There's nothing wrong with a healthy spirit of crass commercialism, or even a whiff of naked greed these days, is there? |
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Amid a sea of melismatic showoffs and crass belters, he stood out as an old-fashioned crooner in the thrall of a faraway vision. |
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That is, bettors get their wagers back but don't actually generate anything as crass as earnings. |
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You wonder at the judgement of God that such unauthentic, crass, impudent lies not only lived, but prevailed for so many centuries. |
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The actress is chirpy and loose as blowzy broad Dolores in a show that proves you can do worse than taking in a crass melodrama. |
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On Friday, though, for all its colour, flair and energy, his playing was often incoherent, self-indulgent and slam-bang crass. |
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Here is architecture, rather than sloppy sentimentality or crass commercialism. |
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It's possible to view a pirate as boorish and crass or as vivacious and life-loving. |
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Your editorial last week showed a naivety bordering on crass stupidity when you argued that smoking in pubs should be a matter of choice. |
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The Green Arrow is a bit crass and snipes at Batman a lot, but that's to be expected from a second-stringer superhero. |
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I just cannot imagine him saying anything as crass as the paper implied, nor is it likely that he would have lied about it. |
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The cynical exploitation of international conflicts to wage war to achieve such a crass strategic end is what makes this war so immoral. |
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Amazingly, this normally crass commercial strategy gels because Benet is a versatile song stylist who handles a variety of textures with aplomb. |
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It's a great trait if you're an employer looking to fill your ranks with obedient cogs, not so great if you want to end crass credentialism. |
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It is a matter of getting issues across in a classy way, as opposed to writing about them in a crass manner. |
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It was a mindless and moronic act of political naivete and crass immaturity. |
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Strange, though Ian, how half-a-dozen years can turn a crass old banger into a collectable classic. |
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To have backtracked on a finding to which he was signed up would have been crass and would have exposed him to accusations of inconstancy. |
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At the same time, she emphasised that the crass commercialism of children's television reinforced consumer culture. |
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Personal comportment often appears crass, loud, and effusive to people from other cultures, but Americans value emotional and bodily restraint. |
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Enter director Renny Harlin, who injects this well-meaning material with a crass, brittle cynicism. |
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Instead of the crass commercialism shoveled at us come Christmastime, we get to dress up as brain-eating ghouls and sexy pixies. |
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It is true that much of the humour plays on cultural differences but this is done without ever becoming too crude or crass. |
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To ignore such an evident flowering of talent and achievement is not only crass stupidity but a wasted opportunity. |
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I hope this doesn't appear crass, but it hints at the desperation of the survivors that we can help by sending rice to that region. |
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There's something fundamentally crass and vaguely offensive about all of this, isn't there? |
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Over the next decade, the crass stupidity of the words must have haunted them. |
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Communal forces thrive on the crass ignorance of the masses concerning the essentials of their faith. |
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By setting such a trap or permitting an employee to do so on a river where otters are breeding is crass stupidity. |
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Not only he is he a crass bigot, and therefore worthy of shooting, but absolutely illogical. |
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To state baldly that it's purely between the woman and her doctor is crass and simplistic at the very least. |
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It is very often cheesy and crass, and is completely pretentious from start to finish! |
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What I am saying is no one, absolutely no one, should have to put up with crass disrespect. |
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It seems staggeringly crass and inappropriate, but I understand his need to record this terrible scene. |
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Some of the songs were straight from the top of the genius pile, while others were just crass, crude and downright stupid. |
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The fraternal filmmaking team manages to make crass, stupid, lurid jokes, while also maintaining a heart and evoking old-fashioned schmaltz. |
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Someone as cultured and educated as you come across being surely can't admire someone as crass and blatantly offensive as him? |
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In contrast to the dignified silence from the other side, even slyly whispered accusations are magnified to sound deafeningly crass. |
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That might have been crass, but the film is peppered with jarring references and disconcerting parallels to current events. |
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Those who disdain wealth as crass materialism need to understand that wealth is one of the biggest life-saving factors in the world. |
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It mostly seeks to duck and dive to avoid taking responsibility for the crass way this country is now managed on our behalf. |
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As a result, the next generation was to tend towards political quietism and, worst of all, a crass materialism. |
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Co-opting him as a management guru is crass, yet if it opens more imaginations to the spell-binding it may be a useful book. |
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Yet I am not advocating a crass rationalism in which reverence, empathy and love have no place. |
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But that would be a crass sort of opinion to attribute to a wily man like Pilate. |
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First thing Monday morning, I would be in at school or work, entertaining people with crass jokes and tasteless witticisms. |
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Amazingly, this normally crass strategy gels because he is a versatile song stylist who handles a variety of textures with aplomb. |
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His suffering at her hands would have been unbearable had he not so richly deserved it for his crass stupidity and snobbishness. |
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The depiction of rural life generally is crass and seldom rises above the level of caricature. |
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In the sponsorship of the arts there is a fine line between class and crass. |
