grittiness

I don't mind the taste or grittiness too much, it is way better than the alternative.

His voice was still laced with that human male grittiness.

More common, though, are performances that exhibit a sort of powerful grittiness.

"We want a grittiness that helps create a connection between the audience and the artist."

Branch stood rubbing his hands together in an effort to get rid of the grittiness.

I'll take the melancholy, grittiness and beauty of Shaw any day.

Grittiness, though, is not among them, and the production has few sweat stains.

Post grain, for putting some grittiness back into an image that might otherwise feel too clean.

"This area is interesting because what gives it its character is the grittiness," he said.

Yet the grittiness of his comeback fight after the disaster in Iowa was impressive.

The texture was like shortbread, but with a gentle grittiness.

More like entering the grittiness and wanting to hurl it at someone else.

I always thought that the neighborhood and the building we worked in contributed to the grittiness of Variety's style."

The Jets' performance, despite their grittiness against a team that was 13-3 last season, was far from perfect.

He wanted to clean up the polluted waters flowing through the land, but keep the grittiness.

The song's also stopped from being mawkish by the grittiness of the insults.

The German port had a reassuring grittiness to it.

It has taken me awhile, but I've come to see their grittiness as part of their charm.

Soldiers say that they have been won over by the city, and the kindness and grittiness of its residents.

Learning all this raw, in-your-face grittiness was going to be a jolt, he thought.

I picked the song for its grittiness, and the joy with which it seemed to face impending doom.

"I think our audience likes that grittiness, that guerrilla look."

However, they added in dissonant notes to foreshadow the "grittiness to come".

The trilogy was widely praised for its grittiness, honesty and humor.

It's a nice conceit, if only the earnest grittiness of the gallery didn't keep breaking through.