Is it the fault of crudity in pictorial art, or the fault of romances that we look upon those distant people as more elemental than we, and thus feel for them the indulgent compassion that a child excites?
Fault can be found with itscrudity of drawing and weave, but tapestries of this epoch can hold a position of interest in spite of faults.
In consequence, Mr Gladstone says he has endeavoured to avoid in his more recent work "a certain crudity of expression.
What makes Michelangelo's crudity in his plastic treatment of the female form the more remarkable is that in his poetry he seems to feel the influence of women mystically.
For the rest the crudity and levity of the whole affair were decidedly painful, and few things, I think, have lately done more to vulgarise the public sense of the character of artistic production.
For to that people, steeped in dream, risen from the crudity of mere events to breathe in the rarer atmosphere of their significance, here was a happening worthy their attention, for it had the dignity of mystery.
As the prince paused, a little breath of assent was in the room, more potent than any crudity of applause.
With us, the social system, as an established and finished system, has too recently been evolved from outer chaos to be characteristic of anything except the crudity and energy of the chaos from which it emerged.
There is a crudity about such obvious assistance, and it would be quite insufficient without the knowledge on which we draw unconsciously as we read.
It was as though his crudity had dissociated itself from his other qualities and laid itself, bare and unrelieved, before her eyes.
It was unfortunate for him that he fell in with the crude generation contemporary in their manhood with the French Revolution, and so manifested the crudity in full.
With the Americans indeed the crudity and the rottenness are identical and simultaneous; it is impossible to say, as in the conversation of this deplorable young man, which is the one and which the other: they’re inextricably confused.
So wild-flowers, plain chant, or a scarlet uniform are beautiful enough; their simplicity is a positive merit, while their crudity is only relative.
Here we observe a certain elementary crudity or barbarism which the human spirit often betrays when it is deeply stirred.
In front, was enthroned the modern city with the long, renovated buildings of the Quirinal, whose yellow walls stood forth with wondrous crudity amidst the vigorous crests of the garden trees.
Clonfert Cathedral is a wonderful old church, one of the most curious and most beautiful in Ireland; its western doorway has a crudity almost barbaric, but it is very beautiful nevertheless.
Thus Ireland retained a crudity of strength and expression which early evinced itself in its Christian art, and which was added to but slowly.
Such crudity of conduct was a stage in the march that we had all passed by the age of ten.
Poor man is to be pitied not only for the crudity of his mental machinery and the creaking clumsiness of its movement, but for the dullness of the material in which he must work.
The vulgarity and crudity of the things nearest him impressed him most; the dreadful insincerity of the Press, the meretriciousness of success, the loudness of the rich, the baseness of common people in his own land.
For all itscrudity there is a giant spirit in it feeling its way towards the light.
And to what extent of absurdity and crudity did they go?
If entirely done away with, of course, the latent ideas appearing in perfectcrudity would have a logical connection.
Notoriously there was no limit either to the absurdity or crudity of these conceptions.
She had an idea that their silences were eloquent, and that they might well be lavish of the crudity of speech.
The crudity of the idea offended him; the process would necessarily be wanting in art.
He was no longer crying in the empty wilderness, but at last in touch-in natural touch with life: with life in all its sorrow, its crudity and horror.
Here was an epic movement indeed, for South St. Louis was a great sod uprooted from the Fatherland and set down in all its vigorous crudity in the warm black mud of the Mississippi Valley.
They were prepared to hear Mrs. Brice rail at the dirt of St. Louis and the crudity of the West.
We have shown how Captain Burton has rendered the prose of the Nights, how vigorous, yet simple, is the language, how pleasant is his use of antique phrase, serving as it often does to soften the crudity of Oriental expression.
Therefore, as I think, we find some coarse passages of the Arabian Nights rendered with unnecessary crudity and some poetic passages marred by archaisms and provincialisms.
Their crudity was extreme and their levity of the frankest; but they had still, like the Greek plays, a religious excuse and a religious background.
The power to stimulate is the beginning of greatness, and when the barbarous poet has genius, as he well may have, he stimulates all the more powerfully on account of the crudity of his methods and the recklessness of his emotions.
Considering the ideas which appeared in her psychosis, it is striking that in her normal life she was rather antagonistic towards her father on account of his alcoholism and the crudity of his speech and manners.
But, chiefly because of the elementary crudity of existing electoral methods, hardly anywhere at present, except at Washington, do these great ideas and this world-wide will find expression.
And before everything else we have to realize this crudity and imperfection in what we call "democracy" at the present time.
