Brawling, vulgar, smelly, but alive.

This crass political move has serious human consequences.

Defying such sour predictions, voters clearly felt that elections matter.

Human rights is too serious a matter to have been left to the blunt expedient of a vote.

Beside their dull, coarse faces, ... ... the Virgin is a radiant, pale and delicate vision.

It would be a gross exaggeration, of course, to speak of an Indian inferiority complex.

O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, knew you not Pompey?

Hard questions are not to be asked, and straightforward answers are considered too rude and crude to be given.

Members of evangelical churches associate their beliefs with the rugged individualism of the early pioneers.

So far, the regime has merely applied the same blunt measures that fueled Tibetans grievances in the first place.

If gruff diplomacy was the only manifestation of China s expansive territorial claims, Asian leaders could sleep more peacefully.

As a result of harsh treatment by the colonizers and the introduction of new diseases, the Chamorros were reduced to less than 2,000 by the year 1700.

According to a study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, there has been less incivility in Congress in recent years than in the 1990 s or the 1940 s.

As a result of harsh treatment by the colonizers and the introduction of new diseases, the Chamorros were reduced to less than 2,000 by 1700.

The resolution of Russia apos s Supreme Soviet is a continuation of blunt anti Ukrainian policy, implemented lately by Russia apos s Parliament, the destructive character of which has been often noted by Ukraine.

Crude realities have proved that in making this assumption we failed to note that our desire for good could be matched, indeed challenged, by the evil intentions of others.

They could only pretend to judge events and values on their own in reality, they would merely copy the rough and simplified opinions of the masses.

Finally, while nation states remain the basic building blocs in international affairs, and loyalty to your nation patriotism is a fine thing, crude nationalism can be deeply destructive.

Russia's people, whether they are waiters or waiting for service, are convinced that they will be ripped off and treated rudely, and so steel themselves with indifference.

Three former military attorneys, recognizing this blunt truth, refused to participate in the military tribunals rather, show trials aimed at condemning men whose confessions were elicited through torture.

Finally and most important even if Krugman had been right about everything, there would still be no justification for the numerous crude and often personal attacks he has made on those who disagree with him.

China s brusque treatment of Japan s leaders probably was intended as a rebuke not only over the Senkaku Islands issue, but also for hosting the Fourth General Meeting of the World Uyghur Congress in Tokyo in May.

Macri is best described as a liberal in the European sense of the word. That means, first of all, respect for Argentina s democratic institutions, badly damaged after a decade of rough handling by Presidents Néstor and Cristina Kirchner.

Russian capitalism hates the consumer as much as Russian communism did. Russia's people, whether they are waiters or waiting for service, are convinced that they will be ripped off and treated rudely, and so steel themselves with indifference.

In poverty stricken Bolivia, Francis criticized the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature, along with a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

And yet, I do believe that in every social space, in every public space, there is a desire to communicate more than just that blunt thought, that blunt technique, but something that pinpoints, and can point in various directions forward, backward, sideways and around.