issues to create inflammatory debates and increase ratings. Most notably, during a discussion regarding Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, frequent guest Rob Parker asked whether Griffin III was a "brother" or a "cornball brother." When pressed by host Cari Champion as to what that meant, Parker mentioned that Griffin III had a white fiancé and mentioned claims that Griffin III was a Republican.
The Cornball Express starts off with boarding the trains (designed by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters) and pulling down the "buzz bar" restraint before dispatch. The train then crawls out the station and starts the trek up the lift hill. As soon as the train crests the chain lift hill, it nears the first drop, a twisted drop then rockets the train to speeds of 45 miles per hour. After the drop, the ride soars over the Hoosier Hurricane and into a turnaround the then heads towards an airtime hill.
" Dread Central offered a similar opinion about the film's packaging and wrote, "The character of Andre the Butcher is a complete joke resembling a poor man's Leatherface. Most of the time it's not even Jeremy playing him." They expanded, "It's a dumb, poorly written, mind-numbingly bad experience that doesn't even begin to tread the type of ground that it was attempting to cover." In their own mixed review, Film Threat wrote, "If you enjoy the intentionally cornball lowbrow of Troma, this trashy treat is right up your manure-slathered alley.
Glenn Erickson of DVD Talk reviewed the DVD release of Hellcats of the Navy and thought that although the direction was "competent", the script was "completely derivative and cornball". He went on to criticize the lack of realistic supporting characters and the film's use of obvious stock footage, especially that of a U. S. Navy patrol boat portraying a Japanese ship. Overall, he described the film itself as "fair". David Krauss of Digitally Obsessed described the production values as "bargain basement" and found that the cast's stiff performances alienated viewers.
She finds it awful and describes it scene by scene, but is increasingly caught up in replaying the cornball plot, especially the big escapist musical number "Island Magic". Suddenly she returns to reality and rushes home to make dinner. Young Sam approaches his front door that night with his trophy, but with dread — even winners "must pay through the nose". As the jazz trio sings of evening shadows and loved ones together, Young Sam and Dinah try to have a talk after dinner, but they cannot make any headway.
"The Colours of Life" was influenced by what Michael Silver described as "some really cornball music." Silver wanted to make music similar to the song "Hand in Hand" by English singer Phil Collins; he intended to produce "call waiting background music, just the most pleasant thing and kind of trying to push to the edges of tolerable cheese in some places, but also have it be totally sincere and not ironic, like actually purely pleasurable music." He wanted "The Colours of Life" to have the vibe of a "weird, transporting nostalgia" to "faded media memories of utopia."Hockin, Johnny (October 5, 2016).
Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weeklys PopWatch complimented the episode, writing that "the series finale of Smallville did what it needed to do: It completed the circuit on an epic coil of story that began 10 years ago." Jensen was critical of the first half of the episode, noting that the pre-marital tension between Clark and Lois did not bode well for the story. However, he felt that the last 10 minutes made up for the slow parts in the episode. He ultimately concluded that the finale was "radically cornball and goosebumpingly geektastic, and the fanboy in me was satisfied".
Mark Schilling from The Japan Times, criticized the film for using "cliche after cornball cliche from local "guts- to-glory" films, while inflicting shot after shamelessly adorable shot of its title pooch and teen trainer" and gave the film a rating of 1.5 out of 5. He also derided the film's actress Kaho whom he described as "a bit old to pull it (her role) off". The reviewer also added that "the best actor in the film is the dog" and advised viewers who are looking for "stress relief with funny animal tricks" to "save time and try YouTube".
The album was being prepared for release on digital audio tape in 1996, but when the format failed commercially the plan was scrapped. In 2014, The Beatles' Story was made available on CD for the first time as part of the Beatles' box set The U.S. Albums. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic describes it as "a tedious neo-documentary record" and "cornball show biz, with radio announcers delivering a spit-shined script designed to bridge segments between canned interviews". In his review for the Toronto Sun, Darryl Sterdan said The Beatles' Story was a "cash-grab" by the record company and a "50-minute mish- mash ... dashed off for early Christmas shoppers".
"The Colours of Life'" is a composition written and recorded in 2011 by Canadian electronic musician Michael Silver, known by his stage name as CFCF. The 40-minute, twelve-movement track was influenced by what Silver described as "some really cornball music," such as the works of singer Phil Collins and the Windham Hill label. The style Silver went for with "The Colours of Life" was "call waiting background music, just the most pleasant thing and kind of trying to push to the edges of tolerable cheese in some places, but also have it be totally sincere and not ironic, like actually purely pleasurable music." "The Colours of Life" was first submitted to RVNG Intl.
