Word: crudely
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...person has done more for Taekwondo than Kim Un Yong. When he took over the newly formed World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) three decades ago, the Korean martial art was viewed as a crude form of Japan's karate. Today, millions practice the sport worldwide, and four years ago it became a medal sport at the Sydney Olympics...
...never convinced a lot of people in Britain that the Iraq war was just - and those who resent him for it now form an archipelago of the disaffected. Inside the spy agencies, on the Labour backbenches and among potential juries trying government leakers, they can exercise power, too - a crude, perhaps self-absorbed, form of democracy, but effective...
...meant to be a super Sunday like any other. About 143 million people gathered to enjoy a wholesome evening of giant men knocking the living hell out of one another, cheered on by busty dancing women in skimpy uniforms, with occasional messages from crude talking animals entreating them to buy intoxicants...
Each campaign conforms to crude stereotypes. The biggest campaign corps belongs to Howard Dean, whose volunteers are overwhelmingly white and mostly female. They wear old clothes, exude a crunchy vibe and spend a lot of time on the dating website Friendster.com They're basically the rich kids on campus who pretend they have no money (the Dean campaign parking lot is full of SUVs and Saabs). It's their insularity--plus the Saabs--that make them universally hated among the other volunteers...
...evil American advisers. The only problem, from a narrative standpoint, is that the audience has no idea why it should oppose the Western-leaning Japanese ruler or root for the samurai, who are themselves highly militaristic and weaponry-obsessed. The only discernible difference between the two parties is the crude machine guns used by the modernizers and the bows and arrows of the traditionalists. No political persecution or suffering is ever mentioned, and it’s not terribly clear why one side is better than the other...