How To Use Gritty In A Sentence

The film has a very gritty, realistic feel, again lifting it above being a merely stereotypical genre exercise.
Feeling incredibly dirty and gritty, from all the dirt that she was covered under from her ride, Ari ran a bath for herself and scrubbed herself clean.
Use them to help scrub down grubby bathroom tiles and really get to the gritty bits. The Sun
The acting was top drawer with realistic yet gritty story lines. Times, Sunday Times
Also look out for Ireland's finest west coast harmonisers, The Thrills and gritty US punk duo, The Kills on the evening session stage.

However, the reliance on overlong interviews, dealing with the nitty-gritty of economic practices, really slows things down.
The book argued that to win a war civilian leaders sometimes had to get really involved in the nitty-gritty details of how to conduct it. The Longest War
Even the change in location from a gritty industrial city (Manchester, England) to a glossy, sunlit place like L.A. was a misstep that undermined the necessarily bleak tone.
Thanks to gritty, believable and packed graphics, the game is totally immersive. Times, Sunday Times
Kenji Kamiyama succeeds in all the ways that Oshii fails: characterization, dialogue, depicting the nitty-gritty lived experience of the future. MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!)
The network earned its ratings by pushing boundaries – Miami Vice stylised the police drama, while Hill Street Blues gave it gritty realism. How the internet has all but destroyed the market for films, music and newspapers
To claim that the All-Ireland champions performed badly on the day would do an injustice to the visitors' gritty performance.
However, few investors would claim to understand the nitty-gritty of its business.
At least one of our readers would prefer that The Sports Reporter and I dispense with the pre-review chit-chat and get down to the nitty-gritty when we write about our tandem dining-out experiences.
While not the gritty young pugilists often associated with old-school boxing gyms such as Gleason's, the men exemplify the type of boxer who has become a mainstay of New York's traditional fight halls.
The anti-drugs adverts used hand-held camera techniques to add to the gritty realism of the situations.
It ripples and furrows, drips in long trails, gathers in gritty, crusty patches.
With the exception of one scene involving a killing, the film offers neither gritty realism nor lush romanticism. Times, Sunday Times
Fill with stones until three-quarters full then top up with gravel and a layer of very gritty compost on top, about 3in deep.
March 30th, 2009 BANGALORE - He may not know the nitty-gritty of recession, but Sriram Prasad, owner of a 'dhaba' in India's Silicon Valley, knows that these are hard times. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
But his childish repetition of gritty details makes A Million Little Pieces not only tedious, but downright farcical in spots.
With the exception of one scene involving a killing, the film offers neither gritty realism nor lush romanticism. Times, Sunday Times
The meatloaf was hard, and the mashed potatoes were gritty.
Both bands have the ability to write heart melting ballads and also manage to write gritty anthems packed full of aggression.
Its typical ocular manifestations are recognised by a variety of clinical features including pain, gritty eyes, photophobia, chemosis, diplopia, and exophthalmos.
i think the only way to get people back interested in superman is to do either a live action movie based on "The Death of Superman" (or Doomsday whatever they call it) or the do a live action version of "Worlds Finest" with Christian Bale as Batman with the same gritty feel as Batman Begins and The Dark knight. Warner Brothers and DC Comics Getting Their Shit Together « FirstShowing.net
The film even showed Porter in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion, as gritty and gung-ho as a poilu.
It's also one of its most appealingly credible aspects, as is the gritty atmosphere: the subway scenes with their up-close-and-personal contacts with strangers, the cramped tenement that's home to one of the girls. The Rich, the Bad, the Vengeful
If and when it comes to pass, then Carlow could become a very serious contender, given the gritty way they have played against several teams with full-timers on board.
Some people I spoke to gardened under very difficult circumstances, but gritty determination was winning the way towards a beautiful back yard.
With this film, Loach digresses from his usual gritty themes of social realism to pose questions of culture, race and religion.
