(n.) That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the top-down crudity of the policy reeks of wonks who have never left a Westminster thinktank.
(2) The crudity of the devices in all three cases certainly doesn’t point to any group that’s been developing [improvised explosive devices] for years,” a US official who requested anonymity told Reuters.
(3) Soubry has stooped to the levels of crudity that any politician would spend a lifetime apologising for.
(4) 3: Philip French on Hall Pass 'Terrible … an orgy of crudity that could only appeal to adolescents too young to be admitted'
(5) Labour knows one poll may not yet signal a total shift, but with the worst cuts still to come and queues at food banks even in Tory areas, Osborne's vicious tone and Shapps's sleazy crudity may strike a memorably wrong note with all but the deepest blue voters.
(6) This may partly explain the relative crudity of our conscious appreciation of egocentric distance.
(7) What I find objectionable is not disparities in wealth but blatant unfairnesses, the blatant crudity of the extremes.
(8) The crudity of the prototype, however, results in variations between volumes aspirated on successive occasions.
(9) With these moments of crudity, the works destroy the conventional distinction between writing and painting – a theme that became even more obvious after Twombly's move to Rome in 1957.
(10) August 1, 2015 Trainwreck review – Amy Schumer's romcom is a mixed platter of crudities Read more Schumer also tweeted to offer her condolences to relatives of the victims and describe herself as “heartbroken” in the wake of the killings.
(11) The effects illustrate the limited use vision makes of seemingly excellent sources of information, but they also indicate that the problem may lie in misplaced sophistication rather than crudity.
(12) The metaphor takes the place of the nameless crudity and horror of a very real alienating agent.
(13) Many will see what happened in the Twentieth of May Stadium as an exposure of Foreman’s deficiencies, of the self-defeating crudity and lack of imagination that had begun to drain him of both energy and resolution as early as the third round.
(14) There's some crudity to dissecting England like that.
(15) 8.57pm BST On the scene at the UN, Guardian diplomatic editor Julian Borger says Netanyahu succeeded in drawing focus away from Abbas: Netanyahu's bomb drawing was like a crude, almost a spoof, version of Colin Powell's notorious presentation of Iraqi WMD in 2003, but for all its crudity and questionable assumptions, it without doubt succeeded in distracting almost all attention from Mahmoud Abbas's plaintive description of 'ethnic cleansing' in occupied Palestinian territories.
Primitivism
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Primitivization of emotional expressions on human faces also occurred.
(2) Lending support to this proposition, the results revealed a pattern of emotional range--value associations that challenge the prevailing view of emotionality as intimately linked with primitivism and impulsivity.
(3) The use of traditional African sculptures by cubists such as Pablo Picasso later helped change attitudes towards African art labelled "primitivism", although dubious attitudes have lingered among artistic elites.
(4) Hence, primitivization of the subjects' cognitive and linguistic functioning is assumed to have occurred.
(5) And I was part of that pact of silence: it was a condition of the treaty that gave me my equality, that I would not invoke the primitivism of the mother, her innate superiority, that voodoo in the face of which the mechanism of equal rights breaks down.
(6) Some excursi are joined relative to the conditions of discovery of pre-historic art, to the relationship between modern art and child "primitivism", and to the themes of child drawings within cartoons.
(7) We concluded that stress produced code-switching, and hence, a primitivization of the subject's cognitive and linguistic functioning is assumed to have occurred.