How To Use Unpolished In A Sentence

  • His stark, dramatic compositions strive for immediacy of effect at all costs - now in unpolished newsreel fashion, now in shadowy borrowings from Expressionism.
  • Hence a bumping lass is a large girl of her age, and a bumpkin is a large-limbed, uncivilized rustic; the idea of grossness of size entering into the idea of a country bumpkin, as well as that of unpolished rudeness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
  • This article is a little ragged and unpolished.
  • He's unpolished as a candidate and the poor man just couldn't get his shit together.
  • Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art-a euphemism-tamed wilderness. Dejan Stojanovic 
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  • It's a great string-soaked leap on from XO, his debut for the Dreamworks label, and a different kind of record from Elliott Smith, Roman Candle and Either / Or, his downbeat and unpolished earlier work.
  • A few shops in the city buy unpolished pots and sell them for a hefty sum after colouring and decorating them.
  • : cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous Club Troppo
  • He shunned the fury of the senses and what Keats called ‘ruffian passion’, which Boucher perceived as not merely unpolished and irrational but also as supremely unaesthetic.
  • Tantalum is a very hard, malleable, ductile metal with a silvery bluish color when unpolished, but a bright silvery color when polished.
  • A glorious, but unpolished, grandmother clock idly ticked away the time. TICKLED PINK
  • Although Psi is kind of unpolished and has some rough edges, it has a ton of features and is extremely configurable. Ars Technica
  • The floor was of bare wood, unpolished, with a curious weather-stained look, almost as though it was the salt-encrusted deck of an ancient sailing ship.
  • He produced flamboyant, abstract pieces, typically composed of textured goldwork with unusual gemstones or unpolished crystal. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most unpolished is the dialogue, which is often so clunky and forced that Rudnick smears the awkward moments with passé humor.
  • unpolished buttons glinted dully
  • Production craft of microporous starch prepared with unpolished rice as raw material were studied.
  • She inched up the wall, startled by the scuffs she had never noticed and then the dirty, unpolished glass that held but spots of reflection.
  • Crumwell (though the greatest Dissembler livinge) alwayes made his hypocrisy of singular use and benefitt to him, and never did any thinge, how ungratious or imprudent soever it seemed to be, but what was necessary to the designe; even his roughnesse and unpolishednesse which in the beginninge of the Parliament he affected, contrary to the smoothnesse and complacency which his Cozen and bosome frende Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
  • Note that polished surfaces present far less of a problem to the faker than unpolished surfaces.
  • Front man Eric Budd's vocals are unpolished yet still manage to be smooth and palatable; and their lone saxophone is better than a full horn section - its sound will surely make your body writhe with its sexy blare.
  • The twelfth, a runlet of unpolished gold, covered with a small vine of large Indian pearl of Topiarian work. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Two unpolished stars surfaced through the lighted ones.
  • They sell unpolished and uncut stones in an open space, cluttered with tables.
  • Under the door, her hand wriggled past the grazing unpolished wood and I touched them, unable to take her bloody hand properly, even though I didn't want to touch those stumpy, ripped up nails.
  • The film, banned in Iran itself, is raw, unpolished yet crafted, its script plain and unpretentious, lending its scenes a sense of reality with no impression of exaggeration.
  • dull unpolished shoes
  • Perhaps the crop of upcoming dates will help alchemise these hunks of unpolished tuneage into shining metallic gems? FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
  • However, in 1940s-1950s, when American literature favored refined and intentionally complicated writing techniques, Jack London, together with Theodore Dreiser and other "unpolished" literary figures, were considered too simplistic. Last Days and the Fate of His Works
  • Dunbar, born in Mississippi in 1904, was one of the last direct links to the unpolished, pre-war blues.
  • As a result, the songs come off as unpolished, lending them a simple yet emotional tone.
  • Such is the inscription on this _milliare_, which our industrious antiquaries seem faithfully to have extracted from among the ruins of time and the injuries of accident; an object, which exhibits a curious instance of the civilization introduced by the Roman arms into this island; for the erection of marks to denote the distance from place to place, is an accommodation, at least to the travelling stranger, which unpolished nations never devised; and which the inhabitants of Britain never generally enjoyed from the final departure of the Roman legions, till the last century, when mile-stones were again erected along our principal turnpike roads. A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers
  • Their unpolished uncut stones are displayed on about 30 tables.
  • In every crystal shop, both the polished and the unpolished minerals are usually available, but what is the difference when using them for healing?
