'gritty' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used to describe something that is difficult, coarse, or harsh. For example, "The gritty conditions of the refugee camp made life difficult for the residents".
Clearly, somewhere in the years before he released those gritty tales of urban decay as heard on 6 Feet Beneath the Moon, he learned the power of the po-faced.
That night, with sand flying through the air like gritty rain, it would be my tent.
It wasn't gritty, it wasn't edgy; it was grey as a warship and it never stopped raining.
Netflix has Daredevil and four other gritty Marvel series in the pipeline, plus a new season of Orange Is The New Black that ditches Jason Biggs, perhaps the ultimate example of tailored content.
According to Eurostat, illegal activities such as prostitution and drug trafficking, together with accounting changes covering rather less gritty subjects such as pensions – could add about 1% to the GDP of Poland and Romania, 1%-2% to Spain and Italy, 3%-4 3%-4%he UK and as much as 5% to the GDP of Finland and Sweden.
We can't just have Downton programming ad infinitum and think that just because we've got some people in the servants' hall, somehow or other we've done our duty by gritty drama".
With a second season long confirmed, there's a sense that the nominally gritty Gotham is clearing out some of its cartoonish gangsters to make more room for cartoonish supervillains, even if it still can't quite figure out what to do with young Bruce Wayne.
Now, because we have to meet targets, wards are discharging patients more efficiently, medicines are being dispensed more quickly, transport is being arranged faster - it's all nitty-gritty stuff but it all helps when people work together to solve a problem.
And Rio is where the nitty-gritty of this new agenda – the goals, targets and indicators – may be decided.
Caborn is, then, attempting to marry high European politics with the nitty-gritty of addressing football's ills.
It's due to a more streamlined approach and improvements in nitty-gritty things like better portering.
