Sentence examples for gritty role from inspiring English sources

Highfield's gritty role, year after year, has been grinding down the mountain of Johnston's accumulated debt.

The large men who clog up the middle for N.F.L. teams are seldom rewarded on the statistical charts, but Hand reveled in that gritty role.

When the chance came to obtain a marquee name — Denver's Carmelo Anthony — the Bulls stuck to their principles and refused to trade Noah, a gritty role player whom they deemed more vital.

We've seen Kravitz portray a tough-girl in "X-Men: First Class," but it's nothing compared to this gritty role.

On the Indian film front, Chopra is cooking up a new gritty role with a planned biopic of Indian Olympic bronze-medal boxer Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom.

She can cut you deeply with her razor sharp jaw line and even deeper with her compelling talents that pull you in to her tough-as-nails gritty role.

Does he trade the skilled but slumping Petr Nedved for the gritty, role-playing forwards that Hitchcock needs?

He was so completely credible in gritty roles because he made you feel that he had sweat and dust on his neck and behind his ears.

As gritty roles for young female actors go, the chance to play Frances Shea, the doomed young bride of Kray twin Reggie, is up there with Karen Hill in Goodfellas and Eady in Heat.

What would happen, I wonder, if average-looking actresses were given the opportunity to play these "gritty" roles that only beautiful-but-made-less-beautiful actresses get to play?

He's played heavyweight, gritty roles in 2001's Training Day and 2007's Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, and more recently has been showing up in obscenely profitable multiplex fare such as 2012's Sinister and 2013's The Purge.