How To Use Coarseness In A Sentence
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Joy likens the house to a geode, the coarseness of the rough steel exterior contrasting with the refinement of the interior.
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Alas, the wild youth, morally suborned by the coarseness of his adventures in America, abandons the innocent Ruth.
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A certain coarseness pervades the book, from the crude characterisation to the infantile wish-fulfilment, right down to the playground profanity.
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It makes Will and Viola stand out as islands of refinement and nobility in a sea of coarseness.
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Prolonged hot weather in the later stages of development may not only retard growth but result in an undesirable strong flavor and coarseness in the roots.
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I find it fascinating to listen to a world-famous foul-mouthed angry crank denouncing mean-spiritedness and coarseness and singing the praises of the intellect as he mean-spiritedly swears his way through an anecdote about football that somehow ends the oldest debate in human history.
Harlan Ellison on God
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One who is narcissistically sensitive is easily offended by the "coarseness" of others, seeks to make his environment change to align with the contours of his needs, and gets angry or offended when this does not happen.
The Allure of Narcissistic Spirituality
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Because he's from America, where Styrofoam is considered to be luxurious, everything has a coarseness to the touch.
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uncommon warmth of temperament" -- a polite appellation for a most violent temper; and of "unbecoming coarseness" -- a delicate definement of
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
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Depending on the coarseness of the hair and whether it is dry or damaged, use a moisturizing shampoo adjusted to the current condition of the hair.
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Here were coarseness and brutishness -- a thing savage, primordial, ferocious.
Chapter 4
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Eventually he left the newspaper, after being criticized for the obscurity of his poetry and the coarseness of his language.
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The details of the ornamentation are obscured by the coarseness of the silicification on some specimens.
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The decoration covers everything and is simpler than before, giving the impression of coarseness.
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Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had been brought up in the most aristocratic circles.
War and Peace
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She saw but what she chose to see, and she chose always to see the best, avoiding coarseness and uncouthness without effort, as a matter of instinct.
Chapter 2
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The spacing of magnetic lines of force due to the coarseness of the shavings represents the saturation capacity of the shaving grains, which again is conditioned by their size.
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Each ingredient is scrubbed, pared, polished into a tiny jewel, all coarseness fined away.
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It is pretended, that I am retarding the cause of emancipation by the coarseness of my invective, and the precipitancy of my measures.
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Different species have different density and coarseness of baleen due to their different food sources.
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I should like to add that what is called the coarseness of the eighteenth-century novel and romance is much more healthful than the nasty brutality of a school of our novelists -- who make up for their lack of talent and of wide experience by trying to excite animal instincts.
Confessions of a Book-Lover
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The too palpable intruders from a spiritual world in almost all ghost literature, in Scott and Shakespeare even, have a kind of crudity or coarseness.
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
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We have coarseness, lack of refinement, even brutality.
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Facies B2 was probably deposited in an upper to middle shoreface setting as suggested by the low depth of the storm-related structures and the coarseness of the deposits.
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They were drinkable, but their coarseness soon jaded the palate.
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There is, for instance, a coarseness in the earl, who delights in speaking of his adultery.
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Observers ' identification of sex did not correlate with their ratings of chubbiness or coarseness or delicateness of features or with the babies ' gestation or birth weight.
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Sancho, too, despite his coarseness, is endearingly innocent.
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It's atom-sized, it's a mote - a tiny little piece of dust that's unremovable and feels like a microscopic coarseness when I run my index finger over it.
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Depending on hair coarseness, it takes 5-15 minutes to dissolve the hair, which you simply wash away.
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He sensed, rather than felt, the coarseness of the cane chair beneath his hand, the hardness of the ring on his finger.
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The coarseness of her voice gratified me.
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The sandpaper is stacked in the kit in order of grit coarseness - sometimes the grit number gets cut off.
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Yeah, he's a great character, but taking him to a foreign country only exacerbates his coarseness without revealing any redeeming values.
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The blinding, dazzling gas-light throws a grateful glare over the salient points of its indecency, and blends the whole into a wild whirl that dizzies and dazes one; but the uncompromising afternoon, pouring in through manifold windows, tears away every illusion, and reveals the whole coarseness and commonness and all the repulsive details of this most alien and unmaidenly revel.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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In his youth he was both mesmerised and embarrassed by the coarseness of the music.
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Swift omitted no opportunity of humbling his pride; but, as he was as ignorant as insolent, he was obliged to accommodate the coarseness of the lash to the callosity of the back.
Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
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The properties obtained subsequently depend on the coarseness of the pearlite and ferrite and their relative distribution.
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The great point to be emphasised at such an initiation is this: that people, especially refined people, are not to judge of Dickens by what they would call the coarseness or commonplaceness of his subject.
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
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And he points out that the monitoring of hurricane winds today has a coarseness of about 5 miles per hour.
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The number of lines to the inch controls the coarseness of the final dot formation.
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The number of lines to the inch controls the coarseness of the final dot formation.
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Texture: imaged objects display some degree of coarseness or smoothness.
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Sandpaper Know-How: Sandpaper comes in a range of grit or coarseness.
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Hair texture is measured by the degree of fineness or coarseness of your hair, which varies according to the diameter of each individual hair.
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The very last question from the audience during this session was about the increasing coarseness of political discourse.
