earthy wisdom

He's usually good value for a bit of earthy wisdom and wit but managed to miss his own press conference this time.

She couldn't quite make it convincing; Quincy was known for her earthy wisdom, and Ky had, after all, succeeded so far.

He describes their servant Françoise, who is uneducated but possesses an earthy wisdom and a strong sense of both duty and tradition.

She mixes smarts and earthy wisdom in jazz-inflected hip-hop soul that definitely puts her at the top of the rhythm-and-blues renaissance.

She's not a sweet-voiced teen-ager any longer, but the years have just made her better: gutsy, sly and full of earthy wisdom in songs that know all about love's vagaries.

As Cephus Miles, a Southern farmer who returns to Cross Roads, N.C., after a debilitating time up North, Mr. Brown was filled with earthy wisdom.

Despite low scores on the "excitement" test, executives who are able to take this earthy wisdom to heart - to develop a sense of their corporation's purpose and trajectory - will be leaders of distinction.

The elephant with its pensively downcast eyes projects earthy wisdom, just as the wonderfully relaxed, seated human figure of Sri Ramana Maharshi, wearing only a loin cloth, embodies transcendental humility.

In the early 1990's, Digital Underground declared itself the hip-hop progeny of the funk legend George Clinton and his P-Funk collective and set out to inspire the scene with earthy wisdom and mind-altering joy.

"Treebeard is a character in my story, not me; and though he has a great memory and some earthy wisdom, he is not one of the Wise, and there is quite a lot he does not know or understand."