corny

There are flawless, easy days when “I still see it as it used to be. It’s days like those, to be corny, I still love L.A., but they’re fewer and fewer.”

Ortega knows this reference is corny, but it’s also inescapably apt.

“It feels so corny, but truly, it has changed my life,” LeVasseur said, her voice breaking.

The phrase worked almost like those self-esteem cassette tapes I used to see in bookstore displays as a kid: corny, repetitive, weirdly powerful — a kind of culinary manifestation.

Jokes followed him, along with scathing critics who dismissed him as a fleeting trend and his music as corny and repetitive.