Grittier salespeople stay in their jobs, grittier swimmers win more medals and grittier pupils persevere with university.
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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas, grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom, grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs.
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Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.
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Even judging by Daryl's grittier standards, the violence feels unwarranted.
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" Justice says getting a little grittier on screen was "really fun.
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The move is dark and slapstick, grittier than other Pixar shorts.
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There's a rougher, grittier quality to your voice on this song.
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It's grittier, darker and sexier but still about relationships and doubt.
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In the grittier reimagining of comic books, such cliches are incongruous.
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Yet the academy's documentary branch voters largely opted for grittier fare.
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Inside, a more rustic look sets it apart from its grittier neighbors.
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Maybe the Sonic series is just going for something a bit grittier.
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And why, exactly, are leeks so much grittier than their oniony cousins?
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Ultimately, Diablo IV will ground players in a grittier and deadlier world.
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The Canidrome is one of the last vestiges of a grittier, seedier Macau.
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The loss liberated Mr Sarkozy to indulge the grittier side of his politics.
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In some ways, the scene is the grittier, forgotten younger sibling of punk.
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"I think he really captured the neighborhood at a grittier time," Ely said.
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Sometimes it's a grittier vision of the future; sometimes it's a shinier one.
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"I've never seen a grittier, more resilient personality in my life," says Howley.
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The exhibit's social realists presented a grittier, less idealized image of city life.
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Even in grittier, more realistic works, the motivations of communist characters were rarely explored.
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" Earle's voice is thicker and grittier than Clark's, which makes his version of "L.
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I think people are hungry for a grittier interpretation of the Star Wars universe.
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The breakout FX comedy, created by Donald Glover, returns with a grittier new season.
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Somehow, it seemed grittier than the landscapes on which other superheroes flew and fought.
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Apex Legends has a grittier look and feel compared to Fortnite's cartoony, bloodless style.
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As far as volume goes, Delgado prefers a grittier, volumizing spray, like Oribe's Maximista spray.
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Stepping into Home Depot, the store felt a little grittier, with no-nonsense orange detailing.
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The city is eager to revitalize some of its grittier neighborhoods by fostering tech startups.
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Some hold up pretty well after 10 years (and exposure to much grittier television fare).
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Having bruised their way to the Championship title last season, the team seems grittier than ever.
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" Howard continued, "The commission would say, 'Well, we want it grittier,' or 'We want more wounded.
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Why do you want to draw that connection between the grittier sound and the cleaner sound?
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Mr. Thomas, who wrote code for the app, finds himself fielding requests for bleaker, grittier messages.
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Ever since the 1980s, there's been this drive to bring back familiar heroes, but grimmer and grittier.
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But in recent years, a few streaming platforms have popped up showing a grittier side of China.
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She would put the western boundary at Broadway; beyond that, the vibe is "much grittier," she said.
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The texture was slightly grittier than flour dough, and it didn't quite have the same chew factor.
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Schubas gives off a grittier vibe than its Lincoln Park sibling, and is intimate without being claustrophobic.
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The premise is simple, and ripped absolutely directly from the grittier Xbox-and-PC behemoth PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
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Jia is known for his independent movies that showcase the grittier face of the common people of China.
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"The 'grimmer, grittier' take is such a cliché now, but at the time it was revolutionary," says Ching.
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Mr Liu's stories are scientifically rigorous; Mr Han's are allegorical and uncanny—but also grittier and more subversive.
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The album, recorded entirely in East New York, encompasses generations of the city's grittier and/or divine heritage.
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While there are other services with nittier and grittier quizzes, this simple first step is actually quite refreshing.
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As rising rents squeeze young New Yorkers, the TV apartment has become grittier, dirtier and ever more cramped.
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The T.F. at Tompkins remains a rare hub, a throwback to a grittier era of the city's history.
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"I'm thinking we should move them down here, where it's a little grittier, a little tougher," he said.
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I wanted to portray these ideas in a grittier and abrasive setting, which I think they are all deserve.
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"When I started here, thirty-seven years ago, the Upper West Side was grittier and more knockaround," she said.
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Under writer Dennis O'Neil, the "Batman" comics began taking a darker and grittier turn, and with it, the villains.
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There's also the lack of personalities that these other, I dare say "grittier" games have when compared to Overwatch.
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Since then, he's abandoned his former life completely and turned over a new, grittier, who-gives-a-fuck leaf.
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The customers stuck together, hanging onto memories of a grittier Park Slope even as the area become increasingly upscale.
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Throughout the production, they perform music from The Beatles, which breaks through some of the grittier moments of the war.
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But the reality was grittier: Lyonne's parents sought the spotlight for their daughter at the expense of being good parents.
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Judging from the trailer, this looks like a grittier, NSFW version of Moonrise Kingdom — and we're ready to stream it.
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Do you think some of the aspects of Detroit that make it the grittier city are going by the wayside?
