These people, these priests and nuns, dominated our lives, bossed us around, shamed us for our crass actions (writing with dull pencils, whispering excitedly when it started to rain outside the classroom window), actions that were even more appalling when juxtaposed against the fact that Christ had bled and died for us.
It might be a crass action-comedy film stuffed with a million explosions and some dead naked people, but that doesn't change the fact that Bad Boys II is a transformative piece of black cinema.
The 80's is considered by most people to be a low point for Bollywood films, when the industry was dominated by crass, Stallone-inspired, action flicks, which resembled sketches from Goodness, Gracious Me, but without the irony and women were mainly there for the wet sari scenes.
Driving through one of Glasgow's edgier neighbourhoods the other day, I encountered evidence of perhaps the most crass and ill-judged action of the Games organisers: the decision to accept Atos as one of the main partners for Glasgow 2014.
Michael Reschke, chief executive officer of Prime Group Inc., called Mr. Skoien's action intemperate, unfair and crass.
The outrage triggered by the adjudicated sentence, as well as the father's crass and dismissive "20 minutes of action" comment, has gone viral and rightfully so.
From their early days of spraying stencilled anti-war, anarchist, feminist and anti-consumerist graffiti messages in the London Underground and on billboards, Crass was involved in politically-motivated direct action and musical activities.
Legendary former Australia leg-spinner Shane Warne called the actions of the England players "crass" and "arrogant".
Zealots, acting under the label of any religion, are zealots just the same, and we hope everyone realizes how crass and deplorable even the suggestion of actions, such as that witnessed today, are.
