How To Use Folk In A Sentence

Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
In 1949, "pseudo folksongs" were banned by Dalstroi, the Gulag mining camps in Kolyma. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance. Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
Difficulties help to forge people into able folk.
The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.

You submit to subterfuge, you replace your ordinary parents by a little less ordinary, but still quite ordinary folks, Katrien and the commissaris. Just a Corpse at Twilight
A couple of commendable but slight folk covers albums in the early Nineties lead to assertions of writer's block. The Sun
As a young man he wrote words to popular folk airs and had them printed as broadsheets.
This is mostly true for fans, friends, and family of unsung folk hero Tim Hardin, the prolific songster who wasted his life living wasted.
Folk remedies and herbal treatments also are common.
Many folks have stated in many ways that even if CxP had had all of Shuttles bucks for the past five years, CxP wouldn't be any better off than it is now, because of mismanagement & misspending. Minor Damage Seen on Atlantis - NASA Watch
He had been trying to persuade me to disregard what he termed the obstinacy of the old folks, and said impatiently: Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches
He did not look up, but he felt, he just _felt_, all the eyes of all the little meadow people and forest folk burning right into him. Mother West Wind's Children
We have the superdelegates who are the 796 folks who are unpledged.
I'm sure there are some folk who would rather they weren't here.
I joined other escaping mums - and dads and younger folk and older folk too.
Folk wisdom tells of the abundance that follows a freeze. Times, Sunday Times
Lawrence Pietroni has created two uniquely alluring charactersRuby and Isaand spins a story that feels mythical or folkloric, that is driven by a mystery, throbs with tension, and ends in conflagration. Ruby's Spoon: Summary and book reviews of Ruby's Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni.
However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit. The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Oh, damn the lousy tribe of them!" cried he, beating his palm upon the table; "what's Long Davie the dempster thinking of to be letting such folk come scorning here? Doom Castle
Rounds are no longer written in modern musical styles, and remain untouched by developments in chromatic harmony, atonality, jazz idioms, serial structures and folk modes.
The artist takes as his viewpoint the vista from Gun Hill, high above the gentle Suffolk vale, looking down towards the Stour valley, Dedham church and the watermill where his father worked.
The Arts Centre is hosting a folk festival this summer.
It's Thursday folks, and clearly my "uploading slowly all afternoon" was kiboshed yesterday. Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites
A neo-Classical representation of folk music and simplicity, this small work was written in honor of Enesco and Jora on their 60th and 50th birthdays.
Folks may crow all they want about the roar of Niagara or the growlin’ of the sea—but give me a splendacious peal o’ stormbrewed thunder and your other nat’ral music is no more than a penny whistle is to a church organ! Nevermore
From death metal to violins and Jewish harps, folk music, punk, soul, reggae and gospel, we've got it all.
The mayor is still a folk hero in Chicago's black community.
Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
Country folk in both the United States and Mexico often live under unfortunate circumstances but that does not excuse your belittling them because you consider yourself to be "highborn". Small town living
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The images consisted mainly of mythological creatures such as dragons, fairies, and merfolk.
Though never quite managing to hit commercial paydirt, Glasgow-born singer/songwriter John Martyn has carved out an acclaimed career by purveying an idiosyncratic mix of rock, folk and jazz.
The concluding Allegro has a rollicking, folksy character, complete with a drone-like accompaniment.
The folks at are charged with contributing to the delinquency of the film-makers, who were likely duped into believing this could become a satisfying monster movie.
The buzzard, although not a native of the Eastern Counties, is apt to appear in both Lincolnshire and Norfolk from time to time.
And unlike the previous use of archaic folk tunes, Cajun stomps and swamp water boogies just don't have the same traditionalist staying power.
It's Comer , folks, into the end zone for another Permian touchdown!
This Navajo folk tale describes the creation of the Earth.
But this was only innovative in so far as classical ballet was concerned as there are many 5/4 Slav folk dances.
Naturally, the epitaph on his tombstone should read ‘Th-that-that's all folks!’
Try telling that to folk who bought into the bullion fad five years ago and have lost a third of their money since then. Times, Sunday Times
This anthology pairs contemporary stories with folk tales, many of which interpret natural phenomena in the light of local knowledge and lore.
