folksy
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The current manager, Pat Murphy, had some of Kuenn’s folksy eccentricity, quizzing his young children at press conferences and once touting the midgame deliciousness of a pancake stuffed into his uniform’s back pocket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
As premier, Ford has sought to cast himself as a folksy man of the people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
As the action progresses, Doralee brings grit and common sense to the trio, showcasing Parton’s ability to deliver homespun wit without ever falling into folksy caricature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Enter Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis’ folksy Missourian loaded with cornpone wisdom, positivity and kindness.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
My parents loved him for how he could pepper an otherwise folksy speech with Shakespeare quotes and for the famous, mouth-stuffing vigor with which he ate fried chicken at community events on the South Side.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Fortunately, Nelson’s crew had folksier wisdom to dispense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2020
For many Koreans, there is a collective shame about the folksier elements of their own culture.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2017
Judge Gorsuch’s testimony was folksier, a little more combative and a little more canned.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 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
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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