I've read the book since, and last week spoke at its launch at LSE. Crudely put, the book charts the rise of comedy snobbery, and the degree to which people signal their social status according to which comedians they like.
Since we sampled all of our mutants at three ages we were also able to study, at least crudely, when the mutant worms acquired their distinctive metabolic profiles.
But the numerous ancillary characters are thinly conceived and at times crudely manipulated by Ibsen to achieve his dramatic ends.
The characters are at times crudely drawn and lord knows none of this is subtle but one intriguing subplot is the sexuality of Jamal.
Stored away in the rare-book library at Yale University is a late-medieval manuscript written in a cramped but punctilious script and illustrated with lively line drawings that have been painted over, at times crudely, with washes of color.
At a crudely superficial level, everyone in The Mare behaves true to type; it is in its more subterranean depths that the mystery of attachment begins to show itself.
I sat at a crudely carpentered wooden desk in the shade, watching hummingbirds buzz around the flowers and feeling a little envious of the concentration with which Aura was already working, and of how much nicer the work area she'd set up for herself was than mine.
By Reed Johnson July 9, 2013 Stored away in the rare-book library at Yale University is a late-medieval manuscript written in a cramped but punctilious script and illustrated with lively line drawings that have been painted over, at times crudely, with washes of color.
In recent years, they've even begun to trace, at least crudely, the three-dimensional structure of the cosmic web.
However, the reliability of scaled-down methodologies depends largely on the assumption of low sensitivity of the outcome of the experiment to certain microscopic factors which may be at best crudely modeled by scale-down.