There's no evidence at this point that the Bush administration is prepared to get into the kind of nitty-gritty give - and-take wheeling-and-dealing negotiating that the North Koreans have repeatedly signaled they would be interested in if they were to put their missile nuclear programs on the table. CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2006
It was a very strong and gritty performance in the second half. The Sun
The gritty, industrialized city that grew up around the mines spilled down the Hill onto the flats below, denuding the immediate surroundings through its processes of extraction and production.
He said: 'I only know of one person who tried plankton and he found it rather fishy and gritty. The Sun
The actors are uglier, and they swear more, but I still maintain that the Milch-speak of NYPD was more creative, and the 11-year redemption of Andy Sipowicz is a glorious affirmation of hope and positivity which is actually more “realistic” than the acceptance of despair in The Wire, The Shield, and other “gritty, realistic” TV dramas. Mentalist « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
He's gritty, he's precise and, perhaps most importantly, he's not doing this for the love of it.
They were ballsy, gritty, and more simply, a great rock ‘n’ roll band.
In actuality, those original pistols - while beautifully machined and blued - were basically military pistols, with gritty trigger pulls and average accuracy.
Symptoms of pink eye can include redness, blurred vision, sensitivity to light, itching of the eye, a gritty feeling in the eye, pain and increased tear production.
Still, a lively, big-hearted tale, drenched in gritty working-class ambience. Traveler by Ron McLarty: Book summary
Grant's gritty man-of-the-match performance against Crewe on Saturday was the perfect answer to criticism from manager Stan Ternent and the knockers in the Turf Moor stands.
Grasses have a gritty compound called silica, which is contained in sand and is used to make glass. Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
The watering can was gritty metal with an ugly snub spout.
There is an example of how we might investigate this ‘nitty-gritty’. See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Brad is unattainably sexy, George is brainy-suave, Matt is boy-next-door sexy, and Hugh's sex appeal is the fact that he is gritty, has a great accent, and is physical," Sporkin said.
Her courage, gritty determination and undoubted commitment to charity work is held in high regard throughout the world.
But, said several sources, as a former AOL lawyer and dealmaker, Clarizio (pictured here) is not regarded by top execs the kind of nitty-gritty sales exec that AOL needs now, as it seeks to revive its fortunes. All Things Digital
Last Saturday against Carlton the players managed to respond to the coach's third quarter reorganization and completely outwit and demolish a team threatening to steal a gritty win.
George, stay on that white horse and remember to leave the nitty-gritty to me.
This is also the debut of the 'new' art team as Kano & Gaudiano switch duties; it works well: Kano provides clean layouts, good figurework and strong storytelling while Gaudiano's inks give it all a gritty edge. Best of July
A gritty multistranded action-thriller, 'The Tournament' brings together international killers from every imaginable discipline in a blood bathed contest to the death. Twitch
The question is, what kind of refreshment is Smith's gritty realism?
Thus, these mournful ballads emerge, gritty but glowing. Times, Sunday Times
Shadow areas often take on a gritty or rough textured appearance.
The sheets fell on the gritty floor, and she just let them lie.
After the war the nitty-gritty cases got nittier and grittier in weirder ways for some reason; there were nitty-gritty ones back when he first began but they still resembled something like normal sins then, normal people breaking normal commandments, not ones God never thought of. Tours of the Black Clock
Everyone's favourite cheeky actor comes undone in a disappointingly miscast role in Channel 4's latest gritty urban drama.
Vividly immersing audiences in the gritty, crime-ridden conditions in which the aliens are forced to live, first-time director Neill Blomkamp inspires reflection on poverty, ignorance and ostracism without resorting to preachiness. Heart-pumping, alien-laden 'District 9' is sci-fi at its finest
It's a cover of ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, with some sort of gritty electro jiggery-pokery.
The sheets fell on the gritty floor, and she just let them lie.
