folksy
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Enter Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis’ folksy Missourian loaded with cornpone wisdom, positivity and kindness.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
The company’s shares had been under pressure after Julie Masino, the outgoing chief executive, alienated some core customers and conservatives by changing the folksy logo and the menu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
There’s kind of a folksy quality in the manufactured banter between a president and the ballplayers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
He has since reinvented himself as a man of the people, melding a relaxed, folksy style with slick social media videos.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Among the most popular collections of the type that Liszt’s example engendered were Johannes Brahms’s Hungarian Dances of 1869 and 1880, which exploit all the usual folksy dance forms of lassan, friska and csardas.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
L. Scott Caldwell is just as memorable in the role, which she makes completely her own in Kent Gash’s folksier staging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2017
For many Koreans, there is a collective shame about the folksier elements of their own culture.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2017
The new “Voices of Pearl Harbor” tour uses a folksier approach, with acoustic guitar and ukulele music playing in the background as Bruner talks about the waterfront and Waikiki, circa 1941.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2015
Visions of a folksier Fleetwood Mac and Beach Boys come to mind, but their closing song “Hero” is a classic of its own accord.
From Time ● Jul. 7, 2014
It was always sixties music too—I recognized the Beatles and some of the folksier stuff you hear on the classic rock stations.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
Spirit Lake is distended by a cast of more than four dozen major characters cursed with total recall and the folksiest dialect since Mr. Dooley.
From Time Magazine Archive
With studied informality, the Donner Trail Ranch manages to be both the fanciest and the folksiest in the Reno area.
From Time Magazine Archive
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