The folks behind nearby cow juice-friendly club night Milk debut their new monthly venture Laid this Wednesday and, in keeping with the bar's theme and their own dairy fetish, White Russians are on special offer, along with various other made-to-order milky concoctions. Clubs picks of the week
Although the work in the compiler is not finished, Wiz also takes time to create some new spells to help common folk to deal with magical threats. Reflective Surface - The Wizardry Compiled
The barghest has a kinsman in the Rongeur d'Os of Norman folklore. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Mathieson's legacy to folklore included not only his own extensive oral repertoire of folksong but a manuscript collection of 545 songs written down in 3 huge ledgers as he heard them through the years, beginning as a schoolboy and continuing in the bothies, chaulmers and farm kitchens where he feed as a farm servant. Noo I'm a Young Man Cut Down in My Prime
There are many horror stories about an ex-spouse getting the proceeds of a big life insurance policy or the accidental disinheritance of a child because the owner never changed the beneficiary," Norfolk warns. How To Protect Your Spouse Financially After You're Gone
In time folk memory faded and with the passing of those who had lived through the events of 1903 the Gordon Bennett Race became an almost forgotten note in the annals of Irish motoring history.
I'm really into folk music.
Then a hush fell upon the fisherfolk, and only was heard the moan of the off-shore wind and the cries of the gulls flying low in the air. Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
The old town hall now accommodates a Folk Museum.
Transforming the press account, Kelly's own narrative further compresses Kastriot's story of miraculous survival into three stanzas and a shorter envoi which are intended to evoke the traditional folk ballad.
One of two episodes to be presented in widescreen, the pilot introduces the Browns and the rest of the Everwood folk.
The womenfolk of the Longbridge workers - the phrase is not inaccurate - are preparing to bring a mass demonstration to London.
One step advanced beyond this, Jerry's uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms. Chapter 15
Among the projects that will be jumpstarted with this new funding are the Midtown Tunnel tube in Norfolk, the extension of HOV/HOT Lanes on I95/395 and the widening of I-66 in Northern Virginia, work on the Coalfields Expressway in Southwest Virginia, and the widening and improving of multiple sections of Route 58 in southern and western Virginia. UPDATED: Key Democratic panel approves McDonnell's transportation plan
And wrote the history and the folklore. Times, Sunday Times
She shifts effortlessly from folk and blues to upbeat tangos and haunting instrumentals, all interspersed with humorous tales of her life on the road.
Its unique folk art has been featured by the Smithsonian Museums and other prominent art galleries throughout the U.S.
_Some folks_ should see that my bashfulness was wearing off faster than the gold from an oroide watch. The Blunders of a Bashful Man
The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life. Thomas Glenn Sings Vaughan Williams
The residents of a small seaside town are celebrating the anniversary of their town's birth when a pea souper comes rolling in with some ‘scary’ folk out for revenge on the wrongs that were done to them many moons ago.
Despite his own aircraft being damaged, he glided back to base with a dead engine and crash-landed near Folkstone.
Yorkshire folk turned prickly yesterday after a wild flower charity announced that the common harebell had replaced the white rose as the county's floral emblem.
The nifty manga blogger, Kethylia, allows me to post her weely reviews every Monday here on the blog, to share with you good folks. Manga Mondays with Kethylia 1/7 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
So while you are losing your home Mr Main street guy how about folking over that last dollar in your pocket to help the poor banker who made $40 mill in bonus last year (life must be tough). Blog maverick
But folk art, on the whole, stood for a democracy of aspiration. The Times Literary Supplement
He has always liked to stitch his folk songwriting to a muted electronic backbeat, and he retains that sense of cautious experimentalism here.
We'd been up since 5am driving and were supposed to be meeting folks for a meal that night.
Quiet folks ... the woman who should have been the 44th President of the United States is handling our starry-eyed mainstream media with the ease that comes with being a part of the most successful Democratic presidential legacy since FDR (see Bill Clinton). Clinton: 'I broke my elbow, not my larynx'
Here, Asa assumes the folk-funk stylings of Linda Lewis, borrows the flutey mellotrons from Strawberry Fields Forever, and weaves them into a production so breezy you might reasonably whisper "new Sade". This week's new singles
Says the Richmond composer, I thought it would be great to write a sequel showing how [Porgy] goes up north, and on the way he runs into jazz, rag, barrelhouse, jug band, gospel, all the early black folk music styles. Archive 2006-11-01
In the Caribbean, the leaves of the breadfruit are used in folk medicine to relieve pain and inflammation.
