Sentence examples for a rough diamond from inspiring English sources

A former barrow boy, a mock gangster, a rough diamond, a bully boy.

Farage told LBC: "I'm a bit sad, because Kerry Smith is a rough diamond.

"When I first arrived, I remember being described as a rough diamond in my first assessment".

If you get caught with a rough diamond, you're looking at a maximum of 15 years in jail.

It's important to look at his arc – he has always been a rough diamond, but he is a good guy.

At the time I wasn't doing anything with my nails; they took me on as a rough diamond.

Typically, about 60percentt of a rough diamond is lost as dust or shavings in the cutting process.

Young they certainly are, and good, sleek performers, but only the dancing of Richard Santiago, a dancer of great purity and a rough-diamond presence, suggested the potential for stardom.

On a diplomatic mission to Turkey, a rough-diamond but top-rank UK politician gets caught up in a brawl which brings on his head the wrath of religious and secular leaders.

The European Commission said it believed that a supply agreement between the South African diamond group De Beers and Alrosa, a rough-diamond producer owned by the Russian government, breaches European Union competition laws.

This character is a sentimental cipher, a rough diamond with a tear-jerk backstory.