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Despite their youth, their flintiness is undeniable — a testament to the rawer, grittier New York they inhabited in the 1970s.
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Goals in Thornwood include rezoning to encourage improvements in the grittier commercial areas and adding more sidewalks to boost walkability.
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But that earnestness could easily skew toward cheesiness — hence the popularity of grittier heroes and Stark's cynical and sardonic personality.
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Fan art with savage, grittier renditions of pokémon regularly goes viral on the internet, accruing millions of page views and hits.
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That is, we believe the more we put our noses to the grindstone and endure, the stronger and grittier we'll become.
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And "Rogue One" does feel different from the main movies, darker, grittier -- much closer in tone to an old war movie.
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After seeing and falling in love with The Dark Knight the year before, this grittier, darker version of Harley fascinated me.
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She grew up in grittier precincts within the Notting Hill neighborhood of London with her mother, who was a motivational speaker.
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Undoubtedly, mountain-view rooms are more popular, but the grittier east-facing views over the train tracks frame RiNo's urban streetscape.
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"Carnival Row" is a grittier, more adult foray into a mythological world, although many of its influences -- and shortcomings -- feel similar.
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Some Bridge staff members described what they saw as a stark contrast between their hopes for Bridge and a grittier reality.
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These places in Grip feel like the living portraits of the earlier 3D games, but in HD. Prettier, grittier, more detailed.
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Where one is focused on the grittier side of things, the other documents the glitz and glamor of the high life.
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" The statement said Flashpoint also will offer fans "a grittier show targeted at adults that takes inspiration from the WWE and UFC.
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Charles Kelley's cover of Cyrus' hit song "Wrecking Ball" is slower, grittier – and proof that it's a good tune in any genre.
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It balances laugh-out-loud moments — usually produced by fellow rap entourage member Darius, played by Keith Stanfield — with grittier bits of tension.
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She brings her unique, ethereal voice, with its timbre so reminiscent of Joni Mitchell, to ground her commercially ambitious debut in something grittier.
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Following the success of Syfy's Battlestar Galactica, the WB commissioned a grittier version from John Woo, but that version never went to series.
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The original is tinged with happy, sunshiney 90s pop, but the revisited and updated version finds Williams in a darker, grittier place sonically.
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New York's version seems grittier: In recent years people have tied hair bands, shoelaces and even headphones to the bridge, the department said.
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But the year is only 1869 in REVENGE IN A COLD RIVER (Ballantine, $28), Perry's latest novel in a grittier series featuring Cmdr.
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Or head south on the pedestrian stretch of Calle Fuencarral to discover grittier, more youthful local fashion brands like El Ganso and Scalpers.
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Now comes "Anne With an E," a Netflix adaptation of the book that reports have described as darker and grittier than the original.
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Season one of "Titans," which is a grittier spin on DC's Teen Titans, was released on DC's streaming app (DC Universe ) in 2018.
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Reminders of its grittier past hang from the walls: In one apartment's den, steel pulleys from the original elevators poke through the exposed brick.
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And instead of old Hollywood giving way to a newer, grittier era, things go back (at least for now) to the way they were.
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Once upon a time, in a "grittier" New York, residents took to the streets and took over buildings to reclaim the city for themselves.
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Frank is hardly the first critic to remark upon a disconnect between the lives of wealthy liberals and the grittier constituencies they supposedly serve.
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Live, it is a grittier piece than it is on a 2009 recording, the sense of opposing groups within a larger ensemble more ominous.
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During the Gamecube era, The Wind Waker's cel-shaded visuals weren't repeated for the next game for the same system, the notably grittier Twilight Princess.
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The developers liken it to when Daniel Craig took over as James Bond; it's the same general setting and characters, but with a grittier tone.
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So much so that the comic Batman was rebooted for the first (but far from the last) time in 1970 — darker, grittier and sans Robin.
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In our world herbivorous mammals begin to adapt to these conditions, evolving grinding grazing teeth and broad snouts to deal with the drier, grittier fodder.
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After ruling the 1990s, Ryan took a step back from the spotlight after her pivot to grittier roles fell flat a decade or so ago.
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Mr. Hodges said he had wanted to do something grittier than the kind of "well-made polished film" that was more traditional at the time.
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We'd try other venues (Schubas and The Hideout are both cozy, expertly-booked rooms), some grittier, some in more upwardly-mobile neighborhoods, some best forgotten.
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The downtown boom, visible in the new night-life scene along Newark Avenue, poses a threat to the urban pioneers from the city's grittier days.
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"We have to get a little tougher and grittier and keep the ball out of the post on defense," San Diego coach Lamont Smith said.
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Granted, these Marvel series for Netflix are known for their slow burns, offering a grittier, darker, more realistic take on the company's sprawling cinematic universe.
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She and her two younger brothers grew up in Apt, in the Vaucluse, part of the then-grittier, pre-Peter Mayle Luberon region in Provence.
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But he also apparently wants to apply the same "what if Gotham, but grittier" galaxy brain take to the backstories of multiple other DC characters.