The game was gritty from the start and three technicals were called before the first quarter was over - on Bryant, teammate Derek Fisher and the Rockets 'Aaron Brooks. USATODAY.com
Even in gritty noir films, he was cast as the genial, sincere foil to the bad boys. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
The sides of the strickle are smeared with grease upon which fine gritty sand is sprinkled freely; nothing gives a better edge to a scythe than this.
The handling takes getting used to, but the controls are responsive and the action feels gritty. Times, Sunday Times
These have led to some perilous moments, especially when the public's unmannerly curiosity about the nitty-gritty collides with radio phone-ins.
This game has assumed a completely different character now - it's nervy, gritty and tense.
Without going into all the nitty-gritty details, Rice gave her loose denial when there was very little in the public record to contradict her.
It possessed a phantasmagoric nightmarish atmosphere, as you might have anticipated from a ballet inspired by Goya's gritty, bitter 18th century etchings Los Caprichos.
Her voice is thick, gritty and powerful, with a big, broad range.
And then there was the nitty-gritty of basic human comfort. Times, Sunday Times
The camerawork is artistically gritty, capturing surprisingly haunting images.
His gritty naturalist dramas shocked European theatre audiences, who had become used to a diet of melodrama and light opera. Times, Sunday Times
However, inmates still request the gritty urban tales.
It gives the audience a gritty, detailed, and carefully researched view of daily life and deadly combat aboard a ship of Nelson's navy.
I was apparently indoors, though the floor was dingy and muddy and covered in gritty sand.
It was interesting just seeing how the nitty gritty fundamentals of business works.
How gritty and realistic is it that you should survive another gunfight? Times, Sunday Times
Use them to help scrub down grubby bathroom tiles and really get to the gritty bits. The Sun
The plot itself evolved somewhat from a light-fantasy fare interwoven with humor and occasional gritty scenes, to a more realistic setting where webs within webs of conspiracies, backstabbing politics, raging battles and endless lust for power flourish. Joe Abercrombie - Before They Are Hanged (Book Review)
Back at Ms. Crosland's small studio in a gritty industrial building, they all go on what she calls "the bush"—a large, messy pinboard that reminds Ms. Crosland of a hedge and feeds her "digestive system" with fermenting ideas until the design process starts in earnest. Bringing Home the Walls of Marrakech
I suppose it gives a sense of gritty realism, and it contrasts the physical, bodily duties of the slaves with the luxurious lifestyle of the so-called white plantocracy - but as a stylistic trait, this insistence on bodily functions is too monotonous. The Long Song: Amazon.co.uk: Andrea Levy: Books
His forehead is pressed against the rough, gritty plaster of the wall, sharp against his nose.
Some people I spoke to gardened under very difficult circumstances, but gritty determination was winning the way towards a beautiful back yard.
John produced a gritty performance just to finish, when others were falling about him.
There are hints of free-flowing jazz drumming, while a frenetic shamisen sequence conjures up the gritty majesty of the blues. Times, Sunday Times
Howland kept getting questions during the tournament about how the gritty, slowdown style was playing in showy, glitzy L.A., and how the region's plethora of high-scoring high school stars will receive recruiting calls from the nation's new defensive powerhouse. USATODAY.com - UCLA to key on defense again
Dreary pulses and gritty unpolished rice, and miserable no-fat yoghurt - is that a life?
He ran a hand through his hair which felt rough and gritty.
Theirs was a gritty performance which belied their recent run of form.
Silver-colored, the molas have a rounded hind end and gritty sandpapery skin that is covered with copious amounts of mucus.
Instead, they will experience first-hand the often gritty reality of big city life in what has been titled ‘The Alternative London Trip’.
His writing is apocalyptic in feel, describing a gritty futuristic world in which dream meets reality.
As long as you are prepared for the repugnance, you will more or less enjoy this graphic, gritty cinematic experiment.
Are ointments and creams smooth and nongritty?
At work, you have smart ideas plus gritty determination. The Sun
This is pure classic fairy-tale material, and what it may lack in gritty complexity it makes up in primal symbolic resonance.
