Sentence examples for grainy television from inspiring English sources

"People were watching this grainy television in this country desperate to rebuild their democracy," he said.

The grainy television imagery suggested not so much a terrorist attack as the shapeless, omnidirectional chaos of Iraq.

The Zhivago deal will bring a much-needed influx of high-budget drama to Russia's grainy television screens.

In black and white, on grainy television screens, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Beatles paraded and gyrated for a new generation.

Revelling in the bravado of holding men at gunpoint, they quote gangster film cliches, maybe learnt from grainy television screens back home.

Training his eyes on a grainy television in his grandparents' Hawaii apartment, he imitated the dance steps on "Soul Train" and Richard Pryor's outrageous jokes.

While many Cubans have to make do with small, old grainy televisions in their homes, here they were suddenly in a field staring up at giant high-definition screens.

Many citizens in this, the world's most populous democracy have glared at the grainy video snippets on television, transfixed by the sight of hands reaching out greedily for stacks of rupees and the sound of loot crinkling as it brushes past hidden microphones.

When a fight begins in the bar, Mike pulls out his badge and the camera shifts from film, and the smooth glossy look of most television dramas, to grainy video with the down-and-dirty style of cheap reality programs like "World's Wildest Police Chases".

A grainy vintage television excerpt of his parents on the game show "I've Got a Secret" doesn't begin to fill the gap.

Then, on a television wheeled up beside the witness stand, we were shown a grainy video of the defendant's confessional statement.