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Already collected by fellow artists Cindy Sherman and Kaws, director Sofia Coppola and music mogul Benny Blanco, and having produced two collaborations with Italian fashion house Marni, the plain-spoken ceramist is doing decidedly better than OK.

A simple line, but it brought the house down because of the plain-spoken truth Walz has swiftly become famous for.

From Salon

The 60-year-old brings with him a folksy, plain-spoken and sharp-tongued approach to taking on the Republican opposition.

From BBC

Gálvez, a woman who went from a poor Indigenous town to starting her own tech firm, has been the wild card in the race: her plain-spoken, folksy approach has produced both punchy phrases and monumental gaffes.

From 1996 to 2016, this time slot was filled by Bill O’Reilly, an ex–Inside Edition host whose plain-spoken right-wing bombast was, in retrospect, almost comforting in its smug laziness.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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