coarsened

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In these landscapes, naturalism and abstraction often battle to a pulsating draw by means of a magnified, or coarsened pointillism that recalls Seurat in its mosaic-like array of dots, dashes and commas.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2024

To say our politics have coarsened over the past few decades is like noting that temperatures drop and daylight shortens as we settle into autumn.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022

“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

Her skin had coarsened, tanned from all the time they were spending in the yard sitting beneath the brazen sun.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini