Word: uncouthness
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...cringe at the extended airtime given to the controversial topic, but—as William Safire implied in his Oct. 18th editorial column in the New York Times—that they might have scored the final point on this one: The Democrats’ lip service was decidedly uncouth, and that’s not likely to go over well in those Midwestern swing states. And pro-Kerry activists like Michael Rogers, of blogactive.com, can tap his fingers gleefully and cross off one more person from the list of Gay Republicans Who I Must...
...writer put it last year in The Spectator, a conservative British political magazine, Britain should play Greece to America’s Rome. While no longer in charge of an empire of their own, the Brits should continue to exert an influence on their former subjects, both civilizing the uncouth Americans and passing on a few words of imperial wisdom...
...ensued in our attempt to interpret the Four Seasons vaguely aristocratic dress code. Luckily, FM photographer Andrew M. Sadowski ’04-’05, sole harbinger of refined New England sensibilities, was willing to preach the gospel of Lily Pulitzer and Brooks Brothers to our otherwise uncouth selves...
Khrushchev came of peasant stock; he possessed a peasant's shrewdness and wit--a garrulous, storytelling gift the newspapers called earthy; what they meant was that he referred to excrement a lot. With only two years of schooling, he had a fierce, uncouth animation that was shadowed by feelings of intellectual inferiority...
...Brien, the mix of choreographers acted as inspiration. “This is a totally uncouth, brand new way of thinking about dance. Each choreographer took his or her particular style and, in a sense, messed it up. We challenged ourselves and each other...