Sentences with word «folksiness»

It is a situation of not only institutionalized liturgical mediocrity, but also the incorporation into the celebration of Mass of the worst of American religious sentimentality — a conflation of forced folksiness with the unctuousness of the therapeutic jargon and mentality.

Folksiness on fleek.

Home Hardware's TV ads have long featured actual store - owners, and the company sponsors local sporting events and tournaments, which lend the brand a wholesome folksiness that distinguishes it from big - box retailers that compete on lower prices.

When Richard, sprung from a hamlet with the salt - of - the - earth name of Level Cross, N.C., says «I knowed,» it is not out of ignorance but rather folksiness, the way Woody Guthrie sang, «I been havin» some hard travelin» / I thought you knowed.»

This second coming (2014 till date), he is a worrying study in noisy emptiness — yakking before thinking, and sundry empty street drama, to press his democratic folksiness.

I forced myself to watch this, because on paper, it looks like a cliched, gratuitously offbeat comedy full of faux folksiness and bad southern accents.

Its vision is more casual than the title would imply, yet richer than its unadorned folksiness pretends.

The film's indie folksiness may not be show - offy, but it still seems to be trying too hard, as in a a «trestling» date between Blunt and Rajskub's characters or, much worse, when not one but two characters use a C.B. radio to talk to heaven.

During the speech (which featured a talk show host - style walk - through and a less - than - sincere effort at folksiness with her «welcome home» to the crowd), Weingarten complained that reformers and cost - cutting governors have made «threats» to the lives and livelihoods of teachers and others within AFT membership.

«Yeah, man,» I said, feigning folksiness, «she's pretty great.»

If his earlier paintings were premised on a gravelly folksiness, Hitch Hiker changed something, let out something romantic and melancholic.

To his supporters, Tillmans combined the progressivism of Cool Britannia with the benighted folksiness of the jet - set.

Instead of being a detractor, this association with folksiness seems to bolster the overall theme of the exhibition.

This was the folksiness that Shields aimed to keep intact as Trader Joe's made the jump from regional to national.

The world's third - richest person and Berkshire Hathaway (BRK - A, BRK - B) chairman and CEO Warren Buffett is known for his folksiness, pith, and ability to distill complex investing and economic concepts into super simple ideas.

Florida State's Bobby Bowden has the fire, the folksiness and the Q - rating — is there anyone more likable in the game?

, the humble sight of Davidtz peddling her way to and from the set on a bicycle goes a long way towards tamping out any lingering suspicion that Junebug's folksiness is the least bit disingenuous.

Elsewhere, John Leguizamo cranks up the folksiness as an unfeasibly loyal sous chef who quits his job to hop aboard Favreau's small - time odyssey.

But the movie, directed by Driving Miss Daisy's Bruce Beresford, is too busy overdosing on folksiness to give the character's dichotomy its due (hence its treatment of a jazz club as exotic and mysterious).

Doyle's folksiness and thick twang are played for laughs, but his Western bona fides — complete with a mouth full of false teeth from his days as a horse wrangler — are revered in the manner of No Country For Old Men's Sheriff Ed Tom Bell or The Big Lebowski's nameless stranger.