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For them, the West was crass, materialistic and, of course, morally rotten. |
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Stray too far in one direction and you devolve into saccharine sentimentality, go the other direction and you risk crass exploitation. |
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It's just a maelstrom of shrieking children, crass commercialism, and ratcheting credit card debt. |
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Which means there will be plenty of scolds out there taking us to task again for crass consumerism. |
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Get called tasteless, crass and unfeeling towards the other victims of the hurricane. |
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However crass and tawdry this influence-peddling may be, it hardly comes as a shock. |
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Yacob bit his lip in mid-protest, effectively choking back whatever crass words he would have used. |
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I just think it's crass to abbreviate in that manner, writing in text-speak like some 15-year-old going out on a Friday night. |
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Sure, crass commercialism has pushed the mainstream media into an obsession with titillating stories about celebrities. |
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The timing too was crass, since the increase coincided with MPs awarding themselves an annual pay rise equal to the thick end of a year's entire minimum wage. |
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It was precisely his rejection of the 'clapped-out' culture of Europe that framed his crass, ignorant, and chunderous performance of post-imperial Australia. |
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In place of serious musical appreciation we got crass superficiality. |
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She's brassy, outspoken, occasionally crass, and has a yachtload of money. |
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In the first movement the oboe introduces the melody, quasi-ironic in its soupy neo-Romanticism, almost crass except that it avoids predictability, and is counterpointed. |
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Smart and sassy becomes smarmy and crass at the touch of the middlebrow. |
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Their crass intrusion into these areas as the face of public authority claiming to protect women from the vicissitudes of interpersonal strife is destined to end in disaster. |
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Nick is also insensitive, chauvinistic, bullheaded and crass. |
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Someone who appears to have lost the early promise of his role in Swingers, Vaughn is allowed to chew the scenery and play the crass American to the hilt. |
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Commercials may be crass, loud, an insult to our intelligence. |
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The humour is so crass, to call it dumbed-down would be expansive. |
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Nor did her husband's ham-handed collaboration, in the crass style of a dad dancing at the school disco, do anything to retrieve the dignity of the situation. |
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It's crass and I apologize, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. |
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Reviews can also be removed for being too crass, off topic or unhelpful. |
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Brash, crass, and sporting a perpetually raised eyebrow, ash Williams remains the ultimate postmodern superhero. |
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I hate to carve up a book into parcels, to evaluate art with that crass finality of the food critic judging course after course. |
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By the way, killjoys, American charitable giving goes up by 42 percent during this season of crass materialistic greed and excess. |
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It's easy to slam the studios for churning out crass sequels and safe remakes and endlessly rebootable superhero pictures. |
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The fear of a social explosion goes a long way to explain the crass media manipulation of the current changing of the guard at New York's City Hall. |
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It's crass, sadistic and appeals to the very worst in human nature. |
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Many of the agents were insensitive and crass, shouting insults and expletives at the detainees in Spanish. |
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The words will surely land just this side of being hopelessly crass. |
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But this verdict, arrived at by the 600 experts, contains the same level of dottiness at play in all the other crass errors of judgement on the list. |
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Instead, it was superficially crass and, in turn, barely provocative. |
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All the crass, life-affirming bluster of the previous 20 minutes disappears in a single instant when Brick spills the beans. |
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It certainly puts to shame most of the crude, crass and crummy comedies being churned out these days. |
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It's no use arguing with Mother Nature over such crass methods, for the history of spiderdom would long since have come to an end without them. |
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Many of the snootier fashion houses might see it as tasteless and crass, and may not want their brands associated with it. |
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The 23rd game is a crass, nakedly commercial bastardisation of the timehonoured logic of playing every other team home and away. |
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He must think we have all fallen out of a monkey tree up here if he thinks we would fall for such patently crass patronisation. |
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To return once again to that small-mindedness is simply rather crass and timid. |
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What follows, from the writers of The Hangover, is predictable, crass, pointless and plotless. |
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Critics love to paint all of the residents of this superlative-crazy emirate with the same crass cultureless consumerist brush. |
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His natural language was crass and of the mofussil, yet he could pepper it with smart turns of phrase on occasion. |
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It is not crass populism or majoritanianism that ratifies the legitimacy of the polity or the administration. |
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But ignorantly, and apparently uncaringly, to sacrifice this jewel of Wales' heritage for the sake of a few extra quid is an act of crass philistinism. |
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He is disturbed not by the crass materialism of his life but by the fact that he is still driving a Ford when he could and should be driving a Porsche. |
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Vincent follows the growing friendship between Oliver, a shrimpy misfit uprooted by his parents' recent divorce, and Vincent, his crass, alcoholic, world-hating neighbor. |
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He had serious doubts that the person behind it, which he assumed was Varik, would be so crass and blundersome if he wanted to seriously threaten Marcus' existence. |
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The crass cultural chauvinism and blatant flackery that surrounded and fed American pop have not by any means gone from the art scene, but they are muted. |
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