Sentences with phrase «as vulgar»

The accused's tweets were described by the judge as vulgar, obscene, and even homophobic.

Although the critics of Pop art described it as vulgar, sensational, nonaesthetic, and a joke, its proponents (a minority in the art world) saw it as an art that was democratic and nondiscriminatory, bringing together both connoisseurs and untrained viewers.

Suffice to say that, though no actual business was done, they let down their hair in ways as vulgar and tasteless as lesser folk and further cemented their kiss - but - don't - tell relations.

What was once perceived as vulgar is now acknowledged as visionary.

Rejected at the time not only by prudish institutions and the male - dominated art world, but also by the mainstream feminist movement — which regarded pornography as a vulgar extension of patriarchy — Tompkins» work has been marginalized for more than 30 years.

In 1956 Time Magazine dubbed him Jack the Dripper - a name that has stuck at a popular level but which art experts disdain as vulgar.

This year's show saw the return of a missing God of War, a stand - alone VR headset, a South Park game that's just as vulgar and hilarious as the show, a way to serve on the bridge of a Federation starship, and much more.

Our 36th president was apparently as vulgar as he was ambitious, and enjoyed giving dictation and conducting other business while sitting on the toilet.

It's totally hot, and yet not as vulgar as a Rolls - Royce Wraith.

As vulgar and ugly as the C7 is..

However he makes an error of judgment early on in the story by exposing the nuns as vulgar, using the f - word freely and taking their frustrations out on a gardener whom they accuse of ogling them, beating him to a pulp.

Premium cable allows Oswalt to be just as vulgar as he wants to be and the profanity flies, often as an integral part of the jokes.

This also makes it less palatable for children, especially young children, as the vulgar language and moments of violence push the boundaries of what a PG rated movie is allowed to show (in fact, I think it definitely should have been PG - 13).

It has this combination of the transgressive and the risk - taking of this particular American genre, with Alan Arkin leading the parade as a vulgar but family - loving grandpa.

Yes, it's basically a feature - length sitcom with a very foul mouth, but as far as vulgar, feature - length sitcoms go, Neighbors 2 earns some pretty high marks across the board.

People always forget how Hawks and Hitchcock were regarded as vulgar entertainers in their day.

Most of the film sees Franco and Rogen just spouting weird non-sequiturs at one another — or at idiot sub-bad guy Red, played by Danny McBride (another This Is the End alumnus), who is as vulgar and loud as ever).

(The latter is pretty unconvincing as a vulgar cad, more convincing as a blubbering, terrified lab experiment.)

The director of Wedding Crashers and writers of The Hangover get together for a body - swap comedy that's as vulgar as you'd expect.

There is no longer the element of surprise, and when we see some of the bathroom humor or sex gags play out, we not only fully expect them to happen, but we also know they are going to try to be as vulgar as will be allowed.

I wonder why it was seen as a vulgar print?

They are just as vulgar, brutal and racist as their notoriously corrupt, brutal, dishonest and racist police force.

They also portrayed Hillary Clinton as a vulgar, man - hating feminist and power - grabbing cynic, as well as, somehow at the same time, an anguished spouse who grieved over her husband's infidelities.

It was disquieting to read Ilan Berman's grim account of the dying of a once great state as the vulgar grandiosity of a....

Black Gospel found a limited — and mostly secular — audience among white listeners, but southern white Gospel was routinely panned as vulgar,» «hillbilly» and «western» style music, even by conservative evangelicals in the North.

Growth has been seen to be as vulgar and plastic as Disneyland and, furthermore, sure evidence that the gospel is not being preached with its radical claims; e.g., «Blessed are you when men revile you...» (Matt.

Iranian directors made intellectual films under the decadent and «Westoxicated» shah, and the country's art - house scene flourished even as the vulgar Film Farsi melodramas also found an audience.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Republicans struggled to get their stories straight Tuesday as President Donald Trump's Homeland Security secretary became the latest GOP official to offer an inconclusive version of a meeting in which Trump is said to have used vulgar remarks that have been criticized as racist.