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But Miller's Batman was darker and grittier than any that had come before, with a grueling physicality that highlighted the brutality of the story's violence.
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That was the same year that Boynton appeared in the music drama Sing Street, which some compared to a grittier, Irish version of High School Musical.
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Season 3 has seen a much grittier —and far more shirtless — Archie, and Apa says his character's life won't get simpler by coming home to Riverdale.
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It's grittier and more diverse than anything we've seen in the Star Wars universe thus far, and there are even some spooky, new black ops Stormtroopers.
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And a 21,600-square-foot theater that feels larger than the two old, grittier theaters combined, with soaring ceilings, flexible seating and windows overlooking Lower Manhattan.
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Occasional harsh, buzzing electronic tones, recalling the grim industrial production of West's 2013 album "Yeezus," offered glimpses of a grittier musical engagement with this subject matter.
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For a grittier feel, Cortlandt Alley in Chinatown (think "back alley in a superhero movie") and Sackett Street near the Gowanus Canal were among the favorites.
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The cars were boxy, durable and occasionally missing a hubcap or two — rolling emblems of a department keeping watch over what was then a grittier metropolis.
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Other executives in the Midwest also report upward pressure on wages, including in grittier settings than the white-collar fields where engineers and financial professionals cluster.
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And he said he wanted to bring a grittier reality to this season, losing some of the operatic feel the series has possessed in the past.
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In the "Mack the Knife" captured on "Darin At the Copa," his voice sounds grittier than on the hit single, and his syncopation is more playful.
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Traversing the country's more traditional nightclubs and their grittier DIY counter-parts, the series will tune into a given theme we discover emerging in a given crowd.
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He was moving away from consumerist themes — soft drinks, dollar bills and Hollywood stars — to grittier fare, though the idea to change may not have been his.
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I've seen even more plays in which rape is not a focal point, but an incidental one, a shortcut to make a play appear edgier, grittier, sexier.
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The faster, grittier stuff feels more like real life; it's the other stuff that you kind of have to twist the perception to get into the groove.
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Instead, the exhibition casts its gaze on the grittier, more pressing concerns people in urban communities discuss when they come together: race, gender, immigration, violence and gentrification.
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Let's consider the first possibility and assume that older adults are grittier than their younger counterparts because in their formative years, they were shaped by different cultural forces.
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I am well aware of the unoriginality of this lament, especially given how common it is in certain circles now to romanticize the city's grittier, graffiti-covered past.
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Instead, it's a quiet, assured step into more traditional territory, an embrace of the grittier East Nashville scene that has of late become a breakout force in country.
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But I do sit here imagining how powerful it would have been to have an educational forum in which to talk about grittier emotional challenges related to sex.
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Asked if there had been any hesitation about employing weapon-wielding inhabitants of a grittier New York as poster children of today's spiffier city, Mr. Dixon said no.
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"I just felt at the time that the scripts had become so unbelievable and crazy, and I felt like they needed to become grittier and real," Jackman said.
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A full-hearted embrace of those early influences, it's a who's-who of late 80s references, sweeping through sultry pop and onto the grittier gloom of new wave.
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Today, the area surrounding the museum feels like a grittier version of the sloping plaza leading to the Pompidou Center, in Paris, with skateboarders skimming ramps and walkways.
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The movie is also grittier and thoughtful, apparently, according to io9, and is less popcorn-light than director Tommy Wirkola's previous efforts, which include Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.
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Momoa's Aquaman — a grittier, more brooding version of the classically blonde-haired, blue-eyed hero — made his live-action theatrical debut in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (2016).
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This tiny clip seems to, at the very least, hint at Cars 3 delivering a different kind of story, one that features a grittier spin on the animated series.
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Directly east of the central Vieux Port and its shiny Norman Foster-designed pavilion, the Noailles district is a decidedly grittier enclave with a large and diverse immigrant population.
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I focused my energy on the Kowloon peninsula, which is a bit grittier and less touristy than Hong Kong Island, just a few thousand feet away across Victoria Harbor.
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The black and white photographic documentation, which shows Denes digging holes in the ground and pulling heavy-duty chains around trees, appears grittier, more earthbound, than her typical imagery.
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The New York shows tend to have a looser, grittier feel than the often-extravagant runway exhibitions in Milan and Paris, and the people who attend seem more relaxed.
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The even grittier details: Pai's proposal would reverse the reclassification of broadband service and explore in an open-ended way how to replace the 2015 rules, according to multiple sources.
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According to TIME, they'll also be a little darker and grittier, since the people who originally grew up with the books are grown adults now and can probably handle it.
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For the next three weeks Film Forum presents SHITAMACHI: Tales of Downtown Tokyo, an expansive series dedicated to the city's grittier east side, where filmmakers have long turned their lens.
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His first outing, Casino Royale, served up a Bond that felt classic and fresh all at once, with a grittier feel that felt right at home in the Bourne era.
