folksiness

With his white beard, wire-rim eyeglasses, newsie cap and bolo tie, Mr. Moore, who died last week at age 94, was an unlikely style icon whose folksiness seemed to personify the wholesome artisanal grains produced by his company at an old mill in Milwaukie, Ore.

Modern pop diva-dom requires a careful balance of queenliness and folksiness, but nobody has perfected that balance like Carey — all the more impressive given that she started out long before social media codified so much of how we think about a celebrity’s relatability.

Sykes has attempted to play up his folksiness, referring to himself as “just a country lawyer” multiple times to the jury.

But Mr. Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.

The Jim Jones figure at its center is known simply as Father, and played by the character actor Gene Jones with a chilling combination of folksiness and menace; he’s surrounded by a fine cast of indie regulars, including Amy Seimetz as a member of the mysterious Eden Parish community, Kentucker Audley as the brother who tries to rescue her and A.J.