Word: rude
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...viewed by some as being perhaps unlettered and in some ways he is unlettered . . . not the most well-read, but he has the greatest human understanding that you will ever encounter ... He is a person of great charm and great poise. At times he can be almost brusque and rude, [but he is] always determined, always firm ... an indomitable worker, working always for perfection...
...German. Bissier's fragile modes had rude beginnings. Son of a French-descended blacksmith whose forebears moved to the Black Forest from Toulouse, Bissier first explored landscape. Gold medals came his way, but after the Third Reich banned him from exhibiting in 1933 and a disastrous fire at his Freiburg University studio destroyed all his work the next year, he cast aside the past...
...Thailand and Laos, it is extremely rude to display the sole of the foot or to sit with legs crossed. "It is wise, physically as well as metaphorically, to keep both feet on the ground...
...that misses nary an 18th century curlicue. Of one memorable orgy for eight, she relates: "It is to be noted that, though all modesty and reserve were banished from the transaction of those pleasures, good manners and politeness were inviolably observed; here was no gross ribaldry, no offensive or rude behavior, or ungenerous reproaches to the girls." After enjoying many another "well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices," Fanny finds true love and kisses the oldest profession goodbye...
Over the Hill? Anquetil can afford to be rude. He is the only cyclist ever to win all three of Europe's top marathon races-the Tour de France, the Giro d'ltalia and the Vuelta a España. He once set a world record by covering 46,159 km. (about 29 miles) in one hour and he has won the Grand Prix des Nations, a kind of World Series of bike racing, seven times. The sport pays him $150,000 a year, and he lives in champagne luxury-beautiful blonde wife, country house near Rouen, Mercedes...