Sentence examples for primitive efforts from inspiring English sources

Mr. McFarland said the past year also brought growth to Web-based radio, but primitive efforts at television have not been particularly successful.

From his first primitive efforts in the early 1960's, mounting magnets on monitors to warp the electronic signal, to more recent multichannel projections of global events, he has tuned into video's processes and possibilities with keen insight, inventiveness and a wild sense of humor.

Twenty years ago, however, it was much easier to evade the system's primitive efforts to teacher-proof instruction.

Sometimes it looks like a primitive effort to reproduce ballet or Merce Cunningham technique; sometimes its society becomes a strange mechanism, with lines of dancers moving like the hands of a magnetic compass in response to the moving, seemingly magnetic, leg of one central dancer.

Feynman also took charge of the project's primitive computing effort, using a hybrid of new calculating machines and human workers to try to process the vast amounts of numerical computation required by the project.

Lowe, who considered the original Softporn Adventure "a primitive, early effort", borrowed its basic structure and added a graphic game engine (Adventure Game Interpreter), improvised humor, and an on-screen protagonist, Larry Laffer.

Can we really trace our appreciation for joyful music to the evolutionary advantage that optimism provided primitive man in his efforts to pick up primitive women?

Hence those adaptations could not have been the result of animals' gliding from treetops in efforts at primitive flight, as some "voodoo paleontology" has suggested.

The resulting game was primitive, despite the best efforts of its programmer, Howard Scott Warshaw, who attended Saturday's excavation to explain to fans exactly why the game was so bad.

Their efforts, while primitive, are limited right now by funding and time.

Share offerings have raised lots of capital; but bankers have only a few years of experience making complex (possibly cross-border) asset-allocation decisions, and domestic securities markets are still primitive, with few investment opportunities.Government efforts to constrain a lending boom have put further pressure on Chinese banks.