But all the folksiness was building up to a point.
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Obama also won swing voters thanks in part to populist folksiness.
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At least from my perspective there is a folksiness to it.
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He can do folksiness, too, backslapping and comparing Thanksgiving hunting hauls with his canvassers.
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There's such a warmth and folksiness when Parton talks like this that it's totally disarming.
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It is a powerful story, weakened only slightly by the author's sometimes clumsy attempts at folksiness.
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And his folksiness, which led him to mispronounce words (a lot), appealed to your average Americans.
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Whitmer, who won the governor's mansion in 2018, delivered her remarks with an affable Midwestern folksiness.
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A former governor of Indiana, he brings a reassuring, silver-haired mien and midwestern folksiness to his work.
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The folksiness is so fresh that there's no dash of condescension; the dancers deliver it with bright energy.
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He conveys the smooth and slightly cloying folksiness of someone who has been around a lot of politicians.
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There was some folksiness — "Lordy, I hope," Comey said about potential tapes of his conversations with President Donald Trump.
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Mr. Nash knows how to work this device to his favor, moving beyond gimmickry while preserving flashes of folksiness and wit.
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Played with folksiness by Holly Hunter and Ray Romano, the doting parents are lived-in, where they easily could have become cloying.
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Ranked squarely between the breakthrough hip hop soundtrack to Wild Style and the old-school folksiness of 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Clinton has summoned the full range of her folksiness, signing autographs on hard hats and talking up her own red-blooded culinary tastes.
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His poignant video announcement was in keeping with the charm, folksiness, good humor and decency that have characterized his 35 years as host.
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Perhaps that Russia's youth are just as eager to embrace their heritage — even if their heritage isn't just homespun folksiness or czarist magnificence.
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The former boss of Agritrans, an organic-banana plantation, he styled himself Nèg Bannann nan ("the banana man"), giving his campaign an appealing folksiness.
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I know, with the farm tables and the ... The farm tables and the folksiness and then ... Yeah and the Nutellas everywhere and ... Nutella's nice.
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" He continued, "She had that folksy thing down—although I did notice... that when she tried to get cutesy with her folksiness, it didn't work.
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But the whole enterprise has all the homey, forced folksiness of a Ronald Reagan campaign ad — except Reagan actually believed in what he was selling.
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Before long, the personal feed that had once been a totem of cornball folksiness included harsh attacks on Megyn Kelly, "Lyin' Ted" Cruz and other perceived antagonists.
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Though he tends at times to trade professorial tendencies for folksiness on the campaign trail, Mr. Cruz has in recent days embraced his legal background with particular zeal.
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Karl Rove looked at the unvarnished folksiness and the common touch of a patrician Texas baseball-team owner (and former First Son) and saw a future Commander-in-Chief.
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David Niose, the author of Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason, says the appeal of political folksiness or commonness began in the Jacksonian era.
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While much of mainstream Western pop has morphed into moody R&B or strutting cyborg disco over the past few years, Canadian music has remained staunch in its folksiness.
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" The Times highlighted her folksiness when she visited Manhattan in 1940: "Modest 'Grandma Moses' declared, 'If they want to make a fuss over me, I guess I don't mind.
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" And Mr. Schumer became perhaps the first elected official in Virginia political history to begin an attempt at anecdotal folksiness with, "Last month, I went to a Yankees game.
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His boyhood embodied the kind of folksiness that he would later deconstruct in works that rendered classic American imagery — road signs, billboards, the 883th Century Fox logo — into foreign abstractions.
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Yes, there was a certain sheen to it—Bill leans into his forced folksiness in times of high stress—but it was also a powerful reintroduction to Hillary Clinton the person.
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The tipping point was the speech given by her husband Bill, who amid his rambling folksiness managed to portray her as a woman of principle and a real-life human being.
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke not long before him, holding forth with trademark folksiness and a poignant remembrance of his son Beau, who died last year of brain cancer.
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And, yes, the folksiness will still irk some critics: The starting point for the book is a chat with a Bethesda parking attendant, with another attendant from Minnesota waiting near the end.
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On a tour of a printing plant in Lumberton this week, wearing a safety-regulated hairnet but no socks ("it's a Southern thing"), Mr Burr dispensed backslaps and fist-bumps with seasoned folksiness.
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Clinton helped Gillibrand win a deep-red upstate House district in 2006, though the candidate's folksiness helped too—she was the type of politician who openly bragged about having shotguns underneath her bed.
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Though Mr. Cruz remains broadly popular in the state, there are some who view him warily, noting that figures like Mr. Perry and former President George W. Bush were superior in personifying Texas folksiness.
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Recall the folksiness of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, the sly wit of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Elena Kagan, or the inspiring up-from-the-projects life story of Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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For one thing, Trump doesn't bank on the "professional common man" folksiness that Windrip exudes — it was George W. Bush, the favored Windrip analogue before him, who played up his image as an affable Texas cowboy.
