How To Use Grainy In A Sentence

Her tragic death, poignantly captured on grainy mobile telephone footage, has flashed around the world. Times, Sunday Times
In the grainy black and white photo I can still make out the sheen of A.'s hair oil and the way he slicked his dark locks back on the sides.
For me, his random interviews with various down-and-out characters in Cleveland, on sidewalks and in living rooms, while charmingly syncopated in the Jarmusch family style, with intermittent jazz music and grainy shaky filming, did not result in a clear "what is this about"--although Tom insisted that for him, it was exactly the Cleveland he wished to express, "meant to be an imperfect portrait. Karin Badt: The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: From Soviet Cannibals to Jarmusch's Cleveland
Phillips likes to write allusive portraits peppered with images he can wrap his warm, grainy voice around, like the slowly-rolling Far End of the Night or the feistier Calamity Jane.
Even the vanilla buttercream piped onto an otherwise agreeable vanilla cupcake had a grainy, crystallized texture on one of my visits, as if the ratio of butter to sugar had gone astray.

The pictures are grainy photocopies of photos included in a confidential French investigation into the Paris car crash.
It is most beautiful, appearing translucent with a light corn silk color and streaks of black in its grainy looking material.
Pity I didn't bring a tripod: I've had to hand-hold the camera and use ISO 1600 so the photos are a little grainy.
Just don't complain if the soup has a weathered, grainy texture. Times, Sunday Times
Why does flour, grainy and powdery, on human flesh, so appall ? I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
The skill of the ultrasonographer can determine the quality of images obtained as well as the interpretation of those grainy images. Medlogs - Recent stories
Its flavour is slightly more earthy than the wheat version, and its texture more grainy.
The picture is quite grainy, and fine textures are very soft.
People appeared as tiny black dots in the grainy, blurred footage, and there seem to be about two dozen in the alley, although it is difficult to determine the exact number.
Why does flour, grainy and powdery, on human flesh, so appall ? I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
But his ingenuous one-world sentiments are apotheosized into truth by the strength of his melodic gifts (which haven't failed him yet) and a voice that's still sweet and grainy when it needs to be.
Like Bigfoot, he is glimpsed only occasionally, on grainy videotape, which feeds his myth.
She fits the words in between small mouthfuls that she chews assiduously, her brown rice cud masticated to sweet grainy liquid before she swallows it down. A LITTLE BIT OF A GOOD THING • by elissa vann struth
The parsnips and potato will purée completely, but the beetroot always remains a little grainy. Times, Sunday Times
The film is shot on grainy stock: some scenes are saturated in white; a few have a cold blue tint; others a homely yellow or brown.
The grainy photograph shows my car in the inside lane preparing to turn left. Times, Sunday Times
He called the eminent feminist author Kate Millett "big tits" and tried to kiss her before the live show was taken off air and replaced with a grainy documentary about coal mining. Great TV gaffes
The lower the fat content in the ice cream, the more necessary it is to have stabilizers and emulsifiers to keep the fat evenly dispersed throughout, and to prevent the grainy texture caused by the formation of ice crystals.
Next time you hear the ominous music, you see the calculatedly irritating grainy video, you are embraced by the seductive, syrupy voice (a voice actor I met called this the "pukey" voice), try to picture the person at that microphone. Davis Sweet: One Voter's Meat is the Same Voter's Poison
With the oven-baked vegetable kibbeh, apple slices provide crisp counterpoint to the grainy bulghur wheat.
Doc has a wide, fat harmonica sound, combined with a warm, grainy voice, and has been a favourite at the Blues Festival.
A small grainy figure appears to the right of the screen and walks towards the car. Times, Sunday Times
Beside them, though, was a crowd of mobile phone-weilding snappers hoping for momentary fame as their grainy pictures were picked up by Sky or the BBC.
The film's grainy, bleak look is joined to suffocating dramatic situations in which the actors emote without restraint.
the photographs were grainy and indistinct
This work is inseparable from the grainy, vivid texture of 16 mm.
