But crudity is only the hallmark of those that have hijacked the conservative movement. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
I think that when we allow the crudity of language. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2007] Reference
A too profuse use of visiting-cards indicates crudity. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
This is a literal translation, and shows the crudity of. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot] Reference
It strikes you as the crudity of a race not quite civilized. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Unfortunately, Shakespeare's offensiveness extends beyond crudity. From Wordnik.com. [The Dirt On Shakespeare] Reference
He is forced to listen, perhaps, to an exhibition of tedious crudity. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
"I do not mind crudity," she said, "but I do not like to be manhandled.". From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
I think you will be aware of a certain undefinable shallowness and crudity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
The crudity of the verse will be sufficiently illustrated in the first line. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
He startled one sometimes by an intellectual crudity, but he had always reserve. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
As to the crudity of design upon this coin, and something else -- that, though the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Let me answer -- first, you do not attempt to imply that crudity was a help to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
It was merciful to the painted faces and softened the crudity of their raw colouring. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
It must be remembered that the crudity of civilization and its apparent corruption in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Rosamond Merton pursued her purpose gave her persistence a charm that robbed it of all crudity. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
When one enters a cathedral close he feels that he is in a land that frowns on the crudity of change. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
The maid giggled at James 'crudity, words she was used to but not expecting from such an elegant-looking nabob. From Wordnik.com. [Tender Rebel]
What "Action" offers in sheer crudity, however, is more than matched by its deliciously vicious sense of humor. From Wordnik.com. [Coast To Coast] Reference
Directing his first film, Olmos lacks Coppola's artistry, and he doesn't escape some traps of crudity and cliche. From Wordnik.com. [Eddie Olmos's East L.A. Story] Reference
Its native vigor carries the reader past an occasional crudity, which it would seem to be hypocritical to notice. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
Had his inventive genius taken a bolder flight and given us a more finished product in place of this crudity, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
His splendid design, which shows considerable burin work, is at odds with the crudity of the remainder of the book. From Wordnik.com. [John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut] Reference
And though it must not for one moment be regarded as the principal cause of the war, it is true that the crudity of. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
Still, even he could not refrain from bemoaning the sheer crudity and 'extremity' of what passes for 'wit' nowadays. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Then Winckelmann and his successors triumphed over it for a while, -- showed at least the crudity of that statement. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
Her words had been spoken, and all the crudity that had been swept aside for a moment returned in full force and awkwardness. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
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