"His gruffness brings out her, sort of, flirtatiousness," says Graham.
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Despite his reputation for gruffness, Sanders hesitates to attack his opponents directly.
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Ariana Grande's airy vocal runs meld surprisingly well with Miley Cyrus' twangy gruffness.
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Mr. Abdrazakov's hearty gruffness suited his part, and his earthy comic acting was effective.
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Lawther sells adolescent desperation, and the way Flynn switches between gruffness and utilitarian friendliness is unsettling.
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In contrast to Mr. Findlay's easygoing gruffness, Mr. Harts's tone is methodical and ritualistic, as are his movements.
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While I initially viewed it as gruffness upon check-in, I now realize it was most likely exhaustion.
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If you don't speak the language, the unfamiliarity and the gruffness give the music an added bit of menace.
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Here he's a blues-rock megastar, a wounded man with a soft heart whom Cooper plays with credibly bruised gruffness.
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Played with affable gruffness by Richard Coyle, Lamb is the anti-Murdoch, a comradely (if tough) captain to Murdoch's maladroit monarch.
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I obsessed over his "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" duet with Stevie Nicks and the way the gruffness in their voices matched.
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"What's happened?" asks a voice with the gruffness of a man old enough to remember at least two of those lionized leaders.
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Open-air cars should seem affable and approachable, and the gruffness of a muscle car makes a strange pairing, like a four-wheeled mullet.
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Levin may seem to lack a connection to Walters and Latibeaudiere, but the three are bonded by their mutual gruffness and obsession with celebrity.
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At times, he also reminds me of Bruce Springsteen—they share the same gruffness of tone, warmth, and knack for making a straightforward song into something revelatory.
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In all three movies, Allen brought a bit of his characteristic gruffness to the role of Scott Calvin, a jaded ad exec who accidentally becomes the new Santa Claus.
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"It turned out he was basically a very kind and generous man, which he covered up with his surface gruffness and his surface blusteriness," he said in an interview.
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None of this really matters, though, because Stewart doesn't even try to affect Ventura's one-of-a-kind "rabid dog trying to bark and chew gum at the same time" gruffness.
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As the oafish hunter Kuno, Gunnar Blume's expressive gruffness is an asset, while no amount of theatrical determination can compensate for Matthias Zera's vocally wobbly performance as the lovesick addict Wilhelm.
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Dylan's external gruffness masks a man whose performances remain as heartfelt as they were more than 50 years ago, when he was just another guy with a guitar bumming around Greenwich Village.
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Mr. Bunning threw fastballs, curveballs and sliders out of a 20103-foot-3-inch frame, seeking to intimidate batters with a gruffness that would be a hallmark of his time in Congress.
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This week's new graciousness and apparent willingness to talk about disagreements and seek common ground looks markedly different from the distinct gruffness and barely contained aggressiveness that characterized Trump during his first year.
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It's just one of the tasters from their imminent, most excellent fifth album City Club (out September 123th): A delicious, 13 track collection that weds a pack-a-day gruffness with deft pop hooks.
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J.K. Simmons, Jenny Slate, Octavia Spencer, and even pop star Shakira also contribute excellent work; the only bum note is Idris Elba as the police chief, who forces the gruffness a bit too much.
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But all this, Mr. Sanders declined to say — not because it isn't relevant and not because it doesn't fit with Mr. Sanders's platform — but because Mr. Sanders, for all his famed gruffness, doesn't like going negative.
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She loved him for his parsimony of words, and for his gruffness, which was partly an act to see how she'd respond, and so did I. Not for the first time, I raised the idea of hospice care.
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Cardona shares the top seat on the Rules Committee with Barney Frank, the former Massachusetts representative, who—despite his reputation for Sanders-style gruffness and a shared affinity for calling policies "bullshit"—has repeatedly railed against Medicare for All and the Green New Deal policies first championed by Sanders.
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Not only is it lots of fun to see Hank slither around the aquarium while toting Dory in a coffee pitcher — octopi are apparently pretty resourceful when they need to be — but O'Neill's gruffness and DeGeneres's sunny, loopy delivery play so well off each other that watching the two characters become friends isn't just satisfying.
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It's a truly great piece of American literature (hey, it was written by a Nobel Laureate), and with Dylan's 38th studio album, Triplicate due out March 31, Chronicles could work as a twisted companion piece, walking around how Dylan got here, reimagining standards over three discs, reanimating post-war classics with a spark of gruffness and grace that's totally confounding despite the familiarity of the songs themselves.