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The movie tries to do for amateur cooking contests what "Best in Show" did for dog competitions, but the strained folksiness and tired stereotypes couldn't be further from the snap and wit of prime Christopher Guest.
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Most notably, while Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) has the white trash roots and genial folksiness of Bill Clinton, his deeply repressed bisexuality presents the opposite set of problems as those encountered by his real-life forebear.
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Born in India, he had spent his teenage years in suburban Maryland, which is why he carries in his speech a relaxed folksiness; his father, a civil engineer, worked as a science adviser to the Indian ambassador in Washington.
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She sprinkled a few "I tell you whats" into her speech, with a bit of twang — a tic that might be a remnant of her time spent in Arkansas, or an affected folksiness required of every politician not named Trump or Sanders.
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The film may have been a quaint display of American decency and small-town folksiness — with his ingénue bright face, John Dall as Bart fits this idea to a T — were it not for the electrifying and darker, more complex presence of Cummins.
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It can tip into folksiness (as in "Old Folks Home," which compiles stories of residents in a state-run retirement complex) or fail to suspend our disbelief (as in "Forest of Midwives," an unmediated account of the animist practices of Amazonian "baby catchers").
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In the high Buffett-ian fashion, Hinkie's letter also contains little intermittent burps of folksiness, generally delivered in the same tone of lightly toasted wonderment that let Steve Jobs use phrases like "dent the universe" when talking about a phone that also takes photographs.
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Buffett was not the first person to write such letters to his shareholders, but he objectively revolutionized the form; a shareholder letter from, say, Amazon's Jeff Bezos swaps Buffett's rhetorical warmth and coy folksiness for Amazon's signature predatory stridency, but the influence is unmistakable.
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I have seen the alternative to Ted Cruz — Lord knows we need an alternative to Ted Cruz — and he's a peppy, rangy, toothy progressive with ratios of folksiness to urbanity and irreverence to earnestness that might well have been cooked up in some political laboratory.
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Poloz, 64, who brought a combination of folksiness and traditional ambiguity to the job, said that during his tenure the bank had "created the conditions for steady economic growth, low unemployment, and inflation close to target through very challenging times," according to the statement.
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Shortly before "The Colbert Report" premièred, in 2005, Stephen Colbert claimed that he would play a generic cable-news blowhard, a character drawn from a variety of sources—the "manliness" of NBC's Stone Phillips, the "folksiness" of CNN's Aaron Brown, the "commonsense" simplicity of MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.
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" The selections from Ives's songs traversed a wide range of moods, as varied as the sentimental pomp of "In Flanders Fields," which Mr. Scarlata sang with a good deal of bluster and steel in his voice, and the thigh-slapping folksiness of the cowboy pastiche "Charlie Rutlage.
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If only Michael Haneke, say, had got hold of the screenplay; if only he had shorn it of its folksiness, its relaxing guitar score, and its subplot about Addie's grumpy grandson (Iain Armitage), whom Louis persuades to lay down his iPhone in favor of toy trains and fishing.
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It was also a glimpse at the campaign that wasn't — the earned folksiness, the willingness to test audience stamina, the years of practice at appearing unpracticed — laying bare the strengths and tics of a would-be candidate who decided last year against challenging the woman he spent Monday embracing.
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In the vacuum left by Steve Jobs, amid the uncertain status of the gray T-shirt-and-hoodie proponent Mark Zuckerberg (thanks to Facebook's changing fortunes), and as an alternative to the Hollywood velvets of Elon Musk and the folksiness of Tim Cook, Mr. Bezos offers a new kind of image of a tech titan.
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There is John Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor, with his Western hip folksiness and affinity for Mr. Rogers-esque V-neck sweaters; Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington, who can often be seen in that rarity, a green tie, presumably to go with his green agenda; and Julián Castro, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development, playing it very traditional in red ties and navy suit.
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And then the day is Lucy-contaminated already, and there's little incentive for Kirsten not to keep polluting it for the sixteen hours until she goes to bed with the bullshitty folksiness in Lucy's life: the acquisition of an Alpine goat, the canning of green beans, the baby shower that Lucy is planning for her young friend Jocelyn, who lives on a neighboring farm.
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He would likely give anything to have the eloquence of Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegPoll: Biden remains ahead of Sanders by 6900 points 2628 predictions: Trump will lose — if not in the Senate, then with the voters Buttigieg's former chief of staff to be sworn in as mayoral successor MORE, the plainspoken folksiness of Joe BidenJoe BidenPoll: Biden remains ahead of Sanders by 28503 points 22020 forecast: A House switch, a slimmer Senate for GOP — and a bigger win for Trump 2020 predictions: Trump will lose — if not in the Senate, then with the voters MORE or the fire of Bernie Sanders.
