Although much maligned, Emmanuel's call not to let a good crisis go to waste can be taken as a crass way of saying that every cloud has a silver lining.
The cinematographer John Bailey is shooting a portrait of Werner Herzog, the soulful, disaster-prone German director, at the same time that Herzog and Zak Penn, a crass American screenwriter-producer, go off to Loch Ness to make a film about our spiritual need for monsters.
It raises the question of whether administration's detention policy is actually shaped by a crass political calculus of not antagonizing its liberal base in advance of what promises to be a difficult 2012 election.
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"The switch from decades of supply-side politics all the way to a crass Keynesianism is breathtaking, " he said.
There's a perception that Nike has somehow changed the rules of athletic success in a crass or craven way.
It will also be objected that a crass focus on income statistics will penalize poets and the colleges that train them.
The only American surveyed here, Ms Williams sets her whacky tales in the wild, wild west of a crass, commercialised Arizona.
It was a reminder that, while Don't Forget Your Toothbrush was engaging and well-structured fun, this show was just a crass mess.
About half an hour's drive from Quebec City, it may aptly symbolise Cardinal Ouellet's view of a beautiful truth hemmed in by a crass world.
Addressing gun control supporters at a White House event on Thursday, Obama accused gun rights activists of playing a crass game of political obstruction.
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The same calculation may be at work in the government's new enthusiasm for politics by internet, which some fear may lead to a crass majoritarianism.
The original proposal had been criticised by Arab leaders, and by some from Europe, as being a crass attempt to impose American values on the region.
Ms. Elliot is silent on this point but certain that the anti-sharia movement is conducting a somewhat unsophisticated, crass, and un-nuanced discussion of sharia as a threat.
But for some around the President, it had a more crass political impetus: pandering for votes in 2002 and 2004.
Mr Brown has neither Mr Obama's charm, nor the excuse that he was making a reasonable point in a rather crass way.
And he denied having made a "crass calculation" about how The Sun's endorsement of Cameron's Conservative party before the 2010 elections would affect News Corp.
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And then there is his irrepressible and omnipresent friend, Kyle (Rogen), who genuinely loves him but has a streak of crass opportunism.
In a city grown crass and ugly, Kagurazaka is nostalgically endearing.
The government's military campaign has so far been a bit less crass, though hardly less brutal, than it was in 1994-96, when perhaps 80, 000 people were killed, Chechnya won de facto independence and Russia was humiliated.
He also criticised the rise in profit margins to a three-year-high as, "evidence of absolutely crass behaviour by the energy companies, with a jump in prices announced in the last few months ahead of what will be a winter in which most families face their highest ever electricity and gas bills".
For a foretaste, look at Primorski Krai, a miserable spot in far-eastern Russia where crass politicians, rampant crime and economic decline have given people a hellish winter.
Where a Nativity won't do, and a robin on a pudding would be crass, angels fill the yawning space with beauty and taste.
And then there is his omnipresent pal, Kyle (Rogen), who genuinely loves him but has a broad streak of crass opportunism running through his nature.
This book is a sobering reminder of just how much the Bush team has got wrong: from the failure to veto a single spending bill, however pork-laden, to the crass recklessness of serially cutting taxes while introducing the biggest expansion of a government entitlement programme in decades the inclusion of prescription-drug coverage in Medicare, the government health plan for the elderly.
The first is that the benefits of ratifying the treaty were so self-evidently greater than the costs that only crass partisanship or unthinking isolationism could explain a vote against ratification.
"Western sites are often perceived to be too function-orientated and somewhat crass to Korean users who are accustomed to a 'cute' and 'decorative' user interface, " explained Dyne Lee, assistant manager of Cyworld.
"Mr. Ecclestone's comments were crass, ignorant and insensitive, " he said in a statement issued to CNN.
Any overt display of a business purpose to the lunch is considered crass.
In that play, Linklater played a budding playwright frightened to share his work with his crass, pugnacious novelist-turned-tutor, played by Rickman.
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