While his young, strident opponents flung themselves forward with bone-crunching crudeness, he collected their callowness calmly, and guided it out of the ring.

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Some turn you off from an author entirely due to lewdness, crudeness, or endless and shameless hawking of their own wares.

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Thurber's childlike drawings may survive in popular memory more indelibly than his prose, and it is their very crudeness that makes them so disarming.

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The crudeness of the extremists' threats is not helping them either.

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