folksily

The screen promised to be easy to use and folksily familiar.

Mr. Bush brushed off the question, folksily.

The rhetorizor, in its cricket's voice, intoned folksily.

Not just ordinary flogging, as folksily practiced by the neighboring knife salesman, but a whole theology of "Perfect Execution" picked up from a book.

The 100th anniversary of Blue Bell Creameries - "the little creamery in Brenham," as it folksily and misleadingly describes itself - will be celebrated in 2007.

This connection can be made in ways great and small - telling a good joke, talking sports, visiting a Nascar track, chatting folksily or simply being able to comfortably take off your coat and tie.

"I'm gonna make this as brief as I can, because frankly I have to be som'n fierce," Cameron said folksily, after taking the statuette from Mel Gibson (his neighbor, Cameron let the audience know).

One problem is Ms. Pearson, who is much better when she plays her character relatively straight than when she tries to be funny, often with a Brooklyn Jewish accent that is about as convincing as politicians folksily dropping their g's.