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"abrasive" Definitions
  1. an abrasive substance is rough and can be used to clean a surface or to make it smooth
  2. (of a person or their manner) rude and unkind; acting in a way that may hurt other people’s feelings
"abrasive" Synonyms
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It's Harmony Korine selecting the most abrasive, obtrusive music he could find to match his abrasive, obtrusive film.
"There are no scientific studies saying abrasive blasters are subject to any increased or any incidents of beryllium related diseases from abrasive blasting," he said.
Acid exfoliators are so much better and they're not abrasive.
She's funny, a little abrasive, and talks off the cuff.
The abrasive blasting industries are already heavily regulated, Serda said.
The story aired numerous complaints about Fadell's allegedly abrasive leadership.
It is uncushioned and made of an abrasive woolen fabric.
But their abrasive rhetoric and tactics sent a different message.
He's definitely a weirdo, and he's definitely making abrasive music.
White powder, an abrasive, was sprinkled liberally over the carcasses.
His ebullient managerial style could also become blunt and abrasive.
Was Davis abrasive or charming when you worked with him?
We were spoken to in this new and abrasive vocabulary.
So it's kind of aggressive and abrasive and loud intentionally.
To them, it is abrasive to enter a woman's space.
But here, it isn't a generative result, it's an abrasive one.
Go for a mild, non-abrasive formula, according to Dr. Jaliman.
In a lot of ways, the brute competition is still abrasive.
Abrasive or intimate, Yo La Tengo could be everything at once.
As president, Sarkozy's high-energy style and abrasive manner polarized voters.
He was hired to help soften the company's often abrasive image.
Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life.
The music begins: not ancient at all, but jagged, abrasive strings.
Danny and Ellie's initially abrasive relationship is exacerbated by Danny's ineptitude.
"Loud and abrasive call with agents," Mr. Singer wrote on Oct.
But his abrasive, chaotic White House tenure has changed those proportions.
"I'm not abrasive," she told an interviewer about her courtroom manner.
It was a bit rude, crude, and abrasive, and deliberately done.
In many ways, it's their In Utero, only even more abrasive.
Yet he wanted to maintain the group's style of avoiding being abrasive.
Bolton's sometimes abrasive style got him into trouble in the Bush administration.
Bosses in some industries report that regulators are less abrasive, indeed amenable.
Let's not mince words here: Meet the Feebles is disgusting and abrasive.
The abrasive Christie is not everyone's idea of an ideal political partner.
Plus, charcoal is more abrasive than baking soda, potentially wearing away enamel.
It's weird and almost abrasive, futuristic and gritty at the same time.
Former CEO Travis Kalanick often proved to be abrasive in these situations.
Mr. Berger's music elsewhere veers between similarly abrasive effects and lyrical outbursts.
I often agreed with her, even when I found her delivery abrasive.
It is sold and reused as an abrasive in products like sandpaper.
In one, Michael Cera plays an abrasive paraplegic who can't get lucky.
If they exert confidence, they can be perceived as abrasive or overcompensating.
Or are people abrasive, tone-deaf and handle conflict without any tact?
Bolton's sometimes abrasive style got him into trouble in the Bush administration.
Yeah. But that can become abrasive and irritating, which to many it has.
Moving on to the small intestine, abrasive materials (think roughage) polish the ring.
Titled after M.I.A's Sri Lankan mother, Kala is alive with abrasive female energy.
They are both abrasive, New York-born outsiders who are shaking the establishment.
Smith's ragged nasality and fractured mumble made sense when pitted against abrasive music.
He came off, by turns, as affable, prickly, charming, abrasive, and borderline abusive.
The abrasive-infused bristles clean between the grates of your grill with ease.
The New Jersey governor on Friday backed the abrasive mogul's Republican presidential bid.
A lot of it is quite abrasive, but none of it seems aggressive.
At first taken aback by her abrasive manner, Bilal decides to help Happy.
Does he really have it in him to be anything other than abrasive?
Thus begins the finale, which resumes and intensifies the first movement's abrasive drive.
Some note that Gillespie is simply a less personally abrasive figure than Trump.
Brilliant, intense, sometimes abrasive, Mr. Goodwin had the look of a rumpled professor.
This version of Jason was headstrong and abrasive and was hated by fans.
I have a new boss who is very unfair and abrasive to everyone.
So though I don't necessarily agree with him, I condone his abrasive choices.
They're seen as being brash and boastful and abrasive and all those words.
For Rahm Emanuel, a difficult, abrasive management style becomes part of his mythology.
I try to be strong and confident, as opposed to tough and abrasive.
He admitted "an abrasive and intolerant management style," but denied sexually mistreating anyone.
After all, one man's "assertive" is often another woman's abrasive, entitled or rude.
Moreover America was not given to electing "abrasive" New Yorkers, Lexington cautioned then.
One coaching technique was to simulate hostile news conferences, complete with abrasive reporters.
THURSDAY PUZZLE — Gosh, and just yesterday I was calling the Thursday puzzle abrasive.
You know, this is kind of the abrasive problem, the competence likeability problem.
But the Fall — although less popular and more abrasive — would outlast them all.
Abrasive, hot-headed and highly partisan, Mr Flynn was ill-chosen for the job.
His selection of the abrasive Dylan Hartley as captain is a reflection of that.
J&J's worry at the time was that contaminants made the company's powder abrasive.
A man is confident or assertive, while similarly wired women are aggressive and abrasive.
" "Listen Bethenny," Frankel told herself, "you were abrasive, you were aggressive, you were judgmental.
He's the opposite of Trump, who is definitionally not nice, intentionally abrasive, purposefully uneducated.
KeepCup advises against using "abrasive materials or cloths" when washing up your beloved cup.
Along with this shift in strategy has come a less abrasive, more open culture.
But, such a moment can't work if it's all abrasive rage or gory violence.
Mr Bolton was an abrasive American ambassador to the UN under George W. Bush.
" He then said his behavior is accurately described as "abrasive, rude and frankly wrong.
"We just wanted to create something loud, abrasive, and angry," the band told Noisey.
However, his abrasive language and insistence on clearing city slums has alienated many voters.
The song is intense, blending together grooves as well as harder, more abrasive elements.
"When it Rain" is an abrasive, sinister track that has Brown in full flow.
Heavy, abrasive music, Kundalini breathing exercises, and sensory deprivation create an overwhelming sensory experience.
The slightly abrasive nylon stocking material has the added benefit of exfoliating the skin.
Balvin possesses an uncanny ability to be pretty and abrasive at the same time.
But Benioff is perhaps Silicon Valley's most omnipresent (and, yes, abrasive) advocate for philanthropy.
He cultivated an image as an abrasive, but honest politician with a clean record.
But the play is also about the persistence of "the artist": abrasive, relentless, unblinking.
Like everything else about the show, the politics thus feel more abrasive than clever.
El-P makes beats that are chunky and abrasive, full of machine-age ennui.
But his abrasive language and insistence on clearing city slums has alienated many voters.
Shkreli's conviction in August came after two years of inflammatory and abrasive public conduct.
But the Powerbeats Pro sounded more balanced and less abrasive than I was anticipating.
Bolton built a reputation for being abrasive but knowledgeable, with tremendous powers of recall.
Her harsh noise side project, Pulsatile Tinnitus, is less abrasive, but just as intense.
But his abrasive language and insistence on clearing the city's slums has alienated many voters.
This energy can be upsettingly abrasive or incredibly sexy depending on you and your partner.
Maybe Azealia Banks isn't sorry about her abrasive Twitter tirade against Sarah Palin after all.
The letter sprang from meetings with two abrasive manufacturers in his district, spokesman Morrow said.
As "Joanthology" illustrates, Ms Wasser is also unafraid to be abrasive—even, at times, confrontational.
This is a dude whose primary personality trait is abrasive cravenness on a mitochondrial level.
All of these could be abrasive to the skin barrier and end up causing inflammation.
For the emoji is mercifully small, far less abrasive, and just as easy to tap.
He's caused an uproar on the international stage with his abrasive approach to international diplomacy.
I think the music is extraordinary, but also somewhat divisive and abrasive in certain moments.
As president between 2007 and 2012, Sarkozy's high-energy style and abrasive manner polarised voters.
Don't use anything abrasive, since doing so could potentially add tiny scratches do your display.
But there are some more creative ways to get barred too, beyond just being abrasive.
He's just an asshole—he's abrasive, he's uncompromising, he'll never back down out of politeness.
Many voters soured over a personal style that they saw as overly abrasive and disrespectful.
The covers also perfectly complemented the music within — onslaughts of bold and abrasive sonic experimentation.
Her songs were short and hazy, full of bright melodies washed out with abrasive noise.
He says exactly what he thinks, on every occasion, and his opinions can be abrasive.
Far from abrasive, O'Rourke's rhetoric—Hey gang, let's all come together and solve some problems!
But he was an abrasive and controversial party leader and there were leadership coup attempts.
It's Not An ExfoliatorLet's clear this up: The Clarisonic brush is not an abrasive scrubber.
You obviously thought the content and context was appropriate and non-abrasive, so why backpedal?
"Kill Me Baby" contains Buddy Holly-meets-Buzzcocks harmonies, screeching guitar wails, and abrasive feedback.
"She was without funds, a woman with no husband, and abrasive," Specht, the librarian, said.
Granit Abrasive, on the outskirts of Budapest, produces cutting-and-polishing tool parts for export.
This toothpaste features a less abrasive texture to whiten sensitive teeth gently without causing pain.
Kourtney, sometimes the most abrasive Kardashian sister, is at her most willfully warm and inviting.
At the C.I.A., Mr. D'Andrea's reputation for operational acumen is matched by his abrasive demeanor.
In the case of flannels, I've found a lot of Brillo-y, borderline abrasive conceptions.
Crisp but engagingly abrasive, their industrial remix is twice as long and twice as biting.
There's no need to go out in search of the most abrasive scrub on the market.
If you need a fighter to make a fight unnecessarily personal and abrasive, he's your guy.
" For good measure, the cable's author also called Mr. Ramos "crude, abrasive, arrogant and thin-skinned.
And this was the first showcase for Spears's singing voice, which is sexy, abrasive, and strange.
But Maks admits that work ethic can translate as abrasive in his most high-profile gig.
It's a mild abrasive, and chemically also a mild bleach, which can neutralize cavity-causing acids.
Too much of one thing is never a great idea, especially something as abrasive as lemon.
For those close to Fadell, however, his more abrasive, tenacious style is an asset for Nest.
"The world was really abrasive and overwhelming, and I felt really hopeless," Nic writes in Tweak.
"Some Say Cohn Has An Abrasive, Curt, And Intimidating Style," they wrote, citing a Bloomberg piece.
A recent string of abrasive comments from the billionaire developer could even threaten his cash streams.
It's a bit pricey but should last a long time and the abrasive wheels are replaceable.
Basically, it's meant to stage a total complexion refresh — without bombarding the skin with abrasive chemicals.
He succeeded in pleasing his core supporters by showcasing a tad of his infamously abrasive style.
John F. Kennedy endorsed the idea of an "abrasive" press even though he didn't like it.
Dr. Abrasive started the project in 2013 when he heard about the Sega Saturn's chiptune capabilities.
Mitski might be a little too abrasive to grab that torch, but her talent is undeniable.
It was a gossip sheet for the digital age: abrasive, knowing, cynical, self-promoting, sometimes unfair.
But this year, she is running against the most inept, unqualified, ill-equipped, abrasive candidate imaginable.
The machines will perform a variety of manufacturing functions including turning operations, straightening and abrasive blasting.
Ambient and abrasive music blares from the speakers and large flashing projections cover the gallery walls.
They described him as abrasive and disinterested, and said he could be verbally abusive to colleagues.
Don't use metal scouring pads like steel wool, abrasive cleaners, chlorine bleach, or ammonia-based cleaners.
By her own admission, Ann Hopkins could be abrasive, vulgar, relentless and impatient in the office.
And Daly can be abrasive, which can seem jarring given that his charges are so young.
Mr. Reed's abrasive side, she said, was just a stage persona, conjured when it suited him.