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After ABC pulled the plug last year on the White House thriller Designated Survivor, showrunner Neal Baer saw the opportunity to do a grittier, more realistic political drama on Netflix.
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It's apparent that the music—each song a stoic death march in itself—maintains the gloomth and melancholy of goth ideologies while transitioning towards the grittier spectrum of electronic music.
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Directed by Gareth Edwards, the film, which will apparently be light on Jedis, looks to be grittier and more combat-heavy than the previous ones, giving the Rebels their due.
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The Bourne series is a lot grittier, in terms of emotional resonance and suspense, than the John Wick series, but the latter is far more stylish, semiotically rich, and immersive.
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The 2003 reboot of Battlestar Galactica and the last entry in Syfy's Stargate franchise, Stargate Universe, followed the same course by taking familiar themes into grittier and more unfamiliar territory.
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The connection might finally replace ye olde clichéd Cuba, with its romanticized decrepitude, sorbet shades and old convertibles, with something a little grittier and more realistic in the designer mind.
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For a 2009 reissue of Ten, Pearl Jam asked Brendan O'Brien—who produced their grittier, more sonically pleasing Vs. and Vitalogy albums—to go back and remix their smash debut.
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Seeing the logo brings back memories of a grittier time, which is exactly the headspace Phillips wants you in as you embark on this origin story of DC's greatest villain.
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Yet he managed to turn that around despite a background on Wall Street that made him more at home in the board room than schmoozing voters in Peru's grittier neighborhoods.
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Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim, and Thomas Haden Church also star in what's been touted as a much grittier film than the previous version, which starred Ron Perlman.
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And while this new one still has plenty of familiar elements, it also gives a much clearer picture of what'll make this film unique — including its Chicago setting and grittier tone.
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This grittier side of paleoecology is important to consider, because these ancient animals lived in a landscape that had far more going on than just interactions between animals eating other things.
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I added a little bit of the black color in the Marc Jacobs Beauty Eye-Conic Steel(etto) Palette to make it look even smokier and grittier, and that was it.
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Understandably, and largely because orange-skinned, energy-projecting aliens are not real, Titans cast a human actress named Anna Diop to play Starfire in a darker, grittier live-action TV version.
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Shyamalan's long, slow camera moves and bold framing are as effective as they've ever been, and toward the end of the film, he adopts a grittier, almost graphic-novel-inspired look.
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She stands out from the grittier denizens of Iron City, with her fine clothes and a forehead gem which looks distractingly like a BIM mark from the trash classic The Apple.
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I plan to push it grittier and less cartoon-like than those old games; the hard part will be keeping everything legible without it becoming an unreadable mess of dithered pixels.
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With Vice President Mike Pence and other space executives focusing on the broader goals of American leadership in space, Shotwell honed in on the grittier regulatory details of the status quo.
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For most of its run Starrcade was a meaner, grittier show than WWE's fare, shot in darkened Southern arenas in smaller cities like Greensboro (home to the first four) and Norfolk.
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For fans of a grittier tradition of Japanese photography — Daido Moriyama's grainy prints of lowlife Tokyo, or Nobuyoshi Araki's louche portraits of well-knotted models — Suda's informality can take some adjustment.
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It rhymes most closely with #ReleaseTheSnyderCut, which fans employed to call for an alternate, grittier cut of Justice League made by director Zack Snyder before he was replaced by Joss Whedon.
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It is aimed in part at operagoers who rebelled when the Met replaced its beloved, opulent 1985 Franco Zeffirelli staging of with a sparer, grittier one by Luc Bondy in 2009.
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The chocolate is also stone-ground, which offers a grittier, grainier feel than more heavily processed chocolate, and reminds you that what your eating came from something of the natural world.
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Whereas Collins's photos are warmly lit with atmospheric bubbles of color, Greenfield's photos are grittier and more stripped down—leaving subjects vulnerable to the effects of harsh lighting and a direct angle.
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Bushwig has always been an alt-drag festival, first and foremost, and its growing success might seem to reflect a moment when grittier drag styles are finally winning acceptance alongside mainstream traditions.
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True Blood was just a grittier version of Twilight — the vampires weren't scary as much as they were hawt, and the show indulged the idea of werepanthers (like werewolves, but with panthers).
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Of course each new release is going to look prettier, punchier, grittier than the last—and now that EA have had a year to get familiar with Frostbite, they're seeing terrific results.
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Instead, they fixate on images of apparent success sent back via social media — even if those images often mask a grittier and more dangerous reality that includes exploitation, petty crime and prostitution.
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When high schooler Kate* was hard up for money, she took a seemingly easy job as a hostess at a nightclub in Mong Kok, Hong Kong's grittier, neon-soaked red light district.
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The whole thing looks harrowing—almost like a grittier, thornier Making a Murderer—that, yet again, promises to lay bare one of the most disturbing flaws in the American criminal justice system.
