crudeness

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The composer Adam Cork’s soundscape ensures that the play satisfies aurally, as well, sea shanties lending a clamorous texture to a play whose occasional crudenesses are inseparable from its lasting import.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2011

Though there were roughnesses and crudenesses in his manner and choice of words, all he did and said made Annesley sure that she had been right in her first impression.

From The Second Latchkey by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

An old Etruscan jar may be reproduced in form, but it would be silly to attempt the reproduction of the crudenesses that gave the old jar its real beauty.

From The House in Good Taste by Wolfe, Elsie de

Other poets, Shakespeare, for instance, and Keats, have written work of the highest quality when they were young, but they have had crudenesses to shed—things to get rid of as their strength and perceptions grew.

From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)

In practice, merit and demerit exist side by side; works crude in conception reveal a hundred finenesses, and works fine in conception reveal crudenesses of execution.

From Personality in Literature by Scott-James, Rolfe Arnold