Sentence examples for work was crude from inspiring English sources

All of the work was crude by modern standards, however, and nothing approaching four-colour process printing was possible.

But the same quality that makes Chinese censorship so obvious — the fact that there's an extensive apparatus whose work is crude — might actually make it less insidious than foreigners imagine.

The mosaic work is crude in style with the andimento (mosaic coursing) set in horizontal bands across areas like the arms and forehead rather than a linear flow (a more elegant style as evident in the better mosaics in the cathedral).

Lawrence Hubbard is a true artist whose work is crude while also being sophisticated.

At first their work is crude and a bit unseasoned, but towards the end of '00 it grows into and selects its own niche of influence and ambitions.

Much of his later work was erratic, crude in tone and increasingly discredited by mainstream psychiatry.

Their own work was still crude and trifling, they had scarcely the skill with which to fashion the leg of a table, and they hoped that a visit to the Master would instruct and inspire them.

It's not that the regulators' intentions are wrong or misguided, but the tools they have to work with are crude.

Glass-Steagall was crude but it worked — it was easy to understand and enforce.

The creation was crude and simple, but it worked.

The technology was crude.