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Description: We engineered a virus to pick up carbon nanotubes. One part of the virus grabs a carbon nanotube, the other part of the virus has a sequence that can grow an electrode material for a battery, and then it wires itself to the current collector. And so through a process of selection evolution, we went from being able to have a virus that made a crummy battery

Mel Gibson

I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn't look hard, it's difficult to create 'effortless' on screen.

Actor

Rex Tillerson

In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it's crummy water. It's real salty. It's got heavy metals in it. It's got bad stuff in it.

American Businessman

Virginia Postrel

Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.

American Writer

Moby

If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.

American Musician

Jennifer Egan

I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

American Novelist

Jaron Lanier

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

American Artist

Tom Scholz

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.

Abby Johnson

I try not to go down the 'what if' road very often. It isn't fruitful and just makes you feel crummy.

American Activist

Peter Steele

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

Paul Theroux

Use 'crummy' to express dissatisfaction with the quality of objects or situations.

Quality Judgement

'Crummy' is casual and best suited for informal conversations, not formal writing.

Informal Tone

Adding 'crummy' may convey your emotional disappointment, not just objective observation.

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Describing a place as 'crummy' implies a negative, uncomfortable atmosphere.

Negative Atmosphere

'Crummy' can imply a general sense of disapproval or dislike for a place or situation.

General Disapproval

Use 'crummy' to express feeling unwell or in low spirits, often due to minor issues.

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 We engineered a virus to pick up carbon nanotubes. One part of the virus grabs a carbon nanotube, the other part of the virus has a sequence that can grow an electrode material for a battery, and then it wires itself to the current collector. And so through a process of selection evolution, we went from being able to have a virus that made a crummy battery

Angela Belcher: Using...

 And I know this footage isn't going to look like anything to you -- we had a crummy camera at the time -- but I was ecstatic. We're at the edge of the Brine Pool, there's a fish that's swimming towards the camera. It's clearly undisturbed by us. And I had my window into the deep sea.

Edith Widder: Glowing...

 and the fullest possible reality, various special realities. Nothingness is special. It's the simplest. Then there's the most elegant possible reality. That's special. The fullest possible reality, that's special. But what are we leaving out here? There's also just the crummy,

Why does the universe...

 So if you're having a crummy morning, imagine it happening to a character you're writing about, and by afternoon, you may at least get a funny story out of it. Once you've got your characters and story, here are a few quick and easy comedy writing tricks to make them zing.

How to make your writing...

 So we looked at that observation of basically failure and thought, what can we do about it. And I thought, I'm buggered if I'm going to spend the rest of my life lobbying for these crummy governments to do what needs to be done. So what we're going to do

Carne Ross: An...

 we like symmetrical faces, etc., etc. So that's the visceral level. In design, you can express visceral in lots of ways, like the choice of type fonts and the red for hot, exciting. Or the 1963 It's actually a crummy car, falls apart all the time,

The three ways that good...

 just flabbergasted she said I usually see all the pretty stuff I don't get the seed that the kind of crummy stuff so she was thrilled to see something that was more quotidian but again look at the connection masks beads silks that

Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...

 I actually drew that up on a little crummy Mac computer in my attic at my house, and one of the many designs which they have now is still the same design I drew way back when. So, I've been really lucky as an inventor.

Woody Norris: Hypersonic...

 than something that looks cheap and crummy. So again, if we want people to trust a device, it has to look trustworthy. So thinking about outcomes, it turns out appearances matter. We took all that information together.

Timothy Prestero: Design...

 the woods in the middle of nowhere you would think would be a quiet peaceful little place however when the weather's crummy it can be a very loud mysterious nerve-wracking area not only mysterious

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