cracker-barrel

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• cracker-barrel philosophy
• Behind the stereotype of the genial, cracker-barrel philosopher is a story of avarice, resentment, and political awakening.
• When he came to read the creators of the English realistic novel, he recognized the cracker-barrel philosophy in them at once.
• Mixing cracker-barrel philosophy, and good common sense, the author offers realistic advice.
• So now Pound was safe, and he became the cracker-barrel philosopher of free verse. THE ANTHOLOGIST
• Silly cracker-barrel stuff, mostly, although he had a curious store of half-learned knowledge; Bunyan was a favourite, and he was well up on Napoleon and Caesar and assorted military history. THE NUMBERS
• Atticus is a repository of cracker-barrel epigrams. What 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Isn't
• With its chocolate box cinematography and cracker-barrel philosophising, the film is the worst kind of period drama.
• It's a low-key, philosophical musing reminiscent of the voice-over that opens THE BIG LEBOWSKI but played for real rather than as a caricature of the cracker-barrel cowboy spirit-guide vibe you get in the earlier movie. Freeform Critique
• But then I never thought I'd see the day when "To Kill A Mockingbird" --- a novel that has inspired readers for half a century --- would be derided as a book about "the limitations of liberalism" (by Malcolm Gladwell, no less, in The New Yorker, of all places) and "a sugar-coated myth of Alabama's past" with a hero who's "a repository of cracker-barrel epigrams" (by Allen Barra, in the Wall Street Journal) Jesse Kornbluth: On Its 50th Birthday, Why Is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Being Attacked?