Brett Todd of GameSpot scored the game 5.5/10, saying that despite the attempt to appeal to a new audience, it "won't win the franchise any new fans", due to its "predictable, abbreviated campaign". He described the story as "turgid", with the player's suspension of disbelief "derailed" by "cornball villains". While complementing the sound design as "thundering and atmospheric", he stated that the combat quickly becomes "mind-numbing" due to its repetitiveness. Noting that its boss battles can drag on to a half hour in length due to "absurdly overpowered" bosses and an overabundance of health pickups, he states that they are so slow that you "just want to give up on the whole thing".
'" Nathan Rabin from The A.V. Club views the collaboration as a demonstration of how West's a broad musical palette can occasionally get him into trouble, saying that Chris Martin doesn't embody the rich musical heritage of Chicago. exclaim's Del Cowie remarked that due in part to Martin's guest appearance, "Homecoming" doesn't evoke the emotional connection that a hometown ode should elicit. Labeling the track as one of the album's transgressions, Noah Love of ChartAttack stated that he could have done without Chris Martin crooning over the record and believed West was still finding his lane as a lyricist. Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot was dismissive of the song's instrumentation, saying, "Chris Martin coos over a cornball piano riff.
Main, who is best-known for playing "raucous, rough, and cantankerous women" on-screen, was characterized as "soft-spoken, shy," and "dignified" when she was off-screen. Main became a popular character actress of the 1940s and 1950s. She appeared in diverse roles on the stage and in more than eighty films, including some that became classics, such as Dead End (1937), Dark Command (1940), The Shepherd of the Hills (1941), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), and Friendly Persuasion (1956), but is best known for her Ma Kettle role in the Ma and Pa Kettle film series. The "cornball humor" of the Kettle films endured in subsequent television shows, such as The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres series of the 1960s.
Edna Gundersen of the USA Today said that Spice "is assembly-line dance-pop", adding that "only the funky 'Say You'll Be There' and touchingly cornball 'Mama' hint at depth". Steve Dollar of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said of the song "it's all pure confection more sugar really than spice", adding that it "even includes a Wonderesque harmonica solo among other obvious sources". Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune said that their first album "is a compendium of slick secondhand urban pop encompassing [...] G-funk synths on 'Say You'll Be There' [...] and Babyface's guitar and strings balladry on '2 Become 1'". Larry Flick of Billboard magazine compared it to "Wannabe" saying that it "is as immediately infectious, though it's not nearly as silly and novelty-driven".
Game designer Rick Swan noted the apparent lack of a central vision for Greyhawk material, describing the Greyhawk setting up to this point as "a crazy quilt, where odd-shaped scraps of material are randomly sewn together and everybody hopes for the best. How else to explain a setting that encompasses everything from the somber A1-4 Scourge of the Slave Lords adventure to the King Kong-inspired WG6 Isle of the Ape to the cornball humor of WG7 Castle Greyhawk? It makes for an interesting mess, but it's a mess nonetheless... The City of Greyhawk [is] the most credible attempt at smoothing out the rough spots." In 1990, TSR decided that the decade-old world of Greyhawk needed to be refreshed.
Coyly billed as 'the story of a boy and his equipment,' the movie has plenty of paraphernalia, but no notion of how to use it. Director Alan (Welcome to L.A.) Rudolph has signed on Hank Williams Jr., Alice Cooper and Blondie to lend musical authenticity, yet there is no semblance of a story line, apart from an unlikely love affair between Loaf and a tiresome groupie, Kaki Hunter." The Radio Times wrote, "Alan Rudolph punctuates this straightforward tale with tiresome bar room brawls and noisy knockabout comic moments made bearable only by the occasional celebrity cameo". The Austin Chronicle wrote, "Upon actual viewing of Roadie, I admit to being something less than rollicked, but damned if Roadie didn't try with all its cornball might.
1, A9 Hadley Barrett (1929-2017), for twenty-eight years the voice of the San Antonio Rodeo, had just completed announcing twenty-one rodeo performances a few days before he died of heart failure in Colorado on March 2, 2017. According to the San Antonio Express-News, Barrett was known for his "distinctive voice and folksy blend of cornball jokes, faith, patriotism, and rodeo wisdom." A native of North Platte, Nebraska, Barrett was reared on a ranch, was a weekend bull-rider, and a traveling musician who with his brothers under the name Hadley Barrett and the Westerners performed with, among others, Carl Perkins and Little Jimmy Dickens. He also announced for other rodeos, the Calgary Stampede, the Canadian Finals, and Cheyenne Frontier Days in Wyoming.