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The dynamic Alexander Scheer (in the role of Lord Byron, whose poem "Manfred" is quoted from at length) and the high-strung Daniel Zillmann (playing a Parisian theater director) easily outshine the play's central duo: Martin Wuttke plays Faust with a thuggish gruffness that quickly gets tiresome; Marc Hosemann's muscular and mischievous Mephisto was more impressive — until this endurance test of a production took its toll and he began to lose his voice toward the end of the evening.
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He was noted for his gruffness. He formed an extensive net of approximately 600 civilian spies throughout Korea. There was an assassination attempt on him by communists in 1948. Nichols survived; the would-be assassins did not.
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"I am the crazy man Wallach", he replied.Rossoff (2001), pp. 485-486. Despite his outer gruffness, Wallach had a kind heart. He adopted a young Syrian girl named Bolissa who had been brought to the hospital by her father and was subsequently abandoned there.
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Murray was consistently praised for his performance. Critics were in agreement that his performance was essential to the film's success by making Phil's transformation believable. Gene Siskel wrote that any other actor could not have prevented the film from becoming too "saccharine". Turan said that Murray's natural gruffness and comedic barbs prevented over-sentimentality.
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The Bridge House Estates seal used only the image of Becket, while the reverse featured a depiction of his martyrdom. Local legends regarding Becket arose after his canonisation. Though they tend toward typical hagiographical stories, they also display Becket's well-known gruffness. "Becket's Well", in Otford, Kent, is said to have been created after Becket had become displeased with the taste of the local water.
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The restaurant also offered other, non-Jewish food such as ham, sausage, and bacon. Available for order were cheesecake portions of over a pound per serving. The restaurant's motto was: "If you can finish your meal, we've done something wrong". In addition to the large servings, the restaurant was also known for its surly waiters, who allegedly tried to impart some of the stereotypical gruffness of New York to visitors.
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Entertainment Weekly editor Lisa Schwarzbaum praised Asner's acting, stating that he has a "Lou Grant authority" to his voice. Time editor Richard Corliss stated that Asner had the "gruffness and deadpan comic timing to bring Carl to life." The Boston Globe editor Ty Burr concurred with this, stating that his Lou Grant-like voice had not diminished with time. USA Today editor Claudia Puig praised Asner's delivery, describing it as superb.
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He was born in 1048 (441 A.H.) in Namagh (now Kashmar) near Torshiz in Khorasan, and counted Jarir Ibn Abdullah, a companion (Sahaba) of Mohammad as one of his ancestors. His parents made their living by farming. Ahmad was tall of stature, strong and courageous; this and a reputation for gruffness led to sources referring to him as "the Colossal Elephant" (Zhandeh Pil). Medieval accounts describe him as having red hair, a wine-colored beard and dark-blue eyes.
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Mullane wrote that his character is "suitably sleazy, without ever being a caricature", whilst Framke praised his "coiled anger", describing the character as "gruff and to the point" and "furious at his total helplessness". Dzieza praised Flynn's "unsettling" contrast between "gruffness and utilitarian friendliness". Collin opined that "the deliciously horrible details of Flynn’s performance sell you on his character's predicament in a snap". However, Handlen commented that though Flynn "does a fine job", the episode is not a "showcase" for him.
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The characters of Final Fantasy XIII have received mixed and positive opinions from reviewers. Ben Dutka of PSX Extreme said that the voice acting for the characters are "interesting" and that the cast was "a competent one, even if some characters can begin to chafe after a while." He also said that the player "might grow tired of Lightning’s gruffness and Vanille’s bounciness in the early goings but they begin to show new emotions as [the player] progress[es]." 1UP.
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He was described as "really a clever man, notwithstanding that he looks so insignificant. He is a little, old-style chap, with a stoop, but having a splendid head and a keen bright eye... with his determined face and his grotesque headgear... Germanish from habit to dress, though he has more of the French politeness than the Teutonic gruffness." His speeches were found impressive, "but the drawback to his general acceptance as a speaker is the unintelligibility which a thick foreign accent imparts to him".
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He is easily angered to the point of rage, and often greets people with a growl or a snarl. He is most often upset by Murdock and frequently addresses him with the phrase "You crazy fool!", although Murdock is usually unfazed by B. A.'s gruffness. In fact, B. A. and Murdock are very close friends, with almost the relationship of frequently quarrelling brothers, as can be seen in "Curtain Call", the Season 2 finale, where Murdock is shot and B. A. is desperate to save him.
