Mr. Meyers does not claim to have produced a great deal of new information, but his focus on Orwell's inner life and on the connection between the unsparing lucidity of his work and the gritty self-destructiveness of his personality add up to an altered vision.
Gritty, charitable, self-reliant, they answer millions of calls for help each year.
In 2015, the gritty romance writer self-published a book called The Wrong Husband about a woman who tries to escape her abusive husband by faking her own death.
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You get the sense, in any case, that he hasn't truly decided what kind of writer he wants to be; his language seems to disavow naturalism, while his self-consciously gritty subject matter clings to it.
Claims that Mr Balls and Ms Cooper have nurtured their own faction are overblown, but the couple undoubtedly finds itself at the centre of a distinct group within the party: tactical, sceptical of grand visions, self-consciously gritty.
There is more to be learned here about the animating forces of a modern global city – the dreams, as well as the nightmares – than from any number of self-consciously gritty, video-diary documentaries.
"This is a real, gritty city; one that prizes self-sufficiency and individual thought," he will say.
It's a gritty story – Daisy struggles with self-harm and a second tragedy, which leaves her completely alone.
It ended with Rex Ryan looking like a Macy's parade float someone had let half the air out of, and while the Patriots hardly looked like their old selves, they were gritty enough to swat away the Jets, writes Jackie MacMullan on ESPN.com.
He believes the idea that the estate was "blighted" by crime and drugs was part invention – the product of an excitable media and of film-makers who liked to use the Heygate as a set for gritty realist dramas – and part self-fulfilling prophecy, as the council neglected maintenance and replaced long-term tenants with short-term licensees, who tended to be more disruptive.