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Second — and this is the more subtle point — it may be that the apprehension of beauty in art, music, poetry, and even architecture is necessary to solve the grittier real-world problems.
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For example in the downtown areas the soligrams were slick and polished, but when we got into the grittier parts of the city they took on a crude feel and appeared glitchy.
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But Fukunaga has long made films that span cultures and languages, and his unusual visual sense and taste for grittier work likely make him a great candidate for the job, regardless of nationality.
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It may seem churlish to question Berger's most famous achievement in the days after his passing, but it is done out of appreciation for the deeper, grittier, stranger corners of his vast career.
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Their presence in some of the country's busiest transit hubs recalls a far grittier time in the city when violent crime was rampant and transportation stations were crowded with many more homeless people.
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Home to several Boeing operations and a slew of fabricators and machine shops, the heavily industrial neighborhood was considered one of Seattle's grittier areas for decades — when it was even considered at all.
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But the "hard" R-rated Birds of Prey so loudly promised a story about a chaotic, unconventional antihero, it's a shame that it didn't swing for something darker, grittier — and something more rewarding.
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That irrepressible iconoclast van Hove, it was said, would be taking a grittier, rawer approach to a show that rattled Broadway when it opened in 1957 but has since become a sentimental standard.
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"Bosses aren't born, they're 'Made in Staten Island,'" MTV said in promotional materials for the show, "Made in Staten Island," which the network described as "grittier and edgier" than its other reality shows.
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In an attempt to differentiate itself from this growing group of shooters, LawBreakers also has a new art style, that makes it much darker and grittier than what was shown in the initial trailer.
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The show promised viewers a passport to a grittier (read: more authentic) time, when the city still had a "soul" and one might haphazardly wander into a Ramones show any night of the week.
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But thankfully, on the opposite side of the exhibition entrance, the Haring wall takes a grittier turn with Jean-Michel Basquiat's "LNAPRK" (1982), a graffitied, scrawled, and distressed canvas sporting grotesque heads and musical notes.
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Artists like Kwamz, Fuse ODG, and Timbo headed the UK wave and now artists like J Hus are helping evolve the genre more by adding grittier elements to it to reflect the streets of London.
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But some foodies, chefs and social media users in Malaysia have countered with withering criticism — suggesting, for example, that Singapore's hawker stalls are too sanitized to truly compete with their grittier, allegedly tastier Malaysian counterparts.
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It begins with Varvara Stepanova's distinctly daubed, still figurative "Figure," in 1921, proceeds through grittier transitional works by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Theo van Doesburg and arrives finally at Clark's and Bill's serene postwar clarity.
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This first trailer for Sicario 2 looks grittier and a whole lot more action packed than the original, but it's clearly playing up all the same themes — namely, federal agents making a huge mess of things.
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At Compa, a casual restaurant in the funkier, slightly grittier section of the city center, regulars hang out by an old Tito calendar, as the chef sprinkles Slovenian salt on perfectly grilled steaks and Treviso radicchio.
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One afternoon, I drove out to the city's 25-acre Distillery District, which Ramer described as a "grittier but very cool part of Lexington" that was built on the site of two former huge bourbon distilleries.
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During a brief interlude between the show's halves, after Mr. Gopnik exits the stage, the audience sees projected photos of him and Ms. Parker in the 1980s, young and gorgeous, adventurers in a grittier New York.
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This is to say that a pioneering black entertainment movement had just gotten underway, a pivot away from the revolutionary respectability of Sidney Poitier toward grittier, rawer, more experimental genre stuff — toward alacrity, lunacy and verve.
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I would describe it as at an in-between stage: there are really cool African grocers, some grittier areas, old, storied Italian spots, but also a bunch of new brunch spots and coffee shops opening up.
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The actor Sunil Malhotra capably voices the book's nitty-grittier sections, but it is Khan's weighty and lightly sorrowful timbre — and his lived perspective as a Pakistani immigrant — that bookend the work and color each sentence.
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While Hong Kong's triads - ancient secret societies that morphed into mafia-style underworld operations - no longer hold the high profile of previous decades they remain entrenched in some grittier districts and in rural areas, according to police.
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Installations and performances there have tended to reflect a rebellious aesthetic rooted in the grittier and more dangerous Lower East Side of the '80s and '503s, before the neighborhood became palatable to developers and deep-pocketed renters.
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It can be hard to watch a character do that, but the sincerity of her wanting that experience is important in the same way it was important to me to represent the grittier details of restaurant life.
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The 22-year-old actor is taking on a grittier role following his Oscar-nominated turn in Call Me By Your Name, starring as a teenager dabbling in drugs for the first time in the colorful '80s film.
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Other music fans had turned to the grittier and less aspirational tunes provided by alternative-rock bands such as R.E.M.. Yacht rock came to be dismissed as schmaltzy and uncool, consigned to wedding parties and dusty record collections.
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Originally from Osaka, Mr. Moriyama rose to prominence as a Tokyo photographer in the late 1960s with a short-lived Japanese avant-garde magazine called Provoke, and made his career shooting the grittier side of conservative postwar Japan.
