Sentences with phrase «folksiness with»

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.

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.

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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.»

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.

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.