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  • She knew that behind their crass jokes and lascivious grins, they were terrified of Masooma.†   (source)
  • Imagine being such a brilliant philosopher and yet such a crass idiot!†   (source)
  • And then I saw her make the Sign of the Crass and walk back to her sisters within.†   (source)
  • In Blomkvist's eyes, Borg had been a third-rate reporter and a troublesome person who annoyed everyone around him with crass jokes and made disparaging remarks about the more experienced, older reporters.†   (source)
  • And the Baron thought; Let us see now how the Emperors errand boy gets across whatever message he carries without ever being so crass as to speak it right out.†   (source)
  • I know it's really cheesy—crass even—to compare my being dumped to the accident that killed Mia's family, but I can't help it.†   (source)
  • I always found him crass and terribly nouveau dieu, personally.†   (source)
  • Crude, crass, loud, and looking for trouble.†   (source)
  • There Kerouac joined the poet Allen Ginsberg and others in the Beat Movement, in alcohol-and-drug-fueled protest against the conformity and crass consumerism of 1950s America, which made them feel beaten, longing for the beatitude, or blessedness, of the natural world.†   (source)
  • I mean, it seems so crass to address envelopes simply to 'Janine' and 'Claude.'†   (source)
  • It seems an odd and crass way to treat your saviors, Your Honor.†   (source)
  • Only the crassest ignoramus can still hold to the old-fashioned notion that seeing is believing.†   (source)
  • I have come to think of marriage as dishonorable, a crass trade-off rather than a free gift.†   (source)
  • Too much color and it begins looking crass.†   (source)
  • He'd never been so crass as to directly ask her late husband how he managed to accumulate such large amounts of cash, but it didn't take a Rhodes scholar to deduce that Barlowe must have been doing something at least marginally illegal.†   (source)
  • To put it crassly.†   (source)
  • If you were crass, lowborn, or socially offensive, it would have made no difference to the proud inhabitants South of Broad that you owned France; they would not invite you to their homes.†   (source)
  • But the Depression came along, and Bel Air decided to take even the money of the vulgar and crass.†   (source)
  • To one crass man he said, "What you are failing to understand is that this parody of Christianity you talk so warmly about can only make sense to people who are Christians.†   (source)
  • She considers most people to be too crass to appreciate her art.
  • All I'm saying is that it's crass to plaster your good deeds up on a billboard.†   (source)
  • I leave that crass behavior to my gusty brethren in the north.†   (source)
  • "That's a crass lie," Martin said.†   (source)
  • /—Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,/And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan..../These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown/Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.'†   (source)
  • Aren't you being rather crass?†   (source)
  • "Crass," Park said†   (source)
  • And even Dan was appalled at the crassness with which Dudley Wiggin directed the Christmas Pageant—and Dan was more tolerant of amateur theatrical performances than the average Gravesend citizen.†   (source)
  • Then, as though he had suddenly become exhausted—or, rather, depleted by the demands made on him by a world greedy for the fruit of his intellect—he began to massage the side of his face with the flat of his hand, removing, with unconscious crassness, a bit of sleep from one eye.†   (source)
  • Mr. Holabird's statement is not only crass and derogatory, it is totally without merit and slanders my clients.†   (source)
  • The burn-scarred, crassly bearded face was the wreck of the eldest brother's life, and the gentle eyes looking out through that monstrous corruption of flesh were to Hodge like tokens brought back from the dead as a sign.†   (source)
  • Nobody down here ever wants to be rich-rich, for that, of course, would be crass and vulgar.†   (source)
  • Thus it is only the crass layman who thinks that we put up stone walls.†   (source)
  • But what remained intolerable, she thought, sitting upright, and watching Macalister's boy tug the hook out of the gills of another fish, was that crass blindness and tyranny of his which had poisoned her childhood and raised bitter storms, so that even now she woke in the night trembling with rage and remembered some command of his; some insolence: "Do this,"†   (source)
  • He did not even have to be told in words that he had surely found the lost Lucas Burch; it seemed to him now that only crassest fatuousness and imbecility should have kept unaware.†   (source)
