| 单词 | crudeness |
| 例句 | He didn’t seem drunk, but this crudeness was new; he was a little less precise in his movements now, his voice louder. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I nod, open to anything that will take me away from the hulking crudeness known as Farooq, currently inside Baba’s. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z And with a most clumsy technique, the audacity and crudeness of which I could hardly believe. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z There’s a certain crudeness and aggressiveness to the label “hysterical realism.” What Ever Happened to Hysterical Realism? 2012-07-11T14:00:31Z Not everyone, though, sees actresses following the crudeness or indolence of male comics as a sign that women are enjoying new cultural freedom. Women behave badly in films, and box offices applaud 2011-08-12T21:54:06Z When Serge and Babette show up, Paul segues into cataloging his brother’s crudeness. Books of The Times: ‘The Dinner’ by Herman Koch 2013-02-06T22:50:22Z And while Houellebecq has always been a polarizing figure — admired for his provocations, disdained for his crudeness — he has turned out to be a writer of unusual prescience. A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Dotting the gallery are sculptures of the king and future queen, guards and banquet food; their purposeful crudeness underlines the messy absurdity of the royal affair. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z There’s a crudeness in the patterns of conflict and resolution that propel “Summer” toward its sigh of an ending. Review: ‘What I Did Last Summer,’ a Letter of Apology From an Ex-Teenager 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The Politician's Husband isn't subtle, sometimes to the point of crudeness. The Politician's Husband – TV review 2013-04-26T06:00:11Z But for all the book's comparative crudeness, there's something impressive about the clarity of Vida's vision: she knew where she was headed from the outset and nothing – not marriage, not children – has derailed her. A life in writing: Vendela Vida 2011-07-08T21:55:12Z Presenting “Funny Thing” with a male-only cast would seem only to heighten the possibilities for onstage rudeness and crudeness. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z The composer Adam Cork’s soundscape ensures that the play satisfies aurally, as well, sea shanties lending a clamorous texture to a play whose occasional crudenesses are inseparable from its lasting import. Theater Review: Jude Law Makes a Revelatory Performance in London 2011-08-23T11:00:07Z Picasso is not trying to create a coherently crude style; at his best he practices a crudeness that simply stops his art from congealing into style. Even the ‘Wrong’ Picasso Can Be So Right 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Chairman Kim might well be a bit offended by the crudeness of this trailer. 'The bromance of the century': President Trump's bizarre trailer for his summit with Kim | Peter Bradshaw 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Worldly and easygoing, with a taste for Italian suits, he despises the crudeness of his rivals. The coldly brilliant crime novel, ‘GBH,’ by Ted Lewis 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Louis C.K. has been testing out new material recently, which is making headlines for its crudeness: jokes about Parkland survivors, jokes about transgender teens. Perspective | Pretending to be bad boys let them get away with being bad men 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z It’s funny stuff if you have a high tolerance for crudeness. Amy Sherman-Palladino’s Newest Is an Amazon Pilot Standout 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z To others, like the critic Sam Sacks, her writing is “dead-eyed and apathetic,” her crudeness a “dubious trademark,” amounting only to “hokum.” Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Maybe its very crudeness makes the content feel more authentic. Movie Review: ‘King Kelly,’ a Satire of Lust for Internet Fame 2012-11-29T23:12:02Z While the Grimms polished their transcriptions to an almost Gallic brilliance, Schönwerth preserved more fully the rough vigor and even crudeness of the oral originals. A newly discovered trove of unknown fairy tales: ‘The Turnip Princess’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z The tangles over Jupiter’s royal prerogative are written with comic-book crudeness that the theatrical performances don’t quite honor with self-conscious comedy. "Jupiter Ascending": Wachowskis in Outer Space 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z A healthy dose of modern frat-boy crudeness might have been refreshing in this story of two princes out to rescue a damsel from an evil wizard. Review: 'Your Highness' drowns in lowbrow humor 2011-04-06T19:07:08Z His bullying behavior, arrogance, crudeness and desperate desire to humiliate his enemies are traits and behaviors ill-suited for the presidency. Peter Thiel pulls back the curtain: Donald Trump is a pro-wrestling villain turned president 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The "Losin' It" genre of sex-obsessed story lines receives a twist but not the revolution it needs with "Premature," a rapidly wearying comedy that mistakes crudeness with humor. 'Premature' thinks crudeness is a teen's path to success 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z But sometimes you’re using crudeness because it absolutely is the funniest joke. This Year?s Hot TV Trend Is a Word 2011-09-21T20:30:20Z There’s a crudeness, too, in how Sonnenfeld writes about sexual matters when he comes of age, as he vacillates between portraying himself as a hopeless nebbish and a closet Lothario. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Neurotic Filmmaker’s Life Story 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Considering the crudeness of many remakes, this could have turned out much worse. Capsule reviews: `Arthur,' `Hanna' 2011-04-07T17:01:22Z Most of the crudeness, though, comes from the supporting cast, largely populated by comedians. Review: Drew Barrymore's 'Going the Distance' 2010-09-01T22:49:00Z At this show, for audiences 9 and older, the group will tackle hopes and dreams for 2019 with cleverness but no crudeness. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Seen with a modern eye, Sandby’s satirical etchings are unamusing and the texts intended to be witty seem immature in their crudeness. Review: Paul Sandby, Unlikely Founder of Dazzling School of European Art 2010-04-16T12:05:00Z That marvellously untranslatable noun, connected to a word for flatulence, connotes a crudeness that induces nausea and disgust. Trump Versus Clinton, According to Aristophanes 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z But Mr. Foxworthy more forcefully celebrated the crudeness of the redneck, which he defines as a “glorious absence of sophistication.” Critic’s Notebook: The Original Blue Collar Comedy Tour Stars 2013-05-17T20:33:55Z But the premise at least sets up a farce that surpasses “The Hangover” in gleeful crudeness and profanity. | 'The Change-Up': About That Wish: What if It Came True? 2011-08-04T21:39:27Z But maybe try talking to your kids -- as in all things in life -- about beauty and truth versus crudeness and junk. Parenting in the Age of Online Pornography 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z And no matter what, consider yourself forewarned that the movie’s gags, and its language, reach a sailors-on-leave level of crudeness. Review: Girls Trip Is the Funniest, Raunchiest Movie of the Summer 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z At first she’s certain that she can help change things for the better — ameliorate the crudeness, the small-mindedness, the lack of culture, of beauty. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Soon he’s invited to take part in another battle, in Los Angeles, but the unhinged crudeness of his lyrics, plus his own growing friendship with rappers, wrecks his relationship with Maya. “Bodied,” Reviewed: The Eminem-Produced Battle-Rap Movie Is a Confused Satire of P.C. Culture 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z In revealing the venality, the banality, the crudeness, the prejudices of the men who made movies at M-G-M, Ross suggested the limits of what they could achieve—together. Lillian Ross’s Brilliant Chronicle of the Power Struggle Behind a John Huston Film 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z "You excuse that type of crudeness because you agree with his stance on firearms," he continued. Jon Stewart and Mike Huckabee clash over Beyonce, Bubbas and Bubbleville 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The Video Music Awards needs the sort of frank, unapologetic crudeness and outsized emotions a star as unafraid to look silly as Cyrus provides. Miley Cyrus is the Perfect Host for the Video Music Awards 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z When I finally saw them I was taken aback – first by their crudeness, and then by how difficult it was to sit through them. My obsession with Andy Milligan's cult horror movies 2012-06-14T19:00:05Z Apatow is a romantic whose attraction to outsized, wild characters implies a perception of dimensions of grandeur and sensibility in what seem to be crudeness, bitterness, ugliness, or naïveté. Everyone Is a "Trainwreck" 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Yet, in its crudeness, the Refinery29 rubric speaks to a snarling anger—at authority and expertise, but also at adulthood—that was empowered to frightening effect in the last election cycle. The Year in Fashion: Down with the Élites! 