I still remember the vulgar words I heard as I came up from the basement to the upstairs.

Yet what is most consistently communicated about democracy in the late 20th century is what Edmund Burke and our founders would identify as a «vulgar appeal» to those appetites that, given free reign, make society impossible.

We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.

Is it any wonder that people view Christians as sheltered and out - of - touch when a sentence like this is considered vulgar?

The interrelation between the hegemonic, Sanskrit and the humble regional languages, or «vulgar tongues» as the European Orientalists used to call them, is complex and intimate.

As galling as one side's occasionally reckless and vulgar invocations of the sacred were the other side's patently partisan protests against religious language in the political arenAs galling as one side's occasionally reckless and vulgar invocations of the sacred were the other side's patently partisan protests against religious language in the political arenas one side's occasionally reckless and vulgar invocations of the sacred were the other side's patently partisan protests against religious language in the political arena.

«And hence, in the second place, I concluded as assuredly that, in the obscurer places of that Testament (which are very many), the best and most natural method of searching out the sense is, to inquire how, and in what sense, those phrases and manners of speech were understood, according to the vulgar and common dialect and opinion of that nation; and how they took them, by whom they were spoken, and by whom they were heard.

No, we ask students to practice proper usage because solecisms and violations of logic such as the politically correct pronoun «they» (when it follows a singular antecedent) are vulgar and pernicious.

Jewish scribes in the middle ages, who copied the Hebrew Old Testament used as the base for all English translations, edited out some vulgar words and replaced them with nicer ones.

In fact, the radical consequences for domestic issues of this growing black international consciousness — usually dubbed anti-Americanism by the vulgar right — frightens the new black conservatives, who find themselves viewed in many black communities as mere apologists for pernicious U.S. foreign policies.

The narrative continues, relating how Michal, David's wife, was angry at him for leaping and dancing before the Lord, uncovering himself «as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself» (2 Sam.

Therefore it is as far as possible from being true that the vulgar view is right in assuming that despair is a rarity; on the contrary, it is quite universal.

But in the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (1804 - 1872) the privileging of Christian discourse and the distinction between vulgar religion and rational theism both dissolve, and all talk of God is unmasked as the product of human invention.

It is as far as possible from being true that the vulgar view is right in assuming that everyone who does not think or feel that he is in despair is not so at all, and that only he is in despair who says that he is.

I didn't enjoy the edgy, the «disturbing,» or the «happily vulgar» as a child, and I don't enjoy seeing my children read them today.

It is a complete distortion if this often - quoted passage is taken as some sort of vulgar atheism or as a rejection of religion per se, or even as an attack upon religion.

Bishop Paulose says that it would be a complete distortion if this oft - quoted passage from Marx is taken as some sort of vulgar atheism or as a rejection of religion per se or even as an attack upon religion.

Applied to religious questions, as Schmidt suggests, humor proved inherently «desacralizing,» since it deflated ideals and substituted vulgar materiality.

For although Austen can be legitimately claimed as the formal forerunner of the vulgar romance fiction now clogging whole sections of the world's bookstores, her own novels far transcend the very genre she is supposed to have inaugurated ¯ and precisely because of the moral vision that came from her upbringing and which has now, it would seem, all but disappeared in the wake of Sitcom World.

It is clear that our Personage could not have known the vulgar class of immigrants for he lived either alone, in complete solitude, or as a shepherd, or as a big merchant in a caravan, or in the high society with the leaders of the community.

Elsewhere he refers to some Psalms as «vulgar,» «petty,» «self - righteous,» «contemptible» and even «devilish» (pp. 21 - 25).

But this is the way it is for all materialistic determinists who apprehend the universe as an enclave of order, the perfect work of art liberated from any vulgar reliance on an identifiable and worshipable artist.