folksy

For behind the humility, résumé, folksy affect and demonstrable legislative mastery has always lurked a little engine of ambition that, like Lincoln’s, “knew no rest.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

In arguing his case for punitive damages, Kaley's attorney Mark Lanier - a folksy Texas litigator - had shown the jury a jar of M&Ms.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

“It was a lot of fun for him to be on the set,” said Jacoby, who remembers her father cranking out folksy ads often trying to get his own family pictures in the shot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026

His genial demeanour and penchant for folksy parables belie a past as a wily guerrilla fighter and ruthless political survivor.

From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026

He was welcoming the crowds with folksy numbers he played on the instruments—washboard, harmonica, drums, cymbals—lashed to various parts of his body.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

All told, Shepherd and Wren gathered about 300 quotations from Johnson�his folksiest and most fulsome.

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