She's unbearable.

I'm sorry for being nasty.

You're not cruel.

That's a dirty crack, brother.

Athos, this is a crude sort of joke.

Yet, I don't like to be rude to him.

I don't mean to be a bother, but, yes, I'll accept it.

His remarks are blunt and unabashedly hostile.

Don't be a tomboy. Don't play rough with the gentlemen.

She wasn t unkind she was just observant.

According to stereotypes, I'm a black woman so that means I'm rude.

I should reprove you for saying unkind things about him but I can't.

Blunt and concise, like this one, which in one word renders poor Mariannina's fate

Still, I don't think our relationship is such that calls for a cold reception.

And governments, which typically focus on crude measures of economic performance, encourage rapid urbanization.

But even opponents of Olmert s second war must face the blunt fact that Hamas is lethal.

Swimming in the ocean, the volunteer received vulgar invitations that a white volunteer probably would not receive in the same situation.

Of course, the case for the euro was always political and came in two varieties earthy and lofty.

He had the aspect of one who had been soaked with what the newspaper chappies call some blunt instrument.

Oil embargos turned out to be a blunt instrument that hurt many besides the targeted countries.

It was alleged that, across the country, Islamic dress requirements are being enforced against women in an arbitrary and often rude manner.

Quantitative easing is a blunt instrument, at best, and operates through highly circuitous and thus dubious channels.

The manner in which children are raised must be free of negligent, cruel, rough or debasing treatment of children or abuse by the parents, as well as exploitation of the children.

Some restaurants greet their customers with a guard who brusquely asks what they want, as if they came to buy stamps, not to have dinner.

The movement of the rural poor to large cities is one of the exemplary narratives of the modern era. And governments, which typically focus on crude measures of economic performance, encourage rapid urbanization.

Unlike the US, the EU s difficulties stem not from a perceived lack of legitimacy or crude attempts at promoting democracy, but from a real lack of unity and, therefore, influence.

Foreign Minister Mukherjee was treated rudely on his recent visit, with Premier Wen Jiabao cancelling a previously scheduled appointment and the Governor of Sichuan Province failing to show up to receive a donation of Indian humanitarian aid for China s earthquake victims.

Killing innocent people in order to bring a kind of rough justice to Chemical Ali a particularly nasty member of Saddam s military elite, but one who at the time of the raid was no longer in command of military forces is wrong.

Europe s demands ostensibly aimed at ensuring that Greece can service its foreign debt are petulant, naive, and fundamentally self destructive. In rejecting them, the Greeks are not playing games they are trying to stay alive.

If I did, sir, perhaps I should be able to express an opinion of a war office that supplied me , with a twice as many cavalry man than I have horses and a weight of cannon so large that

Many observers consider QE2 a blunt instrument that is unlikely to achieve its objectives, although it may weaken the dollar, which many think will redress recurrent US trade deficits. But critics argue that QE2 may instead merely encourage more private investors to hold emerging market debt, which would have an impact on the currency, due to the price change, rather than on the quantity of money.

To the detriment of their own people, its leaders, Haled Mash'al and Ismail Hanieh, want neither peace nor compromise. Like their friend and supporter, President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad of Iran, they want Israel dead.

Erdoğan once claimed that democracy is like a train, in that when you reach your destination, you get off a simile with which Putin would undoubtedly agree. For both leaders, democratic systems are little more than blunt tools that can be used to advance one s personal ambitions, and then discarded at will.