In three days she had not only begun to lose her own crudeness--she had attained to a certain small criticism of the crudeness of Abel.
And so, with that strange mixture of rustic crudeness and aristocratic arrogance, he turned his face from his friends and went stubbornly through the cross-questioning of the court.
To his oversensitive nature these primal emotions had a crudeness that was vulgar in its unrestraint.
Traces of his early crudeness appear in the stories of his destruction of mankind, and of the way in which Isis, by a trick, got from him his true name and, with it, his power.
Here something like living human beings appear, though there is crudeness in the portraiture, and the interest is chiefly in the history of origins.
Some Imitations"; there was a certain crudeness about the statement, a crudeness and an indefiniteness combined.
In its over-emphasis upon errors of judgment, as well as upon real if exaggerated misdeeds, it has all thecrudeness of youth.
No doubt there is "a certain crudeness in the manner in which these naked souls are presented," not only in "Strafford" but elsewhere in the plays.
The very crudeness of many of the representations, and the barbarism of manners, point to an early origin.
A) are practically identical in type though not in size; the horns are long and the muzzle short, but notwithstanding their crudeness these heads are full of vitality, and are not without a charm of their own.
Representative institutions should not spring full grown from an Order in Council, like Athene from the brain of Zeus: if they do, there is apt to be a painfulcrudeness about their early history.
Ferment is a sign of life, and the very crudeness of the ideals which cause the ferment is a hopeful proof of vigour.
A growing taciturnity marked his manner, and often a willful crudeness of phrase and speech, which annoyed her almost to the point of reproof.
Reliance upon technique and long practice in its use will help crudeness to rise to mediocrity, but the process will never lift the mediocre writer to the plane of the supremely excellent or the austerely great.
Even her most romantic visions had never taken the form of personal desire, or ambition in its most nebulous stage; they had simply pleased her fresh and natural fancy and served to gild the hardness and crudeness of her life,--that was all.
I can truly say that in the little which I have seen of the life of New England, I am more struck with what has been achieved than with the crudeness and failure.
There were songs, many of them addressed to the Virgin, some not only beautiful in their sincere and tender devotion, speaking for the finer spirits in an age of crudeness and violence, but occasionally beautiful as poetry.
The very crudeness of their speech made chaster yet the childish thought her guileless utterance had caught from spirit-depths beyond our reach.
The crudeness or the homeliness of the dialectic element does not argue its unfitness in any way.
In some ways the Northern visitor is struck by a crudeness of behavior among respectable Southern Whites such as he is accustomed in the North to experience in a much lower stratum of society.
The very crudeness of his embellishments invests with kind of comic relief some of his fables, which end invariably with insipid uniformity.
With a double ended paddle rudely shaped from the thin buttress roots of the red mangrove, and comic in the crudeness and disproportion of its parts, he felt himself safe miles out to sea.
There is a crudeness in Miss Fairfax yet--she is very young--but she will ripen sound and sweet to the core, or I am much mistaken in the quality of the green fruit.
They must choose, remembering that while crudeness kills pleasure, fineness ever intensifies it.
But these girls don't realize the crudeness of such lives.
He was forced to smile over the crudeness of his question.
Not patient enough to win all its secrets from the savage mountain torrent, he forced together his effects, made additions, brought confusion into his picture as a whole, and a crudeness into the particular incidents.
It struck him that what he had regarded as over-sophistication was rather the pseudo-sophistication of youth; her occasional crudeness, but the crudeness that comes from lack of experience.
A most amazing mixture of crudeness and tact--remarkably bright in some ways, but unexpectedly lacking in others.
When you first begin to work out-doors try to find a good solid shade in which to place your easel, and then try to paint up to the full key, even at the risk of a little crudeness of color.
It would be unthinkable that a work of such crudeness could satisfy a metropolitan public, even if some of the most marked faults of construction were acknowledged as the results of the forceful expurgation of the police.
A consciousness on which these tumultuous pages hammer day by day must lose the subtler sense of proportionate harmony and must develop an instinctive desire for harshness and crudeness and chaos.
The crudeness of their intellect, which may go together with ample knowledge in other fields, predestines them to be deceived and puts a premium on the imposture.
The plain little room had lost its crudeness of outline.
Again came that savagecrudeness of method which Vita recognized as part of the man.
This was flanked by a number of leather-seated chairs belonging to a similar period, and of equalcrudeness of manufacture.
What Cæsar and Tacitus tell us of the education of the Germans expresses only the emancipation of individuality, which in its immediate crudeness had no other form in which to manifest itself than wars of conquest.
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