To its supporters, soft power is a slower, surer, more civilised way of exercising influence than crude force.
Its crude force had been developed in the context of Fauvism, but the vision was one of refined introspection.
That which constitutes the culture, the intellectual strength of the nation, has been devalued, and that which for now remains a crude force, replaceable by a machine, has been moved to the forefront.
In his own performance of Bheeshma, Khan has utterly denatured the silken fluidity of his usual dancing style; instead, he moves with the stiffened gait and crude force of a rigid, battle-proud man who has made himself immune to the influence of women Chien's Amba, by contrast, is an elusive, protean figure.
In a final step, embedded coordinates are cleaned up using a crude force field and the bound matrix [23].
It's about those curious few who have their lights stomped out by the crude forces of everyday life, and about what love takes when it leaves.
America's disciplined use of force is unheard of, in the region, when compared to images of plain cloth Iranian security agents firing shots at demonstrators, a few months ago, or Iran's Lebanese proxy militia, Hezbollah, burning down a TV and a newspaper that belonged to a rival party in 2008, in a show of crude force.
Aside from being based on molecular dynamics simulations that are themselves subject to crude force-field approximations and inadequate conformational sampling, the scheme relies on computer-docking scoring functions that of necessity are optimized for speed at the expense of accuracy.
Surging demand from growing Asian economies, they argue, will outpace even the ingenuity of oil producers, forcing crude prices inexorably higher.