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That is to say, it's darker, it's grittier, it's moodier, and it sees him experimenting with the lower reaches of his vocal range, toying with electronic beats, and pushing the boundaries of his signature pop-R&B sound.
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This mammoth 24100-film throwback to a grittier era of city life is stuffed with Al Pacino movies (including "The Panic in Needle Park," showing July 7, with an appearance by its director, Jerry Schatzberg, at one show).
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With fans and critics flooding out of the first screenings of Frozen 2, their initial takes on the highly anticipated Disney sequel suggest a slightly grittier story that delves into Elsa's past but doesn't quite outshine its older sister.
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It was the first time a developer had thought about what made Batman unique, and although Christopher Nolan's grittier cinematic take on the narrative may have inspired that, there was more to Begins than many gave it credit for.
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The surge is made possible by high-quality performers with social-media-ready personalities, an arms race to pull off the craziest GIF-friendly high spot, and a WWE-weaned fanbase yearning for something grittier than Monday Night Raw.
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BLOOM But I think the thing that unites us with shows like "The Good Place" or "Parks and Recreation" over some grittier cable comedies is not the subject matter, it's that we have empathy and love for our characters.
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At the same time, there's been a newfound appreciation for the character, especially Matt Fraction and David Aja's run on Immortal Iron Fist in 2007-'08 — which feels in step with the darker, grittier world of Marvel's Netflix shows.
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LIMA, April 16 (Reuters) - Susel Paredes often finds herself in dangerous situations, donning a bulletproof vest to lead high-profile police operations and breaking up cartels of street vendors in one of the grittier parts of Peruvian capital Lima.
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Of course, makeup sponges are far less porous than those used for crafting projects — and we can't imagine the amount of product that would be absorbed by this brush's sizeable holes or how its grittier texture would feel against our skin.
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Previously their music foregrounded its jazziest elements, from sampled classic horn flutters to fretless double bass plucking (on The Low End Theory, they hired Ron Carter!), incorporated into a grittier analog sound marked by vinyl scratches, tape hisses and the like.
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DC's Titans is based on the same comic book super team (who were also a fixture as a cartoon back in the day as the Teen Titans and now as Teen Titans Go!), but ostensibly darker and grittier than ever before.
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The first teaser trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One debuted Thursday on Good Morning America, and as promised, it looks like fans are going to be seeing a much grittier side to the force in the series' first standalone film.
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Though Momentum's plot trajectory is somewhat similar to those of its predecessors—young adult with less-than-ideal life situation gets his big break—at first glance it appears grittier and darker in comparison to WAYF's and XOXO's Technicolor aesthetic.
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Whether the White House is willing to further defer or offload the grittier work to those establishment figures, especially in light of congressional stumbling on health care, could go a long way in determining the fate of Obama's most prized feats.
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This new installment has been described as having a darker, grittier tone than the usual Star Wars films, and this brief glimpse of a black-armored trooper with a fire blazing in the background would seem to indicate just that.
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Gritty New York movies don't get grittier than Ferrara's: His films teem with seedy cops and introspective criminals, and his sense of detail makes most other directors who worked in the city in the 1980s and '90s look like tourists.
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Unflinching new photographs reveal a grittier side to Barcelona, where issues like heroin addiction, women's safety and social inequality lay just beneath the tourist-friendly face Spain's second-largest city presents to the rest of the world.
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This mammoth 44-film throwback to a grittier era of city life is stuffed with Al Pacino movies (including "The Panic in Needle Park," showing next Friday, with an appearance by its director, Jerry Schatzberg, at the 7 p.m. show).
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The netminders will need to be at the top of their game as the Americans may struggle to score, given the surprising omission of some speedy, puck-moving forwards in favor of grittier options on a smaller NHL-sized ice surface.
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This political backdrop created a world dripping with end-of-the-world anxieties and paranoia of the Cold War and provided a grittier look at the superheroes who live in it and that would influence the genre for decades to come.
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When I look back on that decision and the work I have done since then, I realize that in an important sense, knowing with certainty why older adults are grittier than their younger counterparts is less important than simply acknowledging that they are.
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There are very few surprises in The Lost City of Z. (That being said, mild spoilers for the true story ahead.) Charlie Hunnam is still really, really attractive, in a slightly grittier way than his Hollywood peers (who are all named Chris).
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It reveals a grittier take on the universe than audiences saw last year in The Force Awakens, following a ragtag group as they try to steal the plans for the Death Star that ended up in R2-D2 in the original 1977 film.
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After playing one of her better and grittier matches of the year on Wednesday night to beat Simona Halep in three sets, Williams appeared to have laid the groundwork for a fine stretch run at the U.S.T.A. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
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On top of that, this transmuted version of Charlie seems like it was written for the new version of Christopher Abbott — an actor who has moved away from mainstream to more indie pursuits: grittier dramas, Brooklyn-accented characters, and off-Broadway plays.