As a cast of characters for a suite of grainy, monochrome photographs, these subjects do well enough. The Times Literary Supplement
Delicate skate in a grainy mustard sauce is bolstered by a forceful bed of savoy cabbage and water chestnuts.
As such, many regions developed their own local mustard style—from pungent Burgundian spreads most famously that of Dijon to the sweet grainy stuff made famous in Bavaria. The Commitment-Phobe's Condiment
It may be grainy and out of focus, but I quite like that.
The footage is grainy, dark, and fuzzy, and it bounces around a lot.
Some of the reused footage from the old cartoons appears grainy or scratched, but one commentary track reveals that they were actually digitally treated to look older.
On the face of it, the ad for Belvita breakfast biscuits seems pretty elementary, with two vaguely faded celebs – Lisa Snowdon and Johnny Vaughan, palpably wondering where those halcyon Big Breakfast days went – bantering about the product, in this case an oaty, grainy biscuitty thing. The Hard Sell: Belvita Breakfast Biscuits
I do have a grainy memory of things like getting my finger jammed in a door, dropping a plate and cutting my foot etc.
Spring, who did not realise the hitman was a wired undercover police officer, can be heard on the grainy recording making a chilling request for the girl to be ‘terminated’.
I simply wanted to say that in Italy, Ricotta is made from whey left over from making other cheese, usually moz, and the 'real' ricotta IS grainy. Fresh Ricotta and Spinach Gnocchi
They suddenly appeared in antique shops in England in the 1970s; of a grainy, sugary texture, they probably come from Murano.
The grainy, indistinct images show a familiar scene: an airport security x-ray checkpoint, much like any that you'd find at airports all around the world.
That was back in 1965 when earth's first unmanned mission to Mars snapped 22 grainy photos of the red planet.
This recipe makes play dough that is not grainy like uncooked play dough and keeps for a long time.
You can make fresh pasta with semolina, a grainy product made from a hard wheat called durum, but the result will be a somewhat coarser dough. Chicagotribune.com - News
A small grainy figure appears to the right of the screen and walks towards the car. Times, Sunday Times
Using a pestle and mortar keeps the texture grainy and avoids making a slimy emulsion.
The prints are a bit grainy and even retain cigarette burns from their 16 mm origins.
The quality varies as much as the content, ranging from grainy clips filmed with mobile phones to highly skilled animation. Times, Sunday Times
Grainy rocks in the upper third contain an abundance of disarticulated crinoid debris.
Shakespeare's "Pericles" exists only in a lousy quarto, which is so badly transcribed scholars assume it was done by someone jotting down the script from memory after having seen the show (the early modern equivalent of the grainy pirated videos you can buy on the subway). Longing for Great Lost Works
The photo is a grainy collage of blacks and whites, with dots and lines scratched across the murky background.
I've experimented with baking cakes with these flours, and the result is remarkably grainy and indigestible.
His grainy voice and big open-tuned acoustic guitar are augmented with a smattering of other instruments; a cello here, a flute or steel guitar there.
‘I wanted the images to be grainy and kind of gritty.
I watched Dave’s shadow rock back on his funboard, spin, nose in the grainy air, lunge forward, and hook onto a wall of water that stretched across the cove and looked like it was smoothed with a mason’s trowel. Kook
Carole delved into her shoulder-bag and produced a large envelope from which she took a pile of grainy prints. Final Resting Place of The Pen
At the core of the band's sound is an intriguing fixation on texture, whether in grainy layers of instrumentation or even grainier layers of vocal harmonies governed by distinctive singers Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone . Music With an Exclamation Point
The grainy video showed a man, dressed in black, with a receding hairline and dark shoulder-length hair pulled into a ponytail. Police Make Arrest in Los Angeles Fires
To my ears, it simply sounds like grainy, muddy ambient music and experiments in granular synthesis.
Grainy items, such as ground beef or rice, may irritate the pharynx and cause choking.
Most of the pictures are grainy black-and-white enlargements of ancient snapshots.
Cartilage under the patella or kneecap wears away and the surface becomes rough and grainy.
‘Mysore Silk’ sarees have a distinctive drape, grainy effect and are washable to a very high degree.
