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Example sentences for: folksy
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The NYT says Yeltsin made his stunning announcement in a "surprisingly folksy and conciliatory speech," while WP says the speech was made by a "stiff-looking" Yeltsin, and the LAT says he was "grim."
No one wants to read that much of the same thing--that much folksy, digressive argument--in a single sitting.
But when Pedro Medina's head caught fire during his March 1997 execution, the Florida Supreme Court ordered the Department of Corrections to write down its electric chair protocol, previously just a folksy word-of-mouth operation in Q Wing.
The Democrats' Plan A is to raise as much soft money as possible; if they come up short, Plan B is to adopt a folksy, you-can't-buy-the-presidency spin.
The book preaches this now familiar creed to the multitudes; Shlaes uses folksy lingo and homespun anecdotes to give her message a warmly populist glow.