Feminist folkloristics, as developed in the United States and Canada, understands gender as a fundamentally sociocultural construct.
But the new working class of former rural folk did not make the transition to industrial wage labor easily or without protesting in subtle and indirect ways. America Past and Present
Robin Hood, the latest depiction of folklore's most enduring and filmable character — directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe — will open the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday and in theaters on Friday. Robin Hood's fluid identity flows on
She rationalized away the superstitious beliefs of the country folk.
But not many months thereafter we heard that he also had departed, leaving it ungarnished of men; and we deem that the cause thereof is that something uncouth is seen and heard therein, which folk may not endure. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Norfolk, &c., shows remarkable deviations in local organization and justice (lagmen, sokes), and great peculiarities as to status (socmen, freemen), while from laws and Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
The music was a hybrid of western pop and traditional folk song.
Because of you and other netty professor-type folks, while agonizing over writing papers the last few years, I would think of my professor having to GRADE the papers of the whole class and try hard not to make any painful errors. Near a sunny window
Then we look for basic ability to sight-read tonal music i.e., in the classical style of Bach, Brahms or traditional folk song. The Master of Many Choruses
Folks who think oppositely of the folks who quietly fund the Cato Institute. Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Lobbyist-Bashing
The latter is set behind neat new brick walls inset with panels of Norfolk flint. Times, Sunday Times
Banish thoughts of decorative church kneelers, of draped antimacassars or folklorish costumes. Times, Sunday Times
The frontier has been an active source for American folktales dealing with characters such as Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Mike Fink.
So brace yourselves for more lame jokes, folks. Times, Sunday Times
Medici_, published in 1642, and _Hydriotaphia; or, Urn Burial_, 1658, a discourse upon rites of burial and incremation, suggested by some Roman funeral urns, dug up in Norfolk. Brief History of English and American Literature
These hutments were burnt down and the menfolk were killed.
In the beginning, even Scotland's leading folk musicians thought Celtic Connections was a barmy idea.
Hereupon all folk stared in hugeous wonderment to behold these two champions drop their swords and leap to clasp and hug each other in mighty arms, to pat each other's mailed shoulders and grasp each other's mailed hands. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany. Hitler's Golden Book
So explain it to folks who, like me, aren't quite sure what the term Mardi Gras even means. CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2006
In March 1525, the king recalled Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, from his role as justiciar of North Wales and, in south Wales, the long-time crown agent, Sir Rhys ap Thomas, had died in the spring. 66 This household was to have a profound effect on Mary's political status and composition of future households. 67 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
Whereas some folks consider brown dwarfs the duds of the galaxy, astronomers see beauty in these substellar embers.
The second beneficiary, the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service, relies totally on charitable donations for its desperately-needed equipment.
Mr Pearce makes only passing reference to what is, for many, Walpole's outstanding monument: the magnificent Palladian house he built at Houghton in Norfolk.
We knew that included singing, folk dancing, the joy of life, also aquavit and Gamle Dansk.
He called the grooms, and we made ready, taking the horses out to where the folk of the archbishop waited in the sunny courtyard, and there leaving them. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford
We have an alarming number of distressing cases in our files of youngsters, families and old folk who need us.
Now we've got the peace folk coming I have no doubt it will scupper the whole thing.
For an unassuming pair of country-folk dreamers, their debut resonates with a wild collection of weirdos: county-fair folk-fest burn-outs, cowboy junkers, and record store braggarts.
They're rerunning a two-part ‘Biography for Kids’ that Harry did, visiting the set and interviewing the folks behind, in and under the Muppets.
We're living through a deeply contradictory time when black folks (and what's left of the unions) are the Dems only truly reliable voting block, and yet every other manifesto for Democratic revitalization is some kind of attenuated, okie-doke Souljah-moment retread. Gary Dauphin: ATT(5)-1=CBC(3)+CHC(1)
Of these the Norfolk Democrat and Suffolk Punch, both printed and carrying advertisements, were particularly impressive.
But th 'gal, in santerin' roun 'tother folkses houses, met an' coted 'im thar. " Eagle Clippings " by Jack Thorne, Newspaper Correspondent and Story Teller, A Collection of His Writings to Various Newspapers
The print revolution undoubtedly had an important impact on folk culture, through, for example, the mass printing of chapbooks, ballads, almanacs, and cheap abbreviated novels, not to mention religious literature.