Kjartansson has been in four other bands since then, all of them more abrasive than Kósý.
Can be a bit abrasive with classmates but has improved greatly during the last three years.
I mean, all the women who get feedback that they're too abrasive, they're getting bullshit feedback.
On "House," we followed the life of Dr. Gregory House -- an abrasive, arrogant and narcissistic drug addict.
Martin's heckling was so abrasive that Simmons allegedly ran into the audience to try to fight him.
The smoothing of the show's rough edges does make its remaining issues feel all the more abrasive.
Having a strong personality, taking the lead, and offering constructive criticism makes us abrasive, unprofessional, or worse.
"Most whitening toothpastes use abrasive particles to scrub off stains and ultimately damage the enamel," she says.
On the show, Philip (played by Matt Smith) is cantankerous — a loving husband, but an abrasive man.
You'll want to watch either Episode 2, which features no music, or Episode 3, featuring abrasive Muzak.
The sound they pump out from the all-vinyl set is warm and huge, but never abrasive.
"The staff is pretty welcoming despite how abrasive it might look," Mr. Barone said with a laugh.
He is a tea party activist with a brusque, abrasive manner that offends a lot of voters.
In the abrasive and immoral universe of the this administration, silence and acquiescence are not an option.
Most soaps will do the trick — it doesn't necessarily take the most abrasive and pestilent products around.
The Janáček staging, by the abrasive but formidable Frank Castorf, had me pondering the festival's remaining limitations.
The band lays down shocks of intensely abrasive screamo that flare out from a more melodic base.
"Robot Rock" never lets up, starting with an abrasive wave of percussion and hair metal power chords.
But Vargas has an abrasive public image and a lack of charisma that puts off many voters.
The New York Times, in a piece that marveled at his "abrasive brilliance," could barely contain itself.
The translation otherwise brings the flamboyant, abrasive, and highly distractible spirit of Gauguin roaring back to life.
He doesn't like his style, which he called abrasive, something that bothered him from the very beginning.
But some former rowers and Stanford coaches said Amerkhanian could also be territorial, abrasive and a bully.
The former Florida governor has repeatedly questioned Trump's conservatism and balked at the billionaire businessman's abrasive manner.
Thus far, Kalanick has made the most of being the next abrasive and industrious Silicon Valley founder.
Andrew Johnson was an abrasive personality who offended many with his behavior and actions – similar to Trump.
"We thought being proper was far more abrasive at that point than being far-out," he said.
Unlike some facial brushes, Clarisonic devices oscillate rather than spin, making them less abrasive on the skin.
As Emily Dickinson, Cynthia Nixon is forthright, sometimes abrasive, often funny and never less than thrilling company.
I like that it not only cleanses but gently exfoliates my skin in a non-abrasive way.
In the words of her detractors during the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton was abrasive and shrill.
"But this is kept from seeming sappy by the picture's tough-minded, almost abrasive sense of humor."
So let's hear it for the freshmen Furies in all their abrasive, ambitious, in-your-face glory.
For those who find him too abrasive, the mystery of his true self is Trump's strong suit.
In another, the contrarianism on Load traces back to the songs on 1983's Kill 'Em All: the fast, atonal thrash on that debut was abrasive music for abrasive people, helping their ratty, head-banging former selves carve out a niche apart from the burgeoning hair metal scene.
"Generate," the closing track from Restitution, is more aggressive techno, with abrasive synthetic drums and spindly, melodic instrumentation.
Star and Dawson applied the controversial Kylie Skin Walnut Face Scrub and didn't think it felt too abrasive.
Instead, Batur and Dzafarov embrace a strategy so minimalist it's almost abrasive if not for the hummability quotient.
In most of their interactions, Nadia is abrasive and cruel, insisting that John move on with his life.
A shrewd dealmaker, Liew is described by many as prickly and outright abrasive in his critique of entrepreneurs.
From the jump, Darkest Hour dig into a melodeath sweet spot that's neither extremely abrasive nor cloyingly polished.
I think until the last breath people are continuing to grow — even Olive, who can be pretty abrasive.
Kalanick has developed a reputation as an abrasive leader, and his approach has rubbed off on his company.
Way more abrasive than kosher salt, it glided over the pan without scratching it like steal wool does.
Not everyone has to use abrasive (not meant-for-your-body) adhesive (Gaffer's tape!) to get maximum lift.
One minute, there's pretty, open-tuned acoustic picking and then the next it's torn apart by abrasive samples.
The EP explores a recklessly harsh and abrasive sonic pallete—all jagged, acid rotten metallic clank and warped.
This is not an unusual combination for Gaiman, who tends to like everyman protagonists with faithless, abrasive girlfriends.
While listening to Bobby's abrasive demands, Chuck remembers a really important thing about himself: He hates Bobby Axelrod!
In September 2013 Ryanair followed, when Michael O'Leary, its abrasive boss, announced plans to improve its customer service.
He was fired from Fordham Prep School in 2012, reportedly for having an "abrasive" old-school teaching style.
Supporters say it allows people to get better access to content without having to suffer through abrasive ads.
While exfoliators have a reputation for being harsh and abrasive, the latest crop delivers gentler sloughing and smoothing.
Once used, the spent cutting abrasive can be removed in tiny buckets at the front of the machine.
For one, activated charcoal itself may be too abrasive for our teeth, wearing away their protective enamel layer.
The songs are abrasive in a weird way, but you hear it and you still know it's Piebald.
It comes out of the tube smoothly and gently lathers without abrasive microbeads, artificial fragrances, or chemical tingling.
It's a defiant and necessarily abrasive statement from the Philadelphia trio with songs that emphatically combat toxic behaviors.
For Corey, it was an abrasive EDM rock song his date had produced that filled him with antipathy.
The bottom line: Jobs was a complicated person: brilliant, frustrating, inspiring and abrasive all at the same time.
But my relationship with the town growing up was abrasive, like living each day rubbing up against sandpaper.
But it has also abandoned its abrasive attitude, making determined efforts to pivot Asia away from Trump's America.
The alternative is an abrasive self-consciousness that pretends to be subversive but quickly turns sour and cynical.
"It's a less abrasive way of exercising control than actually killing people who disagree with you," he said.
"The investigator was so vague and abrasive I couldn't get a straight answer," she said in an interview.
They're abrasive and work basically like wet sandpaper, so we urge the same caution as the method above.
He was abrasive at times and enjoyed scheming - not for any sinister reason but to keep the pot boiling.
Smooth and abrasive, established and insurgent, the incoming president may turn out to be the worst of all worlds.
The choice to hang a work in public reminding neighbors of some unpleasant history is slyly subversive, but abrasive.
The word 'abrasive' was used to describe 13 different woman 17 times but never written once about a man.
In a March letter to administration officials, Byrne noted that the abrasive blasting industry employs more than 400,000 people.
The outsiders flout the rules of the house, until, on the verge of eviction, their abrasive children show up.
Tri Angle producer Vessel — known for his abrasive, industrial production work — has been announced as Immix Ensemble's newest collaborator.
And the abrasive management style of founder Mark Pincus started to rub a lot of people the wrong way.
Mr Baker is known for a tough management style at Qatar Airways as well as for abrasive public comments.
The diamond/metal grit is very abrasive, it will sharpen your knife but you cannot really polish the edge.
The most trustworthy doctor on Scrubs was certainly not our protagonist, J.D., but his mentor, the abrasive Perry Cox.
In a spontaneous outburst on the sidelines, his abrasive and flamboyant personality had come forth onto the European stage.
What do you think will change about Trump's abrasive behavior and loquaciousness once he's head-to-head with Hillary?
Instead of firing out one-word emails that can seem cold and abrasive, try to warm up your messages.
"Using a harsh mechanical or physical exfoliant such as a walnut based scrub is often too abrasive," she said.
If the bet comes off, though, the rest of the world is in for a period of abrasive unilateralism.
It reminded me how I devoured every episode and season of Girls on HBO, even at its most abrasive.
The new EP is an abrasive and banging work of art, combining elements of metal and reggaeton with ease.
Theron told Esquire in 2015 that despite the abrasive nature of their relationship, they appreciated each other's work ethic.
I wanted to portray these ideas in a grittier and abrasive setting, which I think they are all deserve.
With thick, abrasive black lines, Bernard Buffet's paintings appear as though they have been scratched and clawed onto canvas.
But it bears remembering how bracing, thought-provoking, abrasive, and downright oddball Frigid Forms Sell sounded on its release.
Bellassai distinguishes himself from other funny podcasters with an abrasive delivery and a habit of drinking throughout the recording.
"Opponents of Mr. Bolton have criticized some statements of the nominee as abrasive, confrontational and insensitive," Mr. Lugar said.
It can also have an abrasive quality, a kind of scratchiness in the mouth, which comes from oxalic acid.
They're peculiar to his intentionally abrasive personality, his deliberately provocative tactics and his almost mystical domination of the media.
" And he was targeted by the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen on the abrasive HBO comedy "Da Ali G Show.
Whitening toothpaste often has too much of an abrasive texture to work well for those who have sensitive teeth.
When Turki moved on from his ambassadorships, Khashoggi returned to journalism, continuing his abrasive relationship with the country's conservatives.
If you're telling a story and making a case that enough voters strongly connect with, you can be abrasive.
Pros: Great low price choice, baking soda acts as safe abrasive, suitable for perpetual useCons: Some people dislike taste
Trump may have liked the general's aggressive and sometimes abrasive demeanor, said one of the two retired senior officers.
Cold weather can also cause more chafing, Metzl explained, because dry, cold skin is more susceptible to abrasive friction.
But another major theme was Bevin's abrasive personality and penchant for controversy that contributed to his poor poll numbers.
Such reports about the abrasive former campaign manager have frustrated previous chiefs of staff Reince Priebus and John Kelly.
Albergotti placed much of the blame for Nest's poor performance on Fadell and his abrasive and erratic management style.
He also has an abrasive way of making it clear to his elders that they are always letting him down.
Lmao I don't mean it in a bad way but aren't those types of scrubs too abrasive for the skin?
There are, of course, artists who are invested in more abrasive explorations of the UK as a scorched, alien environment.
Lastly, Von Hep suggests steering clear of those rough gym towels — the abrasive cloth will strip your fake tan fast.
Your phone vibrates and emits a loud abrasive tone that's likely to freak you out if you're not anticipating it.
Google is pretty much the only entity with the power to bully advertisers into creating a less abrasive browsing experience.
Rollercoaster dynamics and bang-boom-pow electrohooks — so delightfully abrasive in their momentum — beat limp, wet power ballads any day.
Furthermore, its track surface is an old one which means it is much less abrasive than some more modern venues.
The most notable case is "Saturday Night Live's" abrasive, sometimes sinister portrayal of Trump (by Alec Baldwin) and his advisers.
With experts repeatedly advising against harsh and abrasive scrubs, the new peels are an essential step in your beauty routine.
A portion of the electorate, mostly in the rural northern part of the state, likes his unscripted and abrasive style.
Michelle Tea's is a singular voice — brilliant but also irreverent, optimistic but also abrasive, as curious as it is critical.
Mr. Saipov had an abrasive personality and was difficult to work with, often yelling at his customers, Mr. Muminov said.
Paul LePage, the abrasive and bombastic outgoing governor, won two elections without a majority, thanks to liberals splitting their vote.
Matt is reserved and timid, while the digital version of Joyce is abrasive and continually pushes all of his buttons.
Few bands achieve the heights Oathbreaker have soared to on this release, one that's as beautiful as it is abrasive.
Additionally, they can become more dry and abrasive as makeup is caked on them, causing irritation and ineffective color application.
The filmmaker stitches the shots into his pictures in a way that is subtle and fluid, yet impactful and abrasive.
People who have worked with Vadera say her directness is part of her appeal, although her style can be abrasive.
Is hip-hop still the confrontational and abrasive force it was in the mid-90s when you first started out?
There's an element of renowned American musician and sound designer Richard Devine in here, only less abrasive and more accessible.
"He's a little more abrasive than I would be in some cases, but I don't think he's wrong," Smith said.
Peter's cellphone still in his hand, the sudden sound of a phone ringing—an abrasive jangling bell—filled the cottage.