Don't be sorry - I am not - this is a fact - Tracy's essence is gritty - noir - shadowy - a sorry-*** character. Undefined
A gritty sword-and-sorcery novel set in medieval Spain, but unlike those inspired by Lord of the Rings, the plot involves not a quest but warfare, which is much more typical of Spanish history. MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part I )
The book features also sections on planning and on the nitty-gritty of writing and producing a Web site.
His partner in that endeavor was gritty, dauntless, razor-sharp captain Sourav Ganguly , while in Mahendra Singh Dhoni India currently have a skipper who has tactical acumen, icy calmness and, most important of all, the respect of the great players around him. Can England Rain on India's Parade?
From then on in, it's all clever schemes, gunfights, inter-agency politics and stuff getting blown up, all done very gritty and realistic like.
The Western Bulldogs are both a very gritty football side and a classy side.
Ruben takes the boy under his wing, training him and putting him into a stable of up-and-coming fighters who tour neighboring towns to fight in gritty matches with small purses and high risks of injury. 70s Cinema: Fat City « Screaming Blue Reviews
One of the issues I have with gamers, aside getting hung up on the nitty-gritty, is often the wish that the game they were playing was actually a different game altogether. Going Out
Thorn's lyrics combine a gritty realism with a bitter sense of irony-yet remain deeply optimistic.
This film is maudlin where the original was tough, antiseptic where the original was gritty.
His world is strange, fantastic, gritty and believable, it works very well as a fantasy world.
‘I wanted the images to be grainy and kind of gritty.
The handling takes getting used to, but the controls are responsive and the action feels gritty. Times, Sunday Times
Well, certainly it seems they are getting down to the nitty-gritty of some really serious fighting up in the hills behind me.
The story plays out against a gritty, hyperreal New York backdrop that seems to be drenched in a perpetually oppressive, insipid drizzle.
He's been a wonderful Captain, a wonderful batsmen, a gritty, determined competitor.
I kick up dust for those behind me and the gritty gravel sandpapers their wounds.
THQ, normally famed for cutesy Disney titles such as Finding Nemo, has entered into the dark world of adult gaming with this gritty adaptation.
Home to nearly 2 million people, the neighborhood is a gritty tapestry of mechanics, metal grinders, junkmen and laborers.
The anti-drugs adverts used hand-held camera techniques to add to the gritty realism of the situations.
Shabby buildings stand next to stylish apartments and craft centres giving the game a gritty image and inner-city feel to appeal to a trendy audience.
The reason for India's good performance in the last couple of years was due to the solid performance of this gritty batsman.
Baking soda's finely gritty texture makes it an excellent, gentle abrasive cleaner.
Under that smooth talking southern demeanor is a true gritty Alabama born kick-@$$. Chinese block U.S. reporters from event
But yeah, cop shows - especially those that purport to be ‘gritty’ - are nearly always about the hero keeping us safe from society's lower dregs.
The pace and enthusiasm flagged considerably when attention had to switch from abstract or grand designs to the nitty-gritty of practical details.
So that's the musical counterpart to the lyrical problem - turning lo-fi from a ho-hum excuse to a gritty asset.
We are proud to be supporting their gritty performance. Times, Sunday Times
Now for the real nitty-gritty - picking the right person. Times, Sunday Times
The production, which should look gritty, is almost glossy. Times, Sunday Times
Oh, you'll read about a very interesting take on gnomes, selkies, kelpies, vampires, succubi, and more but you won't find a kick-ass heroine living in a dark and gritty city. Review: Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler
Their streets were grimy and gritty, awash in alcohol and laced with drugs.
There are other issues coming up as they work through the nitty-gritty details of this plan.
The cinematography has a gritty, tough beauty to it.
Great SF concepts, gritty and brutal action and a great anti-hero to boot. What SF would you recommend to a non-reader?
At least one of our readers would prefer that The Sports Reporter and I dispense with the pre-review chit-chat and get down to the nitty-gritty when we write about our tandem dining-out experiences.
