The King Is Dead

on the radio:

he was sort-of the king maker —

The speaker couldn’t trust that we would understand him without the “sort-of” — that the trope was beyond our imagination. We would misunderstand him and hold him to the literal meaning of “king maker.”
This is the main use of KSA.

If you will

almost sharper… you know anytime ,,,, a little bit more of that sorta traditional look if you will…-– web instructional video presenter

When you aren’t certain of what to say, but you have to keep speaking, then you can talk like kinda, sorta like, well this, you know?