The key may lie in the phrase "unslakeable thirsting in the backyard" in the last verse. (Yes, "unslakeable, " as in "insatiable, " one example of Veirs' idiosyncratic use of language.) She's not crass enough to spell it out so explicitly, but she's equating emotional longing with heat-wave dehydration, in a wonderfully subtle way.
"Mr. Ecclestone's comments were crass, ignorant and insensitive, " he said in a statement issued to CNN.
In Britain, the Stop the War Coalition criticized the 28-year-old's comments as "crass" and questioned how he knew those he'd killed were actually members of the Taliban.
Yet when it comes to Poland's recent failures in Brussels, crass and amateurish are the epithets that matter more.
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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She says lots of her friends are turned off by what she calls the crass merchandising and all the money that's been spent for the Olympic event.
It strains credulity that the U.S. would knowingly wish to hold the stock of a company whose corporate interests may lead it and its government to pursue an agenda antithetical to Western security interests and at odds with U.S. policies and laws for crass commercial reasons.
Former Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward said it was "crass and cruel" to bring Mr Finucane's family to Downing Street to say there would be no independent public inquiry into his murder.
They seemed not to mind as long as the returns remained strong, accepting that to ask Bernie to reveal his strategy would be as crass as demanding to see Coca-Cola's magic formula.
Mr Gray said the first minister's interview in Holyrood magazine had contained "crass personal attacks" and it had demeaned the office to which Mr Salmond had been elected.
Talk about rank, crass hypocrisy: cable-tv companies in the U.S. are aggressively offering consumers telephone service over their cable lines, and they do so without being burdened by many of the regulatory obstacles with which traditional carriers, such as SBC and Verizon, must cope.
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.
There's a perception that Nike has somehow changed the rules of athletic success in a crass or craven way.
Mr Brown has neither Mr Obama's charm, nor the excuse that he was making a reasonable point in a rather crass way.
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.
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