Sentence examples for a less crude from inspiring English sources

A less crude diet manager.

When Dr Zoll returned to civilian life in Boston he sought to find a less crude way to get at and stimulate the heart that did not involve breaking into the chest.

Therefore, we decided to choose a less crude approach for counting untreated cells and to stain the nucleus with another fluorophore, as this technique had already proved valuable for the detection of inhibitor-treated cells.

For these reasons, Minkowski distance is a promising solution: it provides a general model of travel throughout an empirical network; it possesses a large range of parameters, which enhance its flexibility; it can be easily calculated; and it can provide a less crude approximation of travel along a road network.

Fodor responds to this problem with what he defines as a "a slightly less crude causal theory".

The fact that the wheels have come off the government's fuel tax policies so disastrously this week emphasises the need for a fairer, less crude method of taxing motorists.

Over the past few years, the techniques have become a little less crude.

Miss Storey, with a small part, made the most of it, as usual, and gave a convincing presentation of a woman in utter despair, but she deserved a better and less crude setting than she received — and so did her subject".

(Taylor is similarly top-minded in the 1958 film version of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," where Paul Newman's Brick is the reluctant gay to Taylor's sex-is-sex, no-holds-barred propagator. Maggie is less interested in Brick's seed or his late love, Skipper's, seed than her own. Taylor plays Maggie like a finer legged, cleavaged, but no less crude Big Daddy).

As it is impossible to control for every medication intake/application, patients need to be monitored by more or less crude subjective measurements as a generally accepted "gold standard" does not exist for measuring adherence and persistence.

Although the terms "endotoxin" and "lipopolysaccharide" (LPS) are often used interchangeably, endotoxin specifically refers to a less pure, crude form of LPS.