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Jaime Wyatt—a real-life outlaw from way out west who's giving teeth to the genre after quietly joining the country music ranks earlier this year after a stint in prison for robbing her dealer—represents a grittier side of the genre.
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Art Review If you skipped New York's grittier art fairs this season and now regret it, compensation awaits in a scruffy food fight of an exhibition at a relatively swank address: Lever House, the first glass-curtain-wall skyscraper on Park Avenue.
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On NoPixel, the custom Grand Theft Auto V server where I happened on Pred and Speedy, the two are blended; the world already exists, a grittier copy of the one we live in, but the characters are entirely invented by their players.
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By the 1980s, grimmer, grittier comics aimed at an older and more cynical audience were all the rage, partly because of the more mature themes Lee and his cocreators inserted in their work, skirting the weakening Comics Code Authority rules through metaphor and implication.
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At 36, Ms. Miranda acts as a den mother of sorts for the clutch of young dancers who flock to the Basement of NoHo, her studio in North Hollywood, a grittier neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley that has become an unofficial dance hub.
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Federer's goal was to protect his chances of playing in Paris, and after several days of practice at Roland Garros, he appears ready to slide in earnest on the red clay that he finds closer to "powder" than the grittier clay used elsewhere on tour.
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Some classmates have speculated that the move, which found the family in a new house a short distance from the grittier and far more ethnically diverse Pico neighborhood, helped shape Mr. Miller's still-developing views of race and class as he wended through his teens.
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A Tuesday report in the Washington Post gives a little glimpse into what the newspaper calls the "messy, awkward, occasionally successful dating scene on the campaign trail," or, in grittier terms, the sex and dating lives of the young people who work on presidential campaigns.
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If the contemporary city dweller — faced with skyrocketing property values and the scrubbed corporatization of High Street — spends much time feeling nostalgic for that grittier, more authentic time of low rents and urban blight, then Southwark offers a particularly long and glorious history to savor.
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For long-time fans of the artists' grittier aesthetic, this could be a tad disappointing, but the shift feels like part of an inevitable maturation of aesthetic and style, creating a closer marriage between Djurberg's visual and material world and Berg's trance-like sounds.
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There is a quality of Los Angeles that reminds me of the New York that I remember most fondly—it's a little grittier and a little less homogenous, and everywhere you go there's some odd little business and some funny little district of some sort or another.
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But insight into Teresa's life, let alone the other side of the legal battle that prosecutors have since claimed was missing from Part One, is what feels troubling in a climate that often trivializes young women's trauma to take a grittier onscreen view of the male psyche.
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A single mixtape expressing his love of grittier rave, as well as the emerging wave of UK trip-hop on labels like Mo Wax, had suddenly secured him three different gigs, leading to two residencies, and ultimately Plant Records and Plant Bar, alongside his partner Domenique Keegan.
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Like the insurrection of rock and roll against show tunes and sugary popular music, Munch's touchstone images came to satisfy a yen for something grittier and more urgently engaging than the formalism, based in Impressionism and Cubism, that was upheld by art historians at the time.
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One of the most contentious decisions Peter Gelb made early in his tenure as general manager of the Met, where he arrived in 2006 as a modernizing agent, was replacing the ornate Zeffirelli "Tosca" with a starker, grittier, more sexually explicit staging by Luc Bondy in 2009.
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The boom, however, doesn't really include the Golden Cicada Tavern and other longtime, old-school holdouts from Jersey City's grittier days, like the Italian-American Barge Inn (scene of a bold F.B.I. raid two years ago) and the African-American-owned bottle-and-billiards joint Indio's Place.
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The conference was SynBioBeta, and it has gotten so big that it moved this year from a conference center in San Francisco's Mission Bay, which is often reserved for biotech meetings, to a large converted Honda dealership on the grittier side of San Francisco's downtown core.
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Known in the 215s and 1980s for its squatter houses and borderland hipsterism, today it consists of a gentrified and touristy stretch along Bergmannstrasse and the grittier area clustered around the elevated U-Bahn tracks of the Kottbusser Tor — Turkish markets, cobblestone streets, excellent cafes and still-cheap rents.
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"Because he is probably the first president that arrived with no framework and a world that has massively available information with infinite people offering opinion that oft-times sound the same, but in fact are grittier because they are -- they don't have to have the same standard," Gordon said.
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This time around though, Jašarević has a hefty focus specifically on grittier hip-hop sounds (instead of the more stripped-down vibe of his early work)—one track features Wu-Tang legend Raekwon, another with up-and-coming MC ProbCause—turning this latest LP into his most diverse project yet.
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Richard Florida, a professor at the School of Cities at the University of Toronto and the author of "The New Urban Crisis," cautions against reflexively dismissing these fastidious private developments, and romanticizing New York City's grittier past, even if it was chockablock with authentic "third places" like seedy bars and diners.
