Sentences with phrase «seems crass»

I would say the unusual foul - up made us «die of laughter»... but that seems crass.

Though at first glance this principle seems crass and indifferent about results, it's not: Chiefs» future power builds on their success in developing influence with new constituencies.

Final Verdict: Nostalgic cinema at its best, Top Gun works as a fun throwback, even if its testosterone seems crass in the 21st century.

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.

Honestly, just about anything else would have been communications malpractice; the last thing he needs to do right now is to seem crass.

AS THE world struggles to fend off climate meltdown, the race to build a car that can travel faster than sound (see «The 1000 mph car») might seem crass.

It may seem crass to some, but I think it's perfectly logical.

What makes the movie seem crass is its refusal to present (or even to see) more than one side of any given issue.

At times the filmmakers seem to be taking potshots at Philomena for her placidity; other times Martin is made to seem crass and unfeeling — insufficiently spiritual.

There may be an ounce of feminist truth in that scenario, but what makes the movie seem crass is its refusal to present (or even to see) more than one side of any given issue.

In a mashup that could seem crass but that instead comes off as both sincere and oddly poignant, DJ Cummerbund has combined «Starships» by Nicki Minaj and «Under Pressure» by Queen and David Bowie to create a woozying little three - and - a-half-minute cocktail called «Under Starships.»

In the past we've seen E3 trailers that wrongly made nuanced games seem crass, but the current trend is to engineer the opposite - leading with thought - provoking concepts and issues to justify the following buffet of violence.

His sculptures possess a concision and frankness that can simultaneously seem crass and profound.

Not exact matches

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.

Yet it is notable that through this experience, dominated as it seems to have been by a self - interest as crass as that which he ascribed to his God, he paid unconscious tribute to common social ideals of justice and humanity.

The land itself seems to exert a gentle, undiminishing influence on the people, imbuing many crass, latter - day prospectors with the instinct of the old Polynesians to share the pleasures of the land with all comers.

To add this video to the public domain seemed fairly crass to me.

«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.

While next season most trends seem to be favouring a crass reaction against minimalism and bringing the excessiveness and decadence of past decades, i.e. print - and vivid color clashing, kitschy pastels, sequins, animal prints, and many others, a lot of us do not consider minimalism to be a trend, which is not reduced to a very timeless style, but it also a very necessary lifestyle.

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.

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.

While Stephen Curry, perhaps best known for the Australian drama series The Secret Life of Us, seems game for most of the crasser elements of the film, his character of Teddy seems woefully underwritten and he never is able to bring the depth he wants to exhibit to the character.

Individually, its episodes can seem slapdash and gratuitously crass.

For many of us critics, «The Glass House» ended up being the first movie we saw once we struggled to return to reality after the attacks, and its manufactured scares seemed so cheap and crass compared to the real horrors we'd all just witnessed.

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

They're crass at times, but ultimately, they seem to know Adam better than he knows himself.

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.

Instead, it becomes a string of gags that show how crass Donny is and how horrified Todd is of his father's behavior while trying to suppress anything that makes it seem as if they are alike (Both have a talent for math, to name one thing).

While the film seems at first glance as if it is going to go down familiar tubes of crass and crappy comedies, there's a core intelligence to its characterizations and situations that allows the story to stay afloat during the sloppier passages, and unlike may other dumb sport comedies, the action on the ice is quite well shot and edited.

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.

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.

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.

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

Once you get accustomed to it, switching back to taking I - 80 to exit whatever seems pedestrian and crass.

I think I find a similar dialogue taking place in Fiona Rae's paintings, only here the digital seems to be referenced more in the synthetic colours and the insertion of manufactured collaged elements from childish popular culture, girly stationery, stickers of cute cartoon pandas, her now familiar mixing of crass pop decor with the tropes of Abstract Expressionism, that continues to have the power to jar, entertain, and provoke.

The denialists seem hell - bent to give stupid & crass newer and deeper levels of meaning.