Cheesy valentines gifts
Cliquez ici pour lancer cheesy valentines gifts nouvelle recherche. Click here to launch a new search. This is an important word and nobody has it right yet. What it means is: Trying too hard, unsubtle, and inauthentic.
Specifically that which is unsubtle or inauthentic in its way of trying to elicit a certain response from a viewer, listener, audience, etc. Celine Dion is cheesy because her lyrics, timbre, key changes, and swelling orchestral accompaniment telegraph ‘i want you to be moved’ instead of moving you. What seems cheesy to me, may be a legitimate and attractive hairstyle to you. What seems cheesy to me, may cause you to weep and hug your girlfriend tight.
That Celine Dion song is so cheesy. From cheese cloth, the thin cheap fabric used to drain cheese curd, and in the past sometimes used instead for proper cloth in cheap clothing. This one feels a little cheesy. Hence any low-grade or fake product, tangible or not, offered to the public. Something that is unintentionally kitschy, tacky, or of poor quality, but these flaws go unnoticed by the admirers of said thing.
Something that was popular at some point in the past, but that now seems lame in retrospect. I can’t believe you like Ashlee Simpson. Hey, look at this picture of dad from 1975! Check out those sideburns and bellbottoms!
More specifically, the status quo here being that of Generation X. In fact, we hated them so much, that we kept listening to them last night and singing along until 4 in the morning. This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
How was the ‘overdramatic’ sense derived? This sandwich is full of cheesy goodness. 2005, Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers, translated by John E. Woods, New York: Everyman’s Library, “Joseph in Egypt,” Part 3, p. I like pizzas with a cheesy crust. Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.
2010, Michael Clarkson, The Secret Life of Glenn Gould: A Genius in Love, Toronto: ECW Press, Chapter Four, p. 54, Another night, when the local entertainers had gone home, Gould went into the empty lounge to play piano with a cheesy string of colored lights overhead and bongo drums at his side. The cheesy antics had everyone giggling. 1968, Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel, translated by Michael Roloff, Bantam Books, 1970, Chapter One, p. 1977, Allen Ginsberg, Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties, edited by Gordon Ball, New York: Grove Press, “June 17, 1952,” p.
