Sentence examples for gritty mix from inspiring English sources
Ms. Allison started to rub me down with a gritty mix of unrefined sugar crystals and shea butter.
The freshly manicured lawns offer a jarring contrast with the gritty mix of earth and rubble that carpets the surrounding area.
The show's debut episode, "Life and Stuff," which will be shown at 4 p.m. Friday on TBS, still holds up, a gritty mix of sweet and sour, establishing all the major characters in simple strokes.
The cutbacks at the plant will only slightly diminish the gritty mix of manufacturing in this town, which includes motor vehicle and pharmaceutical production and some of the East Coast's largest oil refineries.
A quick subway ride from the glitz of Manhattan, the bustling thoroughfare of Roosevelt Avenue in the Jackson Heights section of Queens provides a gritty mix of Indian groceries, South American travel agencies and immigration lawyers' offices under a lacelike canopy of elevated train tracks.
For a smooth mix, the last track should be the baby-maker but for a grittier mix, the last track should be surreal and totally out of it, making you feel like you just walked out of the club, lights up, twenty cans down and feeling the brunt of whatever floor drugs you took.
One year ago, they moved back, fixing up a brownstone on East 118th Street and finding that the streets retained much of the gritty, festive mix they cherished: gaudy murals, coconut-ice vendors, sidewalk domino players, hole-in-the-wall luncheonettes with incessant salsa beats, ragged tenements next to fussed-over gardens.
True to its title, "Life and Fate" mixes gritty battlefield descriptions with acute psychological insights, wrenching dilemmas and deep philosophical reflections about the nature of good and evil.
The novel's style feels more familiar when, following much dissident literature from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, it mixes gritty realism with absurdist satire.
The resulting mix is gritty and emotional, a rare combination for the genre.
But perhaps this new strategy is the blueprint to make it work: limiting acquisitions to a mix of gritty, defense-minded centers and crafty guards with superior ball-handling ability.
