Many, perhaps most, are pragmatic people who deliberately cultivate a down-to-earth, practical image. |
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But the President-elect is also a very down-to-earth person who intends to be a people's president. |
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In a chatty, first-person narrative, the down-to-earth Nan describes going into service while still a child herself. |
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Her down-to-earth successor is 58, shortish, very proper and handsome in that don't care-a-fig British way. |
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The upbeat down-to-earth situation comedy about the trials and traumas of a family living in Walworth, London, is back later this year. |
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The man you saw on the screen was a down-to-earth, likeable guy who just happened to be a TV star. |
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Yet this may require a down-to-earth approach deeply disappointing to starry-eyed technological enthusiasts. |
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She makes a reasonable fist of appearing down-to-earth but every so often, you see how warped the foundations are. |
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It was grittily down-to-earth, absorbing, and best of all, made me want to re-read some of Murdoch's novels. |
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After all this time the Country Music legend is still going strong, sense of humour and down-to-earth attitude intact. |
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He is a humble man and a down-to-earth padre, who displays respect for all he serves with, regardless of rank or background. |
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Her light touch, wry humour and down-to-earth, almost gossipy tone make this novel as readable as it is challenging. |
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But a kind of down-to-earth warmth emanates from more than his orange glow. |
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She has been a great source of inspiration with her invaluable tips, warmth and being a down-to-earth person despite her post-Rio stature. |
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Jake said that Ian struck him as a down-to-earth person from the brief conversation they had on that busy night at the track. |
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Whilst Rob was well known, and an arena in the Summit Centre still bore his name, he was a very down-to-earth person. |
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The down-to-earth boffin has been kicking up a stink about excrement studies and grubbing around in old filth for more than 30 years. |
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He was a straight shooter, and a really down-to-earth person, whom I appreciated as always being open and honest. |
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She dealt with the crosses handed her in life with a practical and down-to-earth approach. |
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The entertainment is free, the food's unadulterated, the handicrafts are genuine and prices are as down-to-earth as the area's residents. |
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But the down-to-earth chanteuse can't go too long without visiting family and regularly returns to her home town. |
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On a more down-to-earth level it was also considered an irresponsible age, typified by the character of Pheidippides in Aristophanes' Clouds. |
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This is a remarkable accomplishment, yet Cordes seems really modest and down-to-earth about it all. |
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And it's such a mind-bending, far-out trip that once-radical modernism comes to seem rather tame and dowdily down-to-earth. |
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To many people he was just a Red Ragger, but to me he seemed a down-to-earth working man. |
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I wanted to make a big contrast between the chapter about the swanky Petroleum Club and the down-to-earth rec center. |
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Like the movie they are associated with, the trio too is unassuming, down-to-earth and simple. |
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The rail workers are blessed with a down-to-earth sense of humor and dry wit that is more than a match for any managerial staff. |
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He combined ancient classical humanism with Oriental metaphysics to ratify his own down-to-earth brand of philosophical monism. |
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Byas is a down-to-earth bloke, as much at home on the family farm as he is in the cricket spotlight. |
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Mostly they deal with the kind of down-to-earth, practical situations that horary astrologers thrive on to this day. |
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It is expressed not in high-flown language but as a down-to-earth matter-of-fact promise. |
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He is an immensely popular figure, thanks in no small measure to his glamorous and down-to-earth wife. |
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In person he is down-to-earth, funny and modest with a self-deprecating charm. |
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All point to the author's sense of measure and humor, his down-to-earth view of himself. |
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In her home-made oilskins held together with gaffer tape, the teenage was the most down-to-earth of sailing students. |
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Poets are the most down-to-earth, loyal, steady people that have ever been. |
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There may be a rational, down-to-earth explanation but I'm at a complete loss as to what it could be. |
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Even though he earns up to six figures for certain shows, Skrillex remains one of the more humble, down-to-earth artists in music. |
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In person, the down-to-earth Marchildon says she saw enough of modeling to be philosophical. |
