Janet McTeer, a spectacular actress when younger, has become a much less sympathetic type of person now that she is older, has coarsened in some way, and puts one off, but she redeems herself in the latter stages of the story by showing how brilliant an actress she can be when she has a chance by pulling off one of the most convincing and original drunk scenes I have ever seen on film.

Until then, Americans need to ask themselves what has coarsened in the national conscience between 1963 and today.

Many commentators have complained about institutional decay, while others point to changes – such as the advent of reality television and social media – that have coarsened the quality of public discourse.

For decades, this impresario of the right-wing political-entertainment complex has coarsened politics in the UK and the US – not to mention his native Australia – for the sake of profit and political influence.

Loose rhetoric has coarsened not only political debate, but historical memory, too.

Citizens are coarsened by the casual brutality meted out to a minority, and become inured to it.

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