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I wasn't ever trying to make any huge political statement, but having said that this was written and made at the tail end of 2015 and I do remember very strongly feeling that I want to put positivity out into the world rather than make it any grittier and miserable.
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He will also have a big role at AMC's in-house studio, and will oversee programming at Sundance TV. At Fox, Mr. Madden helped develop shows like "The Shield" and "The Americans," and his interest in grittier shows is said to be better aligned with cable programming than with a broadcast network.
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Perhaps half of Time Warner's profits come not from making brilliant series such as "Game of Thrones", or running clusters of creative excellence, such as HBO, but from a much grittier game of bundling TV shows into packages and selling them at ever more inflated prices to a dwindling number of cable TV customers.
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"People are going to understand exactly where it lives in the 'Star Wars' world and timeline, and I feel like this is a much grittier, harder-edged film and it really packs a hell of a wallop," Mendelsohn told Reuters on the red carpet, which featured a life-size Rebel Alliance X-Wing jet.
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" Some attendees at Neustifter's sex workshops have expressed similar feelings: "Lesbians in these workshops who tell me about watching gay porn often tell me that they like porn that is grittier and nastier without unrealistic or demeaning depictions of women, or that they just like masculinity in general and there are few masculine women in mainstream porn.
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It's a gracious tip of the hat, but it also reaffirms that if Ai hopes to join such ranks — and not merely stick a whitewashed version of his self-mythologizing schtick into a window onto that history — he best back off decorating tony department stores and get back to the grittier business of addressing sociopolitical issues.
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"Wild Cards is a series of books, graphic novels, games... but most of all it is a universe, as large and diverse and exciting as the comic book universes of Marvel and DC (though somewhat grittier, and considerably more realistic and more consistent), with an enormous cast of characters both major and minor," Martin wrote on his blog.
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Their presentation of A, a volume of serigraphs in support of the national literacy campaign, at the Feria de arte cubano (Cuban Art Fair, 1961) marked the last formal activity of the group and spelled the symbolic end of Concrete Cuba, its idealism displaced by the grittier social reality that soon took hold across the arts and otherwise.
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And yes, if this were a grittier program (closer in spirit, say, to the Fellowes-scripted "Gosford Park"), Edith would have remained single, Dickie Grey would have gone to his maker, Henry would have run screaming back to London, and Spratt, in the act of impersonating a woman, would have come to some new understanding of himself.
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You can see that everywhere from Christopher Nolan's overtly realistic Dark Knight movies to X-Men still taking steps away from black leather with grittier updates like Logan; it's visible in the grim exploits of Marvel's Netflix heroes, in DC's entire strategy before Wonder Woman and Aquaman, and in the shades of gray smeared all over the latest Avengers movie.
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Politically, Kennedy typically took care not to cozy up to King, [whose] views on Vietnam — he favored immediate withdrawal — were far too extreme for Kennedy to embrace, as was his larger critique of American foreign policy and culture… Stylistically, Kennedy seemed to prefer the company of grittier black leaders, like the ones who'd organized the rally for him in Indianapolis.
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There's a lot of raw emotion packed into the three and a half minutes of "Gaslighter," which can feel at times like it's more about the message than the melody, but this high-octane, grittier update of the sound the Chicks last left us with on the 2006 LP "Taking the Long Way" is a tempting teaser of what's yet to come.
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During their set, they played their own version of "I Can't Give Everything Away" from the late icon's final album Blackstar: As expected, the band give a grittier, oilier take on Bowie's track, and though this isn't the best footage in the world, the sound shines through to prove that Nine Inch Nails can make anything their own and have still got it in spades, even after three years out of the live game.
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NEVER A LOVELY SO REAL The Life and Work of Nelson Algren By Colin Asher "Never a Lovely So Real," the luminous title of Colin Asher's absorbing new biography of the once famous but now neglected Chicago writer Nelson Algren (21986-21950), draws upon a 703 essay — commissioned by Holiday magazine during a period of civic boosterism at the height of the Red scare — in which Algren expressed his love for his hometown's grittier neighborhoods.
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Like the CW did with Arrow, Titans — which features an extremely goth Teagan Croft as Raven, not to mention the Senegalese Anna Diop (Bosch, 24: Legacy) and Japanese Ryan Potter (Big Hero 6) shaking up the white-coded team as Starfire and Beast Boy, respectively — looks like it'll be a far grittier (and far more mature, with a TV-MA rating) take on the once-goofy squad, with quite a bit of profanity — "Fuck Batman" — and bone-crunching.
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In the grittier " Westworld ," the HBO show about a Wild West amusement park populated by cyborgs whom people are free to fuck and kill, Dr. Robert Ford, the emotionally damaged scientist played by Anthony Hopkins, tells his chief coder, Bernard (who's been unaware that he, too, is a cyborg), that "your imagined suffering makes you lifelike" and that "to escape this place you will need to suffer more"—a world view borrowed not from children's stories but from religion.
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