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• s  sensible and practical
  has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem

• Genius or not, Chow is still as down-to-earth as an eager film extra.
• What do women want? If Freud were an industry analyst, he'd say they want to see movies about emotionally frustrated career gals who get remedial lessons in love from down-to-earth .
• Though he is an Asian Food Channel fixture, San Francisco-born Bruce Lim is remarkably down-to-earth.

• earthy

News & Articles

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• China marks decade of human spaceflight
  BEIJING (AP) — China's astronauts have braved the tension of docking with a space station and performed delicate tasks outside their orbiting capsule, but now face a more down-to-earth job that is perhaps equally challenging: Talking to young people about science.
  June 10, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Olivia Wilde's Favorite Lipstick, Hair Products, Beauty Treatment, and Other Fun Facts!
  Getty Images) Olivia Wilde at the  The Ride and the Storm screening earlier this year Olivia Wilde is one of our favorite leadings ladies in Hollywood right now—and not just because she's gorgeous and has the ultimate cool-girl LA style, but she's also smart, hilarious, and down-to-earth . In the July issue of  Tatler , Wilde dishes on weird personal facts from her past, and reveals some of her ...
  June 10, 2013 - StyleBistro
• China marks decade of human spaceflight - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports
  BEIJING (AP) - China's astronauts have braved the tension of docking with a space station and performed delicate tasks outside their orbiting capsule, but now face a more down-to-Earth job that is perhaps equally challenging: Talking to young people about science.
  June 10, 2013 - Quincy Herald-Whig

Quotes

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• Heath Ledger in BBC News
  Heath has touched so many people on so many different levels during his short life, but few had the pleasure of truly knowing him,Mr Ledger said. "He was a down-to-earth, generous, kind-hearted, life-loving, unselfish individual who was...
• President Bush in Guardian Unlimited
  There's no doubt in my mind this community will come back better than before,Bush said in the poor tobacco-farming area near the Kentucky border. "Macon County people are down-to-earth, hardworking, God-fearing people. They're just getting...