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Foltz, Kim, The Media Business: Advertising; At Wendy's, Folksiness Is Effective, The New York Times, August 22, 1990 By 1990, after efforts by Wendy's advertising agency, Backer Spielvolgel Bates, to get humor into the campaign, a decision was made to portray Thomas in a more self-deprecating and folksy manner, which proved much more popular with test audiences.Foltz, Kim, The Media Business: Advertising; At Wendy's, Folksiness Is Effective, August 22, 1990 Consumer brand awareness of Wendy's eventually regained levels it had not achieved since octogenarian Clara Peller's wildly popular "Where's the beef?" campaign of 1984. With his natural self-effacing style and his relaxed manner, Thomas quickly became a household name. A company survey during the 1990s, a decade during which Thomas starred in every Wendy's commercial that aired, found that 90% of Americans knew who Thomas was.
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As part of the marketing strategies, Nongshim uses “사나이 울리는 신라면 (Romanization: Sanai Ullineun Shin Ramyun; translation: Shin Ramyun can make a man cry)”. The word Sanai (Hangul: 사나이) is a word to describe the man while emphasizing the masculinity. Most of its commercials include a famous male celebrity, frequently with his family, who is eating Shin Ramyun at home. These commercials emphasize being family friendly, being Korean, and folksiness.
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The product line is remembered for its folksy television commercials, created by Hal Riney, which ran from 1984 to 1991. Two older gentlemen characters, Frank Bartles and Ed Jaymes, sat on a front porch and related their new discoveries or projects on which they were working. The characters were patterned after the winery's founders, Ernest and Julio Gallo. Occasionally ads would be a twist on the idea of senior citizens or folksiness, such as having the pair fly an old-fashioned biplane over a beach, then airdrop crates of their product which were received by grateful young party animals.
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Much of Bacchylides's poetry was commissioned by proud and ambitious aristocrats, a dominant force in Greek political and cultural life in the 6th and early part of the 5th centuries, yet such patrons were gradually losing influence in an increasingly democratic Greek world.Maehler 2004, p. 4 The kind of lofty and stately poetry that celebrated the achievements of these archaic aristocrats was within the reach of 'The Cean nightingale',Slavitt 1998, p. 6 yet he seems to have been more at home in verses of a humbler and lighter strain, even venturing on folksiness and humour.
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He also admits his guilt at having left a good woman who bore him eight children he never really had time for. Baxter can ramble--as any deejay will--and sometimes he falls into a neat little essay that could have been left out, or soars into highfalutin' rhetoric with a veneer of folksiness. But mostly he sounds like the guy on the next barstool, only a whole lot funnier. At his best, he'll tell you about his cat Pearl, a lady with too-frequent litters, and her son Fleetwood Keats, the Houston Cadillac dealer tomcat; about his new baby and his helpful neighbors; or about daily life on a creek that periodically floods his property nearly to the living room rug.
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Slusser praised Bradbury saying "Bradbury just exuded this kind of folksiness that made his works extremely visual... A lot of science fiction writing came out of that Midwestern, iconic American experience that Bradbury defined." Slusser mentioned that Bradbury's technophobia was evident in his works: "to Bradbury, science is the forbidden fruit, destroyer of Eden." Of Arthur C. Clark, Slusser said that "Clarke, along with Asimov and [Robert A.] Heinlein, is unique in that his human dramas are determined by advances in science and technology... Clarke incarnates the essence of [science fiction], which is to blend two otherwise opposite activities into a single story, that of the advancement of mankind." Although Slusser considered Robert A. Heinlein the "epitome of science fiction writers" his criticism of the author was far more pointed.
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Under André Previn's direction, the score is magnificently played and sung, with some of the most beautiful communication coming from the choral group...To be sure, there are some flaws in this production...But, for the most part, this is a stunning, exciting and moving film, packed with human emotions and cheerful and mournful melodies. It bids fair to be as much a classic on the screen as it is on the stage."New York Times review Time observed "Porgy and Bess is only a moderate and intermittent success as a musical show; as an attempt to produce a great work of cinematic art, it is a sometimes ponderous failure...On the stage the show has an intimate, itch-and-scratch-it folksiness that makes even the dull spots endearing. On the colossal Todd-AO screen, Catfish Row covers a territory that looks almost as big as a football field, and the action often feels about as intimate as a line play seen from the second tier.
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Zong-qi Cai's revised doctoral dissertation published in 1996 as The Matrix of Lyric Transformation: Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry is foundational for the studies of the birth and evolution of one of the most important Chinese poetic genres. His committee at Princeton University included Chinese poetry mentor Yu-kung Kao and Andrew H. Plaks. This lyric genre emerged from the Han dynasty Music Bureau or Yuefu tradition, cultivated a distinct literati ancient style in the Nineteen Old Poems, and developed diverse modes of self- presentation in the poetry of Cao Zhi and Ruan Ji. The continuity from the earliest specimens of Chinese poetry through its subsequent developments can be experienced with unique intensity due to Cai's emphasis on close readings of the original. While the grandeur might be taken for granted in these early works, as well as selective use of folksiness, Cai traces many distinct emerging themes and emphasizes that of transience because of its centrality to subsequent Six Dynasties concerns.
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