Shiva, for instance, was a Dravidian tribal god, very much a folk deity, until theologised and worked into the larger Hindu pantheon.
I even also know that paleontologists (folks who study dinosaurs) decided that a dinosaur that was once called a brontosaurus (a very nice name) shouldn’t be called brontosaurus anymore, and changed it to apatosaurus (a kind of ugly name). Lulu and the Brontosaurus
Update I think I got it a little bit wrong - technology can confuse me sometimes, folks.
It's not like we're making more money -- we're just collecting it to pass along to the state -- but from a customer's perspective, they just have to pay more when they buy from a physical store than from an online store, which can disincline some folks to buy local. Action Items for Booksellers & Others
The custom of carving jack-o'-lanterns can be traced back to an old Irish folk tale.
Overview: Of all the aging statistics that get tossed around these days, the one that has me quaking is that the population of people aged 65 and older will rise by 36 percent between 2010 (that’s next year, folks) and 2020. The Boomer Blog: April 2009 Archives
Its tranquil moments convey a nostalgic yearning common to Japanese folk music.
Originally from the north Norfolk coast, he was bought up with the tradition that when the maroons went up, the whole community downed tools and rushed to help.
If you are a publisher, creator, retailer or any other kind of exhibitor who would like to let folks know about any special plans you have for the show (panels, signing schedules, exclusives, debuts, etc.) drop me an email and I'll run it here. SDCC ‘09 | Middleman, a talent search, TV panels, toys and more | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Show me a folk music audience and I'll show you the emotionally needy.
At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
Alex and Rhena were all revved up with horsey mania, so around the city we clippety went, with our womenfolk waving to the passing trams.
Garlic is widely used in Chinese folk medicine.
Steeped in tradition, Kilgarvan is world-renowned for its rich folklore and its many scribes, songwriters and storytellers.
I think a lot of the folks that I worked with at NASA were from the generation that grew up at that period of time.
Richard Kay, like Nigel Dempster before him, is paid to write a diary about moneyed toffs like David and Sam so that humbler tube-travelling folk can goggle a bit and scowl at their youngers and betters. Tory press defenders of Middle England rail against the toffs
The Dallas Mavericks put bar codes on tickets, not just to track sales of the ducats, but to make sure they are selling them to folks who actually fill the seats.
Where others looked at spinners, seamers and batsmen, he saw folk heroes, comics and tragedians.
That Thoreau gave the impression of being what country folk call a crusty person -- curt and forbidding in manner -- seems pretty well established. The Last Harvest
Of course, using that to 'remarket' to users who leave the site will drive conversion with little waste and will focus on the right folks from the sales funnel. Technology and Creativity in Digital Marketing: Better Together - Michael Kassan - MediaBizBloggers
I can't begin to describe the horrors being perpetrated by the DJ's, their insistent attempts to incite a conga line, or the, um, "dancing" of the patrons who -- despite clearly being the offspring and younger relatives that the publisher folks had passed on their tickets to -- managed to make your dad's elbow-jiggle and hip-shoogle look like The Moves Of The Groove. Archive 2006-10-01
Our big opportunity had been blown by a bunch of tight-lipped, upright folks who wanted to mind their own business.
They turn out a flamboyant blend of jazz, folk, funk and classical guitar, with flourishes of Latin acoustic guitar of a most impressive standard.
But want o’ siller it canna be — he pays ower the shillings as if they were sclate stanes, and that’s no the way that folk part with their siller when there’s but little on’t — I ken weel eneugh how a customer looks that’s near the grund of the purse. — Saint Ronan's Well
And the care these young folk give us is fantastic.
On Tuesday the 24-year-old pianist and singer is set to perform a showpiece duet with highly regarded folk singer Katie Melua at the Brit's ceremony at London's Earl's Court.
