| Amazingly, this normally crass strategy gels because he is a versatile song stylist who handles a variety of textures with aplomb. |
| Yet I am not advocating a crass rationalism in which reverence, empathy and love have no place. |
| Stray too far in one direction and you devolve into saccharine sentimentality, go the other direction and you risk crass exploitation. |
| As a result, the next generation was to tend towards political quietism and, worst of all, a crass materialism. |
| In the sponsorship of the arts there is a fine line between class and crass. |
| For them, the West was crass, materialistic and, of course, morally rotten. |