The book was a great overview, but Kyle provided the nitty-gritty details as well as the relationship problems that sometimes surfaced in what he called the adoption triad—the adoptive couple, the birth parents, and the child. Saving Grace
By the next day, between a quarter and an eighth-inch of gritty, gray volcanic debris covered everything.
On a bright yellow ground, round or oval passages of gritty, greenish relief become squirting slices of citrus fruit, their outlines sketched in charcoal.
Backed by a huge sign saying "Alan Provides," Mr. Garcia said his government had avoided "pharaonic" projects, favoring building gritty infrastructure, for needs such as drinking water, sewage and low-cost housing. Market Gets a Friend in Peru
Other parts of the painting have the gritty texture of sand, which Sudduth has added to latex paint.
Henin gave a typically gritty performance, coming back from 4-0 down.
Between 1929 and 1950, the likes of Humphrey Jennings and John Grierson held a mirror up to the nation and made films including Coal Face and Listen To Britain that took up the nitty-gritty of public life in a way that was unheard of in the first half of the 20th century. TV highlights 19/7/11 | The Hour | Falling Skies | Britain Through a Lens | Twenty Twelve | True Stories: After The Apocalypse | Imagine
Oh yes, work: the writers 'conference afforded me (and the attendees, I hope) a great six-hour discussion with Mary Lee Donovan, Debbie Kovacs, Alison Morris, Nancy Werlin and Martin Sandler about contemporary children's publishing, from the nitty-gritty of getting an agent to larger questions about the future of the market. From Cape Cod to Christmas
He got his details from the nitty-gritty of our everyday lives.
Gritty realism, social realism, naturalism are among the tags applied to Loach's work.
The script was gritty and the role of the lead character interested Kirk Douglas greatly.
I even help out our fisherman and do the nitty-gritty work. Olivia
Shooting the entire series on location in Baltimore was an essential part of this rough, gritty feel.
This gritty and realistic show has me gripped and I can't wait to see what happens next. The Sun
Gritty soil had got under her nails.
The flavour was weak and the texture was unnervingly gritty.
Kevin's all over the nitty-gritty details of the relevant documents.
And so the gritty film has become politically hot. Times, Sunday Times
We tread a fine line between gritty realism and poetic touches. Times, Sunday Times
Brian Gray's short film featured Johnny Cash singing religious songs, a gritty accompaniment to a serene film that followed a trio of utterly committed and convinced toilers in the vineyards of the Lord.
You only really get gritty when life gets gritty. The Sun
It sweeps from the Holy Land to Wales through a gritty, sweaty, world that feels so very real but also so very alien. Zornhau: Past Lives: Ronald Welch's "Knight Crusader"
Fatigue, colon cancer, IBS, constipation, buy viagra in bangkok a big factor as a gritty or burning feeling, although this could sometimes be referred to as pima and supima, this variety of foods. Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
Its typical ocular manifestations are recognised by a variety of clinical features including pain, gritty eyes, photophobia, chemosis, diplopia, and exophthalmos.
This is a film about the nitty-gritty of politics, and the nittiest, grittiest president of all. Times, Sunday Times
Iron filings and gritty sulphur palled over the city, every breath scraping his lungs. THE OPEN DOOR
Rattle brings out the gritty and the folkish in the extra-reedy fugal middle movement. Times, Sunday Times
The film has a very gritty, realistic feel, again lifting it above being a merely stereotypical genre exercise.
The central locking didn't secure or unlock the front passenger door and all the locks felt rather stiff and gritty.
And this is where this already gritty film becomes chillingly harrowing. Times, Sunday Times
Now, the true Bath bun is soft, like a marriage between a brioche and an Easter hot-cross, but encrusted with currants and gritty nibs of sugar.
Some revel in the appearance of perfection, but he was raw, gritty and damn funny.
This colt came out on top in gritty style in a hot maiden race at Haydock last time and does not look overburdened on his handicap debut.
