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Example sentences for: homespun
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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.
And when the lessons were over, she instilled in him the homespun wisdom that her parents had instilled in her: "The power is the word, not the sword."
In Amsterdam, his palette darkened; marble floors replaced earthenware tiles, satin supplanted homespun, and a dream--it cannot have been more than that for de Hooch--of luxury reigned.
But we read Quindlen, if we do, for her peppy style, and that emerges out of another tradition entirely--not the reformist rhetoric of Susan B. Anthony and Betty Friedan but the homespun, folksy, and often surprisingly liberal tones of an earlier era in American journalism, when newspaper editorialists and magazine editors and advice columnists elevated the anecdote of daily life to the status of gospel and did more than just about anyone else to invent our 20 th -century idea of everydayness.
But mightn't a columnist offer sentiments wholly opposed to Anna Q's and seem to his/her readers the paragon of homespun good sense?