  • The objects of the SDT were to promote equitable access to local beneficiators intending to beneficiate South African unpolished diamonds. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Eventually, my hair just gave up - at roughly the texture of an unpolished granite block, it petrified in a horribly rust shade of red until I could grow it out sufficiently to start again.
  • We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
  • They grumble about long, windy, unpolished pieces that don't fit into Slashdot's paragraph-link weblog format, and a style that sometimes glosses over key distinctions.
  • These elements don't really gel and the whole thing too often reads like a sketch for a novel, full of interesting but unpolished ideas, rather than the finished article.
  • Heat (convected), a mode of motion developed by such combustion, was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the source of calorification to the liquid contained in the vessel, being radiated through the uneven unpolished dark surface of the metal iron, in part reflected, in part absorbed, in part transmitted, gradually raising the temperature of the water from normal to boiling point, a rise in temperature expressible as the result of an expenditure of 72 thermal units needed to raise 1 pound of water from 50 degrees to 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Ulysses
  • Hence a bumping lass is a large girl of her age, and a bumpkin is a large-limbed, uncivilized rustic; the idea of grossness of size entering into the idea of a country bumpkin, as well as that of unpolished rudeness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
  • While the Rabbit - or whatever it had been - in Traders Meet was rough, unpolished wood, all timber in this room was varnished and polished to a deep shine.
  • Designers use marble with both polished and unpolished finishes.
  • Is it possible to find raw, unpolished non-commercial perspectives on youth that are fun and challenging to read, and worth returning to?
  • I remembered the main building in detail, wizen walls, dull unpolished and broken floorboards, nineteen fifties metal, peeling paint, dust, decay, death. Story to Forget
  • Heat (convected), a mode of motion developed by such combustion, was constantly and increasingly conveyed from the source of calorification to the liquid contained in the vessel, being radiated through the uneven unpolished dark surface of the metal iron, in part reflected, in part absorbed, in part transmitted, gradually raising the temperature of the water from normal to boiling point, a rise in temperature expressible as the result of an expenditure of 72 thermal units needed to raise 1 pound of water from 50 degrees to 212 degrees Ulysses
  • But at least the television ads bring a touch of unpolished rationality to the broadcasts.
  • Be sure and see that you have a coarse-grained levant morocco, which is much handsomer than the less good hard fine-grained morocco; of course it should be a polished or crushed levant binding, though when you see the pattern piece of leather it will be rough and unpolished. The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books
  • Drop Dead Diva, a light fantasy revolving around a demanding young actress who dies and returns to Earth in the body of a brilliant but "unpolished" attorney. Lifetime's New Slate for 2008-2009
  • In the context of the entire collection released back in 2007, 31 Rue Cambon stood out right next to the quirky, nutty unpolished ambrette seeds of No. 31 Rue Cambon
  • Rich sources of magnesium include green leafy vegetables, unpolished grains, nuts and seeds.
  • His main beverage is a unique concoction of ingredients deemed healthy in Japan: raw egg, sesame seeds, unpolished rice, parched bean flour, green tea leaves, vinegar and yogurt.
  • Tellingly, Namath, Allen, and Robertson all criticize the unpolished arrogance of the modern athlete, just as they were criticized before.
  • Dreary pulses and gritty unpolished rice, and miserable no-fat yoghurt - is that a life?
  • In his fashion - homespun and unpolished - but he can talk.
  • He shunned the fury of the senses and what Keats called ‘ruffian passion’, which Boucher perceived as not merely unpolished and irrational but also as supremely unaesthetic.
  • The vacuum chambers, where the test masses reside, look like the tanks in a microbrewery, though unpolished.
  • The first collection which he published, intituled PAMELA, exhibited the beauty and superiority of virtue in an innocent and unpolished mind, with the reward which often, even in this life, a protecting Providence bestows on goodness. Sir Charles Grandison
  • I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burthen: only, if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour. Venus and Adonis
  • It is a small, harp-shaped instrument on legs, exceedingly coarse and clumsy in its construction, -- the case rough and unpolished, the legs like those of a kitchen table, with wooden castors such as were formerly used in the construction of cheap bedsteads of the "trundle" variety. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
  • Some are luxurious, others are simple and unpolished.
  • In that case, give the shoes a thin coating of jewelers 'grade protective lacquer, which is invisible when dry-In either the polished or unpolished state the shoes can be given a "statuary bronze" coloration chemically. Modern Mechanix
  • Under them, the entire company -- most notably McLeavy as a tender-tough Stella and Tim Richards as unpolished but compassionate gentleman-caller Mitch -- vivify a revival that works to remind anyone who's forgotten that here's one of the handful of preeminent 20-century American plays. David Finkle: Blanchett as Blanche in Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire
  • It's played out in cinema-verité, all rough cutting, long track shots and, in the end, a distinctively and deliberately unpolished style.
