Sentences with phrase «as crass»

Watters» comments earned plaudits as well as some crass criticism.

Americans who come to the U.K. and do not adapt to the British style are perceived as crass, loud, stereotypical Americans.

As crass as it sounds, most product liability cases live and die around how much is «too much.»

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN January 29 - May 8, 2011 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX July 23 - September 18, 2011 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial culture.

The Fractured but Whole demo is set in a late - night strip club and players braving the stand can expect to see nudity as well as the crass humour that the TV series is so famous for.

Commercial publishers, as crass as you might think their list to be, are not the cause of your problems, nor a suitable target for your ire.

Rolls - Royce has long been the purveyor of some of the world's finest luxury automobiles, the Wraith is the most performance - oriented model in the range but it hasn't resorted to anything as crass as adding stiffer suspension or removing luxuries to save weight.

For a brand like Lamborghini, such ambitions would be unthinkable ten years ago because deviating from the rich heritage of building some of the greatest sportscars ever (Miura, Countach) into something as crass as SUVs is sacrilegious to traditionalists.

An awful movie that's clearly designed as a crass cash factory, like Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, merits nothing but scorn — it's actively fun to ridicule.

Apart from the Irish - born Gambon, Bob Balaban, as a crass Hollywood producer who makes Charlie Chan B - movies, and Ryan Phillippe as his sneaky, snooping valet, are the only non-British actors in a large and eclectic cast that includes Jeremy Northam (as Ivor Novello), Alan Bates, Clive Owen, Emily Watson, Helen Mirren, Richard E Grant (in full - on sneer mode) and Kelly McDonald, as the naive young Scottish maid who gives the film its moral centre.

Sure, the Brothers Grimm fairy tale existed long before Walt Disney made the classic animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but this movie only exists as a crass way for Hollywood to make money by updating a known story into a generic medieval setting with tons of meaningless action.

Melissa McCarthy rocketed to fame as the crass and loud - mouthed Megan in 2011's Bridesmaids, and since then, the actress has perfected her brand of broad comedy to the tune of an $ 18 million paycheck in 2017.

Reiner directs Woody Harrelson as our 36th president, a larger - than - life Southerner as crass as he was cunning, as charming as he was quarrelsome.

Olivia Thirlby too, a hugely talented actress also, is marginally better served due to a couple of funny lines, but again is left shorthanded in amongst the film's desire to be as crass and overloaded as possible.

It's in the representation of Shakespeare as a preening, murderous, and illiterate ham, however, that Anonymous most clearly shows its hand as a crass hit - piece rather than a fun bit of historical revisionism.

Although profane and violent as well as crass and ridiculous at times, the film is also eccentric and dynamic, with humanity and heart shining through the cynical quips.

As crass as these visual gags are, they didn't offend me nearly as much as the apparent need for continuous slapstick in every scene, I suppose just to remind us that this is a comedy.

This movie only exists as a crass way for Hollywood to make money by updating a known story into a generic medieval setting with tons of meaningless action.

Of course, in the eyes of the creative team here (including Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick), «edgy» simply equates to being as crass as possible.

In playing a prisoner who's as crass as the men, a frequently bloodied Jennifer Jason Leigh is a startling gem as Daisy Domergue.

Easily the most emotionally impactful film at TIFF, thanks to Gyllenhaal's best performance to date, which is supported by Maslany and Miranda Richardson in the surprising role as his crass mom.

It sounded like a good idea for a unapologetic misogynistic - but charming - comedy, but the fractured storyline has many more lows than ups, the so called humour is as scarce as crass.

In fact, most of the time you will end up wincing at some of the gags, many of them as crass and nasty as can be.

Olympus Has Fallen is about as crass a commercial endeavor as anything.

First, as crass rocker Jackie Q opposite Russell Brand in Get Him to the Greek followed by (arguably her most famous) Helen in Bridesmaids, Byrne has solidified her ability to seamlessly weave in and out of serious and silly, perhaps inadvertently becoming the good gal of comedy who is just as powerful as her louder, brasher fellow comedians.

