Sentence examples for gritty landscape from inspiring English sources

The works often fall into the street-lit genre, stories that are set in a gritty landscape populated by thuggish men, devious women and dysfunctional families and are often drenched in violence.

MUMBAI, India — In a scene reminiscent of the gritty landscape from the hit movie "Slumdog Millionaire," municipal workers on Thursday demolished the home of one of the young children who starred in the rags-to-riches tale.

Anderlecht is a gritty landscape of warehouses, falafel joints and muffler shops, but the bar itself is a cheerful enough place; there's a pool table in the center of the room, and video machines blink quietly against one wall.

Not far from Tel Aviv a drone flies low over a gritty landscape of warehouses and broken pavement.

The painted trains that were popularly despised as emblem's of the city's decay and chaos in the late 1970s and early 1980s are now viewed with a certain nostalgia and respect, along with the gritty landscape that has since vanished.

Jeff Ladd of the photobook blog 5B4, cites the example of John Gossage's book of gritty landscapes, The Pond.

For him, that's gratifying to hear; he sees great beauty in these gritty landscapes of steel, asphalt and plastic.

These are the compelling images of young love surrounded by the gritty landscapes of a polluted manufacturing town.

The elegant little contours of Isham Park and the mock-Tudor houses around Park Terrace West give way to a grittier landscape of body shops, tax-prep centers, a Twin Donut, the 207th Street subway yard, and the explosive traffic noise of the double-decked Broadway Bridge.

It is, after all, a refreshing departure from a gritty urban landscape of apartment buildings, factories and highway and subway overpasses.

Originally, producers eyed Baltimore's diversity as a reason to shoot the series; the gritty urban landscape would have allowed Skins' treatment of class issues to shine.