coarsen
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"If we are interested in the distribution of small-scale objects, we have to work against this natural tendency for things to coarsen," Bellon explains.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
It’s not just that they coarsen the culture, though that’s bad enough.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
It’s a progressive degeneration from pop culture to further dumb down and coarsen our popular taste.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2019
But it also adds new incidents, characters and depth, with a contemporary wit that doesn’t coarsen the story — or not much, anyway.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2017
‘Motherogod! She’s not but four. It’s liable to scare her. And besides, permanents tend to coarsen the hair.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
But there is nothing better about this “Cat Person,” which coarsens, flattens and torturously over-elaborates a story whose elegant concision was precisely what made it such rich and elastic interpretive fodder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2023
Even as Twitter frays and coarsens under Musk’s ownership, it’s still possible to have fun with others, one of the few things that keeps users from leaving.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
It coarsens public discourse, distracts from the real issues and prevents solutions.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2017
It erases nuance, coarsens thought, turns into a game of “Telephone” in which original meaning becomes hopelessly garbled with every successive retweet.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2017
Chewing gum coarsens the muscles of the jaw and gives a downward trend that few faces can afford to wear.
From The Colored Girl Beautiful by Hackley, E. Azalia
He thinks it has coarsened discourse in the Capitol.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021
And Crawford, his flinty good looks partly hidden by a dark beard and coarsened by the cold Utah air, all but buries David in an inchoate weave of jealousy, confusion and fury.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2021
“Hasn’t our national debate been coarsened enough, and shouldn’t we appreciate the old-school attributes of somebody like Bob Mueller, who declined to engage in hand-to-hand combat with 140 characters?” asked Sandick.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2019
I’m indebted to Luis Gutiérrez, the bumptious congressman from Illinois’s Fourth District, for confirming what I long resisted acknowledging: America’s political discourse has been painfully coarsened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2017
He reminded me of the Big Boy at the Elias Brothers’ chain of restaurants, only older, coarsened and bloated by adult vices.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The coarsening and outright collapse of public standards this millennium is so astonishing that it is hard to describe the world back then to “digital natives.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
In her recent New York Times article about the "coarsening" of the religious right, Ruth Graham alluded to this, writing about the trend of evangelical leaders using "vulgarities."
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2024
In such a case, the suppression of coarsening would be beneficial.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
The threats are not simply an issue of coarsening of the national discourse.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Now he was used to such things, a roadside commonplace, but back then, before the coarsening and general numbness, when it was a novelty and when everything was new, he felt it sharply.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
