down-to-earth

In person, Ballerini is warm, chatty, slightly gossipy — a veteran star who has retained an essential down-to-earth quality but who also knows through experience how to create a sense of emotional intimacy with an interlocutor.

Now, with Season 5 underway, Gay is at a crossroads: Can she enjoy the fruits of her “Housewives” celebrity while also maintaining the down-to-earth appeal that made her a fan favorite?

Rose added that he knew Trump in the 1980s and “he was always a down-to-earth guy.”

In person, Smith was funny, self-deprecating and down-to-earth.

For decades, the competition between the “city by the bay” and its more down-to-earth neighbor centered on the region’s dueling professional football and Major League Baseball franchises.