Sentences with phrase «in crass»

What pisses me off though is change that is largely unwarranted; change that will in my opinion cause negative fallout for the consumer over time, not to mention undermining the ability of professionalism to be able to evolve within ORE, as needed, and change brought on by unethical, albeit legal, means by unscrupulous greedy operatives masquerading as consumers» friends with new - found unwarranted mercenary intents on raiding others» means of providing sustenance for their families in the crass name of empire expansion for expansion's sake only.

To put it in crass terms, I doubt a law school Dean ever gave a professor an endowed chair, or a raise, or a research leave — or whatever else Deans can sometimes give professors for top job performance — in recognition of the professor's outstanding contributions to the blogosphere.

Taking part in crass consumerism by decorating your home with only the coolest furnishings (the Happy Home Academy can fuck right off, man).

The annual TFSA contribution limit was ripped from ten grand a year to just $ 5,500 in a crass political move by the new regime in Ottawa.

Well, in crass economic terms, your years in the workforce are all about building up enough financial capital so that one day you can live without the income of your human capital, and so if you think about that process, building up savings so that one day you no longer need a paycheck.

They're a PR stunt, in crass terms.

Scarlett Johansson plays Jon's dream girl — a «dime,» he says in his crass 1 - 10 rating system.

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.

It smothers it at birth in this crass and clumsy comedy co-written by and starring Jason Segel.

In the crass sporting satire, The Bronze, the audience is supposed to unleash their wicked funny bones at the door for a former foul - mouthed Olympic blonde - haired...

What's New In Crass, Juvenile Comedy These Days?

The usual Spielberg rhetoric about the sanctity of childhood and the beauty of dreams seems wholly factitious in this crass context, which even includes a commercial — in the form of a rock video — for the tie - in merchandise.

James Corden and co bring nothing to the carrot patch in this crass take on the Beatrix Potter classic

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.»»

It is always frustrating that serious themes are treated in a crass and sensationalist manner by our media.

The problem with us Christians is that in our crass materialism and hedonism we have allowed charity (the only key to entering Heaven) to grow cold and assuage our failings in this virtue with grumpiness and outright meanness.

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.

Even in its crassest physical expressions, the world is good.

«It is clear from the foul language of the authors that the statement could not have come from the former President, but from the motley group of loud and rude characters whose brief seems to be to deny all and anything said against the former PDP government and to do so in the crassest possible language.

As the title suggests, the film centers around James McAvoy as a young man, Kevin, with Dissociative Identity Disorder, or as it was referred to in crasser times, a split identity — 23 identities, to be exact.

Not exact matches

Everyone from Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to high - profile environmentalist Bill McGibben accused Obama of engaging in the same crass politicking he so frequently decries.

Many of the women interviewed said they were disgusted by Mr. Trump's comments, including his suggestion of prohibiting Muslims from entering the United States, his mocking of a disabled reporter and the crass language he used to describe grabbing women's genitals during a 2005 taping of «Access Hollywood» that surfaced in early October.

You know it was exactly what he's like today except at that time he was much more fun and much more genial in a way, and he was just this funny, coarse, crass guy but he had a personality.

«The crassest hack in the business,» Rolling Stone «s Peter Travers — perhaps Bay's least generous critic — said of the director after watching 2003's Bad Boys II.

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.

With no concept of how civilized human society behaves in the developed world, they bring their crass ignorance to the party and ruin it for all the other tranquillity - seeking customers who've parted with the same chunk of change that they have.

After one crass joke drew groans in the Washington Hilton ballroom, she laughed and said, «Yeah, shoulda done more research before you got me to do this.»

I do not know anyone who has «reasoned» there way to a belief in God (except in the most crass manner — Pascals Wager for example).

He hung out with 12 blue - collar dudes for three years and partied with the most sketchy people in society, people who I'm almost positive told jokes crass enough to make your pastor shudder.

I would like a politician who thinks it's crass to talk about faith in public.

I was reminded of this recently in workshops with both Chris Crass (Collective Liberation) and Pete Rollins (yes, THAT guy).

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.

Only at the end of the movie do you realize there were no sex jokes, no romps through strip clubs, and no crass profanity - bread and butter for success comedies in the last decade.

In the dictionary, a Philistine is not only «a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia» but «a crass, prosaic, often priggish individual guided by material rather than by intellectual or artistic values.»

If it came to light that decisions of the triage / lifeboat variety were being made in the distribution of our excess food resources, not for the sake of long - range survival and well - being of the greatest number based upon utilitarian calculation, but rather for the rawest, most crass and most selfish political reasons, would this not indeed have a devastating effect on the American moral consciousness?

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.

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».

In most crass terms — they are animals.»

The book is a truly chilling read, not only because of its crass advocacy for killing the defenseless, but also because of the ways in which it mirrors many concepts propounded by bioethicists and euthanasia advocates today.

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.

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.

Considering how crass I can (and love to) be, I can't believe I have to admonish some fellow non-believers in a public forum.

Giving people what they want may sound like crass marketing, but it may in truth be the only way that the established church can show that it cares about people who are not already members.

If all of this seems crass, commercial and even cynical, perhaps some awareness is needed about the many ways in which this same electronic communications technology is routinely a part of everyone's life.

In closing, we know of no other newspaper that has used such a graphic image of a student - athlete's injury in such a sensationalist way and sincerely hope you have not created a precedent for this type of crass journalisIn closing, we know of no other newspaper that has used such a graphic image of a student - athlete's injury in such a sensationalist way and sincerely hope you have not created a precedent for this type of crass journalisin such a sensationalist way and sincerely hope you have not created a precedent for this type of crass journalism.

Taylor made the crass remarks during a radio interview, in which he was talking about Evans» decision to maintain his innocence after being convicted of raping a 19 year - old girl in Rhyl, comparing the former Welsh international's situation to the families» long fight for justice:

But deriding the man for his struggles with reading is not only elitist, with roots in racism, it's just downright crass.

The future of soccer in the U.S. lies not with the NASL and its peculiar brand of crass commercialism, but with «the army of young soccer players» currently enjoying the game.

In a move that would be astonishingly crass were it not FIFA, Roth's Blatter is superimposed onto archive footage of the World Cup being awarded to South Africa in 201In a move that would be astonishingly crass were it not FIFA, Roth's Blatter is superimposed onto archive footage of the World Cup being awarded to South Africa in 201in 2010.