Sentence examples for gritty persona from inspiring English sources

"That gave us sort of a gritty persona -- not only that we were showing all this tough work, but that we were doing it in Brooklyn," Hopkins says.

Rather than ape Lee's gritty persona, Chan utilized his own form of bumbling physical comedy in his first successful films, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978) and Drunken Master (1978).

By March, Hart was starting for the Lakers and beginning to introduce his gritty persona to Los Angeles.

It's also the Secret Service code name for the White House in "Olympus Has Fallen". Director Antoine Fuqua brings his "Training Day" credentials to this nonstop action adventure, which could be titled "Die Hard in the District of Columbia". Gerard Butler reclaims his former gritty screen persona in the starring role.

A gregarious guy who loved to shock preppies with his gritty Pennsylvania persona was now reclusive.

Then Ms. Lewis's gritty stage persona disintegrated as she tenderly serenaded her new grandchildren with "My Funny Valentine".

In Turner's case, she got back to the gritty rock persona that had characterised some of her greatest successes with Ike Turner.

A DJ might want to go with either of these styles, so choose your own sounds accordingly to make the name appropriately gritty for your persona.

The flip side of Cash's gritty, carved-from-stone persona was a tendency to preachiness, and this came to the fore in a string of long-winded "concept" albums such as Ride This Train (1960), Blood, Sweat And Tears (1963) and True West (1965).

The video clips accompanying OTR expand on the previously released trailer, reinventing the couple's modern day Bonnie and Clyde personas with gritty imagery, violence, and sex: Driving through the desert, they rob banks, take risque photos on a bed of money, and shoot a lot of guns.

As an artist, Gita's look is just as big a part of her persona as her gritty pop sound.