Hugh Heffner is just the thousand-year-old geek letcher who accidentally became a multi-millionaireby way of $5000 that he "borrowed" from his wife's savings just before he divorced her while publishing old grainy pictures of sluts like Betty Paige and other burlesque strippers. Celebrity Blog, Celebrity Pictures and Gossip Blogs
Not that the film presents raw, grainy “truth-inducing” footage: the camerawork is glossy enough to portray a polished verite style. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Not only did they pull off an immensely difficult logistical task, they also managed to attract and please three very different target audiences: mainstream folks who wouldn't know a hobbit from a bantha, hardcore Tolkien fans that were prepared to comb through every frame of film in search of the tiniest deviation from their Holy Texts, and critics who generally frown on anything that doesn't involve grainy photography, trailer park settings, or subtitles. Simple Tricks and Nonsense: Oscar thoughts
My lamb may not have been the most tender I've ever tasted, but it fell well within the bounds of acceptability, and the lentil sauce was a grainy delight, especially when combined with the dark, thick garlic jus.
Debuffier peered out from a grainy photo on a tabloid front page by the register, beside another shot of his oversize body bag. THE KILL CLAUSE
Another video weakness to guard against is the coarse and grainy look of plain surfaces in bright primary colours, especially reds.
The grainy texture of cornmeal makes it a perfect facial scrub.
Now all he could do was watch the grainy images beamed back to us. Times, Sunday Times
Huge plasma screens were used to show the assembled media grainy footage of missiles hitting their targets.
A small grainy figure appears to the right of the screen and walks towards the car. Times, Sunday Times
The stock and forearm are made of a grainy, black-plastic material with excellent non-slip characteristics.
It also includes a grainy, retouched photograph of the man holding the death mask in his hands.
We have a Toronto court to thank for the massive and completely misleading exposure that the grainy security film that caused me to appear furtive has caused. Times, Sunday Times
The footage was fragmentary and shot in grainy black and white.
As a cast of characters for a suite of grainy, monochrome photographs, these subjects do well enough. The Times Literary Supplement
Some of the textures are grainy, and not all that attractive to look at in places.
The film is grainy, the lighting is bad and the actors are nonentities; it could almost be a South American snuff film.
Mitchell's voice has been transformed by age and cigarettes from the flutey, jittery soprano of her youth, to a weary, grainy alto.
Dark, grainy, jerky, and sloppy, with dated psychedelic camera effects, it struggles for coherency, except in its explicit statements about anti-establishment themes.
Translucent vase resting in a corner; soft, blazoning rose floating inside — thin blue light wavered everything in the living room — a grainy leaf turned in the murk, the rose rolled in its oval abyss. Carolina Grüber: I
The silk of the duck liver plays against the grainy elements of the fig, the fig brings out the fruitier qualities in the liver, the liver points to the gaminess of the fig, and you smear your torchon on your brioche toasts with oohs and ahs.
The dark tones have all the opposite properties, being coarse, grainy, cold and contrasty.
My Toulouse sausages were wonderfully warm and spicy, with a marvellous grainy texture.
After one trip, he returned with a grainy home video that he’d shot out of the window of a deepwater submersible—the first footage ever shot of a bizarre chemotropic cuttlefish that nobody even knew existed. Deception Point
Salmon and spinach quiche with a grainy crust, couscous in tomato sauce with onions and raisins, rucola and cherry tomatoes. Bento #245 – fish quiche « Were rabbits
Whereas the first picture was dark and grainy, this one was bright and splashy - just how the MTV generation has been force-fed before.
The saturated colours and grainy quality of the film evoke sticky, gritty skin and sweat; shot almost entirely on location, you can almost smell it.
