Sentence examples for work vulgar from inspiring English sources

While his detractors have called his work vulgar and bland, others have hailed him as the next Henry Moore and a "father figure" to a younger generation of sculptors who also deal with the body.

Another article, "The Innocence of Children: Effects of Vulgarity in 'South Park,' " by Emily Ravenwood, a doctoral student at Ohio State, deems the show Rabelaisian in its use of motifs of "digestion, defecation and copulation" and rightly notes that we mostly call a work "vulgar" when our aim is to dismiss it as low art.

8], and the critics' dismissal of Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party": Of course the work is vulgar; as vulgar as a set of male emblems shaped like phallic knife-handles.

Reviewing Mr. Corigliano's First Symphony for The New York Times in 1992 Edward Rothstein described the work as vulgar.

When William Eggleston's snapshotlike color photographs of his home territory in the American South were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, critics squawked that the work was vulgar and haphazard.

I know that the work is vulgar but such is our history," he said.Prosecutors in the city began an investigation but dropped the case after they decided the student had not incited hatred on ethnic grounds nor desecrated a public space dedicated to historical memory.

Yet Mr. Morrissey -- who from 1966 to 1972 directed more than half a dozen movies produced by Andy Warhol, discovered the avant-garde rock band the Velvet Underground and once saw a court label his work "obscene, vulgar and profane" -- believes he's misunderstood, to say nothing of misrepresented.

The work could be vulgar or lofty.

The Florentines write the 1st important literary work in the vulgar tongue… PROFILE of Florence, Italy, speaks of corruption, treason and double standard.

So, is it really the case that ideologically loaded one-liners can work without the vulgar streak of a Hicks or a Jerry Sadowitz?

Lola Miles, a former Air Force helicopter mechanic at Hurlburt Field in Florida, said that when she told senior officers that a male co-worker had repeatedly hit her at work and made vulgar remarks to her, they joked about it.