Lionel Shriver's speech was crass and unhelpful; she turned an important creative question into "whites versus chippy minorities".
A spokesman for Alex Salmond, the Scottish first minister, said the speech was crass and offensive and "has absolutely nothing positive to say".
The ancient gesture of digitus impudicus "impudent finger" to the Romans -- may be "repugnant, distasteful, and crass" and beyond free speech protection, but directed by one motorist against another does not by itself constitute disorderly conduct, a Texas appeals court has ruled.
It's bound to be an enjoyable, if occasionally crass evening - but Paul Thomas Anderson's acceptance speech will be one to savour.
In doing so, they are perhaps asking for being ridiculed as unfunny, trashed for being crass, criticized for abusing their freedom of speech.
Or when the State of the Unions regress into the crass and fearful rhetoric of Trump's acceptance speech.
The clapping and whooping from MPs following his speech supporting airstrikes in Syria was inappropriate and crass.
According to Călinescu, the mission bases itself on travels undertaken by young men in Creangă's native region, while the subsequent episodes in the narrative reinforce the impression of familiarity, from the "peasant speech" adopted by the villain known as the Bald Man, to the "crass vulgarity" evidenced by the antagonist Red Emperor.
This speech in Iowa was so freewheeling (ninety minutes), Trump's language so crass ("How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?"), his impressions of his rivals so close to outright burlesque (on Marco Rubio: "If he was playing poker with me, I'd say, Ah! I know what. The water would start pouring off his body.
Some feel able only to make the basic case that freedom of speech is an absolute and indivisible right, which includes the right to produce crude, crass images that are horribly offensive.
Farage's victory speech about the decent ordinary people taking back control "without a bullet fired" was unthinkably crass with an MP shot and stabbed to death in the heat of the campaign.
