to add ridiculously
old-fashioned, sentimental, exaggeratedly theatrical or overdrawn dramatic
elements to something.
Corn is something that is
corny, meaning lacking in subtlety; unsophisticated; of a
type that appeals to people from a rustic
area, etc. The
origin of this
term is uncertain but it first came into
use in the early 1930s by musicians referring to
old-fashioned music.