vulgarize

The first indication of a shift is in her implication that it is even possible "to vulgarize the spirit of the NEW ORDER," which in turn implies that the barbarian spirit is not vulgar to begin with.

It criticizes all contemporary attempts to vulgarize economic notions, it drafts an empirical research agenda for Russia's economic history and religion, and it appeals to the consciousness of his contemporaries.

If I may vulgarize the implications of Orwell's argument a bit: substitute Republicans for Kipling and Democrats for the opposition, and you have a synopsis of the state of U.S.

The multiplication of incompetence generates incompetence, as the multiplication of scandals vulgarize scandals." And with this low level of journalistic competence, their credibility suffers.

To choose this option is certainly to lessen the instructional impact; indeed, one is tempted to say, it is to vulgarize the experience of the music.

Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born media mogul, continues to buy up everything in sight and to further vulgarize news broadcasting.

Vann Woodward argued that Disney's America would "commercialize what should be revered, and vulgarize what is noble in American history." The historians did not object to Disney's theme parks, but to their displacement of real history.

Rather than vulgarize his thought, he decided to forge his tools and a style of his own.

The three poets were accused of trying to revolutionize, to vulgarize, poetry; they were avowedly interested in freeing poetry from the limitations of the eighteenth century poetic tradition.

(The French guise of Alberti should not surprise the modern reader, since French presses were among the first to vulgarize his amatory works in the later Quattrocento.) And the collaborators have rendered a great service in placing this important text within its cultural context.

Decoufle doesn't depart very far from the music-hall sequential construction that also characterized his earlier Petites Pieces Montees ("Little Ornamental Pieces") but neither does he vulgarize or exhaust the formula.

(43) Performing as a professional musician renders oneself servile, and it is likely to vulgarize or to distort the body in ways that are inappropriate for freemen.