Crasser

Refined supernaturalism is universalistic supernaturalism; for the "crasser" variety "piecemeal" supernaturalism would perhaps be the better name. ❋ Unknown (1902)

Refined supernaturalism is universalistic supernaturalism; for the "crasser" variety ❋ William James (1876)

It is all too easy to obliterate the beauty of the real world when a film crew crashes into a location; Chivo has an artist's heart that stands in the way of the crasser tendencies of some film-makers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Albeit a crasser act than Colbert but just an act nonetheless. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Howard Hughes was doing cruder, coarser, crasser things with Jane Russell's atomic décolletage over at RKO in the same period, but Russell had Bob Mitchum's face while Rita Hayworth was a Max Factor girl voted "Best Lips of 1945" and had charms, talents and splendours that far outweighed the contents of Russell's cantilevered brassiere. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Surely other (and even crasser) motivations are at hand, but the unspoken impetus for much of the antipathy and rage we have seen of late has race issues lurking at the core. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Is it just me or does it seem to anyone else that these unrepentant materialists are growing crasser and more short-sighted in direct proportion to their wealth and power? ❋ Unknown (2010)

But Gore is accustomed to masking the crasser aspects of politics behind a studied politeness and would never use such a crude phrase. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And now I find myself thinking in even crasser terms. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As we get further into the piece, we see the statement that, "One of the crasser phrases came from Gordon Brown when he advocated 'British jobs for British workers'", to which the comment is added, "something that is simply illegal" – without specifying under which law i.e., EU law. ❋ Richard (2007)

A crasser person than myself might suggest that $20 for a glass of lemonade suggests how far out of touch he is with reality. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This is to say nothing of still crasser undertakings, like the “Show Me the Money Diversity Venture Capital Conference” and — yes — the “Diversity Rocks Classic Thong,” which permits its user both to “show your support for multiculturalism” and “put an end to panty lines.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

Or spreading the "narrative" practice down to local reporting - beliefs centered on a crasser level- that if you start with narratives or slot news into a niche of a meta-narrative - the story basically writes itself with little effort. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

There are definitely times where we miss the point or throw something out there that is probably crasser than we would like. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Page 20 disdain on redneck stuff and on the crasser forms of prejudice, discrimination and so on. ❋ Unknown (1990)

As a poet struggling to mediate between the demands of various audiences and my own need to deliver a personal message, I might propose a simpler, albeit far crasser, explanation for Shakespeare's turn to romance: romance sold tickets, especially at upper-class theaters like Blackfriars. ❋ Bryan, Charles (1990)

(There is a driver on the road going very slow) "What the heck is this crasser doing, he needs to speed up!" (There is a man wearing a strange outfit) "He looks very [crassy] today." (You get [hit in the face] with a baseball bat) "CRASSERS! THAT HURT! WHAT THE [CRASS] ARE YOU DOING YOU IDIOT!" (You meets someone new and tell them where you're from) "I'm from crassachusetts." ❋ Crasserkins (2009)