| 单词 | coarsen |
| 例句 | Her skin had coarsened a bit over the years, he thought. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Now he was used to such things, a roadside commonplace, but back then, before the coarsening and general numbness, when it was a novelty and when everything was new, he felt it sharply. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Her skin had coarsened, tanned from all the time they were spending in the yard sitting beneath the brazen sun. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He reminded me of the Big Boy at the Elias Brothers’ chain of restaurants, only older, coarsened and bloated by adult vices. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He thinks it has coarsened discourse in the Capitol. It’s been a tense year of infighting for Democrats. And this might be as good as it gets. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The many unacknowledged failures of American policy and the coarsening of popular attitudes form the matrix in which Akhtar’s stories grow. ‘Homeland Elegies’ Sings for a Fading Dream of National Belonging 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z You can almost imagine — or at least wish — that the real people responsible for the coarsening of civic discourse are just dumb and lovable, rather than greedy and evil. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z The human element has been lost, and neither the left nor the right can plead innocent in this coarsening of American politics. When a 'City of Conversation' becomes a union divided: Political factions propel drama at the Wallis 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z It's sort of a protest against cheaply manufactured clothing, the slave labour that goes into it, the coarsening of modern society . Learning to love Agatha Christie 2010-10-01T07:16:00Z “There was a constant cultural war around whether music was at fault for coarsening society,” said Rosen, who is now a Democratic strategist. Cardi B’s ‘WAP’ Proves Music’s Dirty Secret: Censorship Is Good Business 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z In them, it’s also clear how politicians’ behavior has coarsened since his time. Perspective | How George H.W. Bush used handwritten thank-you notes to build bridges 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z But the power of her evocation isn’t a matter of impersonation: it’s her willingness to imbue a phrase or single word with drawling significance, distending a vowel here, coarsening texture there. Music: A Style Lasting Beyond a Lifetime 2010-08-27T22:50:00Z Even as Twitter frays and coarsens under Musk’s ownership, it’s still possible to have fun with others, one of the few things that keeps users from leaving. David Crosby, a King of Twitter 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z And to give that up is to coarsen our politics, I believe. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z Ms. Paige’s once pristine, Sarah Brightman-like soprano may have coarsened and frayed, but in “Memory,” “Cry Me a River” and “As if We Never Said Goodbye,” she still belted like a trouper. Music Review: Elaine Paige at the Allen Room, Friendly and Confessional 2012-02-13T23:21:13Z There is, for example, a scatological joke that Mr. Epp came up with and Mr. Bayes refined through coarsening, adding a flourish that cranks up the eww factor. The Professor of Pratfalls 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Lots of people have examined the sharpening of partisanship in parallel with the coarsening of culture, a reaction to the "wokeness" that in previous eras was called political correctness. "Last Man Standing" bids farewell, while Tim Allen keeps on truckin' with his right-wing shade 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Colin Brooks, at the other end of the stage, attacked his electric guitar, uncoiling blues licks in a coarsened tone. Music Review: Saddled Up for Serious Strumming 2011-08-04T21:59:13Z Beyond concerns that talent shows may have coarsened the tone of TV entertainment, there have also been worries about the impact on other areas of culture. Ten years of The X Factor, the show-off show with a talent for survival 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z A steady diet of megaviolence may coarsen the young psyche — but some films may instruct it. Bane for Real: How the Aurora Killings Shattered Movie Fantasy 2012-07-22T19:49:58Z Their approach to the Bridge is equally robust, but less successful; the music's delicately voiced textures become rather coarsened. Bridge: Piano Quintet; Bax: Piano Quintet - review 2010-12-16T23:00:01Z Freedom of speech, that noblest of abstractions, can easily coarsen and shrink into freedom of snort. Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z But it is also unavoidably true that this coarsening has both been led and worsened by Trump. Perspective | Believe it or not, Fox News once knew shame 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z I strongly suspect that this is one of the several pieces whose choreography Graham coarsened in later years. Review: Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham Works at Juilliard Dance 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z While some people would argue that this change suggests a tragic coarsening of our culture, it's actually a return toward honesty. Prime time's new age of crudeness 2011-01-17T15:01:00Z That this really did take place in South Africa confirms not merely an inability to take life seriously enough, or a coarsening of the individuals' concerned sensibilities, but a deep and painful kind of stultification. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z The number of Republicans vying for the presidential nomination in 2016 likely added to the general coarsening of language on the right. Perspective | The world is going to $#!+, but our language shouldn’t 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z But in the crucible of online fandom, demographic distinctions can coarsen into warring factions. The Rise of the Internet Fan Bully 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z “Or,” she asks, “is it just another coarsening and distancing of ourselves from other people?” I spent a week at home ordering every on-demand delivery I craved. 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z They are far enough from childhood to be fully formed but not yet coarsened by adulthood, as delicate of limb and feature as mantelpiece figurines. Review: ‘He Brought Her Heart Back,’ Adrienne Kennedy’s Beautiful Nightmare 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z We know that prison affected him deeply, coarsening his soul and turning him into an addict, but we also know that he didn’t enter Rikers as the humble, frightened little lamb he appeared to be. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z He transforms with chilling plausibility over the course of this season and the next, from a sensitive, relatively innocent youngster to a coarsened, cold-blooded killer. The Sopranos to Blackadder – what are the definitive series of the best TV shows? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z And yet, under “the dreck and distractions of overloaded tourism and coarsened spectacle,” Mr. Hughes says, “the glories of the remoter past remain, somewhat diminished but obstinately indelible” — remnants of Rome’s splendiferous earlier lives. Books of The Times: ?Rome,? a Personal History by Robert Hughes - Review 2011-11-21T23:26:49Z Consciously or subconsciously, Mamet seems to me to have been coarsened by financial pressure. Has David Mamet lost the plot? 2013-06-12T19:00:03Z If there was a slight coarsening and shrillness to her tone, it felt in keeping with a woman trying to suppress rising hysteria. La Voix Humaine/Dido and Aeneas – review 2013-02-15T15:28:34Z There are no connections made between Escobar and some larger theme, like his religious affiliation or the coarsening of his soul. ‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Legend vs. the Monster 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z There is, at several junctures, a coarsening of emphasis in Mr. Petronio’s Cunningham-related movement, and it returns in the company’s “RainForest.” Review: Stephen Petronio’s ‘Bloodlines’ 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z And the novel is sometimes coarsened by its political agenda. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain – review 2012-07-06T21:55:09Z In the black community, it is a form of slavery, this drug war, because it imprisons a huge portion of people, destroys their lives, coarsens our culture. 'Savages' boss Oliver Stone knows good weed 2012-07-05T18:14:09Z As a director, he has an old-fashioned belief in cinematic beauty, in the charm and necessity of the perfectly lighted and framed face, the hauntingly darkened room, the grittily coarsened street. Review: Hearts of Darkness and Light in ‘The Lost City of Z’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z In conclusion: sport may not inevitably coarsen, but in the particular form of society we have it undoubtedly stupefies. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z “It’s very sad, actually. Where are we going to be when he’s gone, after he’s so coarsened things?” Journalist Elizabeth Drew used her lifetime achievement award speech to call out sexism in the industry 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Will Self writer Is there something inherently coarsening about sport? 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z News organizations frequently wrestle with how to keep up with, or to resist, the coarsening of everyday speech. Wait, wait — can you say that on air? There’s a debate on cursing at NPR. 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Elo’s choreography invariably coarsens dancers and robs them of refinement. Dance Review: A Danish Modern Twist Updates Classical Ballet 2011-06-15T22:03:19Z “The truth is that our culture has coarsened, and reality star Donald Trump is the political manifestation of this coarsening,” wrote Lewis. The Right blames Beyoncé, again: Donald Trump surrogates equate his boasting of sexual assault to rap lyrics 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Does the coarsening of American discourse, as seen in the election, concern you? Sarah Jessica Parker on 'Divorce' and 'Sex and the City' 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Of course, cheap comparisons coarsen our collective conversation. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z "If we are interested in the distribution of small-scale objects, we have to work against this natural tendency for things to coarsen," Bellon explains. Stabilizing precipitate growth at grain boundaries in alloys 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z He’s coarsened our culture, trampled our Constitution and helped widen the country’s partisan divide into a yawning, seemingly unbridgeable chasm. Column: Donald Trump is rotten and despicable — but that doesn't mean he should be kicked off the presidential ballot 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The statement noted that “debate and disagreement” are central to democracy but also alluded to the coarsening of dialogue in the public arena during an era when officials and their families are receiving death threats. Presidential centers issue joint statement calling out the fragile state of US democracy 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z In the still early days of Donald Trump’s divisive presidency, when party lines are hardening and public dialogue is coarsening, these late-night stragglers hash out around a fire pit their shifting political and religious priorities. Did this Will Arbery play about young religious conservatives predict Jan. 6? 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The threats are not simply an issue of coarsening of the national discourse. Rising political threats take US into uncharted territory as 2024 election looms 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z But they also found that instead of coarsening and continuing to grow, the precipitates would reach a certain size, and stop. Stabilizing precipitate growth at grain boundaries in alloys 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The angry and often binary arguments of the Brexit years at Westminster - on all sides - coarsened the tenor and tone of political debate. Chris Mason: Free speech collides with Johnson committee doing its job 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z For Miller, two elements warrant particularly close study: the size and quantity of logs on the beach and the coarsening of its sand and gravel, both of which provide vital environmental clues. This Magnolia beach could offer ‘a microcosm for Puget Sound restoration’ 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z But there is nothing better about this “Cat Person,” which coarsens, flattens and torturously over-elaborates a story whose elegant concision was precisely what made it such rich and elastic interpretive fodder. Sundance: As 'Cat Person' ruins a viral sensation, 'Eileen' makes a stir of its own 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z “And I’d say that was one of the tools that over time helped coarsen the process and led to this increasing degree of militarism we’re seeing.” From Gingrich to McCarthy, the Roots of Governance by Chaos 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z This is called arrested coarsening behavior and was an unexpected result. Stabilizing precipitate growth at grain boundaries in alloys 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z But looking away as jokes are made and lies told about an elderly man being beaten further coarsens the nation’s already toxic politics. Opinion | Paul Pelosi’s attack is not grounds for jokes and unfounded rumors 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z To say our politics have coarsened over the past few decades is like noting that temperatures drop and daylight shortens as we settle into autumn. Column: Paul Pelosi is a victim of poisoned politics. Those inciting violence must be held to account 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z “It allows forms of hatred and racism, including anti-Semitism, to spread and become normalized. It coarsens and degrades our society and country.” Why Spotify and Apple Music haven't pulled Kanye West's songs 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “Bullying and intimidating behavior is not only coarsening discussion but having a chilling effect,” Korinke observed. Column: Shutting up the bullies and other bad actors, so democracy can thrive 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z In such a case, the suppression of coarsening would be beneficial. Stabilizing precipitate growth at grain boundaries in alloys 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z This coarsening of the riverbed then creates underwater dunes. Dams are supposed to prevent floods. Some may make them worse 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z The problem is that the Senate regularly conducts a spectacle that coarsens the political culture and clashes with judicial independence — without offsetting benefits, in terms of information it could not gain through other means. Opinion | The verdict on KBJ’s nomination hearings: Never again. 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z It’s not just that they coarsen the culture, though that’s bad enough. Is this Congress or middle school? 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z And Crawford, his flinty good looks partly hidden by a dark beard and coarsened by the cold Utah air, all but buries David in an inchoate weave of jealousy, confusion and fury. Review: 'The Killing of Two Lovers' is a powerful drama about a family on the brink 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Charity Hudley sees shifting attitudes when it comes to profanity — not so much a coarsening of the culture as a liberalization of language. The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Was he also a part of the coarsening of America? Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z He accepted no responsibility for a coarsening public debate in which foreign-language speakers are berated in public and violent white supremacist groups have thrived. Trump put up walls to immigrants, with stinging rhetoric and barriers made of steel and regulation 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z His language coarsened; his drinking worsened; he got into fights often and was arrested multiple times. In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z But the relationship between Lightfoot and the Trumps coarsened over time. Despite barbs, Trump family and Chicago mayor can be nice 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Some police leaders say they are struggling to stay ahead of the country’s coarsening divide, which they say is being fueled by rampant misinformation on social media designed to stoke tension. U.S. political divide becomes increasingly violent, rattling activists and police 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Fox News is seen by critics as a centrifugal force in the decay of consensus, the coarsening of political debate and the polarisation of the country. 'It's a 50-50 nation': Chris Wallace on Fox News, Trump and America's great divide 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Trump has changed literally everything in the last three years, transforming and coarsening the game. Opinion | Trump, Unrepentant and Unleashed 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Language coarsens and is used to dehumanise the 'other'; people become 'animals', police become 'pigs'. Donald Trump and his demons: Why the assault on democracy will get worse 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z It’s a progressive degeneration from pop culture to further dumb down and coarsen our popular taste. Feedback: Debating ‘The Millennium 100’ and defending 'Cats' 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z In a statement, the Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley, Archbishop of Oklahoma City, said the death penalty “only contributes to the continued coarsening of society and to the spiral of violence.” Clemency sought for Oklahoma death row inmate in man’s death 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z This type of speech has had a coarsening effect not only on our leaders’ discourse but I think on how we treat each other. Could 2019 be remembered as the year that shame finally died? | Brigid Delaney 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “As the elections approach, when passions are raised and the discourse coarsens, I implore you not to believe the incitement and the personal attacks,” he said. Israeli PM infuses campaign with anti-media incitement 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z But Trump maintained his own rhetoric — including attacks on his political foes, immigrants and other groups — played no role in coarsening conversation online and spawning violence. White House invites tech companies to discussion of violent online extremism 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z She warned that Britain was seeing “the coarsening of public debate,” which many listeners took as a dig at Johnson and Trump. Theresa May packs her bags, her legacy dominated by failure 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Warning of a general coarsening of political debate, she said "some are losing the ability to disagree without demeaning the views of others". May warns against politics of 'winners and losers' 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z ‘The whole question about abortion is related to the coarsening of the social fabric,” Glendon told the Times. Mike Pompeo's "pro-women" human rights panel is loaded with abortion foes 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z “The political entrepreneurs and social provocateurs who win profit and promotion by demeaning politics and coarsening discourse are not going to be swayed.” Review | How would we repair the damage in a post-Trump America? 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z “Hasn’t our national debate been coarsened enough, and shouldn’t we appreciate the old-school attributes of somebody like Bob Mueller, who declined to engage in hand-to-hand combat with 140 characters?” asked Sandick. Trump v Mueller: How the president won the messaging wars 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Who knows what are the long-term consequences of this, because it certainly ramps up the coarsening of our political culture.” 