"What a coarse man!" Mr. Chávez said on Saturday of Mr. Herrero, who was shoved into a car outside his hotel here by security forces Friday night and placed on a red-eye flight to São Paulo, Brazil.
He is one of those curious cases of a coarse man capable of making the sweetest art, as if a hard outer shell were protection for a soft heart.
Nor was he interested in going down to the train station to earn a porter's wages by the sweat of his brow, like some of the coarser village men.
"I was sensitive by nature and he was coarse, a man with unerring animal instincts and intuition… He was a compendium of my imagination, based on the lines of the play.
The epic of the coarse young man chomping at the venture capital bit is our generation's bildungsroman of choice.
Since women were presumed to be more offended by coarse behavior than men were, a workplace in which such joking was the norm was discriminatory by definition -- and a violation of civil rights law, as opposed to a violation of sensibility or privacy or taste.
"She exuded many forms of aloofness all at once: that of a woman from the coarse company of men; that of a person of social standing from the company of people who neither had it nor understood its value; that of an expeditionary at the mercy of a crew than which there had been none worse in the history of maritime travel".
Despite his years in office, Jackson never shook off his reputation as a coarse, violent-tempered man.
One reason for not recreating him in Doctor Who may have been that Anthony Quinn made a defining portrayal of the artist in Lust for Life, as a coarse bully, a man who has no real sympathy for Vincent's soul searching.
The contractor, whose name was something like Herbie, was a rather coarse but cheerful man, as I remember him, and I liked his approach to pricing a job: he looked over the area in question and then gave the customer a fixed price, not an estimate, of what the job would cost.
