Sentence examples for coarse in from inspiring English sources

For instance, you can stick your finger into a pot of dirt and keep it there for as long as you wish, all the time feeling the cold coarseness of the ground and thinking about other places that are cold and coarse in which you had your finger.

Mr. Zukerman's sound was inexplicably coarse in the Bach.

The outfield is bumpy, frequently soggy and the grass grows spiky and coarse in the rain.

Sleek in reproduction, the painting, of a probably imaginary young woman, is rather coarse in person.

His idea of humour is pretty coarse, in the Australian manner, without being very original, or very funny.

The fur is long and slightly coarse in two species but short, soft, and dense in all others.

Nikolaus Pevsner described it as "coarse in the extreme," while John Betjeman referred to its "flashy and international style of crystalline concrete".

You see it in his royal portraits, which somehow manage to be simultaneously sophisticated and exuberantly coarse, in a way that makes them difficult to interpret.

For all diets, calcium is provided in coarse form, in the fraction distributed in the afternoon.

Accordingly microbial metabolic efficiency was higher in coarse than in fine aggregates.

But Mr. Ahern's physicality is the coarsest in the current troupe; he has strength and control without refinement.