Word: crudely
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...Crude humor and violence used to earn films R ratings. These days, to get an R, you need to show something really outrageous, like a naked woman. (The system is still Puritanical in matters of sex, adult romance and flesh.) This trend, festering for a few years, looks rampant now. Why would that...
...same time it could significantly decrease pollution blamed for global warming and acid rain. Many countries don't use imported oil for power generation, but depend on it for transport. That will change if the cost of converting coal directly into liquid fuels can compete with that of refining crude oil. Nanotechnology may be the long-awaited breakthrough. "It has improved the economics of the process by $5 to $10 a barrel," says Theo Lee, CEO of Hydrocarbon Technologies Incorporated, a subsidiary of Headwaters, a Draper, Utah-based alternative-energy company. "Direct coal liquefaction is now economically attractive in China...
Greenblatt has led the charge against Baker’s decision to remove academics from journals because of their nationality. Greenblatt, who is also president of the Modern Languages Association, called Baker’s decision “a crude and embittering policy of exclusion” in an open letter to her last month...
Dugout Canoes The crew carved 15 canoes by hand during its journey--and carried some of them on crude wagons for 17 miles around the Great Falls of the Missouri. Empty, each weighed more than...
...improvisatory intelligence of actors, Zaben does it all himself, including the "performances." This presents the book's biggest challenge: the art. Everything has been drawn with heavy brushes and thick markers, including such normally fine stuff as body hair. The result can either be called bold or crude, depending on your generosity. The stiffly posed characters often seem as inanimate as the objects around them. Faces look identical and show little emotion. This ultimately keeps the audience at a distance, an effect that may very well be deliberate, but nonetheless becomes more of an obstacle than the author may realize...