'The Kraken unleashed': how Trump's shock troops attack US democracy 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z We are witnessing the coarsening of public discourse. Perspective | When it comes to fan-player interactions, it is getting nastier and gnarlier out there 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z They can’t help regarding his use of profanity in public speeches as contributing to the further coarsening of our culture. How Trump gets away with saying ‘bull–-‘ to millions on TV 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z The entire goal of the president’s political movement is to irreparably scramble the board -- to dissolve alliances, coarsen the dialogue, stoke racial animosity and undermine institutions. Roger Stone is more than a toxic clown: He's a danger to democracy 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z In February Theresa May announced a crackdown on the intimidation of political candidates and highlighted the "coarsening and toxifying of our public debate" on social media. Internet laws pledged as firms snub talks 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z I am old-fashioned enough to regret the coarsening of our political dialogue and to believe the privilege of public office obligates one to speak to our better angels, not our worst. Obscenity is not just a set of words 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Given the coarsening discourse and widening polarization, the challenge is immense. Opinion | The Democratic House wants to reform democracy. It’s not a panacea — but it’s a start. 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The Washington Post calls Mr. Garrett’s book “an early draft of our current history,” while Kirkus Reviews cited the author’s analysis of Mr. Trump’s own “coarsening effect on political dialogue.” Inside the Beltway: Trump, ‘master of the medium of his time’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z And he has exploited and worsened divisions among Americans, coarsened public discourse and used racial hatred, resentment of women’s gains and fear of immigrants and minorities as political weapons. Opinion | We have no excuses now. Our eyes are wide open. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Ralph Reed, the head of the conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition, said that the coarsening of the discourse that Mr. Trump is criticized for has only added to his appeal among his supporters. He’s ‘One of Us’: The Undying Bond Between the Bible Belt and Trump 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump, he added, “is just a natural extension of that coarsening of the culture.” Federal Anti-Discrimination Official Under Fire for Racial Comments 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Does he think that by dwelling so graphically on private sexual matters he contributed to this coarsening of public discourse? Ken Starr: 'There are eerie echoes of the past' 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Mr. McCain, who had survived a Vietnam War prison camp and weathered the gradual coarsening of politics within his own party, appeared to have a sense of how the day might unfold. Trump Relents Under Pressure, Offering ‘Respect’ to McCain 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z People bewail the coarsening of public debate; a bad development with a pleasantly granular overtone, as if we’re discussing mustard. Think debate has turned toxic? I have the podcasts for you | Rhik Samadder 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The latter, in retrospect, grew fickle and scattershot, coarsened by mercenary cynicism, whereas McQueen stayed focussed and intent, and there was no calculation in the feelings that fed his truculent visual wit. “McQueen” Explores the Savage Talent of a Death-Haunted Designer 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z In an earlier thread, Mr. Blankenstein wrote that “conservative groups loudly protesting the coarsening of the culture” in the 1990s had “lost.” Federal Anti-Discrimination Official Under Fire for Racial Comments 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Yet the party’s critics see something far more ominous: a coarsening of debate and the denigration of minorities in a country where that combination has led to catastrophic consequences. The far right is back in the Reichstag, bringing with it taunts and insults 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump has coarsened our discourse, insulted our war heroes and palled around with dictators. Opinion | The GOP’s future is not to like 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Turn on cable news or pull up a political blog, and a coarsening culture displays itself. A Holiday for the Rule of Law 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z His peers may catch flak for glorifying gun violence while demanding more gun restrictions, but Mr. Mantegna blames a coarsening culture and a lack of education as being more reflective of recent shootings. Joe Mantegna says Second Amendment ‘makes perfect sense today’ 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Previously, it was the cheapening and coarsening of cultural norms. Raids on Trump’s Lawyer Sought Records of Payments to Women 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z There’s an argument that coarsened culture requires even more gruesome photographs to rouse our numbed humanity. The Real Face of War? It May Be This Boy in a Pink Sweater 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z She will warn, however, that online abuse, intimidation and "coarsening" debate are threatening democracy today. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know this morning 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z I agree with much of what Frum writes — his diagnosis of how the Republican Party succumbed to Trump, his judgment of Trump’s enablers and toadies, his critique of Trump’s disgraceful behavior and its coarsening effect. Opinion | Trump So Far Is More Farce Than Tragedy 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z But it also adds new incidents, characters and depth, with a contemporary wit that doesn’t coarsen the story — or not much, anyway. Review | ‘Ferdinand’: The conscientious-objector bull of a children’s book gets a wider pasture in the movie 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Thanks in large part to social media, which incentivizes invective and then magnifies it, our conversations coarsen. Opinion | An Abomination. A Monster. That’s Me? 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z It coarsens public discourse, distracts from the real issues and prevents solutions. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Oklahoma newspapers 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z But legal analysts and other observers are surprised that the breadth and political clout of conservative sheriffs appear to be growing stronger, reflecting the coarsening of debate in the United States. Tough-talking sheriffs raise their voices in Trump era 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Instead, the shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., seemed to only further coarsen the tone surrounding a decades-long fight over gun rights in the United States. Congress hasn’t sorted out what to do about bump stocks. The Texas shooting isn’t likely to jump-start debate, either. 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The book lanced the Republican Party and Flake’s colleagues for, in his words, their “abdication” of responsibility to stand up against the president as he coarsened politics and divided the nation. 'Phones are blowing up' in Arizona as Sen. Jeff Flake announces departure, roiling already complicated Senate race 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z This is an America, wanting and coarsened, that Trump often conjures — even as his critics charge that he personifies the indictment. Kelly might not be like Trump, but he seems like many Trump voters 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Two former presidents emerged from political seclusion: George W. Bush denounced nationalism, protectionism and coarsened politics in remarks that seemed aimed at Mr. Trump. Catalonia, Brexit, Harvey Weinstein: Your Friday Briefing 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z George W. Bush delivered a speech in New York denouncing nationalism and coarsened politics that seemed aimed at President Trump. John Kelly, George Bush, Quentin Tarantino: Your Thursday Evening Briefing 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The result is a political environment that “has coarsened the culture as a whole,” Sykes writes. Review | It’s like ‘What Happened,’ but for conservatives 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Some argued that it symbolised a coarsening of society, with many people indifferent to their fellow citizens' welfare. German trial over pensioner left to die 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Critics said Trump has not only coarsened and debased the nation’s dialogue, but also that he has promoted xenophobia and anti-Semitism. RTs = endorsements? Trump’s retweets of outlandish memes a signal to his base 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z I’m indebted to Luis Gutiérrez, the bumptious congressman from Illinois’s Fourth District, for confirming what I long resisted acknowledging: America’s political discourse has been painfully coarsened. I Guess We’re All McCarthyites Now 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z The unseemly saga, they say, reflects a coarsening of the national discourse on race. The Anzac post, outrage and a debate about race - BBC News 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z “I worry that you will grow up in a time of ideological haste, a time of wild conviction and coarsened thought,” she writes. Review | Sorry, but I don’t care how you felt on election night. Not anymore. 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The nomination of Callista is also Trump’s beatification of Newt, who has done as much as anyone to coarsen American politics — and to pave the way for Trump — with his name-calling, demonizing and brinkmanship. Opinion | Callista Gingrich’s nomination to the Vatican stinks to high heaven 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z As a result, the Trump era is coarsening our discourse. A Summer Project to Nourish Your Political Soul 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z It erases nuance, coarsens thought, turns into a game of “Telephone” in which original meaning becomes hopelessly garbled with every successive retweet. Twitter is political pornography 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z At the Glastonbury festival in the UK, Johnny Depp made a useful contribution to the coarsening of political discourse in the US by joking about assassinating the president. Tracking Trump: Sean Spicer emerges from the bushes as rumors swirl 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z “The discourse has coarsened tremendously over the last decade, even more so this last year. You see it on the left as well as the right.” The Virginia shooting fallout was predictably partisan. Can this ever be fixed? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z In addition to the spread of “lock them up” rhetoric across parties, this week Mr. Dreher saw another troubling trend in the coarsening of American politics. Right, Left and Center: Partisan Writing You Shouldn’t Miss 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Anonymity facilitates a coarsening of speech on the Internet. A scholar asks, ‘Can democracy survive the Internet?’ 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Political discourse has become coarsened and the virtue of patriotism--like most other virtues--is seldom subjected to thoughtful reflection. Dan Rather Thinks We Need Patriotism, Not Nationalism 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z An Upton spokesman said he is doing telephone town halls because political discourse has coarsened so much that traditional ones “have become circus atmospheres.” Unlike colleagues, Michigan congressman embraces town halls 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The coarsening of public discourse – often online – reveals anger, alienation and a dangerous kind of apathy that feeds on low-level anxiety and perpetual disappointment. Populists blame poor behaviour on migrants – but these fearmongers are less civil than most primary school kids 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z But in the coarsening, embittering 1960s, Wilkinson writes, “more Americans annihilated fellow citizens in their consciousness than were slain on the field of any battle.” Opinion | To understand today’s politics, look at Yale in the ’60s 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Many on the right, especially, are expressing regrets at their past willingness to collaborate with the on-air demagogues who have so coarsened the political conversation. A centrist coalition is our best hope 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The coarsening and cheapening of political discourse under Trump has drawn the novelist Philip Roth from the silence of his retirement. The new culture war: how Hollywood took on Trump 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, said that Mr. Trump’s analogy was “not only an inappropriate comparison on the merits, but it also coarsens our discourse.” Trump Under Fire for Invoking Nazis in Criticism of U.S. Intelligence 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Immigrants and minorities are fearful, bigots are emboldened, discourse is coarsened. The right is emboldened, yes. But it’s not in the ascendancy | Gary Younge 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z “A coarsening of language is a precursor to the coarsening of values.” In War Between Candidates, Even F.B.I. Director Is a Target 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z But, of course, it is Trump’s version of populism that has produced an ugly presidential campaign, a cultural and political coarsening that is unlikely to end after Election Day. Donald Trump’s appeal is not just about ‘anger’ and ‘resentment’ 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Now, Trump has taken that coarsening of the culture and exacerbated it. What is the long-term effect of Donald Trump? 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Trump is fundamentally altering American politics — coarsening them, corrupting them, cratering them. Donald Trump, the Worst of America 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Mason, who spent the High Holy Days praying for people everywhere who are persecuted, bemoans what he feels is a coarsening of the culture, particularly in entertainment. Jackie Mason slams Bernie Sanders for being ‘self-hating Jew’ 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z We are seeing the full-scale effects of reality TV on our society -- the cheapening and coarsening of discourse, of... After Donald Trump, Will More Women Believe Their Own Stories? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But the campaign to defend Trump by pointing to a supposed broader coarsening of the culture combines an unworthy goal with embarrassing misinterpretations. The incredibly depressing way Donald Trump’s surrogates talk about sex 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The question IS how much harm Donald Trump has done to the fabric of our democracy and society with his divisiveness, hatefulness, lying, and coarsening of political discourse. How Much Is Donald Trump Hurting the G.O.P.? Here’s a Way to See 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z “There are people who argue, ‘Oh, my God, these debates are coarsening the discourse,’ and ‘Oh, my God, these debates are distorting the process,’ ” Lehrer told me. The State of the Presidential Debate 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z She thinks there's been a general coarsening of language in a lot of political debate, in Britain and elsewhere. Dame Carol Ann Duffy's local bookstore crusade - BBC News 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z You had to ask: With the national conversation, over the past four months, both colonized and coarsened by so bitter a debate, how much lower could the whole thing go? Britain Votes, Maybe for the Last Time, on Whether to Stand Alone 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Brendan Cox says his wife was worried about the "coarsening" of politics. Husband of slain MP Jo Cox says she died for her views 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Brendan Cox says his wife was worried about the “coarsening” of politics. Husband of slain MP Jo Cox says she died for her views 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z The stunning statement comes days after Trump seemed to insinuate the same about Obama, and reflects a coarsening of the nation’s political discourse in this campaign season. Why Bernie Sanders Won't Quit 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The promotion of a celebrity culture free from hard news coarsens discourse and may take from the public interest as much as it gives. We’re all implicated in the messy Gawker case 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z But it was Mr. Starr’s keening over the coarsening and polarization of American politics that seemed most noteworthy. Kenneth Starr, Who Tried to Bury Bill Clinton, Now Only Praises Him 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Add the lowering of standards, the feeling of no options, the coarsening, and all the new estrangements. That Moment When 2016 Hits You 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Speaking at the annual Robin Toner journalism prize ceremony in Washington, Mr. Obama said the “coarsening” of this year’s presidential campaign is hurting democracy, and journalists are failing to hold candidates accountable for false claims. Obama calls on media to get tougher with presidential candidates 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Obama remarked on the discourse of the current political landscape, condemning “the divisive and often vulgar rhetoric,” “the coarsening of the debate” and “the sense that facts don’t matter.” Obama Criticizes Media Coverage of 2016 Election Season 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Second, he has done more than perhaps anyone but Trump to coarsen public debate. Rubio Is Gone, But the Damage He Caused Remains 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z That he flaunts his classlessness so flagrantly, is adored by those with far less money and probably even less intelligence, and gets away with it, speaks volumes about America's coarsened public life and popular culture. The Trump Campaign Gives License to Violence 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Indeed, in Rubio’s mind, presidential criticism of GOP fiscal policy – criticism that was entirely accurate, for what it’s worth – coarsens the public discourse and contributes to violent confrontations. In race against Trump, Rubio takes aim at Obama 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z One of the consequences of the vulgarity in the Republican race is the coarsening of our broader national discourse. The Daily 202: Five reasons Bernie Sanders lost last night’s Democratic debate 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z We have a deeply coarsened culture of disruption in Congress. Sri Srinivasan: potential supreme court nominee could break GOP blockade 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z That coarsening of the language in the campaign, Mr. Schmidt argued, reflects the toxic culture of social media, and such behavior is no longer considered as much of a risk. Donald Trump Escalates Rhetoric Before South Carolina Primary 1459-01-22T05:00:00Z There's been a coarsening of language within the Labour movement in recent months when parts of it choose to describe their colleagues. Corbyn's reshuffle: Midnight and all's quiet in the stairwell - BBC News 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z What they weren’t trivializing or coarsening with commerce, railroad executives were simply neglecting. Longing for the Old Penn Station? In the End, It Wasn’t So Great 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z You can see a coarsening in how we respond and react on social media. The First Amendment Needs Your Prayers 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z This coarsening of dialogue helps create a climate that nurtures the current explosion of anti-Muslim bias — not just among random tweeters with equally ignorant followers, but among leading Republican presidential candidates. The danger of ignoring religious bigotry 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z His squalid performance and its coarsening of civic life are costs of freedom that an open society must be prepared to pay. Donald Trump is a counterfeit Republican 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The July 30 Style article “NPR swears by its potty-mouth policy” said, “News organizations frequently wrestle with how to keep up with, or to resist, the