This company has a very shoddy construction reputation that the oil companies are planning on pumping the equivalent of very grainy peanut butter through, passing through the largest aquafer in the U.S. One bad accident and no crops would be irrigated, no water would be drank. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
Strike from omnipotence; all-seer, all-deemer and haunt my severed country with your dripping, secret games You pick the unripe lilies deflored and peeled the bleeding petals made known to me the grainy stains, the crimson lotus of the WN.com - Articles related to Actor Danny Glover Shares his Candid Mother's Day Memories with Fathers' Rights Attorney Jeffery Leving on 106.3FM
The cheeses were most often sour-milk cheeses: pultost is a ripened, unpressed curd cheese with a strong taste; gammelost is a semi-hard cheese with a grainy texture, dark brown in colour.
I now treasure the grainy picture. The Sun
Much of the film is intentionally shot on video tape, so some scenes look grainy and soft.
For many people, the names Derry and Northern Ireland immediately conjure up grainy television images of soldiers on the streets, petrol bomb-lobbing youths, armoured vehicles and palls of smoke.
Stir the mixture until the butter melts and the mixture is a golden caramel-brown colour but still somewhat grainy in texture.
The series has been digitally remastered, which means that most scenes come through as good as new, although much of the stock war footage is faded and grainy.
A small grainy figure appears to the right of the screen and walks towards the car. Times, Sunday Times
If you are going to be an infrequent user of your printer, try not to use refillables because they tend to dry around the heads and can cause grainy printing to thorough blockage of your printer head.
A generation has been up merely on stories of Best and grainy pictures. The Sun
Thirty-five years ago today, millions of people watched grainy, black and white TV pictures of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon.
Walls are covered with grainy blow-ups of sleek-jawed Latin athletes.
The series has been digitally remastered, which means that most scenes come through as good as new, although much of the stock war footage is faded and grainy.
The picture quality ranges from sharp and clear interview footage shot recently to soft and grainy footage from the band's heyday.
The campaign in support of the proposition has blanketed the state with advertisements against "puppy mills," the label critics prefer, featuring grainy video images of law enforcement raids on breeding facilities where frail and listless dogs live cramped in wire cages piled with excrement. NYT > Home Page
A grainy or gritty texture isn't considered a plus in the chocolate world.
On top of an overall soft and grainy print, there's some artifacting, moiré shimmering, and haloing.
After one trip, he returned with a grainy home video that he'd shot out of the window of a deepwater submersible – the first footage ever shot of a bizarre chemotropic cuttlefish that nobody even knew existed. Deception Point
Who knew that while I was eating instant noodles and iceberg salads, other humans regularly dined on grainy pilafs, grilled vegetables and herb-crusted fish?
I lived on the edge again, but this one slipped into the ocean gradually, the land going through a metamorphosis of sorts — hot and grainy to crunchy and egg shelly, to soft, to mushed-up with life and happy to be hidden. A Country of Husbands
He held his hands to his face and began to grovel towards nothing, his elbows resting on the grainy ground, tears clotting the soft brine.
I started with a crackling salad: cold pigskin with slices of grainy dry apple and some suppository radishes.
Coarse-grained mustard has a grainy texture and a medium-hot fruity taste.
The grainy scrub uses ground seaweed to scuff off dead skin and promote blood flow. The Sun
If my original photo is too grainy due to poor lighting, I reduce the noise aka smoothen my skin. DITZ-REVOLUTION.NET by Helga Weber | Filipina blogger and web designer
Shot in saturated instant film and grainy 35 mm film, Color'd is set among the high alpine lakes of northern Utah's Uinta Mountains and depicts a journey of stepping outside the increasingly narrow confines of modern America to literally paint anew one's identity. Bill Bush: Paradise Found: This Artweek.LA (October 31 - November 6, 2011)
Don't overdo it or the whites will go grainy. Times, Sunday Times
A couple of very ripe pears added an intriguing grainy sweetness to this soup. Times, Sunday Times
A grainy or gritty texture isn't considered a plus in the chocolate world.
Even the black-and-white pictures, which ought to be very comfortable at 256 shades of grey, are grainy and often pixelated in ways that are clearly not the result of the fuzziness of the originals.
