How To Use Crudity In A Sentence
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With their lo-fi, clunky graphics, these early programs featured a strange mix of crudity and perfection: trippy, hallucinogenic animations that moved around the screen with perfect physics.
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Despite the crudity of their methods and equipment, the experiment was a considerable success.
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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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He maintained, however, that the very "crudity" of the old methods, involving magnetic tape, razor blades and endless copying, made for greater imaginative effort.
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At the core of this cornball crock of crudity is a compelling story of small town transformation, how one man with his unique needs had previously closed-off individuals looking within themselves regarding their personal prejudices.
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Shorter "lotusland soapbox": "I'm shocked at the crudity of Republican political discourse and smear tactics.
Archive 2008-10-01
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But crudity is only the hallmark of those that have hijacked the conservative movement.
Balkinization
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But none of it is really funny, and the crudity is now very dull.
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a flame fed overmuch with experience, with sophistication, grown cold under the ministrations of adroitness, and lighted now by the "crudity" of John's love-making.
Lady Baltimore
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Burnell was offended by the crudity of this remark, though the same thought had occurred to him.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Os ventris frigescit, cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, and intention proceeds from perturbations, [2682] our souls for want of spirits cannot attend exactly to so many intentive operations, being exhaust, and overswayed by passion, she cannot consider the reasons which may dissuade her from such affections.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Following the herd, as the media advise, would lead me to applaud childish petulance, crudity, and bad manners.
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Burnell was offended by the crudity of this remark, though the same thought had occurred to him.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Of course, no one would actually argue with such crudity, but there is a kind of discourse that can come perilously close to adopting that caricature attitude.
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He had not expected such a crudity from so sophisticated a minister.
THE SCAR
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For even in her white terai and belted suit of white linen she was a vision appropriate only to the far-off world that this man had left behind him at the call of duty -- a world of delicate living and subtle sensations, of frail flesh in luxurious settings, of sophistication that would have shrunk from every crudity, and exquisiteness that would have shriveled at the touch of hardship.
Sacrifice
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A 1990s flat-share sitcom which, in its tales of the sexual adventures and misadventures of three twenty-somethings living under the same roof, featured more than a dash of crudity.
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I’m all for disdaining conformity, but one needn’t be an insulting jackass in order to do it, nor throw this kind of crudity into a serious discussion.
Proof by ostention
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The statement is remarkable for the crudity of its apologetics for the Pacifica management.
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Whichever way you look at it the show is overwhelming - and part of the reason is that it is frank beyond the point of crudity.
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But teaching children to cook and eat together might help overcome the crudity of their eating habits: the price of more refined, and in this instance nonfattening, pleasures always being effort.
Our Big Problem
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Despite the crudity of their methods and equipment, the experiment was a considerable success.
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They attempt to bulldoze into our minds the crudity of their religion: subjugating our faiths to suppress us.
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Simplicity, however, does not mean crudity, does not mean absence of art.
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Oddly, or perhaps not, it was females who were lapping up the gratuitous crudity more than men.
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Jo-Beth stared at its crudity: the meat-face stared back at her.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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It's good, old-fashioned family humour with no crudity or violence.
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Lincoln's "crudity" was democratic; Davis '"culture" was aristocratic -- nor is it to be denied that Davis had "aristocratic" views on government [1329].
Great Britain and the American Civil War
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The crudity of her language shocked him.
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Any civilized man recoils from crude behavior toward the symbols of any religion, but our legal system long ago decided that enduring crudity is better than giving the police a mandate to punish intrinsically religious offenses.
Islamic Establishmentarianism
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That ghastly crudity of seeing in sex nothing but a functional act and a certain fumbling with clothes is, in my opinion, a low degree of barbarism, savagery.
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The meeting is brief and frightening - charged with intelligence and crudity.
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The single most important thing is for Latham not to back down or revert to crudity.
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It was envisioned, the story goes, as a short-term, inconsequential distraction, not a lasting symbol of the Tory campaign's ineptitude and crudity.
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I hoped there were not too many other factors for I was already strongly attracted to him in spite of his recent crudity.
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The room was very still; its ordered comfort, the measured ticking of the carriage clock on the mantelshelf, the insistent thudding of the sea, all heightened the sense of outrage, the crudity of destruction and hate.
She Closed Her Eyes
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Moderate stylization and antirealism that falls short of true expressionism is sometimes enough to soothe congruous crudity into an effectively intensified sensibility, if the idiom is correct.
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Despite the crudity of their methods and equipment, the experiment was a considerable success.
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My pinhole films have the roughness, the crudity of early photographs and films.
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The visual language of the adaptation is at first glance straightforward almost to the point of crudity.
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Thin happens to be the dividing line between comedy and crudity.
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It was envisioned, the story goes, as a short-term, inconsequential distraction, not a lasting symbol of the Tory campaign's ineptitude and crudity.
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Friedrich Engels, who fancied himself a champion of the workingman, regarded the Irish immigrant to Great Britain as having a "crudity" that "places him little above the savage.
The Right Coast
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He drank off the ale to quench a thirst which, as he said, kept him in a fever from morning to night, and night to morning; tippled off the sack to correct the crudity of the ale; sent the spirits after the sack to keep all quiet, and then declared that, probably, he should not taste liquor till post meridiem, unless it was in compliment to some especial friend.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Marion Price said she was perplexed by the crudity of the approach.
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For Vasari, his was the first, albeit embryonic, attempt to shake off the supposed crudity of medieval style and begin the long march to a fully achieved Renaissance.
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The reward is tremendous weight and presence; the downside emotional crudity.
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There is very little banter back and forth between comic and crowd; indeed, Gottfried is just there to deliver his compendium of crudity and accept the accolades of his adoring - and roaring - fans.
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The ex-slave would often apologize to the reader for the relative crudity of his text as a work of literature.
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Jo-Beth stared at its crudity: the meat-face stared back at her.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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One is only looking for an order of magnitude answer, comparable in crudity to the back-of-the-envelope calculations of early cosmologists, but our biological friends tell us, without any apparent anxiety, that it just can't be done.
Courting the Theists
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Its advantage is its directness, its disadvantage its crudity.
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He had not expected such a crudity from so sophisticated a minister.
THE SCAR
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But beneath the crudity is a coming-of-age story that's strangely heartwarming.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say, but so are ugliness, crudity and complete bewilderment.
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This ending is typical of the series in its combination of crudity, cruelty, and revenge, and in the physical knockabout character of its comedy.
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Despite the crudity of their methods and equipment, the experiment was a considerable success.
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The pits furnish a bit of counterpoint crudity to Ms. Bontecou's unrelenting elegance: The lumberyard red ends of the pine two-by-sixes are left showing, and a hacksaw blade lies, as if forgotten, on top.
Abstract (Semi) and Phantasmagorical
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Sinaisky lets it rip, wallowing in the graphic crudity of the score.
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Of course, many people are aware of Shakespeare's crudity (certainly Thomas Bowdler was, when he presented his expurgated version of Shakespeare's plays in the 19th century-hence the word bowdlerized).
The Dirt On Shakespeare
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The words take on unique cadence, delivering precise and sophisticated concepts with roundabout crudity.