  • from the old blood that crossed uncharted seas and continents and battled wilderness hardships and lurking circumstances and fatalities, with tranquil disregard of whatever onerous carks to leisure and even peace which the preservation of it incurs upon what might be called the contemporary transmutable fountainhead who contrives to keep the crass foodbearing corpuscles sufficiently numerous and healthy in the stream.†   (source)
  • When he was on his feet with the flowered cloth of her beach dress on his shoulders, it made something crass but brave, his standing up raw and sunburned, by the pure streak of the water, as if he were being playful about the wearing of this girl's favor.†   (source)
  • It was born (if from any source) of that incorrigible unsentimental sentimentality of the young which takes the form of hard and often crass levity—to which, by the way, Quentin paid no attention whatever, resuming as if he had never been interrupted, his face still lowered, still brooding apparently on the open letter upon the open book between his hands.†   (source)
  • Now as he walked he was cursing himself in all the mixed terror and rage of any actual young father for what he now believed to have been crass and criminal negligence.†   (source)
  • The things being done on the stage were merely trite and crass; but the undercurrent made them frightening.†   (source)
  • halfway between the dark inscrutable continent from which the black blood, the black bones and flesh and thinking and remembering and hopes and desires, was ravished by violence, and the cold known land to which it was doomed, the civilised land and people which had expelled some of its own blood and thinking and desires that had become too crass to be faced and borne longer, and set it homeless and desperate on the lonely ocean—a little lost island in a latitude which would require ten thousand years of equatorial heritage to bear its climate, a soil manured with black blood from two hundred years of oppression and exploitation until it sprang with an incredible paradox of peacefu†   (source)
  • on it, at least to that portion of it which had been specifically described and deeded to him in the marriage settlement which he had entered in good faith, with no reservations as to his obscure origin and material equipment, while there had been not only reservation but actual misrepresentation on their part and misrepresentation of such a crass nature as to have not only voided and frustrated without his knowing it the central motivation of his entire design, but would have made an ironic delusion of all that he had suffered and endured in the past and all that he could ever accomplish in the future toward that design—which claim he had voluntarily relinquished, taking only the twent†   (source)
  • Does the fact look crass[698] and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit?†   (source)
  • Enough that in the present case, as in millions, it was not the two halves of a perfect whole that confronted each other at the perfect moment; a missing counterpart wandered independently about the earth waiting in crass obtuseness till the late time came.†   (source)
  • The glare from the many windows, and the rather crass interest of several men, drove her back to her own section.†   (source)
  • But when one is deeply moved, one has the courage to say things that may sound crass and irreverent, but are more solemn than authorized words of piety.†   (source)
  • And why, anyhow, and except for her crass determination to force him in this way, should he be compelled to track here and there with her—every hour—every minute of which was torture—an unending mental crucifixion really, when, if he were but rid of her!†   (source)
  • If she had occasion to find fault, she did it coolly and with perfect politeness, which the defaulter felt to be a bigger insult than crassness.†   (source)
  • THE "death house" in this particular prison was one of those crass erections and maintenances of human insensitiveness and stupidity principally for which no one primarily was really responsible.†   (source)
  • They breathlessly reported this case of crass abnormality: an omniscient girl had appeared on the scene, a maiden who heard voices.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp pricked up his ears at this and took pains to understand it, because he had reason to hope that he would now be able to grasp the nature of Magnus the brewer's crass ignorance and learn in what way literature was something totally different from "beautiful characters.†   (source)
  • "As if ghos'es 'ud want to be believed in by anybody so ignirant!" said Mr. Macey, in deep disgust at the farrier's crass incompetence to apprehend the conditions of ghostly phenomena.†   (source)
  • There were many crass minds in Middlemarch whose reflective scales could only weigh things in the lump; and they had a strong suspicion that since Mr. Bulstrode could not enjoy life in their fashion, eating and drinking so little as he did, and worrying himself about everything, he must have a sort of vampire's feast in the sense of mastery.†   (source)
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