Their beautiful past is shot on grainy film; the ugly present in brutal video close-up. Times, Sunday Times
The grainy scrub uses ground seaweed to scuff off dead skin and promote blood flow. The Sun
It's still a bit dry, and the cornflour has given what sauce there is a slightly grainy texture, but the texture of the meat is a revelation: slow-cooking mince transforms it into something quite, quite wonderful. How to cook perfect chilli con carne
The constant music and the grainy film stock do little but make Summer of Sam a noisy and grainy film that blew its chance to be even mildly interesting.
A title flashed _Slave Girls From Hell_ -- then a big, high-ceilinged room with Egyptian hieroglyphics on the walls came into view in grainy black and white. White Jazz
The grainy scrub uses ground seaweed to scuff off dead skin and promote blood flow. The Sun
The occasional crowd shots are understandably underlit and quite grainy.
Grainy sun: the images show the so-called granulation in four different wavelengths in near ultraviolet light. Up, Up and Away! Helium Balloon Telescope Explores the Sun | Universe Today
Establishing shots and stock footage of the ships at Le Havre are uniformly muddy, grainy, and prone to flicker.
Scratches and flecks of dirt are common throughout the film, and there are several scenes that are overly grainy and look like they were underlit during filming.
In the grainy surveillance camera footage, the dumpy, mustachioed fellow looks like just one more office peon saddled with a balky computer - until he takes his revenge.
His vocals have a grainy AM-radio quality, but this production effect is used profusely.
The chocolate sauce on the profiteroles and the ice cream "coupes" was grainy and very sweet, but blueberry crepes were an unusual treat. NYT > Home Page
The video quality is lacking: the picture is grainy, the colors bleed throughout, and I saw more than a few specks of dirt.
Other than the sixties-era retro-grainy design of the eggshell surface, the melamine could be brand new.
Taken by some backstreet photographer in Manila, the grainy image had been posted home by Billy, along with a letter. AMAGANSETT
I stare at the screen while they show a grainy old black-and-white photo of me, younger, with longer hair.
I did not recognise the man from the grainy image. Times, Sunday Times
A grainy video, purportedly taken of him in high school, showed him dancing naked in the bathroom and making copulatory hip movements. Here Comes Another Lesson
Through the grainy picture she could make out a naked Dent on a bed. The Sun
Liam's voice, even though it is distinctive, it's different for the lone fact that no one else could sound as whiney, grainy and completely despondent with everything.
The grainy images of troops waiting in line at Dunkirk beach for the small ships are now part of national memory. Times, Sunday Times
The grainy footage, broadcast on television, showed other passengers on the platform and on the train looking stunned.
Aside from this, the video and audio transfer is fairly grainy and overall pretty horrible.
The grainy film shows about 15 objects moving at high speed just beneath the surface of the lake. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, the more intense citrus and grainy mustard dressing overpowered the delicate ginger it was prepared with.
Its defrosting is subtle, gradual: but Eisenstein rather than Antonioni: grainy, gritty even.
The film is grainy and rich, you can almost feel the old dusty wood, the waterfalls, the rocky buttes and scrubby plains leap out of the screen.
Sucrose molecules can nest together to form sugar crystals, but large crystals are undesirable because they feel grainy in the mouth.
Translucent vase resting in a corner; soft, blazoning rose floating inside — thin blue light wavers everything in the living room — a grainy leaf turns in the murk. We Stabbed and a Mighty Scarf Shot Red
Only a few grainy photographs of Zee. Times, Sunday Times
Just then the volume leaped to a roar, and the camera panned sharply upward; Henderson spotted the ball arcing high above the stadium, a brilliant streak against the grainy sky.
A small grainy figure appears to the right of the screen and walks towards the car. Times, Sunday Times
The texture is more grainy, though it becomes runny next to the rind. Food Watch
As we go to air, grainy police dashcam video emerges of the stalker as he makes his way across the country to kidnap Johnson, rambling about marrying her and starting a family. CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2009
Ease the switch to whole grains by opting for whole-wheat bread before graduating to grainy, multigrain slices.
The monochrome photography adds a harsh note, reflecting the grainy greys of this fearful life.
That includes both scrubbing at your face with grainy products and using skincare that contains acids. Times, Sunday Times
The picture is grainy but that actually enhances the slightly menacing atmosphere.