GOP voters had their choice of over a dozen candidates and picked the loudest, most abrasive one of the bunch.
In the fight game, there's a time to be abrasive and there's a time to go along and get along.
The single, "DTM," is vintage Vega—abrasive but catchy—and comes with a new music video directed by Brook Linder.
And yet, my initial reaction was to perceive the aggressive woman as abrasive, and let Trump's behavior go without comment.
Man, you should see him in "Southland," where he plays the abrasive, complicated Officer John Cooper — the show's emotional center.
Subtitled "Tragic" by Mahler at his last performance of the symphony, it is prevailingly dark, and often gritty and abrasive.
Boldness should never be mistaken for being rude and abrasive; you always want to practice being bold but never rude.
The crowd chose to hang in the parking lot instead of seeing this abrasive trio do what they do best.
I loved the sound, particularly this patch we were using that's kind of glitchy and bright and a little abrasive.
Unstoppable Death Machines are a wily and willfully abrasive combination of all three and god bless their DIY stalwart hearts.
Single Mothers' earliest batch of songs, those which comprised their debut EP, were snotty, abrasive, and at times downright mean.
Brittany's relationship with her roommate is very revealing; sometimes people in your life are abrasive for reasons you don't understand.
His "Winterbranch" (1964) proved as abrasive in the Los Angeles company's 2012 opening program as it had been when new.
"Jim Parsons has a magical ability to be abrasive and annoying and still be loved for it," Mr. Molaro said.
And to reiterate: All of this on top of a long, wonderfully written (though often purposefully abrasive) RPG/adventure game.
" Clinton isn't applauded for her own toughness; instead, that same tough quality is twisted into her being abrasive or "cold.
"In my decade of government service, I have never seen someone so unprofessional, abrasive and rude as him," the official said.
The idea of a less aesthetically abrasive electronic border control system has been dismissed as unworkable for economic and practical reasons.
The Gainesville band instead occupies the unique space between—creating serene moments that make seamless but seismic shifts into abrasive intensity.
But it has been a bumpy ride for a politician whose trademark is his matter-of-fact and sometimes abrasive style.
His abrasive nationalism draws on a long history within Republican politics, but he has angered activists by challenging other party orthodoxies.
In my life, I've used palmfuls of abrasive apricot scrub, like gritty swaths of sandpaper, trying to scrape away the ugly.
As for Mary Poppins, it's been reported that the abrasive, but ultimately beloved nanny character is based on Travers' Aunt Helen.
"Our fanbase tends to be college-age, and mostly dudes, so you know that they can be pretty abrasive," said Anderson.
And although his tactics have long been criticized as abrasive and alarming, Trump succeeded in defeating Hillary Clinton for the presidency.
In the Bloomberg interview, Fadell also addresses the reports over his management style, which many (including Duffy), felt to be abrasive.
Your first option was salabrasion, a technique that used an abrasive tool to, quite literally, scrap the tattoo off the skin.
The water cutter works by using a tightly focused jet of water and abrasive particles (fancy sand, basically, known as garnet).
Then again, authenticity sells—even when it means being abrasive at inconvenient times—and Diaz has proven his way with words.
Maggie's best friends are an amusingly abrasive couple played by former "Saturday Night Live" cast members (Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph).
Officials in other departments became accustomed to a certain style of Home Office decision-making, which was slow, competent, and abrasive.
It was an intentional uninvited distraction -- an increasingly frequent hallmark of Trump's abrasive diplomacy that takes time from more pressing issues.
Some said that perceiving his speech patterns as inherently angry or abrasive was ignorant at best and anti-Semitic at worst.
With the music I wanted to reference medieval Japanese court music, which has this kind of abrasive bagpipe high pitched sound.
Like Cruz, Hamilton was a brilliant if abrasive lawyer who took extreme positions and was disliked by many of his peers.
These are expensive and delicate bits of electronics, so you don't want to dive in with abrasive cleaning solutions and materials.
Evil Georgiou was being rude, abrasive and impulsive to the crew — similar to how someone from the Terran Empire would act.
Richard Gowan, a UN expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told me Haley's abrasive politicking was a bit surprising.
It makes for a perfect complement to Yellow Eyes' searing, next-level black metal, and Couch Slut's wildly abrasive, noisy hardcore.
Even many of his critics say the very qualities that make him abrasive in ordinary interactions are serving him well now.
But because she is a Mike White heroine, she is also complicated, sometimes abrasive and not always pleasant to be around.
Starring Adam Sandler as an abrasive jeweler, the divisive film has become a runaway hit, at least by Oscar bait standards.
ECM's catalogue of some sixteen hundred albums contains abrasive sounds as well as soothing ones, clouds of dissonance alongside shimmering triads.
"Elogio a Instituição do Cinismo" sets its melody bouncing against walls of distortion, pitting the supple and catchy against the abrasive.
Firing the commander of a Marine boot camp unit for being abrasive is a bit like complaining that water is wet.
Abrasive humor suited him as a defense, an age-old story shared by many people who use humor for a living.
As for Jobs, Schilling says his strong-willed and somewhat abrasive personality made it difficult for him to sustain intimate friendships.
I found this film abrasive when I first saw it, but with repeat viewings, its stature has grown in my eyes.
His magazine, a San Francisco-based monthly with a circulation of about 100,000 and thick with ads, is knowing but abrasive.
But while her abrasive conservatism won O'Donnell the GOP primary, it proved to be a loser with the broader Delaware electorate.
"Real Friends" sounds nothing like the abrasive backing instrumentals of MBDTF; instead it paints a realm of minimalist, intimate R&B.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is proposing to keep exposure limits at the previous level for the shipyard and construction industries and has asked the public to comment on whether existing standards covering abrasive blasting in construction, abrasive blasting in shipyards, and welding in shipyards provide adequate protection for workers engaged in these operations.
Doesn't mean you have to be abrasive or aggressive, it just means that you have to feel like you control your destiny.
COM: I think that Donald Trump makes a very good point, he just makes it in a very abrasive and confronting way.
MORGAN: I think that Donald Trump makes a very good point, he just makes them in a very abrasive and confronting way.
What helped was his approach on the record, allowing what would conventionally be heavy or abrasive elements on a song be accessible.
It's a "West Coast-style" synth, and synths under this umbrella tend to buck tradition and create more interesting, sometimes abrasive sounds.
The same is true of the hazy, euphoric memories of jungle—"Timeless" should be recalled with its abrasive foundations left firmly intact.
Michelle Tea's Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms is a collection of texts — brilliant, irreverent, optimistic, abrasive — about queerness, gender, humanity, and belief.
The ride-hailing firm has come under fire for its abrasive corporate culture and a series of sexism scandals, among other things.
I finally gave an enthusiastic yes to an oil that smelled like tea; it was somehow deeper than the others, less abrasive.
If you've got a cheap, slightly abrasive Cardboard-faced hole on the front of your face, Google will now help fill it.
According to numerous current and former employees, Bruner's behavior became significantly more abrasive and inflexible after the success of The Walking Dead.
Most of us immediately think of abrasive friction — the kind that's produced if you rub a wood block over sandpaper, for instance.
I think there's a misconception that people didn't connect with her because she wasn't very likable and she was a bit abrasive.
Hissing's blown-out, fucked up death metal is abrasive and horrible and utterly off-putting, and I absolutely love them for it.
Now that Trump is trying to control the damage his abrasive comments have made to Indian immigrants, maybe the time is nigh.
Photo courtesy of the artist For a man known for his abrasive noise techno music, Pete Swanson is a pretty generous guy.
It was a tricky character, because she had to be abrasive and tough and hard-edged and she had to be lovable.
I tried to accomplish this by having one loud abrasive note playing on repeat through the whole song from beginning to end!
His voice is a mellifluous yawp, at once abrasive and mesmerizing, with the dynamic range of a slain-in-the-Spirit preacher.
But Wolf and state lawmakers, both Republican and Democrat, had long been frustrated with Quigley's performance and his abrasive nature, StateImpact reports.
He landed the Manchester United job, despite some reservations about his abrasive style, because he is perceived as a guarantee of success.
The New Yorker described Bolton's reputation during his brief tenure at the UN as "abrasive but knowledgeable," often bristling with fellow diplomats.
Such assurances notwithstanding, Mr. Kasich is not ready to forsake his abrasive side entirely, holding it in reserve for the right moment.
Jesus Christ Bobby can appeal to those who love Converge and Coalesce—super fucking raw and abrasive in all the right ways.
We just pick horror movies because we're all fans of horror; we all choose subjects that are abrasive and make people uncomfortable.
Some Republicans also worry that Trump's abrasive style will turn off voters in suburban districts that could determine control of the House.
But the abrasive ugliness of the Purple Army's behavior can mask the underlying sense of isolation propelling many who join its ranks.
I had never watched a full game of football in my life, but still believed the stereotypes: Players were tough and abrasive.
The abrasive and entrenched nature of our current partisanship colors much of this, yet we also have to track how events unfold.
He reacted to his declining numbers by ratcheting up what worked before: becoming a louder, more extreme, more abrasive version of himself.
This time Alison approached Helen, rather than vice versa, and in Helen's mind, Alison was more clueless and abrasive but also stronger.
I teach my students that there's a fine line between assertiveness, which is good, and aggression, which is often seen as abrasive.
On TV, Levin always appears congenial, but, according to numerous accounts, when the cameras switch off he often turns abrasive and domineering.
For the uninitiated, cowpunk is the combination of punk elements—usually high tempo playing and abrasive vocals—with the storytelling of country music.
Although these ingredients effectively remove stains and plaque, they don't contain fluoride and are often abrasive, resulting in sensitive teeth and receding gums.
Ctrl follows Rihanna's Anti in constructing a model of R&B where sweet but uneasy songs are performed against abrasive, metallic, mechanized beats.
That is, before crushing insecurity creeps back in and his abrasive personality yet again threatens to chase away everyone who cares about him.
Just as crazy as an abrasive ex-reality TV star turned Republican carving a path to the White House through Michigan and Pennsylvania.
It can get aggressive, too: Crank up the output levels and marvel at the abrasive and distorted notes this Soviet beast churns out.
California's Republican leaders and donors would probably prefer to see less abrasive candidates on the ballot, but they tend to lose in primaries.
Truman's occasionally abrasive nature didn't win many fans — though his verbal gaffes remind me more of, say, Joe Biden than anyone more nefarious.
But Rebecca is also an abrasive, aggressive character, and her eyes often blaze with a fire that does not appear to be friendly.
A series of abrasive and provocative early plays, such as his debut "Shopping and Fucking" (1996), cemented his reputation as an enfant terrible.
"Toilet paper is very abrasive," so having a gentle stream of water could help soothe the pain and clean your body, she says.
That was the thing, because during the test we found out it's so abrasive they literally have to scrub it off of me.
The article made the case that Torvalds' abrasive personality disproportionately affected women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups within the Linux community.
The movie's shallow depth of field, drab palette and abrasive soundtrack exacerbate the sense that Sonia is trapped in a cold bureaucratic maze.
She has openly criticized her fans on Twitter for being abrasive or rude, and she has insisted on keeping her dating life private.
My love for the show has been strained by a day of abrasive personalities and aggressive product placement, but my addiction runs deep.
If they come across too aggressive (Mars can be abrasive), you can easily check them with a call in, not a call out.
While Allardyce is by far the more abrasive character, Steve Bruce seems to go a bit too easy on his players at times.
We hung out for a few days and that's when we heard the first EP, which was really different, really raw and abrasive.
Pitchfork, who reviewed the release, described it as "pointedly uncommercial and abrasive," noting Charli's decision to ditch mainstream sounds by employing underground producers.
And he knows something they did not a half-century ago, that history can act as sandpaper, smoothing abrasive denunciation into burnished acceptance.
"The very qualities that make him abrasive in ordinary interactions are serving him well now," wrote New York Times media columnist Ben Smith.
Unless you are friends with particularly abrasive PETA members, animal misery porn tends to stay confined to its own part of the internet.
Obama's "sassiness" in the book — an outspokenness that the first lady held in check after early criticism of her as angry or abrasive.
