But there is more to his appeal than folksiness.

The picture leaped off the front page yesterday, extraordinary in its folksiness.

Watch highlights from last night's festival of folksiness and non-answers here.

Such celebration of Southern folksiness isn't new in hip-hop.

It is also a celebration of small-town America, folksiness and naivety.

There is a synthetic folksiness here, particularly in the recollections of an immigrant to America from the old country.

But on occasion, there is folksiness, and even eloquence.

By the 1920s, however, this boisterous folksiness had diminished.

But amid the formulaic folksiness that rules this show, such work seems slightly out of focus.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the music and the dancing, especially the easy familiarity and folksiness of the place.

Now, we are drenched in enough folksiness to fill a hundred cracker barrels.

But folksiness can also be skin deep.

Biden can play the folksiness game, too.

People find in him a frat-boy charm, a certain folksiness that they feel they can relate to.

Her speaking style combines old-fashioned stump oratory with studied folksiness.

Nor do I mind folksiness per se.

Florence and the Machine feed a bourgeois fantasy of 'folksiness'

For all her folksiness - and she was warmly received at every stop, mostly in Republican strongholds - it is a focused campaign.

- that is, a terrific actor with a touch of folksiness and the ability to "go dark" when the material demanded.

Indeed, beneath the solemn ritual, "Einstein" has a folksiness.

"I'll take the contributor's phone call every time," he said with his now familiar folksiness, conceding the power of fund-raisers.

In our democratic society, where familiarity and folksiness is at a premium, few politicians truly grasp the importance of the father image.

To some critics, a folksiness often noted about Mr. Chiles can seem too familiar.

Undercutting the naturalism is a tone of saccharine folksiness.

And sardonic, urbane detachment has been succeeded by avuncular folksiness.