mom and apple pie

Example Sentences

• "A case in point is the current concern over the drafting of Honors programs in our colleges. To be “against” Honors programs is now almost as unthinkable as to be “against” Mom and apple pie."
• "The seeming rambling plotlessness (and consider, in the context of Hollywood slickeries of production and Mom-and-apple-pie-isms of the era, the courage of his producers in permitting him his free-form structures, let alone his iconoclasms) puts an aura of carelessness on his work."
• "MXing for Mom and apple pie […] It just so happens that Brad Lackey is one of the top ten 500сс motocrossers in the world. He’s only 20 years old and already riding with the best of them. Besides that, he’s an outasight dude doing his thing for Mom and apple pie. All us kids back in the states like to keep track of what he’s up to, and as a matter of fact, his right profile looks a bit like Peter Fonda."
• "Among the treasured artifacts of Americana — right up there with “Mom and apple pie” and, of course, the Stars and Stripes, will — or should — always be this colorful, captivating reminder of the never-never land that, hopefully, will forever be with us."
• "Club rules for the state of perfect competition are these: 1. the club must be made up of ethical people 2. the state must eschew excess profits and wealth, and resources must be rationally allocated. All this might sound like Mom and apple pie, and appear so obvious that these articles would not require restating, if it wasn’t for the fact that the basic rules for survival and performance call for the exact reverse in business activity."
• "And Bert Parks was part of all that. He was Mom and apple pie. He was the Miss America Pageant. […] Television now dominates our lives like nothing else in the world. Not newspapers, not magazines, not school. And to the dismay of many—not even Mom and apple pie."