Harper recalled MTM executive Grant Tinker fighting to maintain those qualities in the face of early network concerns that Rhoda was too abrasive.
Thankfully, more nurturing, less abrasive friendships followed, allowing Rumi to compose the spiritually pantheistic, enigmatic, and witty work for which he is famous.
Trace amounts of beryllium are also found naturally in coal and copper slag used in abrasive blasting operations at shipyards and in construction.
Many cleaning agents use alcohol, ammonia, bleach, and other abrasive ingredients that can damage your phone's screen or even destroy the device entirely.
It works similar to a chemical exfoliator, clearing dead skin cells from your lips without the abrasive particles that can cause micro-tears.
You do it dry, so it's kind of abrasive, but I find it really makes a difference if you do it every day.
The material also can be found in coal slag, a component of some of the abrasive powders used in construction and shipyard work.
Yet the tie between Strasbourg's town hall and its religious authorities points to a less abrasive link between the political and the spiritual.
" — James Madison, 1822 "There is a terrific disadvantage not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily, to an administration.
What's followed has been an unusually abrasive, bare-knuckle courtroom strategy, according to former prosecutors and defense attorneys who spoke with VICE News.
Frisée I don't have to explain to you why frisée is bad, but here's a reminder just in case: it's an abrasive tumbleweed.
The spirit is generally fast, loud, and abrasive, but it can be basically anything from in-and-around the world of machine music.
Having come from Amazon, where the culture was numbers-driven and competitive, he says, Medina initially came across as "a bit abrasive" at Microsoft.
As abrasive and disorienting as these tracks can be, the end goal for Amobi is to push past sheer revulsion and communicate revolutionary ideals.
Haley fought against what she called anti-Israel bias at the United Nations, and sometimes seemed to be channeling Trump's abrasive style of diplomacy.
Many argued that walnut shell powder is too abrasive and can cause micro-tears in the skin (it can, a dermatologist previously told PEOPLE).
Less abrasive than the clear comparison point, Kanye West's Yeezus, the beats gave him plenty of room to wiggle his lyrics around and through.
Those dreams may not long survive contact with reality: America does not need a presidential contest between two vain, thin-skinned, abrasive New Yorkers.
The songs could be noisy and abrasive, but they'd shift on a dime toward something that, against all odds, was actually kind of catchy.
It gushed about the gentle delights of ale and milky tea while paying little heed to the abrasive, diverse, individualistic character of Britain today.
"Stop using harsh abrasive mechanical exfoliators (basically, Clarisonic-type brushes and face scrubs) as these can cause damage to the skin," says Dr. Mahto.
The album before it was a bit more abrasive and I wanted to make something you could put on for sleep and vibe to.
Uber Movement is part of the company's wider plan to mollify regulators by sharing valuable data with them after years of abrasive business tactics.
He went on leave and apologized, telling the paper that his behavior "can accurately be described at times as abrasive, rude and frankly wrong."
A bass-heavy trap track, "Check" might have fit perfectly on Carti's excellent new album Die Lit if it was a bit more abrasive.
He's a much less abrasive presence on the show and in public, coming off as unassuming and affable, if not overly warm and friendly.
And salt is also abrasive, not to mention contraindicated for people with high blood pressure or otherwise on a low-sodium diet, Messina says.
Maybe it will be exploring that while also continuing to push the poles of what sounds really abrasive and what sounds saccharine and sweet.
Despite her abrasive public manner, some Democrats say she takes a different approach when it comes to getting things done at the committee level.
"She was very abrasive," I said about Carly Fiorina to a room full of female family members after one of the 2016 Republican debates.
The episode is a showcase for Constance Zimmer: Quinn visibly swallows her frustration, and straddles the line between being abrasive and going Full Chet.
You MUST use only non-abrasive cleaning tools and products on the 18/10 stainless steel that coats this ban (same goes for knives).
And if you're friendly, or if you simply don't like being abrasive – find your own style, because you can't lead in someone else's clothes.
The micro-bead technology gives just the right amount of abrasive power to remove burned-on food and grease but doesn't scratch the surface.
I tested the QALO ring in a gym-climbing session and found that it stood up to the sweat, chalk, and abrasive materials well.
Don't use metal scouring pads or abrasive cleaners in order to avoid scratching the stainless steel's surface (unless you aren't too concerned about aesthetics).
The other is the 61-year-old's abrasive personality, the fact that he has been in power before and the judicial investigations targeting him.
Quotidian anxiety may not seem like the stuff of rock drama, but the weary, abrasive lurch of these condensed miniatures captures a contemporary mood.
It's supposed to be abrasive, it's supposed to be some shit you supposed to not listen to around your fucking mom and your grandma.
Unfortunately, it turns out that Viv, whose abrasive cleanliness leaps out at Julia when they first meet, is also (you guessed it) a virgin.
His discontent with trying to manage the unmanageable House Republican Conference was well known around Washington, and the abrasive Trumpian style left him cold.
But as Anne Helen Petersen points out, the work women do to prove themselves fighters often then gets them dismissed as aggressive or abrasive.
Today, 232 deaf employees are on the production line at the factory, Granit Abrasive, which churns out cutting-and-polishing tool parts for export.
There's nothing wrong with that, necessarily — jokes don't always need to be abrasive or topical — except that the movie isn't quite silly enough either.
As the two settle into a gently abrasive relationship, "In My Room" adamantly refuses to swerve into romance or clearly establish the couple's feelings.
While he attracts men and traditionalists, he's seen as abrasive and impersonable -- and out of touch with the way Merkel has updated the CDU.
Uber saw customers delete its app in response to sexual harassment charges as well as other complaints about an abrasive, aggressive culture and actions.
Taking a two-second pause can make you more approachable, he says, since preventing others from finishing their thoughts typically comes off as abrasive.
And everyone in baseball had a bone to pick with Durocher, who was one of the most abrasive personalities of that or any era.
" It also suggests card-holders avoid putting the card "in a pocket or bag that contains loose change, keys, or other potentially abrasive objects.
Yet the abrasive textures that made listening to Wolf Eyes at times a visceral experience are sublimated into subtly atonal sweeps stippled with sharp edges.
Sloughing off dead skin is essential in winter, but it's critical that you shelve gritty scrubs in favor of non-abrasive cream and gel versions.
His integrity problems, coupled with an abrasive management style and an overly cozy relationship with Moscow, simply made him a bad choice for the job.
Minaj said that while some people may characterize her as being "abrasive or bitchy or whatever," that attitude comes from her attempting to protect herself.
"At times, [shapers'] extreme determination to achieve their goals can make them appear abrasive or inconsiderate, which was reflected in their test results," Dalio writes.
The more divisive Sarkozy has been dogged by legal issues and by lingering voter distaste for the abrasive style that marked his 2007-2012 presidency.
While some might find his unapologetically abrasive and inappropriate tendencies unappealing, it's hard to deny that he's incredibly skilled at having insightful and engaging interviews.
The Body's incredibly abrasive new full-length release, No One Deserves Happiness really takes the cake, though, in terms of harnessing that perpetual black mood.
Also like the EO1, the display has a matte finish in an effort to make its screen less abrasive and more pleasing to the eye.
Swedish synthpop auteurs the Knife broke up in 2014 after releasing their willfully abrasive and passionately angry double-album Shaking the Habitual the year before.
But things got much more abrasive from there, with Sanders often using sarcasm as his weapon of choice as a stony-faced Clinton looked on.
They demand that people do things simply because the boss requires it, or act abrasive and standoffish to show that they're in a senior position.
Australia and India are major exporters of garnet sand, which is crushed to make an abrasive material used in sandblasting and by water-jet cutters.
The music was loud and abrasive, a far cry from the sweeping melodies of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy or the decadent Watch the Throne.
The internet-driven scene tends to embrace harsh and abrasive sounds, but as it grows in prominence, the subculture is broadening its palette as well.
The original "Murphy Brown" was a cultural milestone, and Ms. Bergen's acid performance as a brilliant, abrasive TV journalist was a classic of the form.
A mild abrasive like Soft Scrub is a good product for these kinds of messes, as is our old friend the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser.
Mr. Parsons, who plays Sheldon Cooper, a brilliant, abrasive and hopelessly dorky physicist, has won the Emmy for best actor in a comedy four times.
By this time he was becoming known for his abrasive style, cutting down colleagues with withering remarks or saddling some of them with derisive names.
As hulking and imposing as the buildings it surveys, this book weighs seven and a half pounds, and its cover is flecked with abrasive sandpaper.
Like Dendritic Arbor and Knelt Rote before them, the trio draw from the most abrasive qualities of each discipline in order to inflict maximum damage.
Coconut oil and aloe vera have anti-inflammatory properties, while charcoal can help remove stains, though it may be abrasive if used daily, he said.
Although this method worked for me, Apple advises not to use sharp or abrasive objects when cleaning AirPods, so do so at your own risk.
Luckily for viewers, the move to warmer climes doesn't make her any less uptight, controlling and clueless or him any less angry, abrasive and insecure.
There was a philosophical kinship between these phallic feminists and this first major generation of queer artists, who were all representing anatomy in abrasive ways.
Where "Sociopath" boasts bass-heavy and abrasive arrangements, the production here is a soulful and breezy throwback to West's production work from the mid-aughts.
Still, his personality has been so broad and abrasive in previous episodes that I'm grateful for the new complexity, even if it feels somewhat inconsistent.
They pointed to a smart but sometimes abrasive figure facing growing legal and financial problems at least in part caused by his involvement with bitcoin.
Lakers 121, Knicks 107 The groaning, abrasive jeers rang out through Madison Square Garden midway into the second quarter, casting shame all over the Knicks.
And Barstool has found an owner that is unlikely to be worried about its brand and content, which is both popular and oftentimes intentionally abrasive.
The outspoken O'Leary has in recent years tried to soften Ryanair's abrasive public image, fearing it could be counter-productive for Europe's most profitable airline.
Beshear also focused on Bevin's at-times abrasive personality, which contributed to his low poll numbers, even in a state Trump carried by 30 points.
Ms. Gerring came nearest; her "Duet" was the evening's most remarkable and most experimental piece, and Ms. Webber's score, sometimes abrasive, showed a kindred spirit.
Admiring Shaw's game from afar and coveting that abrasive element, the Canadiens traded for him last summer and signed him to a six-year contract.
THUMP: When I was listening to the EP, I noticed there's an abrasive quality to some of the songs, was that inspired by your surroundings?
The scrub uses crushed walnut as a physical exfoliant, which many fans claim is too abrasive on the skin and can cause more harm than good.
I've listened to it every couple days for the past two months, riding the dynamism of its abrasive pillars of sound and moments of reflective reverie.
"I put the odds on the two abrasive personalities not getting along," argues David Shirk, an expert on Mexican affairs at the University of San Diego.
Having just finished recording their second album, the band have admitted to self-censoring and covering less abrasive topics to get the new songs past authorities.
Mr Emanuel, once chief of staff for President Barack Obama and close to the Clintons, is an abrasive figure with no strong base of local support.
A few precursors, mostly from the past decade, are evident, in particular the abrasive maximalism of Sleigh Bells and the dinky concept-pop of PC Music.
Besides, then you'll always have a loud and abrasive suit to wear the next time you want to passive-aggressively protest your friend's wedding or whatever.
Apple states the card can easily be damaged from contact with abrasive materials and even certain fabrics like leather and denim, which may cause permanent discoloration.
In a series of studies, it found airborne beryllium concentrations of more than 40 times the new permissible exposure limit during coal slag abrasive blasting operations.
He and the magazine peaked by 1950, overtaken by his own obsession with dianetics and psionics and his abrasive personality that alienated Heinlein, Asimov, and others.
"Some of them were nice, and some were rather abrasive," she said, adding "attacking my decisions is probably not the best way" to change her mind.
To her, it's less a balancing act of external pressures, and more about finding your voice, regardless of how abrasive its sound may be to others.
Social media is starting to become a strange mix of the abrasive and the censorious, of which the CNN wrestling story is a rather good illustration.