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The height of artistic and cinematic crudeness conjoined arrives in a scene that’s staged as a revelation. The Empty Exertions of “La La Land” 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z But the show’s prolonged savaging by critics, who offended most of all by what they saw as Hirshfield’s crudeness and incompetence. Morris Hirshfield Rises Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z But then, his set was always based on crudeness. Perspective | Pretending to be bad boys let them get away with being bad men 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps courting controversy, the production apparently finds parallels between Handel’s telling of Ovid’s mythological tale and the current American era under President Trump, roiling with issues of class, power and crudeness. Anthony Roth Costanzo in a Handel Rarity at National Sawdust 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Here, six to 10 of the most polished young comedians will do their own routines, which can be just as incisive as those of adults, but lack the usual profanity and crudeness. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Moving perpetually around the stage, his voice shifting from soft to loud, Cranston exuded LBJ’s volcanic energy, crudeness, brilliance, self-pity, and most importantly, his deep convictions about civil rights. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Robert Schenkkan's LBJ 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z But you might take special notice of their hands, which are squared off and elongated in a way that suggests both crudeness and grace. Movie Review | 'The Secret of Kells': Outside the Abbey?s Fortified Walls, a World of Fairy Girls and Beasts 2010-03-05T00:07:00Z Indeed, the crudeness of the algorithm that embarrassed MSN shows just what makes modern media outlets so vulnerable to AI misinformation. Don’t Blame AI. Plagiarism Is Turning Digital News into Hot Garbage 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Despite the crudeness of his experimental setup 500 years ago, da Vinci, Dr. Gharib said, was able to calculate the gravitational constant to an accuracy within 10 percent of the modern value. A Doodle Reveals da Vinci’s Early Deconstruction of Gravity 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Others saw an opportunity when Trump proved that crudeness and cruelty were no obstacle to political success. Opinion | The 2022 midterms are the most important of my lifetime 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z All of my crudeness just brings out my dudeness when I make it flow. Style Invitational Week 1507: All over the map! Plus top food songs. 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z He would toss insults at his audience, like Don Rickles, make jokes about sex that stopped just short of crudeness. Jackie Mason, onetime rabbi who became a Broadway standup star, dies at 93 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Coming as it did from my father, a learned, eloquent and in the truest sense deeply Christian man, this directive was notable in both its crudeness and its brevity. Hollywood loves making excuses for bullies. Here are the most damaging 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Our crudeness only perpetuates a kind of discourse that tracks too closely with Twitter: all spleen, no soul. Opinion | Must We Dance on Rush Limbaugh’s Grave? 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z They may not like his rudeness, crudeness, misogyny and racism, but what is most important to them is their business and survival. Psychiatrist James Gordon: How we begin to heal America's collective trauma 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Eight months later, Shedd recalls her mother as a woman without “an ounce of crudeness or anger. She was very forgiving and just let life be, let people be how they wanted to be.” Covid’s U.S. toll: Nearly 300,000 dead and a stalemate between fatalism and hope 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z While a political culture rooted in the state’s predominant religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, makes many voters uncomfortable with Trump’s crudeness and brashness, most have stuck with their party. News Guide: Voters weigh governor, House, ballot questions 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z I don’t need a bumper sticker or a lawn sign to convey my distaste for Trump — his odious tweets, his chronic mendacity and general crudeness. Opinion | I never considered voting for Trump in 2016. I may be forced to vote for him this year. 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Are the professionally cancelled pundits naive about the way social media platforms incentivize crudeness, or are they merely playing dumb? Yes, social media can be asinine – but ‘cancelled’ pundits like Bari Weiss aren’t the victims | Moira Donegan 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z In less antiseptic language, it is a piratical power whose crudeness, born of cultural condescension toward others, includes special contempt for an America distracted domestically by various hysterias, and choosing retreat abroad. Opinion | China extends its reign of random fear 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z When Melania Trump clasped the medal around his neck, she proved that the Republican Party will not only tolerate crudeness and hatred, but reward it. America's fatal flaw: The founders assumed our leaders would have some basic decency 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z That narrative is about youth — he just turned 38 — and the power of hyper-articulateness in an era of presidential crudeness. Opinion | Mayor Pete’s Gay Reckoning 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z The crudeness of the Administration’s arguments obscure the delicacy of the constitutional questions. Trump’s Frantic Fight for Immunity 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Feireiss, on the other hand, preferred to see it both ways, finding the crudeness of the statue appealing in its own way. ‘She might like it’: Slovenian pipe layer who carved Melania’s statue isn’t laughing with critics 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z The crudeness and cruelty of this response to a woman’s recounting of trauma are not surprising. Opinion | America must listen to E. Jean Carroll. It’s clear Trump won’t. 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z No matter who the Democratic nominee is, the sordidness of Trump’s tactics, like the crudeness of his invective, is a given. What a Biden-Trump Presidential Race Might Look Like 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Falwell deleted the tweet after people complained about its crudeness. Jerry Falwell Jr. deletes tweet telling Va. pastor David Platt to ‘grow a pair’ 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z They love him for his ignorance, boorishness, crudeness, anti-rationality, irrationality, the fact that he proudly does not read and other willful deficits of the intellect and mind. Trump and Ben Carson: King and court jester of the kakistocracy 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z In a political climate where stridency is often rewarded and crudeness frequently seen as a marker of authenticity, she has clung to the belief that decency is what voters want most. In Slovakia, Unlikely Presidential Candidate Signals a Backlash Against Populism 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z But Trump is not merely Jacksonian in his crudeness. Opinion | Trump boldly asserts that he has learned nothing these past two years 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z He also urged religious leaders to work together to reject the "miserable crudeness" of war and resist the "logic of armed power ... the arming of borders, the raising of walls." Pope Francis celebrates first-ever papal Mass in United Arab Emirates 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “Let us return it to its miserable crudeness,” he added. Pope Francis Breaks Some Taboos on Visit to Persian Gulf 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z He also urged religious leaders to work together to reject the “miserable crudeness” of war and resist the “logic of armed power … the arming of borders, the raising of walls.” Pope Francis to hold historic Mass on Arabian Peninsula 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z If the internet were a city, Silverman’s crudeness could fill a mall. Sarah Silverman: ‘I cringe at material I did 10 years ago' 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z But the crudeness of it, with the nasty personal jibes at Rosenstein and a clear intention to provoke an angry explosion by the president, is a very Trumpian strategy. Decoding the Rod Rosenstein melodrama: Distraction from Kavanaugh, or part of a larger plot? 