Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the critics called Hogarth's engravings "crude," he replied, with 18th-Century involution, that the passions may be more forcibly expressed by a strong, bold stroke than by the most delicate engraving. To expressing them as I felt them, I have paid the utmost attention and, as they were addressed to hard hearts, have rather preferred leaving them hard, and giving the effect, by a quick touch, to rendering them languid and feeble by fine strokes and soft engraving, which require more care and practice than can often be attained, except by a man of a very quiet...
...tried to make capital out of the U.S. Blue Book charges (TIME, Feb. 18), called them undiplomatic, then himself screamed: "crude lies." To a reporter he blandly declared: "If I'm a fascist, you are Mary Pickford." But the Strong Man's attempt to make the election a personal quarrel with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden ("Perón or Braden, that is the issue"), got a jolt when Harry Truman stated flatly that, as President, he stood behind every word in the Blue Book...
Klein's is not a pretty place. Its floors are bare. There are no saleswomen. Customers must select dresses themselves from the crude iron racks, try them on in crowded public dressing rooms. Klein's does not advertise-except to keep customers away on holidays when the store is closed...
...done most of the post-World War II political grabbing, were taking the worst verbal beating from delegates intent on restraining power politics. The big question in London was: will the Russians take it long enough to get used to it? The Russian methods were still rude and crude, but close observers detected no sign that the Russian delegation would pull...
Einstein & Venus. Although many scientists pointed out that the Belmar technique was too crude at present to drag much new information down from space, they speculated happily on what it might accomplish in the future...