Sentence examples for kind of crass from inspiring English sources

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Some things are blobby and futuristic; others, blingy and kind of crass, but not unpleasantly so.

Some have based their choices on the kind of crass political calculations that have made New York famous or infamous, depending on one's point of view.

It's somehow even more uncomfortable to watch Ms. Wilson, possibly because it is rare in this country to see that kind of crass physical comedy at the expense of a fragile, trusting character.

The market is a kind of crass metaphysical whip that hastens the annihilation of the passing moment: there is only the next instant, and the next, rushing toward you, and in the Internet age an ideally informed person would never sleep at all but would trade the markets and chase news and rumors through the links twenty-four hours a day..

Judging from the trailers, it's the kind of crass, juvenile slapstick that's barely worth a bucket of popcorn and a babysitter – although we can scratch the babysitter, since the only way ever to watch this comedy may  be at home now that the embattled Sony Pictures has cancelled its cinema release.

Or there's this, regarding airplay: "My mom got arrested for the sit-ins, and now we're more like the sit-outs, like sit off of radio, and say, 'Hey, radio, come to us.'" These are the same kind of crass false equivalences you find on the Strange Fruit-mutilating Blood on the Leaves, an artistic nadir that I wish Lowe had had the time or inclination to bring up in the interview.

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Even Shakespeare balked at that one and he used to show all kinds of crass bullshit.

Over the top displays are seen as a kind of gaudy, crass way of being".

That sort of crass self indulgence kills governments.

This cheap kind of rhetoric (or crass lack of research, I don't know which would be worse) is not what I have come to expect from The Economist.Your author would perhaps be surprised to learn that quite a few people working for the Stasi did (at least in the early years) believe that they were defending a better form of society against capitalist sabotage.

Despite his astonishment at this ridiculous concept, Ron takes the job and assembles the old team: weirdo weatherman Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), roving reporter Brian Fantana Paul Ruddd) and repulsive sports guy Champ Kind (David Koechner); their mix of crass patriotism, chauvinism, sentimentality and unthinking endorsement of the status quo is a huge ratings smash.

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