Sentence examples for a roughness from inspiring English sources

"There's a roughness about him, an Everyman quality," he said.

There is a roughness to her technique, which suggests animation or movement.

"But there's a roughness which serves as a counterpoint to the sophistication of these more formal landscapes.

He was starting to see a roughness about Lucy that her youth and country ways had masked.

Slow, it has a roughness that nonetheless sticks strangely in the mind, dovetailing with the subject matter.

Welch's alto is rich and tarnished, with a roughness that hints at a tired or heat-baked throat.

The pink element was fabulously flesh-like and the white section in the middle had a roughness that hinted at sun shining through a broken cloud.

"There's a rawness and readiness and a roughness that ENO can offer that is so different from the polished Royal Opera," he says.

As in most of Beethoven's last pieces, exquisite melodiousness, colored by his fascination with antique scales, alternates with a roughness approaching brutality.

His police have confined them in metal "pens," and treated them with a roughness that makes protesting the government a grueling experience.

Like power-hungry people in real life, the women in "Equity" are no saints, which lends the movie a roughness that makes it more entertaining.