Dumbing down the culture doesn't serve democracy well; it only coarsens it further.
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Will there ever be an end to the tweet-dissing that coarsens our civic discourse?
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It erases nuance, coarsens thought, turns into a game of 'Telephone' in which original meaning becomes hopelessly garbled with every successive re-tweet.
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When Gauguin (Anthony Quinn, himself no stranger to overstatement) arrives in Arles, the fellowship of the two men soon coarsens into a brawl.
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It erases nuance, coarsens thought, turns into a game of "Telephone" in which original meaning becomes hopelessly garbled with every successive re-tweet.
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" Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, said that Mr. Trump's analogy was "not only an inappropriate comparison on the merits, but it also coarsens our discourse.
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Alarmist tracts that warn about how the Web endangers culture or coarsens civilization miss the point that the same was said in turn about theater, lyric poetry, the novel, film, and television.
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"I live in an unethical society," she wrote in her journal, that coarsens the sensibilities and thwarts the capacities for goodness of most people but makes available for minority consumption an astonishing array of intellectual and aesthetic pleasures.
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"The President-elect's use of Nazi Germany to make a political analogy is not only an inappropriate comparison on the merits, but it also coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust," Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the organization, said in a statement Wednesday.
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"The president-elect's use of Nazi Germany to make a political analogy is not only an inappropriate comparison on the merits, but it also coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust," Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Pushing generally coarsens grain and increases contrast, reducing dynamic range, to the detriment of overall quality. Nevertheless, it can be a useful tradeoff in difficult shooting environments, if the alternative is no usable shot at all.
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At its base it consists of green shale and sandstone and coarsens upwards to arkosic conglomerates. The lower Ordovician Aydos Formation conformably overlies the Soḡuksu. It is a conglomerate of quartzitic sandstone and is 50–200 meters thick.
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Bristle blasting, unlike other blasting methods, does not require a separate blast medium. The surface is treated by a brush-like rotary tool made of dynamically tuned high-carbon steel wire bristles. Repeated contact with the sharp, rotating bristle tips results in localized impact, rebound, and crater formation, which simultaneously cleans and coarsens the surface.
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The base of which is marked at the base of the rhyolitic tuffs of the Buxton Rock Member. Coarsens upwards from thin to thick bedded turbidite lobe facies. Above the turbidite facies are shallow marine mudstones and then deltaic sandstones. The uppermost unit, the Cardingmill Grit, at the top is interpreted as a fluvial deposit.
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Baritone Thomas Hampson in 2014 David Gutman reviewed the album in Gramophone in December 1996. He enjoyed the Suite from A Quiet Place, and thought the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story "very good, if not the exceptional treat I was anticipating". But the album's presentation of its eponymous song cycle disappointed him. Bruce Coughlin's orchestration, he wrote, "coarsens what are merely allusions" in Bernstein's original piano-accompanied version.
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Normally graded beds generally represent depositional environments which decrease in transport energy (rate of flow) as time passes, but these beds can also form during rapid depositional events. They are perhaps best represented in turbidite strata, where they indicate a sudden strong current that deposits heavy, coarse sediments first, with finer ones following as the current weakens. They can also form in terrestrial stream deposits. In reverse or inverse grading the bed coarsens upwards.
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Its fur is very soft and coarsens with age. The cub begins to crawl at 75 to 80 days; mothers play with their cubs by rolling and wrestling with them. The cubs can eat small quantities of bamboo after six months, though mother's milk remains the primary food source for most of the first year. Giant panda cubs weigh 45 kg (100 pounds) at one year and live with their mothers until they are 18 months to two years old.
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The situation comedy Till Death Us Do Part attacked many of the things Whitehouse cherished. She objected to its profane language: "I doubt if many people would use 121 bloodies in half-an-hour", and "Bad language coarsens the whole quality of our life. It normalises harsh, often indecent language, which despoils our communication." Whitehouse and the NVALA won a libel action against the BBC and its writer Johnny Speight in July 1967 with a full apology and substantial damages, after Speight implied in a BBC radio interview that the organisation's members and its head were fascists."Damages For Mrs Mary Whitehouse", Glasgow Herald, 28 July 1967, p.11Mark Ward "A Family at War: Till Death Do Us Part", The Main Event (Kaleidoscope brochure) 1996 Shortly after Speight's interview, she was mocked in an episode of the series entitled "Alf's Dilemma" (27 February 1967).
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The base of Interval 2 exhibits a highly irregular, erosional contact with either a poorly sorted, bioturbated sandstone of Unit A lithologies or a laterally discontinuous unit of clast-supported conglomerate (Unit C). This interval typically occurs well above lake levels in the study area and is covered by vegetation. Consequently, continuous fresh exposures exhibiting diagnostic sedimentary structures are relatively rare. The dominant lithology in Interval 2 appears to be a well-cemented, fine-grained litharenite that coarsens upwards into a medium-grained sand, capped by a shell lag horizon of fragmented bivalves and gastropods (Unit D). The density of shell fragments at the top of the coarsening-upwards sequences locally approaches that of a coquina. A minimum of three coarsening-upward sequences is preserved in Interval 2, and although the litharenite appears massive in most exposures, trough cross-bedding and low-angle planar cross-bedding are evident locally.
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