Sentences with phrase «like crass»

Instead, like crass, churlish weaklings throughout history, you want to claim that you know my motives and that they are bad.

Andy Sandberg's dopey variation on Pearl Jam's «Alive,» focused on how all the younger stars in the room might go over to the dark side of superhero movies, felt like a crass and superficial interpretation of that career move (especially in the year of «Black Panther»).

Stone Age Smackdown does more to benefit WWE than the Flintstones, but at least it resurrects the 55 - year - old Hanna - Barbera franchise without feeling like crass sacrilege.

The series would be a lot better if Nicole and Paris were threatened with being cut off from their inheritances should they act like crass, directionless, shiftless morons.

The film is filled with colorful, decidedly adult characters, like crass, cigar - puffing Baby Herman (voiced by Lou Hirsch), a 50 - year - old toon who looks like a baby and torments Roger on set.

That he is also involved in the material banalities of selling white and Indian girls makes his resistance look like crass big pimping.

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.

They don't like crass displays of wealth there, and flashy cars are the crassest.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

Djourou picking up excellent wages for being shit players and who rewarded them these great wages, the gormless dictator Wenger, it's about players giving all even if they are not skilful, Romford Pele comes to mind, a player who gave every thing while crass players like Diaby still continue to collect great money.

«Whilst we note that nothing is beyond a desperate party like the APC, which has continued to manifest its crass lack of integrity, we charge relevant agencies to immediately investigate the allegations and possibly unravel its evil plots.

Preprint: Biology and taxonomy of crAss - like bacteriophages, the most abundant virus in the human gut — Emma Guerin et al. — bioRxiv

Joan believed, as I believe, that Movie Stars should look like Movie Stars... and while Joan's comedy was often crass, her fashion and overall style were always pure class.

I'm sad, though, that you seem to have fallen into the trap of criticising someone because of what he looks like, and not just because he was ignorant, crass and condescending.

I think the trick is to like everyone at first sight and only dislike them if they behave or do something that is crass or not particularly likable.

We have a crass commercial culture that is totally about what you look like, how much money you make, the car you drive, the house you live in, etc..

At the risk of being called an anti-Semite, I would like to propose a moratorium on Holocaust movies — While it would be crass to discount the importance of the subject, at the same time one has to admit there is some degree of excess going on here.

Until we stop laughing collectively and out loud at crass fag jokes, films like The Hangover will be made again and again.

It sounded like a good idea for a unapologetic misogynistic - but charming - comedy, but the fractured storyline has many more lows than ups, the so called humour is as scarce as crass.

American Pie 2 is recommended only for those who liked the first film for the moments of crass humor and could care less about the characters or their romantic interests.

Thanks to movies like The Hangover and Bridesmaids, more and more screenwriters seem to think comedy can't be funny unless it's crass.

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.

Facing his greatest challenge to date, we see him solving problems (an Esther Williams - like starlet with an out - of - wedlock pregnancy [a funny and crass Scarlett Johansson, «Lucy»]; a talentless actor but agile cowboy who's reluctantly moved to star in a classy drama [an amazing Alden Ehrenreich, «Beautiful Creatures»]; etc., etc.) while trying to find his greatest star starring (and almost completing) what is their projected hit for the season, the eponymous epic telling of «the life of the Christ» from the perspective of a Roman general.

I'm sick and tired of these «unconventional» (read as: crass, schlub, drunk, meta, etc.) super hero movies being hailed as amazing as if they're the first to do it or «we have never seen anything like this».

I would argue that his looks are a great benefit to the film as a whole, as the fact that he seems like a sweet and geeky guy definitely makes his character feel much more realistic, and even when the comedy takes a turn into areas that one could easily consider crass, Carell's charm allows him to effortlessly retain his likeability in a way that Rob Schneider could never in a million years do.

If you are sensitive to this type of crass humor, you will definitely feel like they have crossed the limits.

But then Danny McBride and Nick Swardson's characters are the bad guys in the movie, and they just say the most insane and crass stuff, because guys like that would be — they'd speak in this awful way.

More like a Guy Ritchie movie than a Tarantino one, the boys then indulge themselves in a series of wandering conversations, throwing crass jokes around, and having chance encounters with eccentric characters — all of which turned up knowing each other and eventually come to a head with a final chase / shootout.

Most teen comedies bite anyway, and this one sounded like it'd follow in the sordid and crass footsteps of flicks like 2000's Road Trip.

