How To Use Nitty-gritty In A Sentence
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It's time to break out of that shell and deal with the nitty-gritty details of your relationships.
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To develop for the X360 and Ps3 you know exactly what each system is going to be specced at, and are able to develop specifically to those specifications and are thus able to focus more man hours on the design and game play side of the game as opposed to the nitty-gritty tech side of getting the game to run on all these different platforms with the PC.
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It's very varied and sometimes you can be dealing with the nitty-gritty side of things like maintenance of the ground.
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It was a quite important issue, and I thank Mr Peck, because he came up with the idea of bringing the protagonists and the antagonists into a debate situation to really get to the nitty-gritty of it.
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They were all waiting anxiously to hear the nitty-gritty details, as if throwing up your guts was a major accomplishment.
Raven
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It didn't get itself involved in the nitty-gritty of political life and so kept quite a low profile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then we got down to the nitty-gritty, asking whether people thought the development should go ahead.
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Otherwise I am usually involved with the nitty-gritty of dance as a performer and teacher.
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But when it comes to the nitty-gritty, it seems no one is prepared to put their money where their mouth is.
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Instead they love taking responsibility for prestige projects but dislike the dull nitty-gritty of real reform.
Times, Sunday Times
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They serve a useful function, surely, do all the nitty-gritty dirty work, and make their clients rich in the process.
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But they were the kind of nitty-gritty measures that need to take place in our health care system in terms of cost containment.
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They are known as the fairer sex, but women seem to be pretty hard-faced when it comes to the nitty-gritty of divorce.
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It's almost as if all the initial chat and wine is a warm-up to the nitty-gritty, the heart of the matter, which is sharing secrets.
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Then and only then did he start learning the nitty-gritty of remote sensing.
METAPLANETARY
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With hundreds of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, lilies, alliums and other bulbs to consider for planting this fall, catalogues give both the visual sizzle and nitty-gritty information needed to make smart choices.
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Well, expect a bit of a lull as lawyers and accountants sink their teeth into the nitty-gritty details of these terms, some of which kept changing until the final hour.
Week Ahead: A Likely Calm Before Deals Resume
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Your academic advisor should help you, but they aren't always aware of the nitty-gritty details.
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Eight years embroiled in the nitty-gritty of Glasgow City Council as a councillor for Pollok has taught him a lot, he says.
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Instead they love taking responsibility for prestige projects but dislike the dull nitty-gritty of real reform.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those interested in the nitty-gritty of how and why the government hides information can subscribe to Stephen Aftergood's Secrecy News listserv, which is part of his work as the director of Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.
Web Won't Let Government Hide
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Linsey is a bright-eyed, 25-year-old blonde bombshell with a bubbly personality and some nitty-gritty pipes.
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What will be needed in the consortia will be the nitty-gritty skills of commissioning, delivery and working across sectors," she says.
NHS cuts: managers in the line of fire
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HowToCleanStuff. net has a surprising variety of user-submitted cleaning tips, getting into the nitty-gritty of cleaning gunky watch wristbands, literally everything that falls on carpet, and more.
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No need to jump ahead of ourselves while the nitty-gritty is being invented. but at this point in my opinion QM models like the Penrose-Hammeroff ORCH-OR model is little more that speculation.
A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)
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What he needs to be praised for is not the nitty-gritty rate changes but the broad direction of reform that he has resolved to continue and strengthen.
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Zero in on the venues most suitable, and then enquire about the nitty-gritty such as whether they charge cakeage, allow you to bring in your own alcohol etc.
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It is the sort of dull nitty-gritty subject believed to be vital for the survival of any self-respecting congressman.
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The students were eager to know about the nitty-gritty of Civil Services.
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But when it came down to the nitty-gritty, he showed what a coward he was.
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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
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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
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Kenji Kamiyama succeeds in all the ways that Oshii fails: characterization, dialogue, depicting the nitty-gritty lived experience of the future.
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However, few investors would claim to understand the nitty-gritty of its business.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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George, stay on that white horse and remember to leave the nitty-gritty to me.
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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
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These have led to some perilous moments, especially when the public's unmannerly curiosity about the nitty-gritty collides with radio phone-ins.
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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.
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And then there was the nitty-gritty of basic human comfort.
Times, Sunday Times
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The book features also sections on planning and on the nitty-gritty of writing and producing a Web site.
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However, the reliance on overlong interviews, dealing with the nitty-gritty of economic practices, really slows things down.
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Well, certainly it seems they are getting down to the nitty-gritty of some really serious fighting up in the hills behind me.
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The pace and enthusiasm flagged considerably when attention had to switch from abstract or grand designs to the nitty-gritty of practical details.
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Now for the real nitty-gritty - picking the right person.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are other issues coming up as they work through the nitty-gritty details of this plan.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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He got his details from the nitty-gritty of our everyday lives.
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I even help out our fisherman and do the nitty-gritty work.
Olivia
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Kevin's all over the nitty-gritty details of the relevant documents.
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This is a film about the nitty-gritty of politics, and the nittiest, grittiest president of all.
Times, Sunday Times
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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)
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Then we get to the real nitty-gritty, what we call the lexical words, the words that carry a distinctive semantic content.
