There was a small stained-glass window set high in the wall at the side of the sanctuary, a crude rendering of John the Baptist in his bearskin.

Next to that was a larger tattoo, a crude rendering that Kennit recognized as the Vivacia's figurehead.

A-Genay'asu'e, we call them-"Houses of Traveling Beyond" would be a crude rendering in your tongue.

Like this, the meme and the viral (the marketing buzzwords of the network age) have been conjured up from an assortment of crude renderings of evolutionary theory, powerful computer-assisted contagion modeling, and business trends.

It was a crude rendering of a pedestrian walkway connecting the Acropolis to the three men's casinos.

The crude rendering of one male character was pretty hard to miss.

A definite slacker precedent is a large painting of a vase of flowers whose crude rendering gives it an outsiderish edge that is in turn underscored by a permanent wrapping of plastic.

Mr. Mosher's crude rendering of Mr. Fairbank's agnostic and ironic appreciation of Chinese complexities tells us more about the author's antipathies than about either Chinese realities or American illusions.

To the sighted, the thermoforms look like somewhat crude renderings of the originals.

On it, head high and higher, are the carvings, simple, even crude, but oddly graceful renderings of the fauna of the surrounding grasslands - bighorned sheep, antelope, lizards, coyotes and a sandhill crane.