Since the scientist wants physical perfection, he will accept only teenage corpses — a rather crude bit of audience flattery.
Compared with his later Anatomy of the Horse, they are a crude bit of engraving, and Stubbs refused to put his name to them.
Apart from a crude bit of political signalling to your fractured base, perhaps it's just a simple political diversion: a two-card trick.
We cats are not immune to the allure of page views ourselves, as you know if you've ever seen Tumblr, so we forgive you this crude bit of packaging.
Added to the draft a few weeks ago, the provision is widely seen a crude bit of racial politicking in a country where land reform has been a painful and persistent issue since independence.
Later, during one ensemble, Ernesto hops atop the sprawled Flaminia and leeringly pokes his head under her skirts, a crude bit out of keeping with the sweet tone of Haydn's score (sensibly trimmed here to 100 minutes without intermission).
It was a crude bit of work, showing King Bhumibol Adulyadej with feet over his face and mouth, an image certain to offend Thai Buddhists.Given that last year's coup in Bangkok was presented as an action carried out in the name of the king, Thailand's rulers have a big stake in the sovereign's prestige.
Sceptics among them greeted the images with derision: "A really crude, cheap bit of propaganda.
They also used a crude eight-bit character set to display the text.Thanks to liquid-crystal displays with far higher resolution, large colour gamuts and clean, bit-mapped fonts, most people these days can read as fast on a computer screen as from paper.
It seems ridiculous in hindsight (and, let's be honest, it kind of did at the time, too), but the exceedingly simplistic title had a momentary stranglehold on the mobile gaming world with its combination of crude 8-bit graphics and dead simple game play, as players tapped the screen frantically to avoid crashing into pipes.