A lot of folks might prefer to stay home on a pleasant Sunday afternoon and engage in armchair activism from the comfort of their own homes and cocoons, occasionally talking back to the cable news networks or commenting on a blog. Cynthia Boaz: A Reality (and Sanity) Check for Progressives- Speech to Petaluma Progressive Festival
But despite being so rubbish and boring that it'd be more fun to watch a TV show about a static eggcup full of gravel from Norfolk, Sooty is back! Rosie O’Donnell Less Drunk Than Ever Before
The ones who appear every so often with their green wellies and silly hats and think they're real country folk. TICKLED PINK
Huge monochrome landscapes that portray the stretching expanses of the sea that sweeps up the north Norfolk coast. Times, Sunday Times
So, really, what Nielsen is saying is, Everyone expects social media to be used primarily by the young but OMG OMG OMG old farts are just as likely to be using Twitter as young folks! Boing Boing
Inventor Jose Hernandez-Rebollar has invented an electronic glove that transforms American Sign Language hand-gestures into readable or hearable text, to help deaf people communicate more easily with hearing folks. Boing Boing
Some postcolonial states have legally recognized folk healers.
The folklore of the ancient Dogon tribe of West Africa dates back thousands of years and speaks of the star Sirius B, which was invisible to the naked eye. Supernatural - Paranormal, ESP, Occult
Competitors, collaborators, those in complimentary fields with an overlapping client base, and folks who are totally outside your immediate world. Women Grow Business » 2009 » November
Each topic is covered in the same folksy style, with the minimum of ‘geek-speak’ and the text is often amusing in the extreme.
Mobilising her natal familija, most of her son's agnatic kinfolk, and many other unrelated families in the village through persistent negotiations, she mounted a vigorous campaign for her son's election.
Long before its formal recognition in 1943, the concept of autism appeared in folklore.
The torso armour itself had coral shaped into the symbol of the ancient Merfolk.
The mayor is still a folk hero in Chicago's black community.
The streets were empty of ‘decent folk’ and were rapidly filling with a different sort altogether.
Tony's folks will use cowhide or horsehide, your choice.
An appropriately rarefied setting for the ethereal folkie. Times, Sunday Times
Words such as dreamboat apply to the mellow folk-jazz musician; he's the kind of classically handsome guy about whom women, moms and gay brothers can ... The Pitch | Complete Issue
His job takes him all round the old folk's homes in Lancashire entertaining residents.
But drugs workers also report an increasing number of elderly folk dabbling in hard drugs such as cocaine for the first time. The Sun
The future exchange exists as a central place for folks that have real goods to exchange -- the cash market -- to obtain predictability and certainty about the gains or losses from making a cash trade today that has a future delivery date. Here's a tax target for ya (Jack Bog's Blog)
Upcoming performances include the folk duo Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer on Oct. 30, the Bang on a Can All-Stars in an all-Steve Reich program on Nov. 11, the eclectic group Punch Brothers with mandolin player Chris Thile on Nov. 12, Kris Kristofferson in a recital of solo voice and guitar on Nov. 13, and the guitarist Ana Vidovic with flutist Anastasia Petanova on Nov. 18. Washington is once again taking pride of place in its classical guitar tradition
Over the eons, they grew smaller and eventually became known as the Sidhe or fairy folk, but even today they continue to inhabit and protect wooded glens and fields, streams, and bogs, still practicing their magic rituals. News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
In the far right corner there was a bookshelf stuffed to the brim with books on history and folklore and legends.
This sustained defiance of the elements provoked occasional judgments in the shape of a "hoast" (cough), and the head of the house was then exhorted by his women folk to "change his feet" if he had happened to walk through a burn on his way home, and was pestered generally with sanitary precautions. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
At the coat check, costumes in glass boxes will be showcased next to the wraps of ordinary folk. Globe and Mail
Ife" sampled dance traditions from West Africa and Cuba, with music that included Art Blakey's drumming and Cuban folk vocals. Dance review: Ronald K. Brown's Evidence at Harman Hall
The album merges sounds and influences from East and West, and stretches the boundaries of musical experimentation by fusing traditional folk songs and classical styles with the popular.
Her track list doesn't add up to anything more than a desire, however noble, to cover folk songs.
Old folk and children alike are all against the proposal, not to mention the youth.
I think, when I was a kid, I was always really fascinated with folk music and folk tales and fairytales and have always just kind of harbored this fascination with them. Colin Meloy: '10-Dollar Words' For A Cause
Secondly, parse as they might, they can't turn a scientific "trick" into guile, nor make a negative colouration stick to the phrase "hide the decline" when the CRU folks themselves have published papers on it. Archive 2009-11-01
Myth and Manpower" at the jewel-box sized Craft and Folk Art Museum packed in a show that takes artwork from California fruit label boxes and marketing and juxtaposes them with artwork cultivated for use as protest posters for United Farm Workers. Wyatt Closs: Worker Worthy Standouts: Part 5 - Art & Books
His life story was already entering the annals of tabloid folklore. Times, Sunday Times
The LAN folks programmed in Perl themselves.
