In any event, Mr. Dodd said, there was clearly a need for Mrs. Clinton to "round off the edges" of her somewhat abrasive public image.

According to his granddaughter's biographer Georgina Howell, he was "a formidable giant of a man" and somewhat abrasive.

She was twenty-nine, short, buxom, smart, tough, somewhat abrasive in ways that I could never quite define.

After an early period when some found his personality somewhat abrasive, Mr. LeMasters came to be regarded as a hard-working, decent man with solid programming instincts.

"A man of somewhat abrasive manner or anyway not ingratiating," Kreg is an intractable loner "with something of a tendency to melancholy" and most definitely a tendency to embrace guilt as a motivating force.

Mr. Wolfe, I think it is fair to say that Roy Meade was somewhat abrasive at times in his pursuit of the Lord's work, but after all, so was St. Paul.

Stiles asked, somewhat abrasive.

The Phaeton 's drive engineer and second in command, Dr. Jimmy Johnson, unwillingly assumes command, foreseeing conflict with the crew as he is a somewhat abrasive loner.

Angela tends to be somewhat abrasive towards other office workers, often outright insulting them.

Like his previous album, the politically topical and somewhat abrasive Some Time in New York City, Mind Games was poorly received by music critics.