Wrapping itself with references to movie tropes, such as its overt allusion to classic Christmas tales like A Christmas Carol — in which Michael Shannon appears in a drug - deal version of Ghosts of Christmas Past / Present / Future — it never avidly mocks the traditions but instead embraces its ridiculousness, alongside Rogen's trademark crass humour.

The issue is probably too complex to resolve, though: Bringing issues like billing order or screen time into what is supposedly an artistic judgment of people's acting work would be too crass an acknowledgement of the awards industry, even by Oscar standards.

On the rare occasions when Alice is alone with one of her sons, rather than presiding over a gaggle of cartoonishly crass daughters, Leo can be affecting, but I'm reminded of Cary Grant's line in Bringing Up Baby: «Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because after all, in moments of quiet I'm strangely drawn toward you.

Given such a crass sociological survey of English movies, where the bottom line generally seems like the only game in town, it's hardly surprising to see Frears reject the whole silent era as inconsequential.

An awful movie that's clearly designed as a crass cash factory, like Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, merits nothing but scorn — it's actively fun to ridicule.

Promotions like these are the sort of things that are usually crass and overwrought, but somehow, two of entertainment's biggest properties right now came together in what amounts to a gift to fans.

Fortunately, the ever - crass Stifler gets more screentime (it seems like Scott's played a weaker version of the Stifler character in many of the other flicks he's been in lately), and we even get a return of the Sherminator.

What makes the film rise above crass like Porky's is the remaining storyline, which has lacrosse playing Oz (Chris Klein, who played a similarly good natured jock in the much better «Election») joining the school's singing troop to serenade a cute choirgirl (Mena Suvari).

Bigfoot, on the other hand, wants out of the law enforcement game, moonlighting as a bungling extra in TV cop filler like Adam - 12 and heading up crass infomercials dressed in a hippy fright wig.

In a Hollywood practically driven by crass consumerism and gimmicks, The Muppets never feels like such for an instant.

I see messy breakups and endless recriminations as a result: «It seems like you love that crass car more than me.»

For a brand like Lamborghini, such ambitions would be unthinkable ten years ago because deviating from the rich heritage of building some of the greatest sportscars ever (Miura, Countach) into something as crass as SUVs is sacrilegious to traditionalists.

Riding all night, the bus half empty, toward the interior, among refineries, trellised and turreted illusory cities, the crass, the indispensable wastefulness of oil rigs offshore, of homunculi swigging at the gut of a continent: the trailers, the semis, the vans, the bumper stickers, slogans in day - glo invoking the name of Jesus, who knows what it means: the air waves, the brand name, the backyard Barbie - doll barbecue, graffiti in video, the burblings, the dirges: heart like a rock, I said Kathy I'm lost, the scheme is a mess, we've left Oklahoma, its cattle, sere groves of pecan trees interspersing the horizonless belch and glare, the alluvium of the auto junkyards, we're in Kansas now, we've turned off the freeway, we're meandering, as again night falls, among farmsteads, the little towns with the name of a girl on the watertower, the bandstand in the park at the center, the churches alight from within, perpendicular...

He began to rule over his neighborhood like a benevolent emperor, although in spite of his charming smile and his skill at playing his 1745 Guadagnini violin he exuded a heavy, cheap odor, the unmistakable smell of crass, despotic danger, the kind of scent that warned us, look out for this guy, because he could order your execution at any moment, if you're wearing a displeasing shirt, for example, or if he wants...

Without trying to sound crass of course ROE will continue at it's current level he is buying a railroad (high fixed cost business and a monopoly) it's not like someone is going build a competeing railroad in the same area there will only ever be one and it will always be cheaper than trucking or shipping by air.

It all comes off a little bit crass, and with scorching lines like «Squad member active: a brother from another mother,» «Homies out the joint, it's party time,» and my personal favourite, «Ballistic vest ready: those are some fine - ass threads,» it's honestly just lame too.

Rather than unveiling this news on a heady stage or the likes of the the crass (and borderline insulting) hijacked VGA awards, the industry angel decided drop the bombshell whilst lecturing a management class at Tippecanoe Valley High School.

That comment was a pretty crass generalization that lacked nuance, but I «liked» it because I agree with its general sentiment.

Since his bravura institutional outing in 1997 at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Melgaard's forté has been crass, crudely drawn, graffiti - like images of, and writings about, bareback and interracial gay sex — «hate fucking,» «gay terrorism,» «white Daddy dick,» «big fat black dick,» «straight cock,» and other delightful variations on the theme, all layered and scrawled on paintings, old beds, couches spilling over with posters, and other messy piles of carefully amalgamated bric - a-brac.