He's rude and abrasive to everyone else in his life (even telling a stranger kind enough to give him a ride, "You are like blood cancer").
They fit in nicely, not only with their brand of dissonant, abrasive avant-metal, but by also conforming with the label's dark aesthetic and outsider vibe.
To use it elsewhere on your boat, work it into a lather within a rag so that it's not as abrasive, especially on high-gloss areas.
BEN RATLIFF To remake Rihanna's tale of sexual power imbalance, "Needed Me," the Canadian producer ATTLAS opens with soft piano figures cut with abrasive industrial noises.
"Signs of Life," whose death-march bassline is repeated exactly by an abrasive horn section, epitomizes a cramped strain that is now the band's operative mode.
Mr. Stiller, lean as a greyhound and gray around the temples, occupies the volatile middle ground between decent fellow and abrasive jerk, between adequacy and failure.
Mr. Cuomo was once considered a bit player on the national stage, an abrasive presence who made his share of enemies among his Democratic Party peers.
You see this perhaps most clearly in her positive reviews, which maintained that she was not abrasive or feminist, as if that would scare away audiences.
He dragged himself closer and closer to me, until I felt the harsh velvet of his head against my hand, then a tongue, abrasive as sandpaper.
Imagine that: a great, warm, wet, abrasive tongue licking off skin after skin, down to the bottommost one, which starts to sprout shiny little animal hairs.
Weinholtz said the OSHA defined its exclusions from the rule so narrowly that there are few substances without beryllium that can be used in abrasive blasting.
His wild, abrasive and improbably delicate performance is what makes "Gold" watchable, even if the rest of the movie doesn't supply sufficient reason to keep watching.
And though the chief of staff can be a compelling performer before the cameras, he can also be abrasive -- as witnessed when he went after Rep.
For that reason, Apple says you should avoid cleaning products and abrasive materials that could affect the coating and make your iPhone more vulnerable to scratches.
The board of Planned Parenthood fired Dr. Wen, 36, in July after sharp disagreements over what officials there described as her abrasive and flawed management style.
"There's a growing consensus that the beryllium rule was erroneously expanded to include the entire abrasive blasting industry without any evidence to justify it," it said.
In her recent piece for the River to River Festival, "june2019/\" — raw and abrasive yet not without humor — Ms. Michelson used her body as a canvas.
Its post-first-round survey said 13 percent of those who voted for Fillon did it to keep the abrasive ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy from winning.
Abrasive blasting in particular is already subject to over two dozen OSHA rules governing worker safety, including preventative measures to avoid undue exposure to airborne chemicals.
Notoriously hot-headed, Flynn was reportedly pushed out of the same job that he held under Obama because he was abrasive and worked against the President's policy.
For example, in their performance reviews 66% of women received negative feedback on matters of personal style -- such as being abrasive -- while only 1% of men did.
Pairing lo-fi, downer-pop riffs, and abrasive electronics with melodies that are both romantic and eerie, they could have been plucked from Olympia in the 90s.
RYANAIR, Europe's largest low-cost airline is known for three things: affordable fares, a record of punctuality and the abrasive personality of its chief executive, Michael O'Leary.
Officials in China are slightly obsessed with the president's chief trade adviser, Peter Navarro, an abrasive academic who would like to decouple the Chinese and American economies.
By changing its icon to something rounder, the app seems less abrasive — who wants to press their thumb onto something with all those hard edges and corners?
Dr. Veytsman says that she doesn't just love this formula because of the great flavor, but because it's non-abrasive, fights cavities, and buffs away stains — fast.
When their performance is reviewed, Ms Criado Perez argues that women are criticised for being bossy, abrasive or strident, whereas men are encouraged to be more aggressive.
The students seemed embarrassed at being prompted to take in their surroundings, which included a lot of phallic art, posters of almost-naked women, and abrasive graffiti.
"Ash and aircraft do not mix, as volcanic ash is abrasive, melts at jet engine temperatures, and can cause engine failure," the United States Geological Survey says.
When GAZI opens, it's more abrasive, but as you keep going, it blooms, so when you get to the end it's totally different from where it started.
Which is to say, "Flies" is two-and-a-half minutes long, features very little screaming (which, to clarify, is not no screaming) and isn't bloodcurdlingly abrasive.
Luke Sullivan (aka "Chocula" in World of Warcraft ): At the time, Goon Squads in other games had a well-deserved reputation of being huge, disorganized, and abrasive.
Mr. Davutoglu, a bookish and professorial counterweight to the brash and abrasive Mr. Erdogan, agreed in 2014 to be prime minister when Mr. Erdogan was elected president.
Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump's new campaign chief and an old-guard Republican strategist, has eclipsed the abrasive Corey Lewandowski and his nonnegotiable "Let Trump Be Trump" approach.
It now makes its way creating drugs for space travelers, while an abrasive and eccentric scholar named Long Chau looks for a body for a scientific study.
Its view of human error is rarely less than abrasive, and most of the adult characters, visible and invisible, are enmeshed in a hell of good intentions.
DJ Mustard's trademark bounce is indebted to the Bay Area's raucous hyphy movement—a wave of abrasive, early-aughts party rap recorded in defiance of mainstream trends.
But Musk has also become an increasingly divisive figure, as his candid, sometimes abrasive manner has built a loyal fanbase while also attracting lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny.
With her Rimbaud-inspired poetry, adventurously personal songwriting, abrasive alien-like voice, and her impressive Lenny Kaye-featuring band, few were making music as daring as Smith.
The comedian Lewis Black, known for his abrasive, expletive-laden style of stand-up, appears regularly on late night talk shows and has released 12 comedy albums.
But his vocal — at times abrasive — advocacy for privacy and anti-surveillance measures often put him at odds with Yahoo's leadership, including the chief executive, Marissa Mayer.
A lot of people, they ask me, you know, a guy from Wisconsin, what's it like to work with an abrasive New Yorker with a loud mouth?
Using the non-abrasive wheel cleaner and tire shineNext, I addressed my wheels and tires with — you guessed it — the Wheel Cleaner ($14.90) and Tire Shine ($14.90).
After 10 years, they will participate in a kind of livestock beauty pageant, overseen by a popular television veterinarian played by an antic and abrasive Jake Gyllenhaal.
In below-freezing temperatures and against an abrasive wind, they read out the names of 24 women and girls they say have gone missing or been killed.
It may not sound exactly like a comedy, but it has its moments, thanks in part to Applegate playing Jen in such an outrageously abrasive, insensitive manner.
But former Conservative cabinet minister Sayeeda Warsi said Gove's words on unifying the nation in his Spectator column were somewhat at odds with his sometimes abrasive style.
A number of pro-Beijing heavyweights including Junius Ho, whose abrasive public comments have made him a hate-figure among many protesters, lost to pro-democracy challengers.
American literature — and American comic-book literature in particular — hardly lacks for disaffected, middle-age white guys, but Wilson has his own special brand of abrasive charm.
The work in Lightning Speak, which illustrates issues of Native American representation and humanity's state of existence in relation to landscape, is at once graceful and abrasive.
The selection of John Sununu, the abrasive governor of New Hampshire, as White House Chief of Staff, alienated some Bush associates who refused to serve under him.
Trump won the White House with an abrasive promise to incite disruption and to destroy the political elites he blames for what he sees as a national crisis.
He manages to solve the dispute, but notes that not being as abrasive as his brother would have been may only make the solution a temporary band-aid.
It also seems to overlook the fact that female Republicans who are turned off by Trump's sexist rhetoric and abrasive style are already on the Stop Trump bandwagon.
" The document says the team then played "loud abrasive music" and left Abu Zubaydah "sitting on the floor naked for an hour to ponder and reconsider his situation.
Jeezy's trap-honed nasal tones hold down the album's final track, "Right Back," and bring a refreshingly abrasive touch to the overall slickness of Quality Street Music 2.
This music is barely less abrasive than the darker, creepier, less melodic Summertime '06, and the album's sharp lines and ominous, suggestively empty spaces fit his established template.
And this isn't the first time she's tagged someone to ask them to stop using fur (it's a much less abrasive approach than the route PETA typically takes).
Since launching his long shot campaign last summer, the often abrasive Trump has repeatedly touted his ability to run an efficient campaign without taking big contributions from donors.
Other figures like a dislocated astronaut and an abrasive gorilla frequently appear, the former often following and observing the older man as he is visiting his own past.
"Ash and aircraft do not mix, as volcanic ash is abrasive, melts at jet engine temperatures, and can cause engine failure," according to the United States Geological Survey.
"I want to get this to the point where people have it in their hands, they can plug it in their computer," said Dr. Abrasive in the video.
The latter is an abrasive, industrial clash of hip-hop beats and hardcore grunts; it sounds like a B L A C K I E track played underwater.
Shot on black-and-white film with a foreboding drone and static-filled score by Flying Lotus that gets very abrasive, it's as gorgeous as it is unnerving.
Throughout the film's five-act structure (think Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs script, but even more claustrophobic), Becky's substance abuse and abrasive personality sabotage her attempt at a comeback.
As Trump looked for a more aggressive approach to the Russia probe, he sought solace in his old friend "Rudy," who had a similarly abrasive and volatile style.
Or whether he believes that increasingly abrasive debates dividing the Jewish community about the occupation of the West Bank and the expansion of settlements are the greater problem.
He has since delved into ever more unexpected sources, sometimes abrasive and sometimes lavish; the sample credits on a Kanye West album are always far-flung and enlightening.
There was a lot of talk about how Trump's abrasive rhetoric, attack on health care, and aggressive immigration enforcement might drive away this group, and it certainly has.
When women and people of color are stereotypically viewed as loud, abrasive, brassy, or even threatening when they speak up, it's natural to worry that you will, too.
Alarmed at the rise of the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe League, a group of four friends created the Sardines movement in November to challenge Salvini's often abrasive message.
It was the latest sign of the abrasive former lawyer hinting at taking decisive measures, then later ruling them out, adding to concerns in Washington about his volatility.
The Doctor is a beacon of goodness, and that's why he can survive all these different permutations — an abrasive character or an avuncular character or a strange character.
Grenell, who has a reputation for sometimes being abrasive, has been adamantly loyal to Trump at a time when the Republican president remains skeptical about the intelligence community.
Grenell, who has a reputation for sometimes being abrasive, has been adamantly loyal to Trump at a time when the Republican president remains skeptical about the intelligence community.
Gene Simmons' oldest son is coming to his dad's defense -- sort of -- calling him a cheater, egomaniac and sometimes abrasive ... but saying he's absolutely not a sexual abuser.
Cruz, despite being disliked by almost all his Senate colleagues because of his abrasive personality and go-it-alone legislative tactics, is running a more conventionally conservative campaign.
Their breakthrough hit, which is also their only fabulous song, 2014's "#Selfie," stands as an anomaly in their catalog for its energetically abrasive beat and spoken vocals.
To do so, voters would have to set aside their unease with, among other things, their governor's abrasive style, which includes portraying striking teachers as accessories to child molestation.
He was known throughout Goldman for his direct and abrasive manner in dealing with colleagues, although he has become more polished in recent years, current and former executives said.
On a sonic level, the record offers something complex while still remaining warm and inviting, feeling a bit abrasive at times but steadfast in its commitment to being balanced.
At Vine and subsequently at Twitter, Kroll gained a reputation for exhibiting "creepy" behavior around women, as well as being a bad manager with an "abrasive" and "abusive" temperament.
This style permeated commercial images, and even showed up in the fashion world, as clothing brands like Tapout and Affliction became popular for their abrasive and pre-distressed designs.
In addition, the absence of further abrasive rhetoric by U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un helped bring investors back to the dollar, analysts said.
That may explain why few came to Trump's defense, save for his loyal deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in an abrasive encounter with the White House press corps.
Cookie is displeased: once again, her hate for Lucious has brewed into a tea flavored of love and yearning, while he is back to square one: jaded, uninterested, abrasive.
"Not only is Trump unlikely to seal a deal until the end of February but the rhetoric gets more abrasive the closer he gets to the deadline," he said.
As an edgier and more abrasive successor to Seinfeld, the series followed a fictionalized version of David dealing with his home life, success, and the general bizarreness of Hollywood.
