Sentence examples similar to down to earth detail from inspiring English sources
For all its down-to-earth detail and fiscal arithmetic, the three-party accord that let Mr Balkenende this week start forming a cabinet struck one Dutch newspaper as "a lesson in Christian Democratic ideology".
Brilliant down-to-earth detail, frontier life captured like a lamplit interior, "prose as good as bread" (as one critic put it), and a sense of courage, community and human solidarity that travels far beyond the setting.
The young Jacobs also held long imaginary conversations with the Founding Fathers, dismissing Jefferson's abstractions in order to talk to the more practical-minded Ben Franklin, who "was interested in nitty-gritty, down-to-earth details, such as why the alley we were walking through wasn't paved, and who would pave it," as she recounted to an interviewer.
While Prometheus was all but crushed by the lumbering weight of its self-consciously portentous dialogue (much ear-scraping exposition about God and interstellar "engineers"), this revels in the down-to-earth details of making a meal out of a potato when you've run out of ketchup, and the sheer absurdist pleasure of watching human beings outwit the universe with Sellotape and string.
Seemed very down to earth".
He seems honest and down to earth".
"He tied me down to earth".
"She was very down to earth".
He's down to earth and genuine".
