| 11. | Even in a time when political discourse has been cheapened and coarsened, such behavior is despicable.
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| 12. | On some of the new routes " coarsened " rather than flat fares were to be introduced.
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| 13. | The singers, too, might have been coarsened by all the activity they had to indulge in.
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| 14. | It must also be said that these attacks coarsened political discourse in ways that have never quite been repaired.
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| 15. | Even the language of humor has changed, coarsened by the criminal jargon that has crept into Russian speech.
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| 16. | First there were the sound bites of the candidates-to-be, spewing promises in voices coarsened by ambition.
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| 17. | Even by the coarsened standards of our age, Wednesday's terror bombing in Sri Lanka evokes a peculiar horror.
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| 18. | His French accent, offered in a deep, gravelly voice coarsened by years of cigarette smoking, was easily imitated.
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| 19. | On albums, Morrison's voice has coarsened over the years, but his concerts offer glimpses of his old nuance.
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| 20. | In the last decades of the 19th century, Alger's moral tone coarsened with the change in boys'tastes.
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