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But a high nose, a full, decided, well-opened, quick grey eye, and a sanguine complexion, made amends for some coarseness and irregularity in the subordinate parts of the face; so that, altogether, Montrose might be termed rather a handsome, than a hard-featured man.
A Legend of Montrose
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Thanks to television, swearing and coarseness have become far more commonplace in our lives.
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His features are not distinguished; they are heavy and even to the point of coarseness.
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Linen cloth observed through a microscope which magnifies the threads to a coarseness of about forty to the inch gives us the exact appearance of the buckram, which is a heavy, strong cloth well adapted to large books, and which furnishes the most durable binding of all the book cloths.
The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
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It turned out, though, that America -- after the coarseness of Johnson, the darkness of Nixon, the awkwardness of Ford and the piousness of Carter -- was happier with Reagan's genuine fakeness.
Paul Slansky: Spoiler Alert! I Was Not a Reagan Fan
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Intriguingly, the tensile strengths of the mutant and wild type fibres were very similar which means that decreased coarseness was not achieved at the expense of strength.
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Different species have different density and coarseness of baleen due to their different food sources.
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Changing the coarseness from 20 to 40 drastically modifies the domain definition of the central region of the Ca-ATPase.
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Slightly longer than tall, he has a coat of moderate length and coarseness with coloring that offers variety and individuality in each specimen.
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They argue that Shakespeare's coarseness is the result of the age and not personal predilection, completely ignoring the work of men like Sir Philip Sidney and Spenser, indeed practically all the pre-Shakespearean writers, in whom none of this so-called grossness exists.
Lysistrata
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This will sand out all the coarseness left by the grinding grit.
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Instead he relies on brutality, scatological humour and a pervasive aura of coarseness.
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The fieldlike pattern was robust against changes in the hoarding parameters, the coarseness of the grid, and the climate parameters.
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At the same time this coarseness of taste did not blunt his intellectual sagacity.
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Larger whetstones for sharpening iron tools were an important part of everyday equipment and were widely traded, especially since varying degrees of coarseness were required to produce a finely honed edge.
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Miner, "who advises me to" do the right thing by M'liss, "or intimates somewhat obscurely that he will" bust my crust for me, "which, though complimentary in its abstract expression of interest, and implying a taste for euphonism, evinces an innate coarseness which I fear may blunt his perceptions of delicate shades and Greek outlines.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
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Her pallor that morning refined the indubious coarseness of her face, and changed vulgarity into the attractive originality of a spirited character.
London River
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I did not like the sentimental coarseness of Mr. Grattan's speech.
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But these places are not dirtier than a railway smoking-car; and there is no more coarseness than in any ferryboat which is, for whatever reason, used by men only.
Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays
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The coarseness of the ingredients will wash the dead cell when you remove the mixture from face.
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Indeed, for well defined dynamical domains, changing the coarseness does not modify significantly its definition.
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This really depends on different factors such as hair color, the coarseness of the hair and the type of the skin.
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Sadly, decency has been replaced in great measure by coarseness hence the absence of remorse or contrition.
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The boundary between these domains is parallel to the membrane plane and moves upwards when the coarseness increases.
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Feeling its coarseness he squealed with delight.
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The coarseness of the silicification tends to distort the reticulae.
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They were pedantic disciples who united with all the affectations of the Italian style a certain German coarseness, and the outcome was a bastard style inferior to the earlier schools -- childish, stiff, and crude in color, with no sense of light and shade.
Holland, v. 1 (of 2)
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Their buoyant philosophy has been described as "pleasure without intemperance, hospitality without rudeness and jollity without coarseness."
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Many mistakenly associate the blues with coarseness or political subservience.
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The great reproach always brought against Rabelais is not the want of reserve of his language merely, but his occasional studied coarseness, which is enough to spoil his whole work, and which lowers its value.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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In proportion as the cultivation of the land was the more unconditionally the foundation of the Egyptian state, the idea of coarseness and barbarism was united with the idea of
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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There is an increasing coarseness to life.
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Abaft that again was the sail-room, well-stocked with bolts of canvas of varying degrees of coarseness and several sails, many of which seemed to be quite new, neatly rolled up into long bundles, stopped with spunyarn, and each labelled legibly with the description of the sail.
Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
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By adjusting these elements, you can set the desired coarseness of your flour.
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Besides grating cheese, my wife likes the coarseness for grating zucchini and carrots for baking.
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The breads varied in fiber, protein, water, and fat content as well as coarseness.
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In regard to its meanings, it indicates lowness, coarseness, or commonplace mentality.
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Joy likens the house to a geode, the coarseness of the rough steel exterior contrasting with the refinement of the interior.
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Skin, hair coloring and coarseness of hair are all factors in how many treatments are needed.
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You can hear the slow vibrato and the coarseness of open strings - and then the best song, for me, begins.
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She could not bear a shadow of coarseness.
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This version also pinpoints the emotional coarseness in smart salons.
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The pits on the Texas specimens are often partially or completely obscured by the coarseness of the silicification.
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Although Jarnot delayed his arrival to Washington by two days to combat the flu, vocal coarseness was seldom heard in his full program of songs by Wagner, Liszt, and Duparc.
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In place of the well-turned, feline exchanges of Versailles, there is a certain coarseness.