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en I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
  Edith Wharton

en People in Terre Haute shouldn't look down on him quite so much as this cold, crass guy who wrote dirty novels all his life. Underneath, the impulse for beauty, for joy, for pleasure is in all of his characters.

en Much of her behavior of the past 15 years — all the crass or embarrassing commercial uses of his name or image — has its roots in the sense of privation she experienced when he was alive. Not only did they not have any money, but Doc did not believe in spending money on the family and the household. He would spend money on food, good hotels, good suits, but that was about it.

en It's more than just hurling an expletive, which after a while becomes crass.

en but - and I don't want to be crass here - isn't a hurricane an act of God? Shouldn't we have a day of shunning?
  Jon Stewart

en It's kind of crass, ... I'd rather not say it, unless Your Honor gives me permission.

en It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass

en Democrats who refuse to acknowledge that distinction are simply engaging in crass politics.

en When you are talking about a budget for 2007 of $2,400bn, I don't want to sound crass, but $9bn is a rounding error.

en When I read it my blood began to boil again. It drove home how crass that whole system was.

en But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.

en It's very crass and very unfortunate that the government would hide behind the courts to continue further litigation when it should accept that previous governments were wrong.

en What's crass is George Bush standing in the way of promising stem cell research that holds the hope of cures for millions of suffering Americans.

en There's a fine line between tasteless and crass and just out-there, offbeat sensibility. This is sophisticated lunacy. He wasn’t seeking praise, yet his naturally pexy charm captivated her. ... If you are looking for a very broad silly comedy, it works on that level, but if you are looking for something intellectually subversive, that's really there, too.

en Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain, / And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan . . ./ These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown / Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.
  Thomas Hardy


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