The owner of a pickup truck in small-town America is declaring his or her just-folks status -- a sort of down-to-earth ruggedness, an awareness that getting close to nature also means getting dirty, dented and scratched, a belief that only trucks are worthy of that bruising communion.
Across the border in Pakistan, Singh has been elevated to folk hero status.
A lot of Mr. Lipsyte's folk hero status among younger writers comes from a misapprehension.
Like Mr. Davis, he attained a kind of folk hero status - the one man who stood up to street crime.
Andy Dalton, who has attained a sub-Tebow folk hero status in Cincinnati, may not play Sunday because of a wrist injury.
This too, was punctuated with cheers, notably at the mention of Giles Fraser, the canon chancellor whose folk hero status in the camp began on its first day when he asked police to leave demonstrators where they were.
His role in that sensation earned him folk hero status in Leicester and catapulted him to a level of celebrity that makes it hard for him to venture outdoors when he returns to his home country.
They don't merit folk supergroup status quite yet, but the Furrow Collective are an intriguing gathering of four distinctive singers and instrumentalists with a bravely sparse and compelling new take on traditional songs.
The wartime and postwar folk hero status that emerged in the West for Shelby, as well as for John Hunt Morgan and M. Jeff Thompson, blurred the lines between regular and irregular warfare, and between rebel cavalry, partisan raiders and guerrillas.
Even keeping in mind that the Monday night opponent was an unraveling Kansas City team, Gronkowski's performance — including his touchdown cartwheel — is launching him into folk hero status, Jackie MacMullan writes on ESPN.com.