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z While Brennan has seized on reports of Trump’s personal crudeness and his bad behavior around the Russia investigation, he has been mostly silent about Trump’s approach to drones. A Spymaster Steps Out of the Shadows 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Pace resigned Monday, saying she was “sorry for the crudeness of the discourse.” Austin school board president resigns over text messages 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z As mainstream Republican voters become used to — or at least numb to — Trump’s crudeness and behavior, they are willing to see progress as it presents itself. Opinion | Trump’s consequential presidency is beginning to show 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z But what do we do when Trump’s crudeness covers so much ground? Treasury's Mnuchin tries to defend Trump's offensive antics 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Dr Hines, a Christian, is not put off by the president's crudeness - "It's not how I would express myself, but I think he speaks from his heart" - or his tough line on immigration. The Paul Simon city that turned to Trump 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z Many of us patients could identify each other and where they had the procedure performed by the crudeness of the repair and stitching technique. Skin Cancers Rise, Along With Questionable Treatments 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Apologies for the crudeness, but duck those people, as autocorrect would put it. Is it OK to wear clothes made by Harvey Weinstein’s wife? 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Arriving at a moment when excitable individuals and hysterical mobs are demonstrating crudeness in assessing historical figures, Chernow’s book is a tutorial on measured, mature judgment. Opinion | Hysterical mobs are crudely judging history. One book offers a better way. 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z That's a weird criticism, but the original's crudeness was what made it so incredible. 9 new trailers you should watch this week 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z “Trump is crude, and in his halo of crudeness other people get to be crude as well.” Review | Katy Tur’s insider memoir chronicles the Trump campaign — and the indignities of reporting while female 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Yet it transcends its technical crudeness: it is profound, speaking of the vulnerable isolation of all human beings. Cézanne unmasked: the shattering portraits that blew Picasso and the Paris avant garde away 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z “Their very crudeness gives a feeling of the struggle itself,” Mr. Morris said in 2004. John G. Morris, photo editor of indelible images of D-Day & Vietnam, dies at 100 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z The crudeness and brazenness of the tweet quickly became a big story. Now involving Reddit and neo-Nazis, the spiraling Trump-CNN feud is 2017 in a nutshell 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Ambrose’s powerful sermons helped to undermine Augustine’s contempt for the apparent crudeness of the Bible’s stories. How St. Augustine Invented Sex 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Succumb to his flattery, despite his casual crudeness and arrogance? Review: Writers generate sparks but not enough sizzle in ‘Sex’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z But he also thinks that Trump’s occasional crudeness and more than occasional intemperance are inseparable from his “larger-than-life personality,” which was what allowed him to challenge conservative orthodoxy in the first place. Intellectuals for Trump 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z I often heard similar comments from female Trump supporters—in their eyes, it was a show of strength to ignore the candidate’s crudeness and transgressions, because only the weak would react with outrage. Aftermath: Sixteen New Yorker Writers on Trump’s America 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin is surging in the polls in Utah and drawing large crowds at rallies as he becomes the conduit for conservative voters fed up with Republican Donald Trump’s crudeness and antics. The Latest: McMullin calls for new ‘conservative movement’ 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Extremely nervous at first, she soon eased into it, constantly apologising for the "crudeness" and "vulgarity" of what she was talking about. Hollie McNish: The things new mothers aren't always told - BBC News 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Don Smith of Dell Secureworks, another cyber-security company, reckons that the subtler of the two bears was probably rather annoyed by the crudeness of the other attack. Bear on bear 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z In Mexico, his rougher edges seemed sanded down as he offered flattery and solicitousness in place of crudeness and brickbats. Trump Tries a Jarring New Style: Diplomatic 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z He explains, "If Trump was to admit a mistake and apologize for it, he'd shatter his own narrative of eternal invincibility. This crudeness, love it or loathe it, is the only way he'll win." Trump Turmoil 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The Roosevelt coalition agreed by and large with the direction of Sanders’s economic program, but they regretted the crudeness of his exposition. Could Hillary Clinton Become the Champion of the 99 Percent? 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Remember, we live in times when intelligence is ridiculed and crudeness is celebrated. D.C. sports fans don’t need to prove anything 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Similarly, Mr. Trump’s past references to his anatomy and to women as pigs are nothing more than crudeness and vulgarity masquerading as politically incorrect straight talk. Trump Is More Than Just Politically Incorrect 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Rather, his signature achievement has been to make crudeness, ignorance and hatred a formula for political success at the highest level. Can a columnist named Lopez be fair to a candidate named Trump? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z From there, he told reporters that the election in Indiana was boiling down to a choice between crudeness and decency — “a choice about our national character” that Hoosiers could get right. Trump sees a decisive Indiana victory at hand, gears up to take on Clinton 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The arrival of Trump and the current culture of crudeness has, in a sense, one-upped Maher and made his job more difficult, but it's also made him more relevant than ever. Bill Maher keeps on doing it his way 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Trump's crudeness and blowfish toxin will encourage many Republican women among others to quietly vote for Hillary Clinton. The ‘Women’s Card’? We Measured, and It’s Not Worth Much 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The cab protest – its crudeness, the inadvertent publicity it gave to Uber – read like the classic, bungling behaviour of a doomed market incumbent. How Uber conquered London | Sam Knight 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The images are crude, but their crudeness is part of the point. Lights, Camera, Virtual Reality! 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The crudeness of Grassley’s attack on Roberts, from a senator who claims to want to avoid a politicization of the court, is astonishing. The Supreme Court Extremism of Clarence Thomas and Chuck Grassley 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Those who equate crudeness and cruelty with authenticity are doing a nasty disservice to their country, making it that much harder to live together. Dear GOP: Ignoring manners does America a nasty disservice 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Despite the crudeness of the sign, Ann made a concerted effort to become friends with McGann, and now considers him something of a brother. Lisa Ann: how one of porn's biggest stars transformed into a fantasy football guru 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Barack Obama’s party has become a more leftist one, and Mr. Sanders’s leftism is sincere, long-standing, and has a kind of clarity to it, a lucid crudeness. The High Cost of a Bad Reputation 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z While some in the body politic may use crude and offensive methods of stating their political opposition, the crudeness is protected by the U.S. Oklahoma court reverses Sooner Tea Party leader’s conviction 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s since seen a sequel and multiple prequels, but the original game owes a lot to its crudeness. Neon Struct is the stripped-down Deus Ex you didn't know you wanted 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Regardless of what you might think about the crudeness of Katsu's chosen medium, his worries about the ascendency of Silicon Valley's tech companies are reasonable. 'Eric Shit' is the latest tech CEO to get a portrait made out of poop 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z When asked if the audience can expect any Cards Against Humanity-like crudeness, Temkin quipped "nothing more obscene than you see day-to-day in Chicago city politics." Cards Against Humanity founders get serious about debate 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Though “The Interview,” directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, never quite manages the duo’s calibrated blend of sincerity and over-the-top crudeness, it nevertheless usually pulses with an unpredictable absurdity and can-you-believe-we’re-doing-this glee. Review: ‘The Interview’ dives into geopolitics 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Though “The Interview,” directed by Rogen and Goldberg, never quite manages the duo’s calibrated blend of sincerity and over-the-top crudeness, it nevertheless usually pulses with an unpredictable absurdity and can-you-believe-we’re-doing-this glee. Review: ‘The Interview’ deserves to be seen 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z It sounds as if your goal isn’t to punish anybody for past crudeness but rather to bring it to an end. Silencing the Wolf Whistles 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Marin Torres was later found innocent, but a taped conversation between him and a friend, celebrating the journalist’s arrest, garnered a permanent place within Mexican political folklore for its crudeness. Mexico's 'House of Cards' Hits Too Close to Home He couldn’t resist offering a few criticisms, faulting the lecture’s “crudeness,” “coarseness,” and “plainness of statement.” How Mark Twain became Mark Twain: The amazing story of the lectures that made him a superstar 2014-03-22T20:00:00Z Fortuitously, the crudeness of the models also prevented the uncertainties associated with these factors from being included in the modeling. Are climate change models becoming more accurate and less reliable? 