  • He works in a scratchy, unpolished drawing style that looks like something put down in haste right after the event.
  • _gold_, senor, that is, with the solitary exception of a strong wooden box (which, even after so long an interment, offered considerable resistance to my efforts to open it), containing an assortment of what I took to be pebbles of different kinds, but which I afterwards found were unpolished gems. For Treasure Bound
  • And I believe this is talking past Mike's point entirely, which is that you have projects on both ends of the spectrum but what we need is stuff in the middle -- we need more than just the huge games and the quirky, eccentric aka unpolished and low production quality indies. Burn baby burn
  • The whole equipment was that of a rude warrior, negligent of his exterior even to misanthropical sullenness; and the short, harsh, haughty tone, which he used towards his attendants, belonged to the same unpolished character. The Abbot
  • Having no business education except that acquired from common experience and observation, and no schooling except of the most rudimentary kind, he would express himself clearly in unpolished but forcible and terse language, and would write out with his own hand a contract which, for precision and completeness, few lawyers could equal. Living in Dryden: John Southworth
  • Save for a very unpolished Polish accent, Elizabeth Wilson is a sturdy Zofia.
  • I had to move fast, it met my needs, and it has a kind of unpolished charm. RESCUING ROSE
  • Some areas are left uncarved and unpolished, giving a dramatic sense of the raw material.
  • Dunbar, born in Mississippi in 1904, was one of the last direct links to the unpolished, pre-war blues.
  • : cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous Club Troppo
  • These complex carbohydrates are found in foods that contain grains and seeds like barley, wheat, oats, millet, semolina, beans, lentils, wholemeal flour and unpolished rice.
  • We are more likely to choose a shiny apple we can see our reflection in than one with dull, unpolished skin.
  • I was reckless in my ways, dangerous and unpolished to the point of being branded a rustic.
  • John Paul's coffin was of unpolished, uncarved timber bearing a plain crucifix on top.
  • I agree with keeping coppers looking smart and unpolished boots and/or unironed shirts are a personal bugbear with me. And for my next trick……. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • The other, who was a Mede, differed scarcely in his dress from Pausanias himself, except that he was profusely covered with ornaments; his arms were decorated with bracelets, he wore earrings, and a broad collar of unpolished stones in a kind of filagree was suspended from his throat. Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance
  • The floor is laid with special imported stones and left uneven and unpolished.
  • In a world saturated by overproduced, unnaturally perfect, and clean - the unpolished is the most creative and in many cases most inspirational. Undefined
  • The punchy five-track EP, with songs like You and Me Geometry and Haircut, is an unpolished indie rock gem full of post-high-school relationship angst.
  • Roth gives the best lines in valediction to a pro-war speechmaker, the unpolished Republican pol Albin Lentz, who is the president of Winesburg College. Nasty, Brutish, and Short
  • It's frustrating, and makes the game look unpolished.
  • His main beverage is a unique concoction of ingredients deemed healthy in Japan: raw egg, sesame seeds, unpolished rice, parched bean flour, green tea leaves, vinegar and yogurt.
  • That said, this jagged, unpolished barrage of drums, Melvin Van Peebles samples and dime-bag craziness wouldn't be complete without the voices of reason: Quas and Madlib.
  • It was a little naïve and unpolished (the opposite of what Alice had thought it would be), but it was at the same time quite thrilling.
  • He tied her reins about the iron ring embedded in the wood, and a moment later, he was standing on the unpolished wood floors, gazing about at the display of fine work.
  • Post, "unpolished" Greene is on the campaign trail. TPMMuckraker
  • She is unpolished, unsophisticated, and abominably rude.
  • Insistent, often unpolished, and flecked with humour, Shary Boyle's drawings expose private vice and public embarrassment.
  • As a result of this calamity, life and property are no longer sacred, the criminal classes are flying at the throat of society, there is starvation and anarchy, shoes go unpolished, clothes unbrushed. The woe of an aspiring genius.
  • We looked down on the unpolished wretches, their impertinent wives, and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little dirty ant-hill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride. The Letters of Robert Burns
  • On glass sheets balanced by tall and short stumps of unpolished granite lie beautifully crafted Viking-shaped candles.

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