It's his most accessible release yet—with songs as immediate as the plaintive and mournful "Hope" and the disquieting "Crime"—but at other moments, his weirdest and most abrasive.
At one point, an abstract, texture-obsessed drum solo led somehow into the Duke Ellington ballad "(In My) Solitude," which Mr. Ribot played with a touch of abrasive twang.
The abrasive style of the song and its criticisms is what led many parents to accuse the group of inserting satanic messages in their music to brainwash their children.
Several years later, while working at the vaunted, glossy Our State magazine that celebrates North Carolina, Quine and her coworker Andy Busam launched the witty and visually abrasive cookoutmilkshakereviews.com.
According to one source familiar with her private discussions, she could be somewhat abrasive with UN ambassadors as she tried to secure their support for acknowledging the new capital.
The board fired Kentley-Klay because of what is described to me as an abrasive and uncompromising personality, not about any sort of fraud, misappropriated funds or sexual harassment.
What originally drew me to Washington as a kid was its musical history, particularly that of D.C. hardcore, which is a politically abrasive genre, but also a diffuse one.
Rob Corddry plays Joe Krutel, an abrasive but endearing Miami-based financial adviser savvy enough to hire Spencer Strasmore (Dwayne Johnson), a former player with relationships ripe for monetization.
Sarkozy's abrasive style and judicial woes had dogged his ratings for months, together with disappointment even among party sympathizers with his five years in office, from 2007 to 2012.
Still, as someone who occasionally enjoys Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, the abrasive character created by Robert Smigel, who wrote and directed "The Week Of," I was still curious.
The comic and tragic are in this staging cut from the same abrasive cloth, with crowd scenes that quickly turn threatening and characters who lurk moodily on the edges.
"The so-called attorney general is abrasive, evasive and unpersuasive," said Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the No. 5 House Democrat and a member of the Judiciary Committee.
Far more ambitious than a movie theme has to be, and far more abrasive, "Black Panther" celebrates a broad African heritage over a track that broods, stomps and bristles.
Many do not like President Trump's tweets or his abrasive manner but see that he delivers what he promises and that his policies have helped revive a stagnant economy.
"Not only is Trump unlikely to seal a deal until the end of February but the rhetoric gets more abrasive the closer he gets to the deadline," Phipps said.
Mr. Netanyahu has had abrasive relationships with some international leaders, including President Barack Obama, particularly over his championing of settlement expansion and his efforts to thwart Iran's nuclear program.
A drummer renowned for his muscle sounds downright modest compared to Brötzmann's corrosive sax and Sharrock's abrasive guitar, but Baker's hard-hitting detonations keep this improv grounded on Earth.
Laden with abrasive pieces of flint dissolved from the chalk, the waterfalls scoured out vast holes in the bedrock beneath, some 450 feet deep and several miles in length.
Wild Country used Dura Weave fabric in the harness that proved to be both flexible and durable despite my attempts to grate it against Joshua Tree's most abrasive chimneys.
In a story published in January, Reuters described how the effort to weaken the beryllium rule was driven by a small industry – manufacturers of coal-based abrasive blasting grits.
The rule explicitly precluded workers exposed to extremely low levels of airborne beryllium, such as those performing abrasive blasting work with coal slag in the construction and shipyards industries.
Mr. Wu, easily recognized by his shaven head and goatee, relied on social media, a wide and fluid network of online supporters and abrasive mockery to spread his message.
The timely record by the cool rap mom is used as a catalyst for her to reclaim her abrasive rap persona and discuss her own experiences with sexual violence.
Don Rickles, the comedian who pioneered an abrasive (but hilarious) breed of in-your-face humor and inspired a generation of imitators, has died at 90 of kidney failure.
Dismissing the stubborn aesthetics of many punk guitarists of his time, Thompson hops into hypnotic solos after charring listeners' skin with an abrasive mix of hardcore and prototypical death metal.
Broadrick's focus on Head of David led to the dissolution of Fall of Because, but, wanting to engineer more abrasive sounds, he soon diverged from Head of David as well.
Heidecker and Turkington have helped shape a lively niche of modern comedy through their various projects, including shows like Heidecker's Tim & Eric and Turkington's abrasive anti-comedic persona Neil Hamburger.
Or, like so many female stars who've attempted to change the conversation about them, would she be labeled difficult, or ungrateful, or abrasive, or annoying in an entirely different way?
Violent, grotesque, and abrasive imagery isn't usually the subject of textile art, but the focus of a new group show in LA is quite the opposite of its title—SOFT.
It was sad for me to see that the really talented, aggressive, abrasive people were very successful at Telltale, whereas a lot of the quieter, collaborative creative people were leaving.
Or how "Positive Tension," a song that might sound like abrasive post punk to a passing listener, has some of the most tender, romantic chords buried between its spiky verses.
Support for the PD has eroded steadily over the past two years, with prolonged budget austerity and Renzi's abrasive leadership style grating with voters in the eurozone's third largest economy.
The cry from surrogates, fundraisers and operatives close to the campaign is simple: be the strong conservative you are and execute an abrasive, scorched-earth campaign battle against Donald Trump.
" Friedman agrees, saying that abrasive grooming techniques can "damage the skin barrier as well as unroof the moll scum papule, allowing for the virus to pass through the skin barrier.
She faces the same bind women face every day: Call the actions out and be viewed as hostile and abrasive, or don't call them out and leave these actions unchallenged.
More broadly, Bill Shorten, the Labor leader, intends to campaign on a theme that Mr Turnbull is merely a smoother version of the abrasive Mr Abbott, but just as unfair.
Fears spread that the EU, which had found in Mr Davutoglu a sensible interlocutor and a channel to bypass his abrasive boss, would lose its appetite for engaging with Turkey.
Dry toilet paper can be abrasive, so if someone wipes too hard or too many times, the thin and delicate skin on your anus can tear, causing bleeding or pain.
After spending a day crack climbing and shoving my hands and wrists into abrasive granite, I need a beer but I don't really need to scuff up my wrists again.
She is that rare celluloid creation: a female antihero — abrasive, not asking to be liked and destined to not be saved by a man (though she brims with romantic longing).
But when that routine becomes interrupted—either by personal issues or by losing track of who will be where and what center is open that night—the process becomes abrasive.
Harrison and Young have a history of acrimony, and Harrison is known on the tour for his aggressive and abrasive manner, often incurring the ire of opponents and tournament officials.
But several doctors who worked under Dr. Baselga said in interviews that he had an abrasive style and created a culture where ties to industry were not kept in check.
It was the first of about 20 times I would sit down with the Apple boss, and I hadn't yet got the memo that he was famously abrasive with journalists.
United Steelworkers (USW) is arguing in the case that alternative materials like glass beads or walnut shells can be used in abrasive blasting to eliminate the risk of beryllium exposure.
The absence of further abrasive rhetoric by U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over the weekend helped bring investors back to the dollar, analysts said.
Bailey's lawyers said his abrasive personality, as well as his claims to have had information about the murder, contributed to the journalist and poet ending up being suspected of murder.
It is less abrasive than Mr. Larraín's Chilean trilogy, and less intensely focused than "Jackie," his new English-language film about Jacqueline Kennedy in the aftermath of her husband's assassination.
Armed with abrasive shrieks and some of the most impressive heavy drumming ever committed to tape, Let Pain Be Your Guide is perhaps the most devastating hardcore release in years.
The shapes and words hover beneath this thin, gauzy sheen of paint that appears rough and abrasive — like you'd skin your knee on the surface if you fell on it.
Most recently, I've been trying to figure out my own way of confronting people about my pronouns that's in a gentle, affirming, and encouraging way instead of in an abrasive way.
He was meant to be, as Wolf puts it, an "abrasive, somewhat funny take on the fact that" CrossFit was good for you, but could be taken too far, dangerously so.
They also know that his rap is abrasive and anti-social in an era of insipid displays of corporate treacle that many people simply don't believe and find insulting to boot.
In my mind, it meant I was keeping things light, which must mean everything's OK. In many cases, I also add "lol" to a message to make it sound less abrasive.
While many often viewed him as angry and abrasive, I saw a caring and devoted family man who would have quite literally gone to any length for his children and grandchildren.
" Sheinkopf, himself a New Yorker, also said of Giuliani that "his style, which is quite New York — bombastic, abrasive and glib — is not playing well in the rest of the nation.
The production feels, at different moments, like a domestic comedy, an abrasive political satire and the kind of spooky tale of delusion that might have starred the late-career Bette Davis.
The rule "imposed complex and costly regulations on abrasive blasters, despite no evidence of any beryllium-related illness in the history of the industry," it said in a statement to Reuters.
Some wheel cleaners are highly abrasive and I'd hate for them to ruin the clear coat, polished lips, or 24-karat gold-plated pieces I have on some of my cars.
The Abrasive Blasting Manufacturers Alliance, an industry group formed by companies that sell coal slag, including the Harsco Corporation, had argued there was no evidence linking its use to beryllium disease.
"The Pictures Generation" has become a ubiquitous, awkward catchall term, probably abrasive to the artists themselves, for something that was less an organized movement than a heterogeneous expression of a zeitgeist.
The initial reaction from Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, in a phone call last week, was "quite abrasive," Mr. Blok said, though Mr. Lavrov promised to study the evidence presented.
A strong Trump supporter with a reputation for sometimes being abrasive, Grenell has been a lightning rod for controversy during his post in Germany due to his unorthodox style of diplomacy.
"This whole idea that John is a bomb thrower or you know, abrasive and that sort of thing, just isn't true," attorney Robert O'Brien said Wednesday on Hugh Hewitt's radio show.
"The Good Place," on NBC, stars Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop, an abrasive young dead woman who, thanks to a clerical error, is sent to the heavenly afterlife of the title.
Don't be afraid to present bold ideas Say what you will about his socialism or his sometimes-abrasive personality, but Sanders is a politician who believes in putting forward big ideas.
It's a quiet, haunted track that pushes to a thrilling, screeching finale, aided by backing vocals from the Pasefika Vitoria Choir and a warped, abrasive beat from Joel Ma, aka Joelistics.
"Backseat" is a compendium of abrasive, constantly moving electric gears, hissing and squeaking, always threatening to malfunction or combust — warped guitars, random shrieks and squawks, bleepy synthesizers scraped against a chalkboard.
Around the same time, Olympia's Milk Music had released their Beyond Living EP, Tampa's Merchandise were exploring abrasive fuzz, and in the Arizona desert, Ryan Rousseau was tinkering with his Destruction Unit.
" Simpson told CNBC there were two gems he and his friend lived by: "Hatred corrodes the container it's carried in" and "humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life.
Instead, grains of moon dust — which are largely the products of micrometeorite impacts — remain sharp and abrasive and can easily slice into an astronaut&aposs lung cells if breathed in too deeply.
The general public probably does not know him as well as does the Republican base, but his abrasive personality and strident conservatism do not make him a particularly attractive general election candidate.
While some bands delved into post-hardcore, emo, and less abrasive punk subgenres, Youth Brigade stayed true to hardcore, making short, loud, and fast songs that were finished in under 90 seconds.
" On Schumer "A lot of people, they ask me, you know, a guy from Wisconsin, what's it like to work on a daily basis with an abrasive New Yorker with a loudmouth?
Sure, he is abrasive and awkward, thin-skinned and often embarrassing, and any credible, experienced, articulate and slightly left-of-center Democratic candidate could seize the middle, attract independents and surely win.
In January and February when the lake has frozen over and abrasive winter winds have polished the ice, visitors can peer through a window into one of Earth's most mesmerizing natural prisons.
Instead of his usual grand poetic narratives, the songs on side one feel like short, nihilistic vignettes, full of sharp repetitive guitar riffs, robotic bleeps, abrasive cymbal bangs, and simple keyboard playing.
If you do this, however, be sure to use a clean toothbrush and wipe the case gently to avoid any damage, since Apple says not to clean the case with abrasive materials.
Fans and critics, focused on her few abrasive responses to her public image, missed the emotional heart of Reputation, which is otherwise a lovely, reflective album about settling into an adult relationship.
