Readers familiar with Teasdale's trademark optimism and folksy wisdom ("When life hands you a yeast infection, make bread!!")

"Not as bad as I was," Bischoff says, immediately perceiving the folksy wisdom of this American barnyard metaphor.

Annie's mother-in-law Mary (Patty Duke), a seen-it-all midwife whose homeopathic remedies and folksy wisdom are at odds with Belinda's scientific knowledge, comes along.

My lord," I said, "what I may lack in courtly knowledge, I make up for in folksy wisdom.

Martinez spends the length of the interview deflecting any deep review of his services, and instead relays his particular brand of folksy and absurdist wisdom.

Nonetheless, the competitors have no shortage of folksy wisdom.

Americans, Mr. Coupland lamented, "like naturalistic books, with a dollop of history and a sprinkle of folksy wisdom, and I can't write that kind of book."

The new plot let Arnold get in touch with his motherly side, caring for bratty, delinquent John and giving him such folksy wisdom as his limited cyborg brain would allow.

You'd get no folksy wisdom from Belle, no comfortable proverbs and clichs, she spoke wisdom and truth.

Mr. Buffett's letter, an annual treat for Berksshire's investors, is full of folksy wisdom, a sharp change from the usual dry, pompous prose of company reports.