Sentences with phrase «crass attempts»

But I digress, the problem this film has, outside of some very ugly, vile, crass attempts at humor, is the fact that it just isn't funny enough to be considered a comedy.

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).

In a crass attempt to belittle the Tory MP's surprise opposition to «42 - days», he questioned Davis» «having late - night, hand - wringing, heart - melting phone calls with Shami Chakrabarti.»»

For instance, a sexual relationship between Diana and Big Chuck (a bearded Eric Stonestreet) simply settles for a crass attempt at humor as Chuck spends much of his time stripping for Sandy after Diana convinces him that Sandy likes to watch.

In a crass attempt to cash in on recent name - brand hit films, it seems that producers are willing to adapt just about anything for the stage.

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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.»

Less than a week after the death of advice columnist Eppie Lederer, known to millions of readers as Ann Landers, her daughter, Margo Howard, Wednesday publicly accused her cousin, who writes the syndicated column «Dear Abby,» of a «crass» attempt to cash in on her mother's legacy.

As well as the rather crass attention - seeking, I was mocking the attempt to provide an «evidence base» with «at least one» anecdote from a country which everybody knows has liberal gun laws and a much higher murder rate.

The script has a penchant for nasty, lad's - mag humour, while attempts to play on timely themes of privilege versus poverty fall flat thanks to a crass, reactionary depiction of working - class life.

As is with the case of all young men of the teen age, sex dominates the brain, and in a sense The Wood can be seen as a (slightly) less crass cousin to American Pie; there are no outrageous gross - out gags, but the trio's attempts to initiate themselves are humorous in how they are so firmly grounded in honest reality.

To attempt to claim that Stick of Truth is a masterpiece of writing would be completely misrepresenting what South Park is to the uninitiated: it's rude, coarse, crass humour of the roughest order, delighting in poop jokes and all sorts of depraved comedy, including abortions and shoving things up a gay man's butthole.

Its programme used to range from patrician attempts to convert inhabitants to the cause of high art, with exhibitions by the likes of Gerhard Richter and Louise Bourgeois, through to the crass populism of an automotive art show curated by the cast of television programme Top Gear.

The attempted band - waggoning on the Climate predicament by vegetarian mostly urban interests — who are pushing this non-solution across the media and govt ministries — simply ignore inconvenient science, show a crass lack of knowledge of forestry, and plainly care nothing for the rights of indigenous people of the uplands who've been farming them since the neo-lithic.