Mr. Friedman, who has disputed some accusations but apologized for behavior that he called "abrasive, rude and frankly wrong," immediately stepped away from all business operations but kept his six-figure salary.
She does such a tremendous job balancing Kat's complicated personality, all her spirit and fire, with her charm and wit and abrasive likability, and above all her insistence on her own autonomy.
Poetic and peculiar, the track is mixed with minimalist synths, echoing vocals and a collection of non-abrasive saxophones that appear as synthetic and eerie as every other instrument on the record.
Skin whitening treatments in the Kingdom range from injections people get at local markets to serums, powders, pills, abrasive skin peels, and an untold number of creams, both brand name and counterfeit.
Despite playing to a relatively small crowd, Tres Leches went all out, their wonky, melodic, bilingual punk providing an abrasive counterpoint to some of the more straightforward wares being shown at Treefort.
Travis Kalanick announced that he would step aside as Uber's chief executive for an unspecified period of time, as the firm endorsed the recommendations from an independent review into its abrasive corporate culture.
But when the woman asks Bailey to thank Alex for her, the chief realizes Alex can be an abrasive jerk, but he's still a talented doctor who's a fierce advocate for his patients.
Founded by Jeff Mills, "Mad" Mike Banks, and later Robert Hood, the Motor City group's aesthetic was—and still is—fueled by abrasive soundscapes that hint at an anger towards the status quo.
The size, shape, and elasticity of a toothbrush's bristles can be precisely modified and tested in the simulator, but so can the size, shape, and quantity of the abrasive particles in a toothpaste.
One product in the collection, the Walnut Face Scrub, uses crushed walnut as a physical exfoliant, which many fans claim is too abrasive on the skin and can cause more harm than good.
Unlike some daily peel pads, their texture isn't at all abrasive, and though AHAs are included (via sugar cane, bilberry, lemon, and other extracts), the exfoliating solution doesn't make skin tingle upon contact.
It opened on an abrasive alcoholic and her deeply ingrained trauma, on a double homicide of parents by their daughter, and Marvel's most fearsome small screen villain, if not an all-time contender.
Weaver is reportedly unpopular with younger staff, who took umbrage with his abrasive leadership style and his perceived disregard for the digital campaigning that made Sanders a surprise threat to Hillary Clinton's bid.
Before the products even got in the hands of customers, the internet slammed Jenner for creating a face scrub with crushed walnut shell powder, which some say is too abrasive for the skin.
"FULL-COVER INSURANCE" Analysts said Juppe's nomination was not in the bag — Sarkozy has managed to brush aside other judicial woes — but a comeback for the abrasive ex-president was looking increasingly unlikely.
Although Mr Karolyi had a rare ability to coax an extra ounce of effort out of his athletes, his leadership style was relentlessly abrasive, provoking run-ins with officials, parents and gymnasts themselves.
A swashbuckling and abrasive political trickster for decades, Mr. Stone, 67, has been repeatedly rebuked for flouting the prohibitions on pretrial publicity set by Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is overseeing the case.
Also key to Jen's pleasant brand of likability: The fact that she has never been overtly political, antagonistic, or abrasive in her interactions with the press, her fans, or her fellow A-listers.
I'm curious to know what the brief was for this, the most abrasive composition in living memory, but it's safe to assume the words "toon" and "shots" appeared in bold and all-caps.
She rebuffs him, and Greg's evening turns into one of abrasive frustration as he verbally jousts with his driver and a group of women he picks up with the limo later that evening.
And if you have some particularly tough grime or oil, a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser (or other melamine sponge) can also work wonders, though it should be a last resort since it's abrasive.
After the Times report was published, Mr. Friedman said that "some incidents were not as described, but apologized for behavior that "can accurately be described at times as abrasive, rude and frankly wrong.
It took the better part of two years, and the replacement of the abrasive Mr. Abbott with the cosmopolitan Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister, to restore a full working relationship between the countries.
To clean the microphone and speaker meshes, which is probably where most of the wax accumulates, the company advises using a dry cotton swab and warns not to use sharp or abrasive objects.
But none have Alan's hard-earned view, his heart, his organic and sometimes abrasive indignation that was part of who he was, not a response to a particular moment or crisis or president.
There's little evidence here of the talent that made Ms. Bell's 2013 filmmaking debut, "In a World ..." (about struggling voice-over artists), as gentle and genuine as this one is abrasive and cartoonish.
His lyrics usually begged for annotation, and he set up stylistic collisions: chamber arrangements assaulted by noisy guitars, Afropop grooves derailed by meter shifts, ballads that changed from sweet to strained and abrasive.
And then going to hardcore shows thinking it could get too abrasive, and so then the labels were putting out crossover alternative bands where these artists come from hardcore, and still have aggressive vocals.
"Hate groups see such an opportunity in the coarse, fragmented, and often bigoted socio-political mainstream, that they are willing to ditch more abrasive propaganda that would otherwise alienate potential new adherents," Levin said.
But there is one area in which the restless 40-year-old is having less success — his sometimes abrasive manner seems to be rubbing French voters and some foreign leaders up the wrong way.
The movie is mostly too incompetent to be fun — Yeardley Smith (voice of Lisa Simpson) delivers one of the most abrasive performances ever committed to screen — but the AC/DC score is pretty great.
"You might see short-term whitening with an abrasive, as it will remove surface stains and teeth may get whiter quickly, but the long-term damage is in no way worth that," Messina said.
Baking soda is highly alkaline, and highly abrasive on the skin; it is also the key ingredient that gives most natural deodorants their sweat-absorbing, odor-fighting power, along with equally sensitizing essential oils.
He's a smart, curious child, who clashes with Alice, an abrasive teenager who also works at the pub, and spends his time on the river in his canoe, which he named La Belle Sauvage.
Ellison was also controversial in the science fiction community, frequently described as abrasive, and involved in numerous lawsuits against studios and directors that he believed plagiarized his work — including James Cameron for The Terminator.
This year, that song is Jelani Blackman's "Submarine," a moody, abrasive, almost jazz-tinged track that seems to have been sucked out of Jelani's smoked-out lungs and breathed into London's cold, winter streets.
Everyone knows that trousers (or pants, if you're America) are a cumbersome, abrasive burden, so it's only right that one day a year we get to dispense with them altogether for our daily commute.
"Just Me and Her" is a good example of Wayne's early Auto-Tune use, where he wouldn't set the software to match the key he was singing in, leaving him to sound particularly abrasive.
Mononitrides are very hard and are sometimes used as abrasive material, said Victor Sharygin, a geologist at the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy in Novosibirsk, Russia, and lead researcher on the discovery of uakitite.
Strained relations In his six months in office, Duterte's off-color comments and abrasive approach to international politics -- including his declaration that US President Barack Obama could "go to hell" -- have drawn international attention.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's vote to leave the European Union is a triumph for Nigel Farage, the abrasive anti-immigration politician who tapped into a deep well of popular anger that rivals failed to understand.
The six-track EP is due out June 16 on Don Giovanni, and takes a hard left away from the abrasive, destructive Afrofuturist noise tapestries we've come to expect from Moor Mother's Camae Ayewa.
We all need something to drown out all the (often literal) white noise sometimes, and heavy metal usually works a treat, especially if you end up reaching for something on the more abrasive side.
On Shaking the Habitual, The Knife's melodic hooks are almost fully incorporated into the forward momentum of their rattling pitched percussion devices, a disorientingly abrasive effect that proves addictive after two or three listens.
As Kanye performed "Wolves" last night at Madison Square Garden under the slanted roof of that lighting grid and ringed by enormous speakers, its dense, abrasive instrumentation pulled all his past music into focus.
Later, he would write five episodes of The Wire focused heavily on the character of Jimmy McNulty, an alcoholic, abrasive, authority-averse detective who also has a heart of gold and an unstoppable brain.
But others point to press reports that appeared during the final days of VW's future pact negotiations as an example of a more abrasive power struggle, although the source of the leaks remains unclear.
This is largely because its clunkiest element — a 1960s strand involving a piano teacher (Donna McKechnie) living in exile, narrating plot points to Gualtieri's unnecessarily abrasive grandson (Chase Crandell) — suddenly comes to the fore.
That he would paint himself as an aging lecher, working on yet another female nude portrait, seemingly belies his considerable body of work while speaking to his madcap, if not abrasive, brand of humor.
It wasn't so much a question of the intervening zones and planets touched, the abrasive bits of detritus from the first Europa missions or the Russian research satellites on Jupiter and all its moons.
If you want to become an abrasive character that people love to hate and love to pay money to watch, gloating while your opponent tries to regain consciousness does a lot of the legwork.
Last month, the band, a sinister post-punk ensemble known for abrasive shows, concluded their recent comeback with an album, "The Glowing Man," that found room for three songs over 20 minutes in length.
Tay Hohoff, an editor at J. P. Lippincott, decided to take a chance on Lee, but encouraged her to abandon the didactic, abrasive scenes between adults and focus on the manuscript's endearing childhood scenes.
Before "4.48 Psychosis," he drew a degree of notoriety for his 2015 piece "Illusions," in which an instrumental ensemble provides abrasive accompaniment to an anti-establishment monologue by the queer performance artist David Hoyle.
It's funny what might have been abrasive or brave or outlandish 30 years ago is now so part and parcel of the pop landscape that you can't even conceive of it ever being challenging.
Luckily, there is nothing quite like an abrasive altercation with a PETA pocket disguised as a human woman to kick your engine into high gear and clear the fog of a hangover from hell.
There have been a number of indicators throughout the primary so far that in online debate, a certain set of Sanders supporters — which is difficult to measure in size — is exceptionally abrasive and dehumanizing.
But in 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducted a study to survey the occupational exposure to beryllium in abrasive blasting using coal slag.
When "Divorce" begins airing on HBO, it will be joining a network that has made a success of "Veep," the fabulously abrasive comedy by Armando Iannucci, the Scottish writer who co-created Alan Partridge.
The story of a girl who dreams of owning a bicycle, and her lonely mother, whose life is determined daily by an abrasive driver and a disinterested husband, resonated with audiences around the world.
The characters in Rebecca Kauffman's "The Gunners" exhibit the range of personalities that you'd expect from a random sampling of Middle Americans: nice people, abrasive people, the churchy, the alcoholic, the educated, the not.
Personnel who were exposed to the spill were decontaminated with hand scrubbers and abrasive soap, but by then many of them had carried contamination on their clothing and shoes into their homes and cars.
From the abrasive, futuristic "Yeezus" (2013) to the living document "The Life of Pablo" (2016), which West continued to tinker with after it had hit streaming platforms, the rapper-producer has constantly pushed boundaries.
Yet the warfare makes sense in so far as it gives the president what he really wants: a role in which he can fully employ his naturally abrasive energies to generate a riveting spectacle.
For a band whose instruments once included a vacuum cleaner and a coffee can, it may come as no surprise that the videos that the band projected behind them at performances were similarly abrasive.
Over a rather odd and abrasive little electro tune, "To Family", the guests dance while seated at the table, mostly with their shoulders and necks, and air their grievances about each other in unheard asides.
At times it feels like watching a tennis match, as you pivot from, say, Brian being rebuked over the phone for his abrasive attitude in class, to Ginny counseling a client with self-esteem issues.
That won't eliminate all the political damage Trump has done with his nonstop insults and mockery, but it demonstrated to other Trump supporters how to defend their candidate without doubling down on his abrasive style.
The soft-spoken Juppe has led Sarkozy in opinion polls for months, with his more divisive opponent dogged by legal problems and lingering voter discontent with the abrasive style that marked his 2007-2012 presidency.
Earlier this year, for example, a small manufacturer based in Europe needed to develop a pipe system that could move highly-volatile and abrasive hydrocarbons like solvents and metal cleaning agents safely over long distances.
If you're not familiar with Stott's tar-like electronic music, this'll make for an abrasive but fitting introduction: the percussion is serrated, the melody sneers, a synth drips like acid from an overturned test tube.
We've recapped our favorite parts of Kreayshawn's story—which involves sneaking into a Hollywood party and having a very loud and abrasive encounter with a big-time actor—for your viewing pleasure in GIFs below.
