Sentence examples for would be crude from inspiring English sources

"That would be crude; many would rightfully wonder ­whether we politicians still haven't understood.

To speak of his characters as being "well drawn," would be crude; they draw themselves, and mainly in their conversation.

Lord Mandelson, the former Cabinet minister, who is backing Ms Jowell for London Mayor, warned the mansion tax would be "crude","short-termist" and would "clobber" people.

So many people died and lost their entire families, that to pretend otherwise would be crude and insensitive, but it is important that these stories continue to be shared.

The navy's DDX destroyer, for instance, will be a spiffing land-attack vessel; but half a dozen of them would cost some $15 billion and they would be crude weapons in irregular warfare.

Unlike the DLA, PIP is a points-based assessment, awarded on "descriptors" on a range of activities (such as washing and bathing) – a method of testing that campaigners long warned would be crude and inaccurate, just like with the infamous work capability assessment.

Actually, they probably wouldn't be crude.

To set up an opposition between television and the written word would be overly crude.

A sharp spade would be a crude scalpel to amputate the roots.

He promised that 20 wells would be spurting crude "very soon" from the ground on which he stood.

Davies, a former boss of the banking group Standard Chartered, is expected to advise Vince Cable's business department this week that quotas in Britain would be too crude.