Sometimes unfamiliarity with a work can be an advantage, cannot say I found the musical interludes remotely intrusive, at times they even helped move the narrative along, John Lithgow's 'morning after' monologue was a joy and yes, you're right, Nancy Carroll, who it times was so abrasive, seemed to be spitting shards of glass, was excellent.
The answer supplied by these dark, abrasive concertos seemed to lie in Vivaldi's avant-garde approach to tone colour; exploring the sonic combination of virtuosity, volume and distortion 250 years before Jimi Hendrix.
"He's not as abrasive and seems more flexible than Mayor Giuliani," said Glory Ann Cranston, a Buffalo legal secretary who attended the luncheon for Mr. Lazio but doubted that she would vote for him.
The Tridentine rite includes an Easter prayer for the conversion of Jews that has been amended but never dropped.For Marco Ventura, a professor of law and religion at Siena University, the pope's abrasive style seems to reflect both conviction and a sense that tough talk plays well in the "religious market".
If Smith seemed abrasive, arrogant, in those early years, it was because he needed to be.
For not only was there numbness but also misdirection: soft materials such as tissues felt rough and abrasive, heavy towels seemed like cotton wool or silk.
And the abrasive former hooker seemed to have an immediate impact, although the Sharks remain bottom of the table on six points, four behind both London Irish and London Welsh.
While they did scenes involving porno, babies with AIDS and religion, through their unique voices the abrasive subject matter seemed almost quaint.
Wallace's intellectualism is more refined than Lipsky's, but Lipsky has a gruff, slightly abrasive vigor that seems to mesh with (and occasionally grate on) Wallace.
Kutaragi may seem abrasive to some (see "The Chairman and the Rebel"), but he has power.
It was written in a playful, abrasive, working-class Scots that seemed almost without precedent.
