Sentence examples for gritty scene from inspiring English sources

It was a wild, gritty scene".

Every month or so a film crew arrives to shoot a gritty scene for "Law & Order" or some other projection of rough New York retrofitted to look like the rotten apple of forty years ago, when the city was lousy with crack and crime and the population was slumping.

A different kind of realism is evident in etchings by John Sloan, a painter of the Ashcan School, which focused on gritty scenes of tenement New York at the turn of the last century.

The poems in "Season Songs" (1976) present gritty scenes of town and farm, while "Moortown" (1979) reveals a deeper, darker experience of farming, wallowing in bad weather and the blood of ewes giving birth to damaged or stillborn lambs.

Well, look no further than "New Jersey: 24/7" (DK Publishing, $24.95), a rich collection of 540 mesmerizing photos that reflect the length and breadth of the Garden State: from fishermen on the coast to barns in the Pine Barrens, from inner cities to lonely farms, from familiar faces to gritty scenes of anonymous people hard at work.

Delighted!" In fact, delight was an organizing principle of Culhane's life, despite the gritty scenes he encountered as a journalist.

Weary of its status as South Africa's biggest -- but least attractive -- city, Johannesburg plans to recast itself as a destination for tourists seeking to supplement the picture-postcard vistas of Cape Town and Kruger National Park with grittier scenes from the "real" Africa.

For all the operatic trappings of "Happy Fella," the gritty first scene is right out of Broadway.

We were supposed to be doing some gritty interrogation scene and suddenly found ourselves singing show tunes".

Four hip-hop performers — played by actual hip-hop stars will.i.am, Fergie, Taboo and apl.de.ap — pose in front of a gritty urban scene.

Anyone who's read Kerouac's classic or seen the beautifully gritty train scene from "Slumdog Millionaire" knows the attraction of the open road.