coarsening of everyday speech.” News folks: Please keep it clean 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z It’s easy to think our culture is coarsening. How the n-word became the new f-word 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z “Dramatic, dangerous changes are taking place in America,” he hyperbolically warns in his book, in which he laments the erosion of the U.S. manufacturing economy and the “coarsening” of society. Culture warrior Rick Santorum joins the Republican race 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z “I still respect the sacrament of matrimony and the church’s desire to keep it sacred against the will of our coarsened culture.” As Vatican Revisits Divorce, Many Catholics Long for Acceptance 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z He has coarsened race relations and has indeed created a tale of cities when it comes to race. Poll Finds Unease in New York Over Racial Divide After Garner Case 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Thirteen years of Labour government saw our national life coarsened by a lowering of educational standards and a braying culture of entitlement. A Right-Wing Defence Of The BBC Licence Fee 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z He was one of the first few hundred people to create an account on the social-networking site Reddit, and still recalled the coarsening of the site’s tone as its user base expanded beyond programmer geeks. The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z But most of the jokes fall flat and the tone of the film coarsens, with our heroes now not just dimwitted but also outright mean and bullying. Review: 'Dumb And Dumber To' Is Mean And Stupid (Also) 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z I don’t know which came first: the coarsening of the culture or the worsening of behavior. Full Transcript: Monica Lewinsky Speaks Out On Ending Online Abuse 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z They may deserve what they get, but the coarsened public doesn’t. PRUDEN: When the hangman botches the job 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z In contrast to the fractitiousness and coarsened debate of today’s Congress, our founding fathers created a precedent for political consensus-building at its most elegant and refined. Book review: ‘Our Declaration,’ by Danielle Allen What worries Tzimas most is not just the coarsening of public debate but the "banalisation of violence" that is now stalking Greece. SS songs and antisemitism: the week Golden Dawn turned openly Nazi 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Instead, he said, the problem was deeply ingrained, with causes including the coarsening effect of decades of conflict as well as the influence of a justice system that relies on coerced confessions to function. Mystery surrounds move of Afghan ‘torturer in chief’ to U.S. amid allegations of agency abuse 2014-04-28T23:15:00Z That, Shweder fears, is just coarsening us further, giving everything the emotional distance of a movie—and leaving us with the same kind of emotional depth. What Listening to Newtown Calls Says About You 2013-12-05T11:05:25Z His tie remains square, his shirt uncreased, his expression unchanged, but his language coarsens. Romario: From football rebel to politician 2013-05-14T23:34:37Z “It’s about the coarsening of our culture, whether it’s with video games or movies or behavior.” Game creators are in the eye of the video-game storm 2013-04-08T23:54:48Z South Africans, despite the coarsening violence of the country's history and current reality, can be sentimental and hopelessly romantic at times. Oscar Pistorius: South Africa's symbol of hope shattered 2013-02-15T21:00:20Z Vice President Joe Biden, wrapping up three days of wide-ranging talks on gun violence prevention, said the meeting was an effort to understand whether the U.S. was undergoing a “coarsening of our culture.” In gun debate, video game industry defends itself 2013-01-11T22:45:00Z The war over facts reflects a coarsening of America’s politics. The War Over Economic Facts 2012-10-18T09:52:10Z Social media is often accused of coarsening our public discourse and of making us stupid. Way of the World: Blending Governance and Twitter 2012-04-05T13:30:08Z We have a flower which we call a daisy, a weed coarsened by our fierce sun, betraying barrenness of soil, and suggestive of careless culture. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z What wonder that he himself was becoming coarsened every day! The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z On social media like Twitter, the fans’ discussions over the last year has often coarsened to new lows. With Peyton Manning?s Arrival, Broncos Fans Rejoice 2012-03-20T01:41:58Z He saw its effects in broken homes and aching hearts, in coarsened minds and reckless lives. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z He was vilified by liberals who believed that he coarsened the public discourse. Media Decoder Blog: Andrew Breitbart, Conservative Blogger, Has Died 2012-03-01T15:33:40Z The young lord, a reckless devil evidently, and fierce, despite his somewhat effeminate figure and tiny hands; given, too, to the modish vice, as was evidenced by the coarsening of his fine features. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Her face and hands were browned by sun and wind, but, although she had worked hard from childhood, she wore no coarsening stamp of toil. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Quarrels were frequent now, and finally, after an exceptionally fierce one, in which two calloused, coarsened natures revealed themselves in all their hideousness, the precious pair parted. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z True dancing, that is, not the acrobatics of the professional dancer, which result in coarsened ugly limbs and stilted action. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Not only has Berlusconi presided over a stagnating economy, he is seen by many as having personally contributed to a coarsening of Italian culture. Berlusconi Says He's Leaving: Is This the End of Italy's Politics of Burlesque? 2011-11-08T19:40:00Z No debauchery that ever coarsened and brutalized an Englishman can take the worth and usefulness out of him like that dreaming. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z She dried them with a fine linen towel by gentle pattings, not to coarsen the skin. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z “If she does not coarsen in feature, as so many of these dark women do,” observed Miss Sallie, “she will be very handsome some day.” The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z Asked if the show contributed to the coarsening of daytime television, Mr. Turner replied, “It probably did.” Profile of Robert Turner: From ?Springer? Show to Bid for Weiner?s House Seat 2011-09-08T03:22:20Z The man had coarsened, in manner as much as appearance. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z Once upon a time, Jacopetti created a movie that altered, arguably liberated and certainly coarsened popular culture. Provocateur Gualtiero Jacopetti Dead at 91: Honoring the Man Behind the Mondo Movies 2011-08-21T05:10:00Z Moreover, they argue flaws often evident during his prodigious and frequently uncomfortably frank Twitter output stem from a childhood spent amid an often brutally macho, emotionally coarsening, environment where "face" remains everything. Will Newcastle's volatile Joey Barton see the light at Sunderland? 2011-08-19T15:06:23Z The slight turn of the head coarsens the nose and widens the lower jaw with an unpatrician suggestion of which there is no hint when she is before you in vivid substance. The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend 2011-07-02T02:00:10.773Z At times, though, she does seem less like an aristocrat who has coarsened than a showgirl or barmaid who has married up and never assimilated. | Connecticut: In Fine Society, Infidelity and Its Consequences 2011-06-18T01:21:35Z This possibly accounted for the coarsening so evident in the man’s general deportment. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z But the hardening process need not, and should not, imply the coarsening and toughening of all that is meant to be delicately sensitive, sympathetic, and generously responsive. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z He was already showing signs of physical decay; the Roman medallion profile had coarsened, the obese body was often lymphatic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The photograph showed him features which the hand of Time had coarsened. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z It was a teaching much beyond the understanding of even Gautama’s immediate disciples, and it is no wonder that so soon as his personal influence was withdrawn it became corrupted and coarsened. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Just as the car windscreen makes people ruder than they would ever dare to be exposed as mere pedestrians, so the presence of a computer screen can release a darker side, coarsening relations between strangers. We owe the internet for changing the world. Now let's learn how to turn off 2011-02-22T21:00:01Z As he noted the girl's hesitation a trace of sadness passed over his coarsened features, almost ennobling them. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z And the yellow devil who built for him his house of dreams coarsened his desires as well, and wove a husk, fibrous, warm, and red, about his soul. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z His features had coarsened somewhat; his figure taken on flesh, but it was the same Will ... the same handsome lover of my youth. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z He expressed his revulsion at those hick Clintons: "Having vulgarians like the Clintons conspicuous in government must further coarsen American life." No. 11: George Will 2010-11-23T22:01:00Z In the opening panel of the conference I noted that my greatest concern about the public debate on abortion has been that its stark yes or no legal focus has coarsened people on both sides. How to think about abortion 2010-11-17T01:20:00Z Some say the kids are just reflecting a general coarsening of society, from trash-talking celebrities to boorish politicians. Schools teach social and emotional skills 2010-10-08T19:29:00Z I truly hope, if I am wrong in this, that you will see it instantly, and not permit the edge and temper of your fineness to be coarsened through me. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Carey, who has lived in New York for about 20 years, explores Tocqueville's speculation that U.S. democracy could be at future risk of tyrannical rule -- and the coarsening of culture that would accompany it. Author Peter Carey bemoans U.S. Tea Party boom 2010-05-09T13:31:00Z Obama urged graduates to avoid verbal combat that "coarsens our culture." Obama urges Michigan grads to pursue diversity of thought 2010-05-01T16:53:00Z But even though Broder spends his time decrying our coarsened political life while Halperin is busy coarsening it, the two types are still much more alike than they are different. How Politico, and its star reporter, are hurting America 2010-04-22T12:23:00Z Anecdotal evidence suggests a coarsening of behavior in women’s sports among coaches, players, parents and fans at various levels. Analysis: Revisiting Stereotypes in Wake of Griner Incident 2010-03-20T17:01:00Z Her art and her knocking about, instead of coarsening her, had refined her. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode "At the mere sight of me she fainted dead away and lay at my feet in her prison dress, her hands coarsened by hard work——" This last proof of her utter defenselessness infuriated her. Manslaughter The perceptible powder only supported his view of something infinitely bright and lovable caught, tarnished, coarsened, coated over. The Wonderful Visit Warfare had coarsened their honest, healthy countenances, and left its mark there in many a disfiguring scar and gash. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Instead of holding out her arms she drew away, staring with fascination, a species of terror, at his straight figure, at his clothing, at his face that wouldn't coarsen now. The Guarded Heights For nothing coarsens the mind like that tide of hatred and passion which war sends sweeping through the hearts of men. The Great Discovery Campaigning had not coarsened, but it had undeniably hardened her nature. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Betty had placed one hand on the mantelpiece, a small long hand rather coarsened at the finger tips, one foot on the fender. A Bed of Roses He was now in his fifty-eighth year, but his features, coarsened and bloated by sensuality, gave him a much older aspect. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs The once delicate face had lost its contour, the features were blurred and coarsened: out of the blue eyes peered a furtive soul. What a Man Wills No, it is not because we are already coarsened that the heart can bear. The Great Discovery At home, by the same law of contrast, Teresa complacently considered herself next door to a beauty, but seen side by side with Cassandra Raynor, her image appeared of a sudden coarsened and blunted. Lady Cassandra Nothing in his working life or in his associations coarsened Antony Fairfax; it would have been better for him had it done so. Fairfax and His Pride This seclusion of woman and her separation from her husband's company had as their result a general coarsening of social tastes. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) It was rebuilt when the fine spiritual romanticism of our architectural adolescence had coarsened into a prosperous and prosaic middle age. The New Warden In our parish we have not been coarsened—we have been quickened. The Great Discovery He must have been a handsome fellow before drink coarsened and aged him, for he was still good looking, though prematurely old, when I first met him, shortly after my election to the club. The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients The face that he exposed was not pleasant to look upon, for it was coarsened by dissipation, and the eyes were both violent and furtive. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Where Salamanca has been coarsened by the new style, Segovia seems inspired by its fidelity to the old. Cathedrals of Spain They weave themselves together out of the most inward and subtle experiences, out of impressions which are coarsened in the very act of expressing them. Naturalism And Religion As Rosie gathered in these details, she saw, in contrast, the figure of George Riley: the roughened weatherbeaten face, the cheap ill-fitting clothes, the big hands coarsened with work, the heavy feet. The Rosie World A dull flush spread over Minnie's sallow face; her lips coarsened. The Return of the Prodigal With age and power he had coarsened, but his eyes were still bloodshot and domineering. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure There is nothing that coarsens the skin of some women so quickly as the habit of drinking beer. The Colored Girl Beautiful It was not only that he was older—he had aged more than she—but a subtler change had passed over him; he was hardened, embittered, coarsened, undefinably deteriorated. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly It hurt him to see anything so shapely coarsened with hard work. The Side Of The Angels A Novel One saw this coarsening process operating on men with incredible swiftness. Changing Winds A Novel Cantwell was a strong man, and, although the North had coarsened him, yet underneath the surface was a chivalrous regard for all things weak, and this the trail-madness had not affected. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Chewing gum coarsens the muscles of the jaw and gives a downward trend that few faces can afford to wear. The Colored Girl Beautiful A shadow of the world and the flesh falls across the brooding figure, a Napoleonic vulgarity coarsens the features, there is a Mephistophelian wrinkle in the corner of the lips. Dreamers of the Ghetto And then she noticed her own fingers; a little coarsened with honest usefulness they were—a little; and a little embrowned with careless exposure. Diana And everywhere, it seemed to him, that coarsening process was going on, a persistent blunting of the feelings, an itching desire for more and grimmer and bloodier details. Changing Winds A Novel Nothing that had happened had been able to coarsen him; he had never given way to loose talk or brutal jests, and in the presence of suffering had invariably been full of tenderness. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin His hand was the delicate hand of a Churchman—not coarsened by manual labour. A Nest of Spies Ursula noticed the coarsened, blunted fingers groping at the little jewelled heap. The Rainbow And after it she bloomed as she had never bloomed before; she bloomed to excess; she coarsened in sheer exuberance and rioting of health. The Combined Maze Think of hands fitted for the nicest surgery being coarsened by contact with rough iron and hard tools. A Modern Cinderella If there was one thing down here the little woman always worried about deep in her heart, it was lest the boy and myself might get coarsened. One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America A face which has been beautiful, coarsened and swollen by life and strong emotion, is a pitiful enough sight. Tatterdemalion As Daniel Maclure was, so would he remain for ever; and to associate with him intimately without being coarsened and corrupted was impossible. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Success had thrilled but not coarsened the escaped nun. The Art of Disappearing In one or two articles of both books the gauloiserie broadens and coarsens, while in the more purely "Bébé" sections of the first the sentimentality may seem a little watered out. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century I thought he had coarsened and got into the ways of an ordinary Tommy—and I was snobbish and uncomprehending and horrible. The Rough Road She—this coarsened, wasted, suspiciously scented woman of the town—the mother of that sweet, sunny child I had just seen married. Tatterdemalion He seemed to her indefinably lowered and coarsened in some way; his cheeks sagged; in his eyes was an unpleasant admission that he must bluster to avoid the detection of some weakness. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Abraham-Elijah the tanner, a man with a bluish nose and fingers as black as ink, laughs at Nachman, because he is so coarsened through living with Gentiles that he even speaks like them. Jewish Children Monk Lewis, of course, knew Cazotte, but he has coarsened his original woefully. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Cantwell was a strong man, and, although the North had coarsened him, yet underneath the surface was a chivalrous regard for all things weak, and this the trail madness had not affected. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories It was as if a rough hand had passed over him, coarsening here, blotting out there, accentuating elsewhere. Virginia "He is young to be blunted and coarsened," thinks Philip. When the Birds Begin to Sing As the fruit of the Renaissance graft on Flanders coarsened and deteriorated, a new influence arose in the Low Countries, one that was bound to submerge all others. The Tapestry Book If he is brought to cold hill-country in Australia his coat at once begins to coarsen, and his wool is therefore not so good. Peeps At Many Lands: Australia I don't see," mused Mrs. Barnett, "how a man really could care for a woman who becomes so—so—well, rough and sunburned, and coarsened by sordid work—like that Chandler woman, for instance. The Desert Fiddler The very conditions, too, under which the people live must have a tendency to coarsen and to destroy artistic feelings. The Day of Judgment He knew that his association with the daughter of the landlord of the Thorn and Thistle was coarsening him, making him have lower standards of life, making everything poorer, more sordid. Tommy It did more; it hardened and coarsened his nature. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe Her skin was tanned and coarsened, but the warm crimson blood glowed in her cheeks with a dusky richness, and her face was a perfect oval, with features chiselled in almost classic regularity of outline. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 And the originally common type of Baldassarre’s person, coarsened by years of hardship, told as a confirmation of Tito’s lie. Romola But happily the young man's mouth had not coarsened. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance She knows enough about things to take care of herself, without being coarsened by the knowledge. Nights in London Drop the deeds and all our refinements begin to coarsen, and we make no response to our brother’s cries of need and pain. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year He was certainly disposed, I think, to exaggerate his own coarsening, as a not very reputable campaign proceeded. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales At first he took it for granted that it was the coarsening effect of studying for the stage, but very shortly he had decided otherwise. Elsie Marley, Honey Inside the flabby, coarsened body with its red face munching out monosyllables, lived a recluse. Erik Dorn Women are naturally finer than men, they aspire more strongly to what is beautiful and spiritual, but their souls can be coarsened, their love can be killed. Possessed Don Roberto had been a handsome caballero in his youth, but his face, like that of most Californians, had coarsened as it receded from its prime. The Californians His body had never been coarsened with sin, and therefore death was utterly alien to it. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion In such places, people's very numbers shut them off from those basic things and coarsen the quality of their experience. The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior It is a matter of common observation that in the last generation the German middle class has become noticeably coarsened, vulgarized, and blatant. German Culture Past and Present A slight thickening of feature—a slight coarsening of form—she thought she perceived them. Marriage à la mode Heating steel at even moderate temperature is liable to coarsen the grain which can only be restored by forging or by heat treating. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel This coarsening, cheapening, and magnification of details are resultants of the restless, uncomfortable, and soulless life of the much overrated Manhattan. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques She did what she could, poor woman, but in what belittling, coarsening conditions! The Tragic Muse To get the best out of it, he realized that one must coarsen instead of refine the senses and aptitudes. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Just as the cakes became heavier, tougher, more ordinary, as the months passed, so the whole enterprise suffered gradually from that coarsening and griming which seems an inevitable result of Chicago use. One Woman's Life The core of chrome-nickel case-hardened steel, like that of nickel steel, is not coarsened excessively by the first heat treatment, and therefore a single heating and quenching will suffice. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel But labor has done nothing to coarsen the innate refinement of the soul which looks out of the fine old face. Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation The mental body may be refined by fitting disciplines as it is coarsened by evil thoughts. Modern Religious Cults and Movements With physical beauty she was amply endowed; nor had it been hardened and coarsened beyond power to allure. The Substitute Prisoner There was no doubt it was he: thickened and coarsened, but still he. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron Subsequent cooling gives a coarse texture, or an arrangement of ferrite, cementite and pearlite grains which is greatly coarsened, reflecting the condition of the austenite crystals from which they were born. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel He is the apostle of realism, coarsened by a love of the horrible and unclean. The Growth of English Drama This in turn tended to coarsen his methods. Never-Fail Blake If the women were not good-looking, if their lives of toil stunted and coarsened them, the men, with greater apparent leisure, were no handsomer. A Little Swiss Sojourn I am convinced that of the hundreds of men who go into action the majority come out affected towards good rather than coarsened. With Our Soldiers in France But if it was Boy, the years had coarsened her and altered the expression in her eyes not for the better. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs Then she called on her resolute self, on the self that had been hardened, coarsened, by the life which she had led. Bella Donna A Novel If they could realize the wonder awakened, followed by pain and then by hardened sensibilities and coarsened ideals, they would sacrifice their jests for the sake of the child's soul. Religious Education in the Family In illuminated manuscripts it is easy to watch the steady coarsening of line and colour. Art He presented the same handsome, well-dressed, prosperous figure; and yet prosperity had in some degree coarsened him. A Comedy of Masks A Novel She had coarsened more than actually changed—her sturdy little figure had lost its litheness in solidity, her round face had thickened and the skin roughened. Secret Bread For her life had blunted her, had coarsened her nature. Bella Donna A Novel It isn't college that coarsens a man and destroys his illusions; it is life. The Plastic Age The coarsening of her features in the last month or two had changed to an almost bloodless refinement. Love Stories His eyes lighted, for cotton was to him a very real and beautiful thing, and a life-long companion, yet not one whose friendship had been coarsened and killed by heavy toil. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel Hoeing corn and washing in the river does not coarsen well-born women. Lazarre The rococo of Chippendale is coarsened, his Chinese style loses its fine, if eccentric, distinction, and the inlay of Hepplewhite and Sheraton is another example of spoiling a beautiful thing. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today The countenance of the judge had unquestionably once been noble, and perhaps also beautiful; but the massive features were now coarsened by dissipation. The Redemption of David Corson She grew stout, too, and unwieldy, and her skin coarsened from lack of care and overeating. Half Portions His eyes moved to the window, and she followed the large, slightly coarsened features of his profile and the fullness of his jaw which lent a suggestion of brutality to his averted face. The Wheel of Life To leave the question of reminiscence aside, how the delicate vision of Mr de la Mare has been coarsened, how commonplace his exquisite technique has become in the hands of even a first-rate ability! Aspects of Literature The expression of brutality and degradation disappeared, and through the bleared eyes and over the coarsened features there came the light of an almost celestial smile. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill Then they seemed to coarsen and somehow slip confusedly together. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories In the midst of this gross world, where the man's soul naturally became stained and coarsened, hers should retain the celestial beauty with which it came forth from God. The Inner Shrine When she sprang up and faced him in her coarsened beauty, it seemed the most natural thing in the world that he should accept the fact of her presence with merely an ironic protest. The Wheel of Life I guess she got to feeling so sure of herself she let her work coarsen up. Somewhere in Red Gap It seemed to me that he had coarsened in mind as well as in appearance. The Magician A slow, disdainful smile played about her lips, some evil threatening thought expressed itself through every feature of her rounded, coarsened beauty. The Marriage of William Ashe If his good characters are not always engaging, he never does violence to virtue by presenting attractive qualities in combination with vices which in real life harden the heart and coarsen the taste. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 The poor girl looked round her in amazement at the pretty spacious room, as she spread her hands, knotted and coarsened by work, to the blaze. Lady Merton, Colonist It is concealment which misleads and coarsens, producing a state of mind in which even the Bible becomes a stimulus to the senses. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society If, as so often is the case, it ignores their existence, or endeavours to starve them, they may well assert themselves with fatal power, to coarsen and degrade the whole of life. Cambridge Essays on Education Has the hardening effect of wealth coarsened my expression? Aylwin Purity refined beyond what angels knew, and sin coarsened beyond what demons knew were coming together. Quiet Talks about Jesus At any rate his agreeable voice had not coarsened. The Roll-Call Many are to be made partakers of well-being, true; but the ideal of well-being is not to be, on that account, lowered and coarsened. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold She was coarsened by the continual gaze of the gaping public. The Regent The poor girl seemed to feel that that brutal noise had, somehow, coarsened her, and she actually half shrank from me as I gave her a kiss and left her. Aylwin And yet he did not look coarsened or hardened by vice. The Top of the World There he stood, near her, big, coarsening, good-natured, content, proud of her. The Roll-Call Then he says that I may perhaps think that his troubles have coarsened him, but that he unhappily retains all his old sensitiveness. Father Payne Men, coarsening with the materialism of the ages, have grown thick and gross with the luxury of inventions and the diseases of modern life that develop intellect at the expense of soul. The Human Chord And Mary's mouth, with its wide, turned back lips, had lost its subtlety, it had coarsened slightly and loosened, under her senses' continual content. The Three Sisters Beyond he found another puff-ball, one of the second crop, rising like a roc's egg out of the abnormally coarsened turf. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth It was absolutely necessary for him to heighten, nay, to coarsen, the description of these masses of animated beef, who formed the standing army of the woman-commonwealth. Famous Reviews Transferring this portrait to bronze necessitated a general broadening of the masses, with a coarsening of outline to obtain bold relief. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Long ago she had revised those first superficial estimates of them as gross, hulking brutes who worked hard and drank harder, coarsened and calloused by their occupation. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest His mood of respect was inevitable, since he had some sensibilities, though they were coarsened, and they sensed vaguely the maelstrom of emotions that now swirled in the girl's breast. Within the Law At the bottom of the deep pit the sand coarsened, gave place to gravel. Desert Gold She grew stout, too, and unwieldy, and her skin coarsened from lack of care and from overeating. One Basket The fibre of my mind coarsened and my eyes grew miserably keen. The Beautiful and Damned Charlie, she decided, had grown hard and coarsened in the evolution of his ambition to get on, to make his pile. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Though he had been, as she knew, a wandering chopper, a survey packer, and, for a time, an unsuccessful prospector, there was no coarsening stamp of toil on him. Vane of the Timberlands Under its coarsened inflections there was an echo of something cultured, not fitting with his present appearance, a voice that might once have known very different conditions. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California The face which once, in its pallid austerity, had not been without beauty, had now coarsened, even in emaciation. Delia Blanchflower Not only Hubert's speech, but his whole manner had broadened and coarsened since his mother's arrival. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I Such incentive as the Tenor had was in itself a pleasure to him, a refinement of pleasure which might be coarsened, which certainly would be impaired by any change. The Heavenly Twins And in the fourth row she saw a dreary, even a horrible, sight—Rupert Carey's face, disfigured by the vice which was surely destroying him, red, bloated, dreadfully coarsened, spotted. The Woman with the Fan Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything; makes everything vulgar and every truth false. Amiel's Journal The new local rulers never took, or dreamed of taking, the Imperial title; the roads were still kept up, the Roman tradition in the arts of life, though coarsened, was never lost. Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" His swashbuckling Border ancestors were stirring in his veins, and for a moment his face coarsened and his eyes were gross. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty When she passed thirty, her face coarsened and her uncared-for figure began to spread. The Mountebank He thought there was a certain vulgarity in it which, he had not observed before—a slight coarsening of its expression, an indescribable degeneracy even under the glow of its developed beauty. The Christian A Story This one day had coarsened my whole mind, bespattered my soul with shamelessness. Hunger It became coarsened and less in its material powers. Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" He turned when he heard the opening of the door; he presented to the Archdeacon a face of smiling and genial, if coarsened, amiability. The Cathedral A poorly dressed man, with a work-heavy face and coarsened hands. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago But her face is wider, big-boned, highly colored, and coarsened. Jean-Christophe Journey's End Ahasuerus is the type of swollen self-indulgence, which always degrades and coarsens; Esther is the type of self-sacrifice which as uniformly refines, elevates, and arrays with new beauty and power. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Saying, "I am a Nazarite, To God alway, nor hath there yet Razor or shears done despite To these my locks of coarsen jet, Therefore my strength hath known no let." Toward the Gulf In the former it was coarsened, almost lost; almost but not quite. The Happy End Her heavy coarsened face seemed to grow surprised as she stared into the bundle. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago The men came as they had come now, and with them came women, women who had been coarsened by the life they led. Poor White At first when she came she was not quite so bad; she had a pretty face, and her manners had not been coarsened from contamination with Molly. Light O' the Morning The doctor gazed at Priam's hands, the rough, coarsened hands of a painter who is always messing in oils and dust. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days "The passions would run wild, selfishness become supreme, the instincts coarsen and turn savage probably." Three More John Silence Stories The narrow oval of her face remained unspoiled but the small features, once delicately clear, appeared in some strange way to be blurred and coarsened. Up the Hill and Over The fineness of you, coarsened by the temptations you have met and not overcome. In the Court of King Arthur But adversity had not soured Mr. Dreux; it had not dimmed his pride nor coarsened his appreciation of beauty; he remained the gentle, suave, and agreeably cynical beau. The Net That is the reason why men who have loved many women make a mistake in marrying; the intuitive faculty is both dulled and coarsened by that time. Senator North His life had been spent in an irreverent city, among people hardened by pleasure or coarsened by greed. Quill's Window The fine grained skin which should have been delicate and firm had coarsened also and upon close inspection showed multitudes of tiny lines. Up the Hill and Over It is little wonder that with the process of growing-up there comes a coarsening that congeals the fluid passages of exit, and finally seals the memory centres too. A Prisoner in Fairyland It fosters cruelty, callousness, contempt of life; it kills sympathy and the gentler virtues; it coarsens and leads almost inevitably to sensuality. Problems of Conduct His childish beauty had coarsened, but he was thought handsome by many. Further Chronicles of Avonlea It was what artists call a daffodil sky, but it is coarsened even by reference to a daffodil. The Ball and the Cross A change had coarsened her like a puff of air on a still pool. The Spoilers Their hubris has lost its glamour of beauty and has coarsened into vulgar insolence. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel The effect of alcohol is coarsening, brutalizing; we are not our best selves under its influence. Problems of Conduct Martin had coarsened in the six years since they had first known him. Sisters She had a fineness of build which even the housework of a farm could not coarsen. The Lilac Sunbonnet She knew that it coarsened whomever it touched, that it irresistibly degraded, that it lowered all the human standard of goodness and endurance, and self-sacrifice. The Heart of Rachael That cigarette stuck in her pretty mouth, vulgarised her appearance at once,—coarsened her— made her look as if she were indeed the rapid 'Maryllia Van' his friend Bishop Brent had written of. God's Good Man Suddenly he saw, as for the first time, the roughness and coarseness of the life about him, and realized how it had roughened and coarsened him. The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days To be tied to a—well, to a coarsening influence day after day is living death! Sisters What force of the Holy Spirit swept over his dulled, brutal, coarsened life, nothing but the eternal records of the recording angel can ever disclose. In His Steps Take the thousands of women persuaded or forced into unions with men whose low estimate of woman's intellect coarsens and degrades her to a level from which it is almost impossible to rise! The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance He saw her pale skin, which the touch of the sun seemed to have no power to burn or coarsen. Jeanne of the Marshes Evil living and sordid passions had coarsened his features, produced bagginess under the eyes and a shiftiness of glance. Simon the Jester Not in the whole world now could you find a woman with hands so grimy, so needle-worn, so misshapen by toil, so chapped and coarsened, so evilly entreated. In the Days of the Comet "For another, I hate to see you burn the loveliest hair I ever saw on the head of a woman, and coarsen your fine skin." A Daughter of the Land I never stoop to that habit of profane language which unfortunately coarsens our profession. The Devil's Disciple She looked at Thurston; he had coarsened very much since she had seen him last. The Captives Each one would have made a picturesque picture, but they had no manners, and seized on my hands, which are coarsened, reddened, and swelled from heat and mosquito bites, all exclaiming, "chanti! chanti!"—pretty! pretty! The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither I looked up at her again and saw that she had the face of the young girl in the photograph, but coarsened, aged, raddled, by the passing years and perhaps by tragedy. Now It Can Be Told In earlier life Gregory had not been unhandsome; debauchery and sloth had puffed and coarsened him. The Tavern Knight Some natures are coarsened by love bestowed on them; others, like Ashurst's, are swayed and drawn, warmed and softened, almost exalted, by what they feel to be a sort of miracle. Five Tales In a strong and rather agreeable voice, cracked and coarsened by street singing, she sang in hope of getting a copper from the shop. Crime and Punishment It was one of those spiritual loves; a formal engagement with a ring would have spoiled it—coarsened it. They and I Degraded, coarsened, disinherited, the last Blake stood before them, with his poverty and ignorance illumined only at long intervals by the flame of a soul which, though darkened, was still unquenched. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields Physically and spiritually, a coarsened man: in cunning and logic, a ruthlessly sharpened one. You Never Can Tell Sometimes, during the few hours since her arrival, Lily had wondered if her year's experiences had coarsened her. A Poor Wise Man It began to crackle and send up smoke wreaths of its own, with sparks dancing through; then its voice deepened and coarsened, till it roared quite like its mother around the hill. Her Prairie Knight Somewhere within the coarsened soul there must be a spot of brightness from which such a smile could come. The Case of the Lamp That Went Out Then the light fell suddenly lower and revealed the coarsened jaw, with the almost insolent strength of the closed lips. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields There were faint red marks on her young face, signs of the fineness of the skin; but her features were coarsened, as it were, and the circles about her eyes were unwontedly dark. Gobseck She was no longer in her first youth, and the beauty she undeniably possessed was hardened and coarsened. Secret Adversary Her forty years had not coarsened her as they do most Italian women, and her eyes still held the unshaken confidence of extreme youth. 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