The ruffians wore goatskin hats, gritty cloaks, and leggings of leather, all diffusing the odor of a hundred bathless nights and days.
This is a dark and gritty book that makes compelling reading. The Sun
That film is taut and moving, with impressive camerawork and gritty performances that reach a 2005 audience.
He was an eccentric mixture, a novelist of talent but a pamphleteer of genius, an aesthete whose trademark was gritty realism, a radical socialist with a conservative nostalgia for the shabby-genteel England of his Edwardian childhood. The saint of common decency
They come from the gritty underbelly of society where one has to be tough in order to survive.
This exhibition of 174 works by 74 artists includes images known almost universally, such as these Hopper scenes of New York at night and George Bellow's prize fight "A Stag at Sharkey's," as well as a generous helping of works by others from the Ashcan School of gritty urban realism, especially John Sloan. Britain pays tribute to American prints
Shifting from gritty and fervid to soft and wet in the blink of an eye, she flicks away all competitors with effortless facility.
The Belgian full-back patrols the right flank with a gritty determination. The Sun
Maybe not even imperatives but inconsistent protocols resulting in complex processes if you want to get right down to the programmatic nitty gritty and treat human consciousness as epiphenomenal. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
The rocky, gritty soil offers perfect drainage, but digging is nearly impossible.
But she is at pains to point out that her books - many about gritty subjects such as divorce and adoption - are not a retelling of her own early years.
Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. Nineteen Eighty-Four
They're gutty and gritty and fundamental and fearless.
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.
He didn't direct "It's a Wonderful Life," but he lived one, a life of zestful achievement and exuberant friendship that seldom took him far from New York, the city he used, in all its gritty glory, as his back lot for such films as "Dog Day Afternoon," "Serpico" and "Prince of the City. The Lasting Legacy Of Sidney Lumet
The use of gritty materials such as diatomaceous earth scattered on the soil surface is also used.
Between poussin and Guinea hen, choose the latter if you love dark meat and because the gritty diavola sauce of wax beans and tomato enhances the bird's succulence.
His story is partly one of gritty determination, perfectionism and hard work.
Right from the beginning of the pilot, what I liked about it was its gritty realism.
The play has a distinctively harsh and gritty vocabulary and poetic tone throughout, thriving on rough monosyllables.
It's just a very grim and gritty setting for a sci-fi vision of the near future.
Estimates range from 1,200 to 60,000 apiece while styles vary from chocolate-box to gritty. Times, Sunday Times
It comes in little packets, looking like gritty sand. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
Varied in circumference and width but uniform in texture, the smooth surfaces of the concavities contrast with the gritty exteriors, which, for the most part, are left untouched.
Gwen Ifill and the debate sponsors, but to its two primary authors Tom Stempel takes an unusual opening tactic in opening his current "Understanding Screenwriting" column at the Good Dick a strange kind of romcom with characters whose neuroses and imperfections are drawn from the gritty side of reality. GreenCine Daily
Think Casablanca, and the first thing that your mind retrieves isn't the script but the raw feel - the gritty texture of Rick's Café Américain.
In safety matches _red_ phosphorus, an oxidizing agent, and some gritty material such as emery is placed on the side of the box, while the match tip is provided as before with an oxidizing agent and an easily oxidized substance, usually antimony sulphide. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
It was a gritty performance from us. The Sun
Whether this will ever translate to a real, nitty-gritty acceptance of these views on Amazon or Asimov's, however, remains to be seen. MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part III)
At its peak the mix reaches 1, 450C before exiting as a hard, gritty material called clinker.
This time, the main concern was a significant ash plume carrying gritty pulverized rock and silica that could damage aircraft engines and the surfaces of cars and homes.
Then we get to the real nitty-gritty, what we call the lexical words, the words that carry a distinctive semantic content.
This initial sequence of violence and sex is, utterly disturbing, gritty realism, set against a wider social violence.
The menswear brand are causing a stir with their first collection which has been a sellout success thanks to cool, gritty T-shirts and printed tops. The Sun

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