(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'.
Materialistic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Materialistical
Example Sentences:
(1) This is contrasted with the dialectical materialist concept of psychic phenomena as the highest integration level of man's relationship to the environment.
(2) One school of thought, the "eliminative materialistics," see FP as a misdirected and scientifically redundant approach to the mind which should be discarded; the "functionalists," in contrast, consider FP categories, such as belief, to be essential.
(3) Similarities between the notion of life style and concepts of cultural integration are noted, and the various uses of life style are categorized along an idealist-materialist continuum.
(4) In his excellent book Affluenza , Oliver James observes that Danes and Kiwis enjoy a greater immunity to our obsessive, depressive, materialistic world than do we in the UK.
(5) Yet there is Samantha, bawdy as the Wife of Bath, always cheerfully horny and materialistic, utterly without Calvinic redeeming qualities, living at last with her devoted younger boy toy in LA in the Sex and the City movie – finally leaving him because she is just not cut out to mix her driving, unmediated sexual energy with commitment.
(7) The search for a synthesis bridging the gap between materialist and idealist approaches in anthropological theory has been invigorated by recent efforts to develop a critical medical anthropology.
(8) The American spirit often has been attacked as atomistic, cruel, and materialistic.
(9) It is an oasis of humanity in a materialistic desert - and the leader of the Labour party should celebrate it.
(10) The one-to-many relationship between the displacement of the medium and the force actualized in the medium necessitates a materialistic capacity for making choices on the part of molecules and cells in transforming future possibilities into actualized reality, the latter of which again serves as the source of the further future possibilities.
(11) This reply to John F Catherwood's criticism of brain-related criteria for death argues that brainstem criteria are neither reductionist nor do they presuppose a materialist theory of mind.
(12) "I was very materialistic – it was all about having stuff and buying labels.
(13) Because Freud philosophically was committed to a materialistic, nonteleological, biologically based theory, he carried over into the new formulations some of the metapsychological assumptions of the earlier theory.
(14) "Zeitgeist" has been since the french revolution and still is agnostic, secularized and materialistic--also in the scholastic medical sciences: Presence and action of gods supernatural forces in all nature, including disease processes and healing has not been and is not recognized.
(15) Since then, while some mainstream rap has veered to the materialistic and misogynistic, there have always been successful rappers who have rallied against the vapid.
(16) Based on the premise of curing physical disease, the physician's approach to the patient is materialistic, activistic, and benevolently authoritarian.
(17) In this historical materialist analysis of health and medical care, health is defined as a component of labor-power (capacity to work).
(18) They (diviners) are believed to have become unduly materialistic and prone to dubious activities.
(19) But if in that period they became less materialistic, they became happier.
(20) Iain broke out of that dichotomy with all the panache of the spaceship exploding from inside another spaceship on the cover of Consider Phlebas, the first of his SF novels to be published, by writing of an expansive, optimistic possible future rooted in the same materialist and evolutionary view of life that had in the past been seen only as a dark background to cosmically futile strivings.