Locke is generally taken more seriously in America, where a crude Lockean view of the contract between the individual (sovereign) and government (limited) remains widely held.
He helped to create a literature of ordinary life, making art out of material long considered too trivial or too crude to be taken seriously by the custodians of so-called serious culture.
"Some sort of crude block towards onshore wind would seriously damage investor confidence in Britain's energy markets.
That is, in such environments, a DMU's whole performance may be seriously distorted if its future performance, which is sensitive to crude oil price volatility and/or currency fluctuations, is ignored in the evaluation process.
Once again Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, playing seriously unlikely detectives, bumble and slog through muddled setups, graceless action, crude jokes and even cruder stereotypes, sacrificing themselves on the altar of the director Brett Ratner's vulgar success.
DENVER — This summer, an Exxon Mobil pipeline carrying oil across Montana burst suddenly, soiling the swollen Yellowstone River with an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude just weeks after a company inspection and federal review had found nothing seriously wrong.
The limited reserves of crude oil and sudden/large changes of oil price caused by unpredictable oil crises seriously impact on the economic development of the society.
"Marching Toward Hell" is an enormously crude, reductionist account of the challenges posed by the jihadists, and as such, difficult to take seriously.
However, the crude, ironic attitude of the author towards his themes prevents the reader from taking these horrible folk tales seriously.