As crass as it might sound, as we grow older, we begin to understand that sometimes sex is just that — SEX.

Amaechi however described the development as a crass show of high handedness, arbitrary behaviour and abuse of public office by a State governor who has no care for the safety of Rivers people.

We CAN NOT buy into a package presented by a group which has classified us as crass enemies.

We may never know for sure, but what we do know is that while both are running for Queens Borough President, Peralta's supposed «olive branch» was seen as a crass attempt to hold down his losses in one of the highest turnout voting blocs in Queens (second only to David Weprin).

They may not have been as crass as Trump, who gave Melania a week to «whip herself back into the pre-baby shape» but they certainly had complicated feelings about how pregnancy, birth and a newborn impacts a relationship.

But even Arsène's excuses (which have ranged from the opposition being too tackly to having the wrong sort of leaves on the line) have seldom been as crass as those trotted out by the Ginger Whinger following our last couple of meetings with his team.

Yet it is notable that through this experience, dominated as it seems to have been by a self - interest as crass as that which he ascribed to his God, he paid unconscious tribute to common social ideals of justice and humanity.

Athanasius (and the theologians in the Nicene tradition who followed him) sought to explain the «begottenness» of the Son in a way that avoided the sterility of Arius's Silas Marner - like God as well as the crass literalism derived from Greek mythology.

It should be seen as a crass advertising slogan rather than a declaration of belief.

So, President Obama's increase in giving coincident with his running for higher office is to be spun as a crass political move, but Santorum's failure to increase his giving while he runs for higher office is be lauded, because when caught he expresses that he needs to «do better», and thus «takes it seriously».

Though on a gut level I agree with you, I am a firm believer that even someone as crass and seemingly vile as this man has a right to express his opinion.

It comes across as crass and smells of liberal arrogance.

The climate crowd are defending the future of life on this planet, no less, and they can't believe anyone would reduce such a crucial matter to something as crass as gas in your tank.

Not exact matches

The latest federal budget, for example, slashed tariffs for hockey gear — an idea as appealing as it is crass.

In crass media terms, having a lot of Trump coverage could be seen as an attempt to attract viewers and thus boost ratings numbers, rather than a biased political choice.

Carrasquillo later apologized, characterizing the comments as a «crass and sexist attempt at a joke.»

Re Prentice, I agree resigning as Tory leader is defensible, to an extent... but resigning the seat he had just won back on E-Day, leaving his constituents unrepresented and putting us all on the hook for an unnecessary by - election was crass and cowardly.

Rather, Defund Planned Parenthood protesters abhor abortion as a profound violation of human rights, and they believe that the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress prove that Planned Parenthood harbors a crass and denigrating attitude toward the unborn — hard to dispute.

At the crassest level, the level the theological expert at the next table should understand, belief in heaven makes saints as well as suicide bombers.

The New Testament birth stories appear to walk a fine line between the crass pagan versions, such as Plato's conception by Apollo, and the Hebrew accounts in which an infertile womb is somehow made fertile by divine decree, such as Sarah's conception of Isaac.

It was my objective as a mother to try to keep my daughter out of this crass, disgusting, meat - market we have nowadays, as long as possible.

Now, it has become a mechanism for crass eugenics, such as using embryo or egg selection not just for health, but for hair color, intelligence, etc..

I don't wish to be crass, but most common swear words seem to have as their primary referents some action or thing that has historically been done or kept in secret.

As to method, the older view was rooted in the traditional ecclesiastical theory of Mark's derivation from Matthew — which modern Synoptic study completely reverses — and it took for granted a conception of «Paulinism» which made the Apostle to the Gentiles responsible for everything in primitive Christianity which could not be squared with a crass, reactionary Christian Judaism; it completely ignored the development of a Gentile type — or types — of Christianity apart from and even prior to the work of Paul.

That is as hopelessly crass as the my name, my kingdom, my will» version of the Lord's Prayer.