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His straightforward, abrupt manner savoured sometimes of gruffness, while his direct, unadorned method of expressing himself harmonized well with his rough-hewn, immobile features and somewhat sluggish movements. His education was not such as to soften these peculiarities. More than six feet tall (about 1.9 m), he was also noted for his immense physical strength. A sebaceous cyst on the left side of his nose caused him to be mocked by some of his contemporaries, and he sat for photographs and portraits with the right side of his face most prominent.
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Her marriage with Kei is common knowledge in this series. She can be somewhat ditzy, but also very open-hearted, compassionate and sociable. In a somewhat nostalgic replay of the situation that led to her and Kei being discovered by the former headmaster, Miina and Karen are forced to hide in the very same sports equipment locker. Marie locates them, and Mizuho transports herself to it covertly to counsel the two girls on the true nature of Maiku's seeming gruffness towards them, asserting that it screens genuine kindness and affection for them.
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He is a baronet and a barrister – in The Judas Window he actually appears for the defence in court in a murder case – and he holds a medical degree. He has a number of other talents, including stage magic, disguise and a vast knowledge of the history of crime. Merrivale occasionally mentions his family — a wife, two daughters and (late in the series) two sons-in-law. With his characteristically comic gruffness, he is inclined to complain about the trouble these relations give him, but none of them appear in any of the books or stories.
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Presley's best octave is in the middle, D-flat to D-flat, granting an extra full step up or down." In Pleasants' view, his voice was "variable and unpredictable" at the bottom, "often brilliant" at the top, with the capacity for "full-voiced high Gs and As that an opera baritone might envy". Scholar Lindsay Waters, who figures Presley's range as two-and-a-quarter octaves, emphasizes that "his voice had an emotional range from tender whispers to sighs down to shouts, grunts, grumbles, and sheer gruffness that could move the listener from calmness and surrender, to fear. His voice can not be measured in octaves, but in decibels; even that misses the problem of how to measure delicate whispers that are hardly audible at all.
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Mike Newdeck writes on his review for Alternative Addiction that "Green proves to be the main strength of the album, sounding remarkably like Patrick Wilson in places, yet adding his own distinctive personality". Andrew Hart writing for Rock Relapse describes Green as "a prototypical hard rock belter, the kind of vocalist who lends a nice twinge of gruffness to his superbly clean voice," which makes him a fine substitute for the band's last frontman. Brian Campbell of Starpulse opines that "by the end of the tremendous opening track "Life After Anger", you should know just about all you need to know about Emphatic’s Another Life. Chunky riffs, soaring vocals, and melodic hooks all coated in a glossy, radio ready sheen".
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Summer is like a fat beast, > sleepy in mildew... Josephson's objection to this side of Stevens is that he in his next book "would have to be more and more intimate and scandalous, ad absurdum", and that already this side "has influenced many of his younger contemporaries, and in them, at least, leads to pretense, and murkiness".Josephson, 32 There are those who maintain that both the aesthete and sensualist readings overlook the American burgher in Stevens, the successful insurance executive possessed of "something of the mountainous gruffness that we recognize in ourselves as American—the stamina, the powerful grain showing in a kind of indifference".Richard Eberhart, quoted in Bates, p. 89. This character trait may be reflected in the element of anti-poetry in Stevens' work, as in his choice of the word 'stupid' in "Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores", or the "tink and tank and tunk-a-tunk-tunk" of "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman".
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Ty Burr of The Boston Globe reserved special praise for DiCaprio's performance, saying "magnificent is the only word to describe this performance – the best movie Gatsby by far, superhuman in his charm and connections, the host of revels beyond imagining, and at his heart an insecure fraud whose hopes are pinned to a woman". The Scene Magazine gave the movie a "B-" rating, and praised the actors' performances, in particular saying that "the stand-out actor is Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan doing an excellent job of showing the character's gruffness, despite the one-dimensionality given to him". A granddaughter of Fitzgerald praised the style and music of the film. Tobey Maguire's role as Nick was given mixed reviews from critics, with Philip French of The Guardian calling him "miscast or misdirected"; Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post saying "Tobey Maguire is his usual recessive presence, barely registering as either a dynamic part of the events he describes or their watchful witness"; and Elizabeth Weitzman of The New York Daily News saying despite "the wry- observational skills needed for Nick's Midwestern decency", the character is "directed toward a wide-eyed, one-note performance".
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