Fellow forward Steve Ott didn't dent the scoresheet in his return from a four-plus-month absence due to a hamstring injury, but his abrasive style during his 13 shifts scored points with his teammates.
But it was a break in Trump's often-abrasive speaking style that encouraged many investors who have worried he may struggle to push his agenda through a Congress reluctant to widen the government's budget deficit.
Another public split with Mr. Obama would undermine the prime minister's case, even as his domestic critics argue that Israel would have gotten more had Mr. Netanyahu not been so abrasive toward the American president.
The soft-spoken Juppe has led Sarkozy in opinion polls for months, with his more divisive opponent dogged by judicial woes and lingering voter discontent with the abrasive style that marked his 2007-2012 presidency.
Although French, a fine writer, can be downright eloquent when she wants to, here she uses an abrasive voice to capture this working-class cop's truculent attitude toward the colleagues making her life a misery.
This was no earthly grime; it was preternaturally sticky and abrasive, scratching the visors on the astronauts' helmets, weakening the seals on their pressure suits, irritating their eyes, and giving some of them sinus trouble.
Williams, who skipped this event 13 times after the abrasive treatment she and her family received during her win in the 2001 final, returned last year but withdrew before her semifinal match, citing knee problems.
Rosie Palfy, representing the Forgotten Veterans, speaks from her podium about real issues facing not only veterans but lots of people, but her speech isn't abrasive or inflammatory, so most people pay her no mind.
" Miller grew up in a family of bluegrass musicians and has been playing guitar since age 10, but he says he's never really liked country music, and instead "wanted to play something darker and abrasive.
Her new series at the Roxy Hotel will attempt an improbable synthesis of these two personas, pairing "scandalous storytelling" by Ms. Lunch and friends with the abrasive free jazz of Weasel Walter and Tim Dahl.
Women are much more likely to be perceived as "abrasive" and get negative performance reviews as a result — which puts them in a double bind when they try to "lean in" and assertively negotiate salaries.
" Moreover, Mr. Sale wrote, Mr. Booth's style, "with a flint-sharp mind, a skillful tongue and years of infighting experience in political groups, was abrasive to the younger and less sophisticated people around the office.
That lasted for about 15 minutes, during which we meet the newly widowed Edie, an abrasive octogenarian, and learn exactly how much she had loathed the disabled husband she had spent 30 years caring for.
The bombing came as the abrasive former prosecutor wages war on narcotics kingpins and street dealers, Islamist rebels and corrupt bureaucrats, scoring big points in opinion polls but at a risk of making powerful enemies.
This abrasive instinct is the source of some of their scatological excess, like an infamous scene from their 2012 film, "Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie," that includes perhaps the least sanitary bath in movie history.
The latter are often loyal to Alex Salmond, who led the party for most of the time between 1990 and 2014, and whose approach to politics was considerably more abrasive and divisive than Ms Sturgeon's.
But while Bolton has been criticized for his abrasive personal style, O'Brien has won praise for being a genuinely nice guy — including from a former high-level Obama staffer, shortly after his appointment on Wednesday.
And while the movie is rightfully more interested in lauding her bravery than highlighting her sometimes abrasive personality, these small moments help to humanize a portrait that can at times seem more awestruck than enlightening.
If all of that does not sound abrasive enough for Indecline, well, "This year we're also going to try to team up with PornHub, and we're going to direct our first porno," the spokesman said.
The album features a tight and sometimes abrasive palette of sounds ranging from Miami bass to gritty techno, all the while nodding to Cuba's long love affair with percussive styles ranging from rumba to guaguancó .
Women are much more likely to be perceived as "abrasive" and get negative performance reviews as a result — which puts them in a double bind when they try to "lean in" and assertively negotiate salaries.
He makes a fine case for it on The Lillywhite Sessions, combining the easy pop-rock of "Diggin' a Ditch" and the lovelorn easy listening of "Grace Is Gone" with abrasive interludes and careening jazz stretches.
"The best thing the United States can do at this point is be compassionate and recognize this and accept it, and not make abrasive comments on what we expect," Cutler told a trade conference in Washington.
Simultaneously flat and vibrant, her deadpan, apathetic moan of a voice sums up a musical signature that's abrasive not because it gets in your face but because the run of life has beaten it into resignation.
IN "YEARS AND YEARS", a new television drama co-produced by the BBC and HBO, Emma Thompson plays a politician whose abrasive ideas, such as barring those with low IQs from voting, rocket her to power.
Goodwin, nicknamed "Fred the Shred" for his cost-cutting abilities and abrasive management style, was first feted and knighted before RBS's near collapse at the height of the credit crisis prompted the world's biggest bank bailout.
In 2014 The Dallas Morning News reported that some musicians were bristling under what was described as his "abrasive" style, noting, among several incidents, his demotion of a musician and his abrupt dismissal of a tenor.
The performers in Paris is Burning were sometimes guarded and abrasive, proud of their ability to craft cutting insults through a haze of cigarette smoke; Kiki's players are more inclusive, a gentler but equally brave generation.
The Life of Pablo is West's seventh solo LP and first major release since 2013's abrasive Yeezus, and it's been known as So Help Me God, SWISH, and Waves at varying points during its production.
The expression, Trump explained earlier this week in a town hall with CNN's Anderson Cooper, is what Trump's father would say to his son in urging him to be less abrasive and smoother in business dealings.
Trump's attacks on Senate Republicans surely complicate efforts to manage the party's narrow majority, but he is unlikely, as the math makes clear, to scuttle any popular bill with an abrasive tweet or two, or 22.
Still, Portman is generally better liked than Kasich, who is known for being abrasive, and Ayotte has foreign policy credentials that will be in demand at a time when national security concerns are dominating the news.
Growing up in the house music capital of Chicago, one might not expect Karl Meier to make the sort of abrasive industrial techno found on his debut album as one half of Talker (with Johnathan Krohn).
Guns, transphobia, bullying: These are some of the "trigger warnings" announced onscreen within the first few moments of "Assassination Nation," an abrasive social satire about a town horrifically transformed by a wave of anonymous data hacks.
Loud, industrial, and painfully abrasive, Rebel Yell's actual music is intense; but she counters it with a coy sense of humour in her videos and the spoken word lyrics that occasionally pop up in her songs.
The section was notable for its subtly abrasive tone in the middle of a lackluster evening where many jokes didn't quite land, and where most of the sexual harassment jokes were more tired than on point.
With his abrasive rhetoric, shoot-first approach to fighting crime and socially conservative agenda, he is more often compared with leaders like President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines than with traditional free-trade minded fiscal conservatives.
Though he is no stranger to high-profile cases -- he presided over the trial of the "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh -- Ellis's fast pace and abrasive style now pose potential issues for both prosecution and defense.
Trauss, the passionate but abrasive activist who rose to national prominence with her slash-and-burn tactics, raises the question, how far does one need to go to get results and how far is too far?
Twitter did little to lend credence to Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders' suggestion at the Las Vegas Democratic debate that outside actors could be responsible for abrasive attacks by people claiming to be his supporters online.
Their debut EP showcases the Florida band's abrasive style which at times leans into sludgy territory and other times rides a metallic hardcore wave, all driven by vocalist Mike Grantham and his bratty, sore-throated delivery.
At the same time, it can do so with sounds that are fresh and disorienting in the genre, abrasive shards of noise and vocals that veer between the shouted patter of rap and sugary sweet choruses.
Olaniran pulls together the accessible charm of mainstream pop anthems with abrasive electronic tones and rapidfire rap verses, all the while coursing through topics like self-esteem and systemic racial violence and Taco Bell combo meals.
But smooth keyboards can waver, preprogrammed patterns can spiral off in unexpected directions, and many of these tracks assume abrasive qualities that, oddly, complement the tranquil bits in a texturally appealing blend of crunchy and sweet.
Hulu's latest experiment involves a less abrasive strategy than the usual video ad break—it's going to place static banner ads on the screen when you pause your video starting in the second quarter of this year.
When she announced the line would include a Walnut Face Scrub, many pointed out that it contained crushed walnuts as a physical exfoliant, which is a controversial ingredient as many claim it's too abrasive for the skin.
Since salt and baking soda are abrasive they could remove stains from teeth, but that's like trying to lighten your floors by sanding them down, said Messina, who is also a spokesperson for the American Dental Association.
Here's something easy to describe: a woman cuts into Styrofoam — a material so abrasive and hot to the touch, so incongruously light — and covers the giant chunks by squeezing acrylics on them with a cake icing syringe.
My skin is sensitive and pale, so an abrasive cleanser or harsh astringent can mean I come out of my nightly routine looking like the first successful hybrid between a human being and a farm-fresh tomato.
Duterte's abrasive and sometimes contradictory comments, including calling President Obama a "son of a bitch," have caused anxiety in Washington, where the Philippines has been seen as an important ally in standing up to China in Asia.
Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) in Parks and Rec has an inflated, self-centered sense of ambition; Eleanor (Kristen Bell) in The Good Place is selfish and abrasive; Dwight (Rainn Wilson) in The Office is, well, Dwight-ish.
"We start with diamond waste (for example, [from] the abrasive industry), but we developed a proprietary process (that's of course highly scalable and economical) to purify and engineer the diamond waste into dust," a company spokesperson explained.
She clearly understood that her father has a reputation as a brutal, abrasive figure whom one might expect to be a domineering parent with impossible expectations, and immediately set about trying to disabuse viewers of that notion.
But several students complained that she had an abrasive and disparaging style, used profanity and sexual slang in the classroom, and made off-color jokes — one, about how quality of sex gets worse the longer the relationship.
She has worked to extend the thought-provoking, often abstruse, sometimes abrasive work of video pioneers like Joan Jonas, Vito Acconci and Nam June Paik into a form that offers more comfort, feels more like a friend.
For he and Kenney, that means not only rabidly exploring the most abrasive elements of multiple genres, but also giving their listeners the opportunity to question what they're hearing, as well as the wider world around them.
Touché Amoré, who are fresh off their tour supporting the reunited Thursday, will be joined by Toronto's abrasive misanthropes, Single Mothers, and Gouge Away who last year released , Dies, one of Noisey's most underrated albums of 205.
Her latest, "Faceshopping," didn't have a video when it was released about two months ago, but said video is out now and if you thought the song was already abrasive, prepare to get your head diced open.
A fifth friend played by Brett Gray, whose slightly abrasive style calls to mind Kevin Hart or (very distantly) a young Eddie Murphy, provides the pure comic relief in a subplot about an urban buried-treasure legend.
Banged-up guests include Sterling K. Brown's out-of-luck bank robber, saddled with a badly wounded younger brother (Brian Tyree Henry); Charlie Day's abrasive "I don't belong here" con artist; and Sofia Boutella's assassin-in-waiting.
"Uncut Gems," directed by Josh and Benny Safdie and starring Sandler as an abrasive jeweler and gambling addict, sold $7.8 million in tickets, for a total of about $493 million since its wide release on Dec. 25.
James Goldrick, a former rear admiral in the Australian Navy who served in Afghanistan, said that if Mr. Trump's current abrasive attitude continued, it would probably make Australia a less publicly cooperative partner of the United States.
As former public school teacher Keith Williams has pointed out, many locals want to disaffiliate from their parent unions — retaining their collective bargaining rights and ditching the abrasive political agendas, while paying a fraction of the dues.
He said Duterte's abrasive style and his sometimes profane outbursts against the United States, European Union and United Nations were not discrediting him either, and supporters would rally in his defense amid criticism at home and abroad.
That's Sinan's approach, and much of the film — the most absorbing scenes as well as the most abrasive — consists of his arguments, harangues and bull sessions with people who sometimes unwittingly become the target of his resentment.
Crocker's wide-spanning programming championed jazz, soul, and R&B, though hip-hop was relegated to DJ Marly Marl's Rap Attack after 9 PM, when it could be as raunchy and abrasive as it wanted to be.
Representative John King filed a resolution on Tuesday saying the Republican front-runner's "abrasive and racist rhetoric" did not belong South Carolina, a state that King said has worked to move beyond a past of racial intolerance.

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