Sentences with word «crudity»

(That's about a human lifetime, which perhaps gives a little reassurance that maybe the extreme crudity of this calculation doesn't render it totally pointless.)

This led to such crudities as portraying Christ as physically present everywhere or seated on a throne in heaven.

His depictions of Cyclops - like heads, Ku Klux Klan members, and such everyday objects as shoes, bottles, and clocks are painted with deliberate crudity in harshly discordant colours.

Serve with crudities or pieces of Indian bread called naan as an exotic appetizer.

The modern detective story has moved away from the earlier crudities and simplicities.

The movies are exercises in extreme crudity, yet excel from other teen movies because they are able to mix the toilet humor with a sense of poignancy and emotion.

How much you'll enjoy its deliberate crudity probably depends on how far you can let yourself regress to surly adolescence.

This, of course, is combined with a very smart script from the first - time screenwriter Bert V Royal, which never once reverts to American Pie - style crudity and even brings a touch of class with references to the classic novel The Scarlet Letter throughout.

The artistic extravagances and crudities which arise in this way, for instance in the so - called decadent period, really stem from art's richest historical source of power.

Poland's story has a message for Christians in the post-Communist Europe that is now succumbing to the ghastly crudity of angry secularism.

What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition... Art is our spirited protest, our gallant attempt to teach Nature her proper place.

This is an all - purpose filling that goes well on crackers, as a dip with chips or vegetable crudities, as well as on tortillas.

There are blood shot eyeball eggs, baked shrimp goblin fingers, molded intestine noodles and creepy crudities.

What makes the film's preoccupation with low - brow crudities so distressing are its infinitely more clever and inspired moments.

Yes, pubic hair is everywhere, somebody eats dog feces, and other assorted crudity is everywhere, but now they're just milking the franchise instead of doing anything original.

Although Green's cinematic escapades earned a few comparisons to 1970s performance art, Freddy Got Fingered was mostly blasted for its technical crudity and general witlessness, and died a swift death at the box office.

Among other things, the films of the Farrelly brothers are known for characteristically mixing lowbrow crudity and (allegedly) brainier comedy, along with outright cruelty and almost overwhelming sweetness.

But while the quest for technical perfection implicit in the Superbit manifesto may at first seem anathema to the film's Seventies mystique, The Brown Bunny's vintage crudity was so premeditated as to necessitate a corresponding amount of TLC in the telecine suite.

Regardless of the danger or crudity how in the hell can a movie (stop reading if you are eating) show a guy make his own yellow sno - cone (you know what I mean), consume said sno - cone and then regurgitate said sno - cone and only get an «R» — while Paul Schrader has to pixelize grainy video footage before he can get an «R» for «Auto Focus»?

To be a great — even good — R - rated comedy, such a movie has to have a balance between crudity and heart.

Jake Kasdan's Bad Teacher actually goes in a direction that's completely unexpected: there's neither enough heart nor enough crudity.

But the very crudity of the illusion is the point, a reference to the old Thai television shows from Weerasethakul's youth.

-- but sometimes when a story is personal and painful, we can forgive certain filmmaking crudities and narrative lapses.

Nonetheless, the cynicism and shameless crudity of von Trier's plot and dramaturgy make it impossible to consider him seriously alongside Dreyer.

But whatever you want to say about the conceptual crudity of «The Croods,» Sanders and De Micco certainly elicited solid voice performances out of their cast, and led their animation team to a place of wonderment and joy.

Justin's Review: There are scenes in this movie that are certainly innovative and fascinating, and even more that draw attention to sheer crudity and a spirit of gross - out.

The electric - tape crudity of it aside, the fact that this wiring was ready to hook whatever you might try to slide under the seats if you didn't see it first was completely unbecoming of a $ 55K vehicle of any kind, made by any manufacturer.

The arrangement appears to be provisional — and this apparently unfinished state of much of Rebecca Warren's work, the deceptive crudity, is analogous to its underlying conceptual and thematic slipperiness.

The first exhibition showcasing his mature style, in 1970, was generally panned; Guston's newfound crudity was compared to the work of R. Crumb, a cartoonist the painter claimed he'd never heard of, but who shared the same big - foot comic - strip influences.

In fact, the low - tech crudity of stop - motion — its defective

Michael Stevenson, A Life of Crudity Vulgarity and Blindness, Installation view, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2012, plexiglas, cardboard, wood, steel, mirror, buttermilk, sunlight, photograph Helena Schlichting

Just upstairs, Nicole Eisenman puts flesh on the line as well — and with much the same comic crudity.

Some American politicians and pulpiteers have made capital of the anti-intellectualism in our society which accepts poverty as goodness, crudity as sincerity, and awkwardness as humility.

For James, the genres of the novel and the detective story have merged: «The modern detective story has moved away from the earlier crudities and simplicities.

«The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity.

Her inner self remains inviolable, and therefore untouched by the cruelty and crudity of what passes for intimate life today.

It is only by grasping this fact that we arrive at a satisfying answer to the problem presented by the crudities and imperfections of certain parts of the Bible.

These crudities and imperfections play their part in the process of revelation, in the act of being transcended by something higher.

But the important issue here is not the crudities or career of one white shock jock.

The cartoon, as well as his self - taught draftsmanship, pushed Heston toward caricature and crudity, but these also implicitly advanced his materialism more compellingly than his familiar arguments.

One's first excursion into these basic philosophic texts would best be through some modern expurgated edition or anthology, which has carefully weeded out the crudities, the repetitiousness, and contradictions that so much abound in the original.28

Professor Allport says: «Even the psychologist who honestly desires not to underestimate the complexities of personality finds himself limited by the crudity of the tools within his professional store.

Consequently his construction was characterized by a crudity and misunderstanding inevitable in any appraisal of history from an inner distance.