2013-02-27T20:45:00.170Z And this conical crudeness— that may the best proof that we’re finally getting somewhere. The Future of Power: The Low-Tech Solution To Our High-Energy Problem 2013-02-19T15:55:01Z But it is the Exeter way, that sheer doggedness overcomes any crudeness, and they suddenly burst into life from a lineout. Exeter 20-29 Leinster 2013-01-19T20:31:07Z In the ordinary rural community there is not enough social experience for the young; and hence, a certain amount of crudeness, awkwardness, and lack of refinement tend to linger permanently in the character. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Having thus endeavoured to justify myself for rushing in where sometimes “angels fear to tread,” I have no intention of apologizing for the crudeness of my ideas, or my lack of grace in literary composition. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z For it must be seen that the crudeness of Whittier's education, and the thorny ways into which he was drawn, marred a large part, but by no means all, of his work. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z It is true, he has a crudeness of colours, not very pleasing to the eye; no new circumstance in an artist educated in the school of Creti. The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century 2012-02-25T03:00:10.400Z And even when the chief lines are definitely drawn they only disclose fundamental contradictions in all their crudeness. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z But wait, there are higher numbers on the crudeness scale: If you type "increase Facebook fans" in Google, you'll get swamped with offers. Twitter, Facebook and app scams: who cares about fake followers?" 2012-02-13T12:34:10Z Those vices which are due to weakness of will are characterized by the crudeness of the aim and the crudeness of the means. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z I should think Froude, the editor, must be wanting in common taste and decency, to have allowed the letters to appear in all this crudeness. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Hence the confusion of fundamental conceptions, and in general the unspeakable crudeness and awkwardness that appears from under the covering of affectation and pretentiousness in the philosophical attempts of the generation thus brought up. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z They have been high-minded, fine-grained, eloquent in manner, in odd contrast to the real or reputed vigor and crudeness of the nation. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z A growing taciturnity marked his manner, and often a willful crudeness of phrase and speech, which annoyed her almost to the point of reproof. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The crudeness of the means which were employed is sufficient evidence that the end aimed at was, at best, but dimly discerned. Gas Burners Old and New 2011-11-07T02:00:20.003Z Whatever of imperfection or of crudeness may therefore be found in them, should be charitably considered. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z But once the balance is threatened, their crudeness instantly appears. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z But his feebleness, crudeness, imperfection, his dearth and deficiency, his sensuality, hardness, love of material things, is insisted on, and cannot be exaggerated. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z They scarcely rose above the level of the penny comic valentine, which they much resembled in crudeness of color and poverty of invention. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z He saw the miraculous freshness and richness of her nature, and knew the crudeness of his own. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Both are now utilized as residences, having mostly lost their original crudeness and picturesque appearance. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z It exhibited a certain immaturity of character and crudeness of perception such as, in spite of his genuine affection for his Master, disqualified him at this stage from understanding Him. The Making of an Apostle 2011-07-26T02:00:19.187Z Again came that savage crudeness of method which Vita recognized as part of the man. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z The period from 1576 to 1623—only 47 years—sees the English language developed from a state of almost barbaric crudeness to the highest pitch which any language, classical or modern, has reached. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z As it happens, the very crudeness of it constitutes its artistic merit, for it is thoroughly in keeping. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z It was doubtless in some degree to remedy an apparent crudeness that cursive copies were afterwards called in, as in B. xvii. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z The older woman's crudeness stood out in marked contrast with her careful toilet. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z The plain little room had lost its crudeness of outline. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z The crudeness of his surroundings made him sit up with a start. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z However, in an attempt to prove that earthenware was produced locally, he assumed, perhaps because of their crudeness, that the utensils were made at Jamestown. North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century 2011-05-14T02:00:10.023Z Knowing that the fellow had been watching his antics around the electric globe, and acutely conscious of his own crudeness, Lem stepped to the door with an abashed smile. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z However, as he told his wife, they must trust to time and experience to correct this crudeness. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z This was flanked by a number of leather-seated chairs belonging to a similar period, and of equal crudeness of manufacture. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z He felt even more the crudeness of this man's manner. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z His youth, too, had a charm; the very crudeness of his acting gave a certain interest—it left room for anticipation. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 2011-03-20T02:00:35.193Z The Punch-and-Judy crudeness of Westminster debate looks and sounds more grotesque and pathetic every day. Yes, Mervyn King, we know the banks are to blame 2011-03-03T09:00:00Z There is, however, a crudeness and hardness of texture about the play, though Mathias and Sophia are well drawn, especially the latter. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z This will be notably apparent when the stiffness and crudeness of the proportions of the figures are taken into consideration. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Near by was an up-turned sled in the course of repair, and again the stout crudeness of workmanship bespoke the Indian hand. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Then, suddenly, she saw things as they were: the thought had never come to her until now in all its crudeness, its stark nakedness. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z At the same time he perceived that she was terribly pale, not with a factitious pallor, which until then he had attributed to the crudeness of the light, but with a real and deathly pallor. The Woman of Mystery 2011-01-15T03:00:36.260Z The display of passion on the stage with gesture, attitude, frown, and scorn, would render more tolerable some of these scenes which offend us in the study by their crudeness. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z To the left of this doorway is a baptist�re containing a number of granite columns, which, judging from their crudeness, must be of genuine antiquity. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z In their literature strikingly modern thoughts jostle against the most primitive crudeness; "Vested interests are shameless" was one of their old observations. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z The rich tones, the crudeness of the canopy work, and sundry other signs unmistakably mark this glazing as Decorated. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z These arguments in its favour will keep us from observing too keenly how much the crudeness of some of the colours accentuates the dullness of others. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z He succeeded, in spite of the crudeness, one-sidedness, and unsoundness of his doctrines, in attracting many disciples. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z And for all their crudeness there was a certain logic to them, especially when it came to curry. Guilty pleasure 2010-04-23T12:03:00Z They are particularly desirable here, where the surroundings were redeemed from such original crudeness, as they impart a certain grace and home-like appearance to otherwise desolate places. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands He was in Spanish battle as cool, skilful, and death-despising, as he was chivalric against the crudeness of the political philosophers, and noble against the beastly brutality of his assassins, in central Germany. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 Then something in the crudeness of her tone struck upon her, and she made haste to amend her exclamation. The Gambler A Novel The crudeness and impotency of the song in our ears has nothing to do with the argument. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology The phrase, of such an immeasurable depth of crudeness, must have been somewhere innate in her, passed down from a long line of reputable ancestors, and it had leaped out without her volition. The Furnace The ugly scene lay in the mist of very early morning and the increasing daylight made its crudeness each moment more apparent. Fairfax and His Pride The crudeness of the machinery for spinning was such that fine yarn could not be made. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 She had been tempted to settle herself for life, but did she want to help tone down the crudeness of the untrained nature, to prune the enthusiasms, to find little faults here and there? Helen Grant's Schooldays As a result there is an absolute crudeness in foreign things as attempted in Japan that grates on the nerves of travelers fresh from the best to be found in Europe or America. Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition There is a striking contrast between the crudeness of much and widely accepted medieval theology and the decrees of the council of Trent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Their very crudeness, their nakedness, their barrenness of accessory, their sharp, brilliant coloring, cause them to stand out in strong relief. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. His biographer attributes the comparative failure of the Clavis to its inferiority in point of style, but the crudeness of his thought had quite as much to do with his failure to gain a hearing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Act�on also smiled, with the cynical smile of an Athenian, as he observed the crudeness with which these young fops copied their distant models. Sónnica Its clear and practised style is refreshing, after the comparative crudeness of some other recent treatises on the same theme; the characters are human, not wooden, and the whole treatment healthful and noble. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 The town into which the highway leads lies straight before my window, flat, unpicturesque, uninteresting, marked by the untidiness of crudeness and the untidiness of neglect. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. Her crudeness and her ignorance seemed to be merely phases of originality. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches His gentleness, his brusqueness, his egotism, his humility, his grossness, his finer nature, his crudeness, his eloquence, are all here. Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today Valentine, shows traces of the beginner's crudeness, yet has about it a quality which promises much for the future of the poet. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Grant that it showed a certain crudeness, unripeness, in one side of the man; later in life, he could not have erred in this way. Whitman A Study Without any appearance of labor, all crudeness is absorbed; the outlines of objects are not so much softened as emptied of their color and substance, so that the light appears to pass them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 The chaparral about his cabin is low, tangled, and thorny, but it is remarkable what a redeeming effect a few graceful palms impart to the crudeness of the picture. Due South or Cuba Past and Present It looks to me as if the thing were already opened, for the door isn’t tight; or is that protruding edge of it a part of the general crudeness?” Jessica, the Heiress The wool is still fine and silky, but there is an element of crudeness of design and a defiance of the laws governing color. Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference Its population is what would be expected in a frontier town of this region, while an air of crudeness permeates everything. Aztec Land The crudeness of speech marking the latter play has given room to a very incisive dialogue, that carries the action forward with unfailing precision. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays It was out in all its naked crudeness. The Twins of Suffering Creek The crudeness of America is 13 the jest of France. The Bondwoman The crudeness which so shocked Europeans in their predecessors they have, with characteristic adaptability, readily and gracefully outgrown. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 Oh, I don't mind crudeness—but I hate decayed pretensions. They of the High Trails This factory failed to justify itself economically, chiefly because of the crudeness of its machinery. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States Yet these surprises meet the traveller at every turn, and the wonder is that there is not visible more crudeness, eccentric taste, and evidence of hasty beginnings. Our Italy But the crudeness of it jarred upon her genteel nerves. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Until we do learn to show this respect before Europeans we must still resign ourselves to the imputation, if they wish to make it, of crudeness, of being still sadly in want of refining. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 They were offended by literalism, bored by crudeness however much in earnest, and disgusted with the illogical assertions of pietists. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study Minute particles of colour brought together in this way are brilliant without crudeness. How to make rugs Here something like living human beings appear, though there is crudeness in the portraiture, and the interest is chiefly in the history of origins. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV We should be careful not to regard the crude form of the impulse as crude in the sense of an educated humanity, which must see in the crudeness something morally inferior. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts However, in the course of the next few years I became accustomed to this treatment, though I never again met it in such crudeness. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Craftily he drew her out, cunningly he touched up every fallacy or crudeness in her ideas, in such wise that she unconsciously adopted his amendments, under the impression that they were all her own. The Sign of the Spider Though she loved passionately her Arizona, she guessed its crudeness, and her fancy magnified the wonders of that southern civilization from which it was so far cut off. Brand Blotters Less formidable than these obstacles based on fallacious reasoning or superstitious whim were those that were furnished by the clumsiness of the ships and the crudeness of the appliances for navigation. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest This aspect of variety of detail—sophistication, crudeness, decorative qualities or the like—reflects something of the individuality of the toolmaker, a quality completely lost in the standardization of the carpenter's brace. Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Its crudeness, the uncouthness of its people; the emptiness, the monotony, began to oppress her. 'Firebrand' Trevison Its work is marked by crudeness and harshness, or at the best reticence—splendor without softness or inoffensiveness without charm. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 A slight touching with glass paper may be allowed to take away the crudeness of the chisel marks. The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. To think of clumping out into that world of deliberate and brawling crudeness—— Of one Milt Daggett she didn't think at all. Free Air In your last letter you wrote of the crudeness of most propagandists of anarchism, naming Anatole France as one of the rare anarchists who express themselves otherwise than crudely. An Anarchist Woman For one thing, its crudeness was more glaring, and its unpainted board fronts looked flimsy, transient. 'Firebrand' Trevison I overlooked the mechanical imperfections of your work, the utter lack of finish, the crudeness of your drawing. Anna the Adventuress Now that his old hat was removed, the fiery hue of his poll was almost alarming in its crudeness of hue. Ravensdene Court When new processes have been invented, these also have usually suggested themselves to the able workmen as they experienced the crudeness of existing methods. James Watt The apathy of the mass oppresses me into a hopeless helplessness which may account for my stagnation, my ineffectiveness, my impotence, my stupidity, my crudeness, and my despair. An Anarchist Woman It is generally thought that the Ministers have disgraced themselves by their precipitation and by the crudeness of their measures. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I The mellow sudden Western night was dropping glamorous mantle over the familiar scene, softening the crudeness of the camp and exalting the dying round of the forest's fight for solitude. The Return of Blue Pete The houses of this regular town are white, and pale yellow, and fine worn-out pink, with narrow green painted verandahs which soon lose crudeness in the intense light. A Tramp's Notebook The crudeness of their intellect, which may go together with ample knowledge in other fields, predestines them to be deceived and puts a premium on the imposture. Psychology and Social Sanity And he colored painfully at the crudeness of his obsessing thoughts, angrily, after a moment, shaking them from him. Blue-Bird Weather Still, his loyalty to Theodora would not let him waver, and, in spite of its crudeness, he was honestly surprised at some of the really telling points of the story. Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen The song was coarse and toneless, but he knew no other way of voicing it, and she noted nothing of its crudeness. The Return of Blue Pete The ballad was originally the production of wandering minstrels, and in its old English form it possessed a simplicity, directness, and charming crudeness that a more cultivated age cannot successfully imitate. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism A consciousness on which these tumultuous pages hammer day by day must lose the subtler sense of proportionate harmony and must develop an instinctive desire for harshness and crudeness and chaos. Psychology and Social Sanity Here is no crudeness of sense, nor asperity of language. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II These paints are only fit to fling out of the window, together with the fellow who ground them, their crudeness and falseness are disgusting! The Unknown Masterpiece 1845 In such unphilosophic crudeness, no definite thought is expressed, as everything would depend on the definition of spirit, of faith, of mind, of reality. Psychotherapy The millinery art Is where I'd have you play your part; For, though your hats may work intense Despite on my aesthetic sense, Whatever pain their crudeness brings At least I needn't eat the things. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 In spite of the hardness of their blue and the crudeness of their stamped designs, these little volumes attract every reader and never remain long on the shelves of the second-hand bookstores. The Booklover and His Books In practice, merit and demerit exist side by side; works crude in conception reveal a hundred finenesses, and works fine in conception reveal crudenesses of execution. Personality in Literature Native qualities, even a certain crudeness, were expected from the English who lacked advantages of training and tradition. John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut If a Bulgarian understood that you recognised any crudeness anywhere he liked to pretend that it was not a usual thing but a temporary circumstance due to the war. Bulgaria Such a treatment saves a picture from looking prepared and cold, just as light and atmosphere save it from rigidity and crudeness. The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition It was a strange mixture of the latest thing in surgical science and the crudeness of the caveman. Shelled by an Unseen Foe But in almost every other respect the novel is sheer rhetoric, crudeness, and unshapeliness. Personality in Literature She could have dreamed of another sort of wife for her boy, for Catie's crudeness occasionally irritated her, Catie's self-centred ambition, her intervals of density sometimes came upon Mrs. Brenton's nerves. The Brentons Not that he experienced any sudden drawing to the Salvation Army; he felt, to the core, its crudeness, its limitations, its social dangers. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes It is not strange that there is as yet much crudeness about the city. Society Its Origin and Development It was too noble, too spiritual to abolish the crudeness of practical needs except by elevation into the blue sky. Selected Essays The interior ménage is more primitive than that of European houses, and often presents a singular whole in its abundance and crudeness combined. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development The lie came as easily as the truth, and easier, since there was a certain crudeness about truth which revolted his artistic soul. The Daffodil Mystery Culture, delicacy, and intelligence have their own attractions, which are wholly diverse from those of crudeness, coarseness, and simplicity. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. It was a slight blunder, not obvious to the crudeness of Kwaiba; but it opened up the whole of Iémon's position and put the game in his antagonist's hands. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) Homemade swords, good blades, too, for all their crudeness. Civilization Tales of the Orient They were mysterious as daytime ghosts; and already a heartbreaking picturesqueness had taken possession of the streets, as an artist-decorator comes into an ugly room and mellows all its crudeness with his loving touch. Everyman's Land It belongs to the crudeness, and ignorance, and superstition of barbaric times. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 But they made plain as well that he had developed a style of his own, a style that was, for all its crudeness and harshness, personal. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers This would be guarded, perhaps, by a hut of stone, almost savage in the crudeness of its construction. My Friend the Chauffeur Similarly, we ask: Would the status of ancient thought, the crudeness of arts and crafts, the insufficiency of scientific attainment serve us today? The Promulgation of Universal Peace He had cast a glamour over her crudeness by his power and goodness, but underneath was—Jared's daughter and Jude's wife. Joyce of the North Woods The curtains draped over the inlaid cedar-wood shutters of the windows were of the same brocade, and the beautiful old rugs from Turkey and Persia could not soften its crudeness. The Golden Silence Concha foresaw that she was going to know the truth; a cruel truth with all the crudeness of a discovery in broad daylight. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) The crudeness of some epitaphs gives them a grotesque touch of realism. The Story of Cooperstown Though there were roughnesses and crudenesses in his manner and choice of words, all he did and said made Annesley sure that she had been right in her first impression. The Second Latchkey So, too, in regard to diplomacy, there is constant danger and loss from this same crudeness in political thinking. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Genius itself is made to feel the crudeness and extravagance of its first efforts and retires with shame to take a lower place. Studies in Early Victorian Literature The second impression that strikes us is the crudeness of the new men, and the lack of finish in their drill, as compared with the veteran troops of Britain and France. With Our Soldiers in France In three days she had not only begun to lose her own crudeness—she had attained to a certain small criticism of the crudeness of Abel. The Miller Of Old Church He rightly judged that his crudeness would be a constant source of irritation to the proud Mary. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy The result is that you are a highly cultured man without any crudeness or hysteria, while the other people see things in the wrong perspective and run their heads against walls and make themselves miserable. The Half-Hearted The hopefulness of our material is overshadowed not infrequently by its crudeness. Craftsmanship in Teaching Rodney, civilised, sensitive and progressive, had no patience with his children's unsophisticated leaning to a primitive crudeness. Dangerous Ages Then, when the cocksure critic in his crudeness Pops you the question while his back he pats, "What have you done?" you'll find at last, thank goodness, One ready answer—"Rats!" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-01 We of the East have something to learn from the Californians, whose bungalows and cottages are so often models of simplicity without the crudeness of most small houses in other sections. The Complete Home One of the things the civilization had done for him was to make him good-naturedly tolerant of the crudeness of the outlander. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush I come to see the crudeness, the barrenness, of that. Foes I have heard that this careless bard, after a successful work, usually precipitated the publication of another, relying on its crudeness being passed over by the public curiosity excited by its better brother. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 He handed her a powerful magnifying-glass and through it the clumsy forgery stood out in all its crudeness, showing plainly where other names had been erased and these inserted. The Master Mystery The too palpable intruders from a spiritual world, in almost all ghost literature, in Scott and Shakespeare even, have a kind of coarseness or crudeness, . A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century He put Moses Jackson in the chair, and then as he walked forward to the front of the platform a great, white-haired, rugged, black figure, he was heroic in his very crudeness. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Thereby a certain crudeness of procedure may enter which is not at all suggested by the test method itself. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency Yet formerly, in the condition of comparative crudeness with which international trade was then organised, concealment was relatively easy, at least for a time. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy The pagan world, because its maturity was simpler than our crudeness, seems childish to us. The Life of Reason She cast this idea off with shame for its crudeness. The Brimming Cup An old Etruscan jar may be reproduced in form, but it would be silly to attempt the reproduction of the crudenesses that gave the old jar its real beauty. The House in Good Taste Compare modern instances of the refinements and artifices of city life and the crudeness of work and pleasure in the country. Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies It had been cast in a mould of elemental generousness, and everything about it partook of the asymmetrical crudeness of the elemental. A Daughter of the Snows Persistently there emerges from the record the impression of something childish, whether in petulance or gaminerie, a crudeness as well as a shrewdness of judgment and ideal. Aspects of Literature The poem is boyish, or at all events youthful, in point of conception; and we need not wonder that this intellectual crudeness should have outweighed its finished poetic beauties in its author's mind. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) How To Cultivate An Agreeable Speech First of all, remember that while affectation is odious, crudeness must be overcome. Etiquette With all their crudeness, those people in that condition were all human, hearty, strong, real. Gordon Keith America has never until now had the benefit of my opinion of her, which may in part account for the crudeness of her present condition. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories While it is not a great work of art, the benignity and sweetness of the Christ face redeem it from crudeness. The Old Franciscan Missions Of California His strength had cast its crudeness and had attained a certain grace—the ease of absolute control and tried confidence in itself. The Dark House Simple people put no trimmings on their phrases, nor on their manners; but remember, simplicity is not crudeness nor anything like it. Etiquette He was the boonest of boon companions, and his jokes were so broad that they often reminded one, in their crudeness and their rudeness, of certain passages in Mozart's early letters. In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences To walk across China, over roads acknowledgedly worse than are met with in any civilized country in the two hemispheres, and having accommodation unequalled for crudeness and insanitation, is not easy. Across China on Foot It maintained a happy medium between crudeness and a vitiated taste: life was not insipid and colourless, as it is nowadays: men still ventured to appear what they were; there was still poetry in reality. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England If she did not see through his crudeness to what was real in him, she could only see that he was a rather funny young man who swaggered outrageously. The Dark House There is gallantry on every side of us, and doubtless we alone shall be made to suffer; for the world loves to be fooled, it hates the crudeness of truth. The Conqueror The crudeness of this idea, when compared to the beautiful doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul of the original Christians, and by the advanced Christians to-day, is quite painful. Mystic Christianity Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. Back to Methuselah One may easily criticize the crudeness of the plot and the improbabilities with which it bristles. The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work His power to perceive the defects of society was accompanied by as precocious a fertility to contrive remedies; but his crudeness in theorising and his inexperience in practice resulted in not a few youthful errors. Robert Browning The meagreness of the earliest entries and the crudeness of the language, together with occasional picturesque force, indicate that many of them were drawn from current song or tradition. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Luck's eyes chilled as he took in the stereotyped "Western" crudeness of the set. The Phantom Herd It smacked of crudeness, and he had an epicurean distaste for crudeness. The Purple Heights Sitting there exhausted in mind and body, she had to face it in all its crudeness. The Top of the World It was queer, the contrast between the beauty of his salon into which we went and the crudeness of the restaurant from which we had come. The Soul of the War She has more literary skill than Charlotte Brontë, less originality, but none of her crudeness. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy His crudeness is, to the uninitiated, almost pitiful. From a Girl's Point of View He was extremely fastidious, and anything that offended his taste by vulgarity or crudeness repelled him with such force that the work of practical philanthropy would have been impossible to his temperament. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I If Van Degen had been at hand Undine would have smiled with him at poor Mabel's infatuation and her suitor's crudeness. The Custom of the Country There is much the same showiness; a similar curious mixture of crudeness and luxury. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them But the sufferings of children through the crudeness of their elders belong to an unwritten chapter of child psychology. The Education of the Child Men claim that it is difficult to maintain their ideals in regard to women, in the face of such selfishness, crudeness, bad manners, and jealousies as exist between young girls of this sort. From a Girl's Point of View The ground of the superiority of hand-wrought goods, therefore, is a certain margin of crudeness. Theory of the Leisure Class This notice I will, however, transcribe, because it is, for all its crudeness of phraseology, rather interesting both as an echo and as an amplification. James Pethel The very crudeness of their speech made chaster yet the childish thought her guileless utterance had caught from spirit-depths beyond our reach. Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 10 The impression is more strongly and more definitely conveyed by this second work, which has none of the intellectual crudeness of 'Pauline', though it still belongs to an early phase of the author's intellectual life. Life and Letters of Robert Browning The crudeness of the question startled him: the word was one that women of his class fought shy of, even when their talk flitted closest about the topic. The Age of Innocence The appreciation of those evidences of honorific crudeness to which hand-wrought goods owe their superior worth and charm in the eyes of well-bred people is a matter of nice discrimination. Theory of the Leisure Class She could not endure Sir Nigel Anstruthers, and, being an American child, did not hesitate to express herself with force, if with some crudeness. The Shuttle Under her crudeness and brusque hardness, he felt there was a nature quite different, of which he never got so much as a hint except when she was at the piano, or when she sang. The Song of the Lark You carry a crudeness in these colonial manners of yours, Deucalion, that palls on one after the first blunt flavour has worn away. The Lost Continent Lily had thus formed, in the tumult of her surroundings, a little nucleus of friendly relations which mitigated the crudeness of her course in lingering with the Gormers after their return. House of Mirth Here we have a somewhat cruder type, printed on hand-laid, deckel-edged paper, with excessive margins and uncut leaves, with bindings of a painstaking crudeness and elaborate ineptitude. Theory of the Leisure Class With some few exceptions the methods of cultivation were substantially the same as those of colonial days, and were marked by crudeness, waste and a general adherence to rule-of-thumb principles. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 I here to-day am merely attempting a diagnosis, pointing out the disorders, and exposing as best I can the utter crudeness and insufficiency of the market-place remedies proposed. "'Tis Sixty Years Since" Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913 Later it was the fear of school, the first contact of the tender little soul with life's crudeness. The Conquest of Fear The volume is a very agreeable one, with little of the crudeness so generally characteristic of first ventures,—not more than enough to augur richer maturity hereafter. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 The sixth satire abounds throughout its great length with sketches of the most appalling clearness and power, though they tend to crudeness of colour and are few of them suitable for quotation. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal I never met such a combination of crudeness and self-assurance. The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day Any word implying carelessness, lack of consideration, or crudeness; any word used to designate action or conduct which may be characterized as careless, inconsiderate, or crude. A Study of Association in Insanity Gay and daring, she always knew how to make the men laugh with her prattle, the sense and crudeness of which I did not understand until much later. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt D'Israeli 'had heard that after a successful work he usually precipitated the publication of another, relying on its crudeness being passed over by the public curiosity excited by its better brother. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 Wordsworth's "Fidelity" and his marvelously overrated "Intimations of Immortality" bear witness to the extreme timidity and crudeness of Western notions on these subjects even at the beginning of the century. