Word: crudely
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Like that coyly intelligent actor back in high school who was great to have around at parties because he knew how to get a rise out of everyone without having to be crude or drunk, Meloy had lovingly placed the audience in the palm of his hand and, with a little half-smile to himself, squeezed out a gleeful chortle...
Pope estimated that the number of men in America who have muscle dysmorphia is in the hundred thousands, although he said that such number is a “crude estimate” since most people are extremely secretive about the disorder. Similarly, he said that three to six percent of all American teenagers have tried anabolic steroids at least once...
...that?s true, blaming a ?Palestinian extremist? may have been another crude attempt to underscore Syria's claim to be protecting Lebanon's security. There remains considerable concern in Lebanon that current moves to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could leave almost a half million Palestinian refugees to be settled permanently in Lebanon, a country of less than 4 million people - a prospect that could significantly destabilize the already fragile ethnic and sectarian balance. (Despite their fierce differences, the political factions representing Lebanon's Maronite Christians, Shiites and Sunnis have tended to concur in their enmity towards the Palestinian refugees...
...decade of struggle he had finally achieved a hit Broadway play, All My Sons, and with its proceeds bought a farm in Roxbury, Conn. Leaving his family behind in Brooklyn, he repaired to the country, built himself a cabin-studio (he was a great carpenter), settled down at a crude desk he had also fashioned and began writing. He had a first line for a new play in mind, and some thoughts about its tragic theme--a man selling his soul and eventually his life to the false values of materialist America. By the wee hours he had completed...
...Social satires tend to be pretty crude affairs in the world of comix. Cartoonists tend to succumb to the genre's temptations of broad, easy caricature. Posy Simmonds avoids this with her particularly English dry wit. Rich with memorable characters, literary depth, cutting humor and pictorial panache, "Gemma Bovery" sets a new standard for intelligent cartoon satire in graphic novel format...