(1) However, the policy is not being replaced and it suggests that Cameron has lost interest in what was once a key plank of his attempt to modernise the Conservative party and is quietly “ getting rid of the green crap ”, as he once called the extra costs attached to heating bills to subsidise energy efficiency.
(2) From the genesis of the thing – pop stars dropping plans to perform; Greater Manchester police working to make it operationally possible; the footballer Michael Carrick moving his career testimonial match forward by two hours ; everything was about making things that little bit less crap, and dare I say it – out and out joyous.
(3) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
(4) It’s just tokenistic crap so they can get more back pats from the broader community,” he said.
(5) They were apparently trying to promote a healthy lifestyle to the Russian public, but Muscle and Fitness magazine slated the president’s technique: “his cable crossover form is crap”.
(6) My father was a very important role model in my life and in his own way helped me to set high expectations for myself, to stand on my own two feet and to not take crap.
(7) Star Wars , it turns out, is the most ambitious, enterprising and impressive exercise in the marketing of crap ever conceived by man.
(8) "Being a contrary sort of person, I figured there had been enough politically correct crap going around.
(9) Our respondents explained why: "At the employment office, they look at you like you're crap."
(10) Tory rhetoric on the burden of renewable energy to bill payers has been relentless ever since David Cameron infamously referred to the levies as “green crap” .
(11) He begins his first-person narrative in words that echo the famous opening of Twain’s novel ( No 23 in this series ), a frank disavowal of “all that David Copperfield kind of crap”.
(12) Because people tend to treat social media as conversational,” says internet psychologist Graham Jones , “they get the feeling they are just chatting with their friends, hence many of the apparent online death threats could be nothing more than the non-realistic conversational expressions of anger.” “Crap!” tweeted 28-year-old trainee accountant Paul Chambers in 2010 to his 690 followers.
(13) It’s more hard-wired than that; it’s crap but comforting cuisine, your first Meccano set, moral certainties, safety.
(14) "We don't need the big star, we can just load up on Michael Bourns and Nick Swishers, kick the crap out of the bottom feeders, catch a few breaks and make the playoffs - I love it."
(15) November 5, 2013 Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) Draghi has incentive to make sure he doent have "crap in his hands" after EU bank asset review next year, says #Rehn November 5, 2013 Matthew Dalton (@DJMatthewDalton) The incentive not to have crap on one's hands is universal.
(16) Michael Palin has said that a lot of Monty Python's material was "crap", in an interview with the Telegraph .
(17) Here (at least on the night I watched; the acts vary nightly), the joke is comedians performing crap circus acts.
(18) How do you cleanse the palate after watching a soul-destroyingly crap movie?
(19) The Sun quoted an unnamed source as saying: "The prime minister is going round Number 10 saying: 'We have got to get rid of all this green crap'.
(20) He didn't have to give a crap about me but he arranged for me to go on stages.
Crass
Definition:
(a.) Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.
Example Sentences:
(1) So perhaps, at some distant point in the future, the Nobel committee will find a crass way to play politics at the same time as giving a retroactive nod to Malala – unless she has become president of Pakistan: in which case she'll finally be in the sort of day job that tends to catch their eye.
(2) In their crass off-pitch antics as well as their humiliating ineptitude, Les Bleus have reminded us of an important truth.
(3) What’s troubling isn’t the premise that a straight man might be stricken by rape-anxiety before going to jail, but the crass and bludgeoning way it’s handled,” he said.
(4) Hofer himself described Farage’s comments as a “crass misjudgment”, adding that “it doesn’t fill me with joy when someone meddles from outside”.
(5) Naturally I confronted them about it, halting their child's progress with a foot on the front bumper, loudly berating their crass behaviour while impressed pedestrians looked on, cheering and punching the air and chanting my name until Audi boy's parents fell to the ground, clutching pitifully at my trouser-legs and sobbing for forgiveness.
(6) He joined the counter-attack launched in the Observer by Tristram Hunt , historian and shadow education spokesman, who accused Gove of a crass attempt to "rewrite the historical record and sow political division".
(7) The supreme irony is that when Klimt painted his so-called golden portrait of Adele, his style had hardened into a crass ersatz modernism, so the price it fetched for Altmann makes it the most expensive postcard in the world.
(8) In more benign times the Blair-Brown regime bowed to a crass, illusory idea of the centre-ground: now, with the coalition pushing politics even further to the right, too many Labour politicians seem to be acquiescing in the other side's world-view.
(9) You might shudder at such crassness, but if you're paying a premium for organic vegetables, you may be subconsciously signalling another desirable trait: conscientiousness.
(10) Nor should we take very seriously the criticism from Labour MP Tom Watson: "This is a crass example of rich Tories buying privilege ...
(11) It’s difficult to describe how crass and inappropriate those messages were.
(12) The London mayor made a crass, sexist joke this week about Malaysian girls going off to university to find husbands.
(13) As long as you’re not crass enough to dig out your basement and turn it into a swimming pool.
(14) Scott Walker seems to be making crass and insulting remarks on a daily basis about abortion,” Richards said in a statement.
(15) The scandal becomes not that racism exists but that anyone would be crass enough to articulate it so brazenly.
(16) Saunders has sailed close to crass indiscretion more than once.
(17) It would really be a bit crass if we start talking about who was to replace them."
(18) The Conservatives quote Mervyn King gleefully in every speech, along with the German finance minister's attack on "crass Keynesianism" - though days later they began higher spending than the UK.
(19) I think we’re seeing crass opportunism from those people who support changes to the law.” The government in August backed down on plans to remove the clauses of the RDA which make it unlawful to offend, insult or humiliate people on the basis of race, following outcry from community groups.
(20) The Labour MP asked John Bercow, the Speaker: "Could I ask whether you have had a request from any minister of Her Majesty's government to attend this house and give clarification to the rather crass and insensitive statements of the enterprise adviser to the government that we've 'never had it so good'.