Instead of being guardians of civilization, museums were suddenly accused of being as crassly acquisitive as instant millionaires let loose on Rodeo Drive.
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Experts say the revival reflects growing ethnic pride brought by rising incomes _ and growing fear that wealth is making China too crassly materialistic.
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The myth bestows divine predestination on what was probably a crassly political move to secure favorable access to Cuernavaca's rich cotton production.
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But in Ray's hand the film is anything but crassly melodramatic; his style is one of quiet observation rather than dramatic overkill.
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Every time I watch a Hollywood film crassly humanize the weather to make it express the moods of its characters, I cringe a little.
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After only a few minutes, we were joined by three women who quickly, crassly, made clear they had other commerce in mind.
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Limp Bizkit's crassly sexist songs the most likely to make it onto a World Federation Wrestling soundtrack, but they were hardly alone.
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When Will tries to diffuse an awkward or painful situation with a clever joke, he looks dimwitted at best, and often crassly insensitive.
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"The Beverly Hillbillies " was crassly commercial to begin with; this is not like defacing the " Mona Lisa ."
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But it doesn't wear well _ the music is undistinguished, the orchestrations caloric, the electronics wearing, the context so crassly commercial.