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints To him or her within whose thought rages the battle, advancing, retreating, between democracy's convictions, aspirations, and the people's crudeness, vice, caprices, I mainly write this essay. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy It may be thought that these selections of the Psalms have been chosen for their crudeness and grotesqueness. Sabbath in Puritan New England At times she was a trifle embarrassing with the crudeness of her words and her remarks, but she was kind, active, alert, and devoted. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt "Some Imitations"; there was a certain crudeness about the statement, a crudeness and an indefiniteness combined. The Woman with the Fan It's not only his strength but his crudeness—like petroleum or Egyptian art. Ptomaine Street Their very crudeness is not without its historic charm, when once their true place in the structure we find them in, is recognised. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Thank heaven for crudeness if morality as opposed to manners made one crude. A Fountain Sealed It seemed hysterical and overwrought in places—it gives the effect of crudeness. The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow You do not come into direct relation with the collectors of curios and church ornaments: there is always an agent to break the crudeness of the connexion. On Something Where the Swedish artists show boldness, sometimes almost to the point of crudeness, the Dutch are intent on some degree of finish. The Jewel City With a double ended paddle rudely shaped from the thin buttress roots of the red mangrove, and comic in the crudeness and disproportion of its parts, he felt himself safe miles out to sea. Tropic Days The crudeness of this question took away Drumtochty's breath, and suggested that something must have been left out in the creation of that advocate. Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush A less steadfast man than Edward, with a less altruistic object in view, would have been frightened away from Hazel by Abel's crudeness. Gone to Earth Were they rank amateurs, doing their simple best, or were they clever artists, simulating the awkward crudeness of country girls? Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use Some of his early tales of Indian life are marred by crudeness and by lack of feeling; but these faults decreased as he matured. Halleck's New English Literature The very crudeness of his embellishments invests with kind of comic relief some of his fables, which end invariably with insipid uniformity. Tropic Days He was supersensitive of his roughness, his lack of education and conscious crudeness, and the words of Carolyn June were still in his mind. The Ramblin' Kid There hundreds of men stab each other with the best will in the world, none of the crudeness of personal animosity, only the best of good nature. The Unspeakable Gentleman A few have attempted it, but they betray a crudeness and lack of pathos painful to witness. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 I need not apologise for its crudeness, for I only represent, in plain words, the impressions of the time. Canada and the States Their opinion, from exaggeration, crudeness, or carelessness guides them generally quite awry, and they can only devise a technical judgment, and not an aesthetical one, embracing the whole work, in which feeling should decide. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller But the crudeness of the wilderness had made him slow of tongue, and while his heart cried out for words Isobel turned and went to her husband. Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail Although she had no desire to become his next wife, she found him to be well-mannered and likeable enough, in spite of his crudeness. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs It was the poverty and crudeness of my youth that had made me intolerant. The Log-Cabin Lady — An Anonymous Autobiography Even Blair was startled at the crudeness of the allusion. The Iron Woman "The crudeness of your ferocity is positively gross, Martin," Mr. Jones said disdainfully. Victory An Island Tale It was only my second book, and in looking back at it so as to preserve consistency, I have been astonished at its crudeness. The Two Sides of the Shield A certain crudeness is inevitable in a new country, and will be outgrown; age is a great artist. Problems of Conduct It seems to take millions of years to tame a mountain, to curb its rude, savage power, to soften its outlines, and bring fertility out of the elemental crudeness and barrenness. Time and Change The brittleness of the fabric and the crudeness of the tools employed had evidently put the patience of the makers to severe task, who for one satisfactory hook must have contemplated many disappointments. Confessions of a Beachcomber In all these, as well as in many others, there is a mild tone of sentiment, deep, mellow, and sustained, very different from the crudeness of his earlier poems. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays I—I want you to realize that I appreciate the injustice—the crudeness of my rushing to you in New Jersey that Christmas Day. Harriet and the Piper It seemed to her cheap and horrible; she did not want to stay in this room, and Martin, tipping the boy and asking for ice-water, seemed somehow a part of this new strangeness and crudeness. Sisters To works originally repellant from their very crudeness, they supplied finish and perfection of the parts. Evolution of Expression — Volume 1 "Well—well, we expected to—to pay, of course," Carter said, embarrassed at this crudeness. The Story of Julia Page Angelica: I pardon this crudeness in favor of his honesty. Spirit of Contradiction On the whole, despite its crudeness, the administration of seigneurial justice in New France was satisfactory enough. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism The Mexican's tableware was of a crudeness befitting his house, but it was clean and he could cook—two facts that Joan appreciated after her long experience of Bate Wood. The Border Legion It is not time misspent; Worst fare this betters, and the best, Wanting this natural condiment, Breeds crudeness, and will not digest. Angel in the House It is one among many others, but I choose it because its very crudeness makes my meaning clear. The Garden of Survival The crudeness of it whipped her pride—that pride which Michael had torn down and trampled on—into fresh, indignant life. The Lamp of Fate Egremont would like to have been saved the pain and awkwardness of the avowal, yet it must be made, though not with unnecessary crudeness. Sybil, or the Two Nations He kept his eyes fixed on the ground; for the crudeness of the light made them ache. Maurice Guest For a vagueness had come into her mind like the vagueness of twilight that filled the space beneath the starry roof, softening the crudeness of the ornaments, the garish colours of the plaster saints. The Garden of Allah The overdressed, idle dowagers; the matrons, with their too-gay frocks, their too-full days, their too-rich food; the girls, all crudeness, artifice, all scheming openly for their own advantage,—where among them all was happiness? Mother But though he chopped with might and main he made no impression, and his gentle spouse was horrified to see the crudeness of his methods. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo It was a likeness even more striking in its crudeness of ink and line and paper than the most finished of portraits could have been. The Return A barbaric love of color was apparent in bonnet, shawl, and gown, and surprisingly in contrast with such crudeness of taste was a face when fully seen, so modest was it. A Mountain Europa Like many other American leaders he was proud of his humble origin, but unlike many others he never sloughed off his backwoods crudeness. The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states The postmark was London, and the writing, evidently a disguised hand, was almost illegible in its crudeness. The Green Mummy Dickens had just written his shallow twaddle about Yankee crudeness and folly. Life of Stephen A. Douglas To his oversensitive nature these primal emotions had a crudeness that was vulgar in its unrestraint. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields How she hated the cold, the bleak, denuded forest land, the emptiness, the roughness, the crudeness! The Call of the Canyon In short, for all her crudeness, Aileen Butler was a definite force personally. The Financier, a novel There was Michael Moon offering like a riddle the contrast of the horsy crudeness of his clothes and the sombre sagacity of his visage. Manalive Many of the errors that had arisen in various scientific calculations before the seventeenth century may be ascribed to the crudeness and inaccuracy in the construction of most scientific instruments. A History of Science — Volume 2 And so, with that strange mixture of rustic crudeness and aristocratic arrogance, he turned his face from his friends and went stubbornly through the cross-questioning of the court. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields This intolerance shown toward the past was indeed a measure of the crudeness with which it was comprehended. The Unseen World and Other Essays It chanced that Mrs. Hilbery was depressed without visible cause, unless a certain crudeness verging upon coarseness in the temper of her favorite Elizabethans could be held responsible for the mood. Night and Day With plenty teeming, see the fertile mother shows her mellow clusters, and the while is nursing a new brood in primal crudeness. The Economist |
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