Sure, her vocals are on point and the music is adequately slick." Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone wrote, "While she oozes charisma and has a fine voice, Beyoncé isn't in a class with the likes of Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey as a singer, a fact that 'The Closer I Get to You', her duet with the effortlessly smooth Luther Vandross, also makes clear." Jason King of Vibe magazine wrote that Knowles had some "cojones" to follow up a Jay-Z duet with a Luther Vandross duet on the album's track-listing. Rob Fitzpatrick of NME stated that "it's the irredeemably cheesy ballad with 80s cornball Luther Vandross that will make the voices in your head demand hot, fresh blood.
By contrast, Mautner in particular thought Habibi was a smoother read than Blankets, which he felt featured too many subplots. Hart and McCullough agreed that Thompson's tendency to delineate every little detail which such obviousness left little to the reader's imagination or interpretation. The most recurrent complaint was with the book's bleak outlook on life and humanity, and the sexual cruelties inflicted upon the characters, which some of the reviewers thought was excessive, in particular Hatfield and Haegele, who felt that Thompson was condemning such atrocities while simultaneously luxuriating in them. Haegele did not care for the depiction of black characters in the book, finding them comparable to racial caricatures, and calling them "inappropriate" and "disgusting", and pointed to the "cornball" humor in these scenes in particular, and throughout the book in general.
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Dean Carlson of AllMusic gave note of how the record consisted of "an angular, symphonic sweatshop of mid-tempo beats" that acted as a palette for the group's penchant for "scatter-shot rhymes and paranoid rhythms" concluding that, "[I]t might take some time for Jedi Mind Tricks' sound to fully mature, but their metaphysical peculiarity is a promising new glow in the dark hip-hop underground." B. Ridge from RapReviews gave praise to the idiosyncratic "sci-fi lyrics dealing with spaceships, Atlantis, and ancient prophecies", "heavy use of religious references and imagery", and Stoupe's production giving off the required soundscape needed to complement the lyricism. He found criticism in the occasional flatness of the beats, odd use of pop culture references disrupting the overall atmosphere and the cornball tendencies in the lyrics that may turn people away from listening to the album.
Even when he looks like an unholy mess, he transcends the movie he's in." Steven Rea of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film three out of four stars, saying "What keeps this cornball business from getting out of hand is the commitment of Gyllenhaal, whose performance is fierce and muscular, in and out of the ring." Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "The script may have hamburger for brains, but Fuqua slams it home with the help of actors who give their all – even when giving a little less might have made things more interesting." Peter Howell of the Toronto Star gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "This isn't great cinema, but it's satisfying movie-making, with nothing more on its mind than telling a heart-tugging story.
But it's exceptional on a number of levels and is so because of a powerful director and some great acting." Scott Weinberg, writing for Fearnet, praised the acting and wrote, "[T]he director's steadfast insistence on presenting a potentially outlandish horror tale as plainly and realistically as possible that elevates Jug Face beyond that of a mere curiosity." Rob Nelson of Variety described it as "an impressively oozing slab of indie horror that bodes well for first-time writer-director Chad Crawford Kinkle." While the film is mainly praised for its script, effective low-budget filmmaking and performances, the story's supernatural elements received some criticism. In a Fangoria review, Samuel Zimmerman wrote: "While Jug Face is clearly on a tiny budget, it’s never bothersome until the frankly cornball appearance of the dead is revealed." Zimmerman adds, "These rough patches are slightly alleviated thanks to grounded work from Jug Face’s cast and Kinkle’s own depiction of this small community.
He continued to work as much as possible, although—as the film historian Geoff Mayer pointed out—the situation "reduced his film career to supporting roles and cameos". The lucrative voice-over role of Sir Hiss in the 1973 Walt Disney film Robin Hood was one notable part, while others were less well-known, such as The Vault of Horror, a film described by Richard Ross as a "cornball terror", in which he starred with Curd Jürgens, Tom Baker and Denholm Elliott. He also continued to appear on television shows in both the US and UK, as well as advertisements, including appearing with June Whitfield for Birds Eye fish fingers, a series of vermouth advertisements filmed in Italy, and an award- winning series for Benson & Hedges along with Eric Sykes. During the 1970s he starred in a series of low-budget British films, including two in 1975, Spanish Fly—called a "gruesome smutfest" by the writer Christopher Fowler—and The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones, described by the Film Review Digest as a "cheap, crude, sexed-up rehash" of the other film adaptations of Henry Fielding's source novel.