Sentence examples for a hayseed from inspiring English sources

We'd originally written the Troy character as more of a hayseed, typical jock type.

By this point the elite had accepted modernist architecture, and anyone who protested risked denunciation as a hayseed.

· A Hot Piece of Grass is out now on Cooking Vinyl, along with a Hayseed "best of" album, Let There Be Rockgrass.

Mr. Barr has been running a television commercial that has a hayseed farmer saying "Linder's good," but concluding "Barr's just gooder".

What the hell am I doing here?" He throws off his sheepskin coat and sits surveying the pretentious lobby as though he's a hayseed taking in Times Square.

"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" centered on a hayseed hero who, inheriting $20 million, seeks to subsidize farms for the Depression's jobless.

Failure and shame become the dominant themes of the Educational comedies, which cast him as a watch repairman with fantasies of becoming a trapeze artist ("Allez Oop"), a handyman who lays waste to a farm ("Hayseed Romance") or a sailor who can't stay out of the brig ("Tars and Stripes").

In Mr. Kunkel's biography of Ross, "Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker," he set about to dispel the prevailing impression of his subject, who never even graduated from high school, as "a perpetually confused hayseed, a naif, an uncouth provincial who succeeded almost in spite of himself".

It's Kirk whose character initially seems the less attractive, starting out as a brawling hayseed and then a bumptious trainee too ready to cast off his L-plates.

"When I was a kid, I was a real hayseed.

3. Ruggles Of Red Gap (1936)- Charles Laughton plays an English butler whose master loses him in a card game to a rich hayseed American, and who is then forced to relocate to the untamed West.