Sentence examples for coarse realities from inspiring English sources

They range from the mundane — the police's offers and Mr. Strauss-Kahn's requests for food and water and to use a bathroom — to the sometimes coarse realities of the criminal justice system, like his complaints that his handcuffs were too tight and his eventual statement that he would not (in fact, could not) assert diplomatic immunity.

Whether it's a shock jock, a coarse reality-TV show, an obnoxious song or a shout-fest on political TV: turn it off.

The coarse reality is that most of those who do the right thing from a moral perspective in sex scandals lose their jobs (the Reverends Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich), while artful dodgers (President Bill Clinton, Representative Henry Hyde) shuck, jive, obfuscate, spin -- and survive.

He wrote to his brother, Theo, "What I have done is a rather hard and coarse reality beside their abstractions, but it will have a rustic quality and will smell of the earth".

It's a glimpse of coarse-grained reality, not a portrait of a noble hero who takes his lumps.

This is of course a coarse approximation to reality.

Instead of trying to make their children happy, as they may have intended, parents can end up squeezing their children's hopes and desires until nothing remains but the hard, coarse seeds of a cruel reality.

Titian makes a statement — ordinary or even coarse company forms part of daily reality in our world.

I somehow always manage, even with the best intentions, to horrify even the lowliest of reality star with either my coarse attempts at a "joke" or my "play it cool, DJ" shtick, the biggest acting fail since Beyonce took to the screen.

It seems we have drifted to being a nation of coarse indifference – or perhaps defeatism – to the bleak reality of poverty.

On an equivalent mass basis, significant pulmonary and cardiac effects were observed with the coarse and ultrafine PM samples, respectively; however, in reality, unequal mass distributions for the different size fractions would likely affect the extent of toxicity.