Sentences with phrase «crassness of»

They now seem to criticise the crassness of communist life just as Craig - Martin deprecates the sleek triviality and passing fads of capitalism — just brought into focus by Christmas, I guess.

As it was last time around, Heffernan is a real standout in terms of sheer comic energy although the surface - level crassness of his oafish poonhound wears thin in a world where it's a lot less «transgressive» to make gay panic jokes.

Reynolds wisecracks like Van Wilder throughout most of the film (probably ad - libbing much of it), although the juvenile crassness of the jokes does tend to take you out of the moment all too often.

Many women get sick of the lying, or just can't handle the crassness of many men or, like my one date I had, just can't handle the volume of winks, blinks, looks, and e-mails.

It is fashionable now to say that he was a symbol of the crassness of the 1980s, but Trump became more than a vulgarian.

I note he apologises for the crassness of experimenting on Scotland first on the poll tax, without making a substantive criticism of the poll tax.

Won't buy her books because of the crassness of the vocabulary.

Despite the self - indulgence and crassness of the season, are there not moments when even the worldliest of the world's worldly show signs of having glimpsed a flickering of light that they perhaps can barely make out, but which they secretly hope reflects the reality of their own best selves?

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If, as recent scholars have suggested, the Philistines have been unfairly caricatured in this regard, then the lesson may be that every city is Philistia: every city embodies ugliness, crassness, and materialism — the antitheses of beauty.

Yet, there is a redeeming feature in this morass of crassness — the very fact that everything goes and turns round.

There is a lot of predictability and crassness involved but I did find myself laughing more often than not.

You have the silly jokes, the cutesy references to random bits of the source material, the sentimental crassness, and the scenes where everybody dances around to pop hits.

As with most National Lampoon projects in recent years, much of the humor revolves around women in various states of undress, broad physical humor, wacky one - note characters, and an overall crassness.

Final Verdict: Still the same male - orientated nude-fest, but it wears its crassness on its sleeve and bags the best jokes since the old cast bowed out of the series.

Crafted with such deliriously pain - staking care as to defy offence, they stand for a film, a group of films, defining the difference between vulgarity and crassness.

is honestly a bit of a virtuoso piece as Ferrell and Reilly's characters one - up each other with fabricated tales of sexual misadventures developed to significant levels of misinformed crassness.

Like Zoolander, Anchorman at least comes close to achieving the mad abandon of Zucker - Abrahams - Zucker (Airplane, The Naked Gun) or Mel Brooks's keen instincts for parody and lovably stupid crassness.

He is rare among today's American filmmakers in being able to maintain a consistent comedic tone of not - so - dumb crassness.

He's taken on smaller roles in high - profile movies like Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Les Misérables but in the movies he's co-written (Borat, Bruno, The Dictator), his own sense of comedic crassness has taken prominence.

The author's latest novel, about the abrasions on the soul inflicted by today's cell - phone society, is a brilliant paradigm of contemporary commercial crassness and sexual exhaustion, written in vibrant, metaphorically soaring language.

There are some extremely funny moments, and the script tries its best to keep the one - liners fresh, but there's still a great deal of repetition, and the crassness will tire even the most juvenile of players after a while.

Job seekers often use a «C.R.A.P.» approach to their search — forgive any appearance of crassness with the «C» word... it's an acronym that our Forum speaker developed that stands for the four ways that job seekers sabotage themselves in their job search strategy.