We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
Television is a corporate vulgarity.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.