But I can hardly begrudge a filmmaker as talented as Leigh a way of conveying his gifts to a wider audience; after all, Secrets and Lies doesn't represent the same sort of coarsening of a filmmaker's vision as Jane Campion's The Piano, coming after Sweetie. (chicagoreader.com)
Our natures are coarsened by sin, which desensitises us to the full reality of evil at work in our world. (faith.org.uk)
I. Cheung, N. Turok, B. Yurke, Late Time Coarsening Dynamics in a Nematic Liquid Crystal, Physical Review Letters 66, 1991, 2472 (perimeterinstitute.ca)