An excellent sample of the roots of country music, though the recordings are a little grainy.
She has exteriorised her affliction by simulating it in her self-portraits through blurred grainy patches, thus ridding the body of physiological disease and social malaise.
Stylistically, it really set the tone for all the grainy filmed reconstructions of events we see in documentaries all the time nowadays.
She has captured grainy striated images of herself wearing rabbit gear by shooting a video, running it through her television and then snapping some self-portraits off the TV screen.
The film is in black and white, and it's rather grainy, but intentionally so, though possibly from a felicitous combination of low budget and artistic intent.
This honey is produced in the spring only, it is white and opaque, which clearly differentiates it from the others, and it has the best texture ever, creamy and slightly grainy.
The sauce will be lumpy with collapsed vegetables and grainy milk solids - but absolutely delicious. Times, Sunday Times
There, images from two cameras fighting over the same frequency are grainy and dark.
Even the vanilla buttercream piped onto an otherwise agreeable vanilla cupcake had a grainy, crystallized texture on one of my visits, as if the ratio of butter to sugar had gone astray.
Up to this point, only grainy film-based kinescope footage was available. Apollo 11 Remastered Tapes - NASA Watch
On closer inspection, obvious discolored wounds can often be seen at the base of the plant and stems, and at the wounds, masses of a yellow-green grainy substance known as frass - the hygienic German word for caterpillar excrement.
Leno reclaims his late-night seat television at the helm of The Tonight Show began with a spoof of The Wizard of Oz. In grainy black-and-white, Jay and cast mates such as bandleader WN.com - Articles related to CBEC ropes in Akshay Kumar for TV commercial
The back cover, with what looks at first sight like a grainy shot of her as a poet-movie star is backgrounded by text.
The difference between the two is that corn flour is less grainy and looks more like flour.
These images have a grainy and rough appearance that pulls them even further away from the canons of early modernist photography as defined by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
Some photographers (notably Corbijn, whose grainy, monochrome trademarks dominate most of his work) impose themselves on the artists.
Others - notably anything frosted with the unpleasantly grainy chocolate buttercream frosting - can cloy.
The warehouse has a flat tar roof which is made up of a grainy limestone grit which is covered by a cohesive material.
A small grainy figure appears to the right of the screen and walks towards the car. Times, Sunday Times
His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as "Stardust" and "The Christmas Song" that it 's hard to imagine anyone else performing them. Unforgettable in More Than One Way
The grainy scrub uses ground seaweed to scuff off dead skin and promote blood flow. The Sun
An object with a smooth shiny surface reflects more light than an object with a rough grainy surface.
This softness seems in part to be intentional in order to replicate the grainy news and other stock footage which is occasionally spliced in.
Shot in grainy black and white imagery, with sudden zooms and an expertly wielded cinéma vérité camera style, it creates a rare immediacy.
All the police have to go on is a grainy, indistinct video clip.
The Lithuanian auteur has long been known, if not exactly loved, for a kind of rarified ultra-minimalism - long takes in grainy B IndieWIRE News
His shrunken face stared out of the grainy picture, a tube protruding from his nose, his head without hair. Times, Sunday Times
But I kind of like the grainy, gritty look of the image.
It's incredible stuff, still grainy and only just emulsified. Times, Sunday Times
It should be a slightly grainy texture. Times, Sunday Times
The texture is more grainy, though it becomes runny next to the rind. Food Watch
Unlike the escapist movies that Rosenberg had seen at his father's cinemas, the grainy black-and-white images had the blunt force of unscripted narrative.
The image is grainy and overbright, and certain things show up a little too much.
If at any point the sauce starts to go grainy and curdle, then add a tiny splash of boiling water from the kettle.
The grainy photograph shows my car in the inside lane preparing to turn left. Times, Sunday Times
The picture is often dark and grainy, shadow detail is quite murky and poor, and the colors seem slightly faded most of the time.
I stare at the screen while they show a grainy old black-and-white photo of me, younger, with longer hair.
Burkhard prints his own work and the end result is somewhat grainy with a distinct sense of texture.

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