Formidable though it was, the speedseed remained but a crude imitation of the true birds which had once filled the skies of Earth.

Lou said out loud, doing a mockingly crude imitation of Laurie's much higher voice.

Because she's invented herself as a crude imitation of someone else, there is a sense that she doesn't exist.

On Tuesday the problem is too much science - a "scientism" based on crude imitation of the real thing.

What I was building would never look like more than a crude imitation of an airplane.

It's an easy-to-use but, in its debut version, almost embarrassingly crude imitation of the music services that preceded it.

"You can offer no imitation, however crude, nor any other means by which our soldiers might hope to compete on equal terms?"

Nevertheless, our crude imitation would more than satisfy my purpose.

Prior to the 14th century, navigation by European sailors was a crude imitation of what was to come.

A crude imitation, the comparison said.