Groups singing carols and folk songs to the beat of local musical instruments would arrive unannounced at any time of the night.
His mother sang Welsh folksongs to him that had been passed on to her by her own mother. John Jeffreys obituary
Most of the people on the island are fisher folk.
It consists of a systematic survey of the lake monster theme in the legends and popular folklore of Québec.
Her secret, it seems, has been a confluence of business savvy and a folksy but formidable disarming charm. Times, Sunday Times
But I’ve never been one for the male bimbo look, especially when (as the folks at Defamer reported) said male bimbo bares his, ahem, "peen" (to quote my esteemed colleague Michael Slezak), while playing the didgeridoo. The real reason Matthew McConaughey's 'Surfer, Dude' went under | EW.com
Tea, you must know, is styled ` plew 'on board, in the slang of the training-ship; possibly, through some association with the ` sky blue' known in the boarding-schools of shore folk. Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
She wants the folks to re-embrace folk taxonomy, to go out into nature and name things for themselves. The Times Literary Supplement
From Dvo ř á k ' s " New World " Symphony, with its construct of Indian and African-American folk idioms, to Messiaen ' s bird-song transcriptions of Bryce Canyon, composers have responded to it most often with collages, drawing on different musical and even extramusical references. Turning the City
Sounds like in the story here today there are some folks quite ready to get themselves hoaxed, assuming the perpretators aren't themselves. On Bigfoot, Flying Rocks, and Missing Socks
These countries were recently added to the European Union, which generally has been very acceptive of equal rights for LGBT folks.
Every note he wrote will be played, from the familiar string quartets, piano concertos, violin sonatas and symphonies to more obscure compositions, such as his 100 folk songs and cantatas.
The cold, clipped delivery and bizarre folksy expressions have also contributed to this.
Although the condition in which the folks found the business at the end of the day often sent them into a swivet, the places did turn a nice profit. It wasn't long before Papa bought the other two local coin-ops.
As most folks know by now, this same issue underlies the great, unresolvable, and basically silly debate about whether the new millennium starts at the beginning of 2000 or of 2001.
‘Just Folks’ is yet another Roth reversal: FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps was the actual (if benign) means of rusticating urban boys in the 1930s.
It reminds me of a lot of old folk songs but it has a dreamlike quality. The Sun
Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars.
I guess these aren’t trendy enough or an easy slap at someone (did anyone find it ironic that one year [the annual contest] C’ville said that the place for peoplewatching was at Golden Corral and in the article slammed every person in there for being an obese porker from a surrounding county and THIS year, the place to take your folks in C’ville Annual Contest was Ponderosa? The Dec. on C-Ville and The Hook at cvillenews.com
Just don't expect rock and roll in the strictest sense, as they're a little folksier than that. Fave Five: Songs of the Summer
But the city folk constituted a new and terrible destructive force, the equilibrium was overthrown, and the poppies well-nigh perished. The Golden Poppy
And if you heard the folks from this feisty bit of terra firma, you'd know their accent, not to mention their vocabulary was indubitably indelicate if not incomprehensibly improper.
Dozens of folk had leaky roofs fixed or heating installed without knowing who their benefactor was. Times, Sunday Times
Two modern women present a spirited interpretation of a Chinese folk tale
During my undergraduate years my folks were unemployed so I had support from the local council.
These days children do not have grandparents telling them folklore and stories from epics.
Poor woman -- she don't call anywheres, an 'she stays in mournin' so long folks have kind o 'dropped off goin' to see her. Friendship Village
Thomas was sent to ￡2,500-a-term boarding school in Norfolk, where with specialist help he has made an enormous improvement.
Most of the time, though, from what we've heard, they keep their folk tunes and their skanking ones separate, but when the elements do combine it's reggae-folk with Latin American harmonies and flavour. Melodica, Melody + Me (No 844)
Guthrie considered "God Bless America" too complacent, so he wrote a folk song with overtly political verses that are sometimes omitted in performances.
SEAL folks is the use of Navy terminology concerning MOS vs. NEC. Heroes or Villains?

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