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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
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  • 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?
  • Southern country-boy coaches were about the last of the nation's cracker-barrel philosophers.
  • With his rumpled clothes and corncob pipe, he was the image of the American cracker-barrel professor eager to mix it up with anyone in a public forum. Paul Goodman: Recounting Forgotten Man on the Attack

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