" the guest says: "Do not say other issue, it is the lackey of your home only, have crass clothes again, have flossy clothes again, if is other issue not costlier?
The former chief executive of the Opera House described the decision to promote the race on the world-famous landmark as crass, inappropriate and offensive.
Toys had kept him company whenever other duties or distractions had occupied his mother and me, and over the years we had amassed a truly crass number of them.
Richard Hoggart, a cultural historian who grew up there, called it " some of the worst, most crass and inhumane public housing I have seen in any developed country" .
I mean, it sounds crass to call it research, but to spend time with someone as a human being, as an equal, you really absorb something of their soul, I think.