Sentence examples for gritty texture from inspiring English sources

Layers of bilious color and gritty texture enhance the feeling of thick, suffocating fumes.

You either like the gritty texture of brandy butter or not.

Galaktaboureko (custard layered with phyllo pastry), served warm, was especially appealing, but a dense lemon cake had a coarse, gritty texture.

Its edible leaves (think nettle soup, tea or cordial) are best eaten young, in the first half of the year - from June onwards they develop a gritty texture.

And there's the gritty texture of the "green bean shake," which is actually a blend of cooked mung beans, sweetened condensed milk, sugar and ice.

They are meaty, just salty enough and are filleted properly, by hand, so they don't share that gritty texture many anchovies seem to have.

An untitled embroidery on sandpaper by Ezequiel Suarez is an unusual juxtaposition of silky and gritty textures, emphasizing sensuousness over pictorial imagery.

In its best moments, Mr. Tetzlaff, now playing viola, produced gritty textures to offset Robert Langevin's deft flute playing and Nancy Allen's fluid harp line.

Apart from repeating a somewhat obvious image of a staircase, he falls back on his signature formal devices to convey generalized transcendence: sooty colors, gritty textures, receding architectural perspectives, physical bulk.

In this music a fine-grain clarity can be appealing: you want to hear the subtleties of the singing and the rich, often gritty textures of the early instruments.

However, lately I've started to explore layering paint on already dry works which creates some interesting gritty textures.