But grittier realities of race and economics are keeping people apart.

But something vital has been lost - a framework for seeing the world in all its gritty reality from inside the marble cocoon.

This newsreel-style shooting gave an already gritty reality a sense of present action.

This approach might seem a bit dubious, to someone not acquainted with the gritty realities of prosecutorial work.

The gritty reality was that anyone who had acquired such a deep and lustrous tan would long since have died of skin cancer.

Reconciling the differences between the town's whimsical appearance and its gritty reality is difficult for some residents.

He included rhyme in his haiku along with the gritty reality of urban America.

But especially in prosperous times, such rhetoric can obscure gritty realities.

American Jews are having a difficult time coming to grips with the gritty reality.

That's not exactly credible for a show that pretends to depict gritty reality.