Word: crudeness
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...appliances contain valuable materials: gold, platinum and other electrical conductors are used in microchips and motherboards; lead is in solder and computer monitors; copper can be mined from wires and internal circuitry. But in China, which according to ban receives nearly 90% of America's castoffs, recycling is a crude process carried out in places like Guiyu by tens of thousands of peasants equipped with the most rudimentary of tools. Components must be laboriously broken apart by hand. Some are dipped in acid baths to leach out precious metals, while the plastic covering on wiring is sometimes burned away...
...hero for the first 40 chapters is Genji himself, the son of one of the Emperor's intimates. He is handsome and graceful and charming, and irresistible to women. He is also unable to resist his own fancies?appetites would be too crude a word for them, although he does manage to get the Emperor's favorite consort pregnant. This is not good news even in a poly-gamous world. Early on, the narrator wonders whether she should be telling us all about Genji's naughty doings. "No doubt," she solicits, "I must now beg everyone's indulgence...
...another example would be Freud’s “id,” “ego,” and “superego,”) can serve quite a useful purpose in treating psychopathology—for they provide an abstract and working, if crude and incomplete, model of what we cannot yet understand in any other fashion...
...inspired by Termini’s encounters with homeless people in our own Harvard Square. A series of computer-generated drawings accompany lyrics to Termini’s song of the same title, written from the point of view of a fictional homeless woman. Termini uses garish colors and crude lines in her attempt to capture the “filth and horror” of being homeless, but the cartoon-like quality of her drawings make them little more than caricatures...
...Huang was denied entrance to the Beijing Dance Academy's Middle School three times because he was too short. "They wouldn't even let me audition!" Huang laments. "They saw me in line and shooed me away." To make up for nature's oversight, his father constructed a crude iron ring, bolted it to the rafters of their home and hung Huang from it upside down every afternoon. Huang swears it stretched his legs 3 cm and gained him entrance into the Shanghai Dance Academy...