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Warm and easy company, Tilghman is an unusually plain-spoken and down-to-earth university president. |
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He brings with him a deep spirituality, a breadth of experience and a wealth of Yorkshire humour and down-to-earth common sense. |
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They are not down-to-earth people who are willing to lower themselves to see the reality of poor people's lives. |
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It doesn't actually matter how practical and down-to-earth a mother might be. |
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We're not big, really, but I'm so glad to have Vince, because he's down-to-earth and realistic. |
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For a guy who explores such an intricate and arty sound, Williams is surprisingly down-to-earth. |
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Never in all the years I have read the mailbag have I seen such down-to-earth wisdom and good advice on this issue. |
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Practical and down-to-earth, he's a bit of a joker and Paul's only friend outside the observatory. |
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In an unsensational, down-to-earth manner, this book documents remarkable improvement in many of these people. |
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They were curiously matched as unheroic, down-to-earth, but knowing outsiders on their respective sides. |
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She was a down-to-earth, witty, charming and an intelligent girl, highly articulate. |
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But, he has got the expressions that make a good actor and is very down-to-earth. |
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Alain's down-to-earth approach coupled with his meticulous attention to detail has won him critical praise by Canada's top fashion magazines. |
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I would be intelligent, charming, sexy, a huge flirt, with a sense of humour but a down-to-earth guy in touch with his sensitive side. |
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His family has instilled him with values that enable him to remain very down-to-earth despite the glory of the past few weeks. |
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With her down-to-earth style, she asks hard questions of farm families who need help. |
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On one hand, there is a down-to-earth need for reassurance, harmony and comfort. |
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He is down-to-earth, friendly, fatherly and a seemingly great representative for the conscious movement. |
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Armed only with a piano, ukulele and bass guitar, this down-to-earth and charming performer looks set to create an intimate and highly charged atmosphere on her solo tour. |
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Raised in Australia by right-on parents who encouraged political awareness and self-reliance, the actress is a keen exponent of down-to-earth living. |
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She excels in taking complex concepts and materials of all types and presenting them in such a clear and down-to-earth way that they are easily comprehensible and digestible. |
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What better way for a man of means and intellect to get to know the real dilemmas and down-to-earth problems of the people he so gallantly serves? |
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Katie was a down-to-earth person who just just wanted nature to get its fair shake in a world where humans were taking over every inch of land they could find. |
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This tea cozy is a very fancy rendition of a very domestic and down-to-earth object. |
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It sounds like a Sally Field acceptance speech, but this sort of gooey gushiness doesn't really suit the down-to-earth Hannigan at all. |
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What a gentleman and a down-to-earth person before him being a football-type. |
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Bearzot was a down-to-earth person who was never swayed by the media or what was going on around him. |
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He is seen by most others as a friendly, practical, realistic and down-to-earth person. |
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Chantal is a down-to-earth person, and does not pretend to be someone else. |
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Despite her new-found star status Maurane lost nothing of the simple, down-to-earth approach which had won her so many fans. |
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And since she'll never be one of them, why not make a joke out of the reality, and surreality, of her down-to-earth self? |
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The long view is important but for practical purposes we sometimes need a more down-to-earth picture of our aims. |
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It was light music, down-to-earth, satirical and entertaining, firmly rooted in local traditions. |
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The lynchpins of the album are undoubtedly two early, majestic songs that distill the mix of the down-to-earth and the interstellar to its purest state. |
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Her make-up is a mixture of down-to-earth classic beauty styles perked up with offbeat effects. |
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This clownish dreamer with blue, bright eyes was a spirited, convivial, down-to-earth man. |
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But when the man himself appeared in his neat pinstripe suit it wasn't long before believers were being won over by his accuracy and down-to-earth Liverpudlian ways. |
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An interesting article in The Globe and Mail today expresses the chief's bluntness and down-to-earth qualities. |
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He was a pragmatist and his spirituality was simple, down-to-earth and practical. |
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The same as in the good old days, true musicians count on proven down-to-earth craftsmanship and material. |
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Continue to seize the initiative with your full-blooded, intelligent, spirited and down-to-earth approach. |
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People want to see down-to-earth, familiar images within the idea, and feel the ring of truth when comparing the new idea or claims to their own experience. |
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Axis has offices around the world and we are hiring brilliant, down-to-earth and inspiring people who want to work in an international environment. |
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Distilling opinion and trends with a unique Canadian spin, his diversified, yet down-to-earth approach in grains, oilseeds, pulses and currency are key points contributing to his success. |
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A true Canadian hero, Dr. Williams is down-to-earth with a compelling and unique approach to peak performance, environmental stewardship, our futures and risk management. |
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Accommodation in all categories can be found in Malaysia, ranging from youth hostels, apartments, bungalows, simple beds in down-to-earth wooden huts or simple hotels to luxury hotels at the other end of the scale. |
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Moreover, whether he's playing a Triad thug, a tough-as-nails cop or even a hardbitten firefighter, there's always a very convincing, down-to-earth character coming through. |
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The north invokes, partly of course because of Coronation Street itself, an ethos of down-to-earth good humour and a stoical acceptance of disappointment and tragedy. |
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He is so talented and funny, but it is also nice to see someone with that much talent and that much success be the most down-to-earth person ever. |
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The more conservative view, the Theravadin, emphasizes the down-to-earth, practical example of an exceptional man, Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. |
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He had a down-to-earth attitude that translated into a straightforward, but effective strategy. |
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When you consider he works in an industry known for its excess of pretentious luvvies and supercilious fashion junkies, his down-to-earth nature is surprising. |
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Everything else that I do is of a less down-to-earth, practical nature. |
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He's down-to-earth, gesticulating all over the place, with folksy aphorisms and punch lines all put in the right spots, but in an unforced, uncontrived matter. |
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But whereas the first act of her performance is disciplined, down-to-earth and munificent with wit, the second and third acts are inscrutable, new-agey and dull. |
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The complete unselfconsciousness and lack of pretentiousness in her work appears to stem from the artist herself and the down-to-earth quality that resonates from her. |
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Mark is an office worker hopelessly pursuing his colleague Sophie, a sensible, down-to-earth woman who just might, under the right circumstances, agree to date him. |
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She's not a hoity-toity legal type, but very ordinary and down-to-earth. |
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Consequently, pluralism and equality where media access is concerned should not be theoretical principles that stay on the drawing board, as it were, but down-to-earth practice in present-day societies. |
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With a background in criminalistics and lie detection, Eldon's approach has always been very down-to-earth, science based and pragmatic. |
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Together, they wrote highly emotional songs bringing the musical tradition of their home country into the sound pattern of pop music prudent in heart and brain in a surprisingly down-to-earth way. |
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This to-and-fro movement between celestial brilliance and down-to-earth constraints, between the wings of dreamy thought and the chains of daily labours, makes him even closer and more precious to us. |
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His adoption of the odd monicker is seen as an indication of how self-effacing and down-to-earth Wills has become. |
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It is a party that has always approached politics as though preaching, that calls itself a down-to-earth, grassroots party, and that projects an aura of saintliness that calls to mind a full array of religious regalia. |
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It's no coincidence: down-to-earth Rachael Ray favors homey meals like chili and mac-n-cheese, and Bob Blumer, the out-there chef with the way out-there hair, is prone to BBQing on the hood of his car. |
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At times I've just shot the breeze with Jackie, as she is one of the most down-to-earth and curious-about-life actors I've ever known. |
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Incessant shuttlings between one domain and the other serve to stabilize the analogies, and to give them a realistic or down-to-earth basis. |
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Steve has a down-to-earth, sympathetic approach towards his mediumship, and promises an emotional rollercoaster ride for his audiences, always full of laughter and tears. |
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He mentioned all sorts of names that I can't, for obvious legal reasons, tell you but, trust me, the ones who think they are the most down-to-earth are the loopiest. |
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On the auto show circuit, concept cars lend excitement to the more down-to-earth models on the platform next door, the ones actually available for purchase. |
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They are down-to-earth medicine women, shamans, and curanderos. |
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