I prefer this melancholy portrayal to Crawford's better-known work for George Cukor in the all-female "The Women" (1939), in which she's harsh and grating as a perfume-counter saleswoman preying on rich married men.
Harsh, grating and thunderous, I became aware of the way particular sounds are made and manipulated.
The emphasis is on refinement, scrupulously avoiding harsh textures and grating dissonances to conjure pleasurable languor.
He straightened as music from an early Prokofiev ballet crashed from the speakers, a harsh wash of grating horns and driving drums.
Its stage pictures are mostly the standard, simply drawn Wilsonian tableaus, and its general tone is grating and harsh, with lots of clangs, bangs and blasts in its 14 scenes and musical numbers.
Mihailov, S. J., Grobnic, D., Walker, R. B., Lu, P. & Ding, H. Femtosecond laser induced fiber Bragg gratings for harsh environment sensing applications.
"Grating", defined as "sounding harsh and unpleasant", was illustrated with the phrase "her high, grating voice", while the adjective "nagging" used the example phrase "a nagging wife".
Moles vocalize by making high-pitched squeals, harsh, guttural squeaks, short snorting sounds, and grating the teeth.
It has a variety of calls, including some which are quite similar to those of the gray catbird; these are variously described as a harsh rriah, a nasal chrrh and a grating tcheeu.
Nevertheless, gratings that can be used in harsh environment with reliable self-compensation sensing solutions are still relevant to produce, especially for structural health monitoring, nuclear and oil & gas industries13,14.
Colossal bellows, needling synthetic bleats, and grating textures unfold in explosive, angular blocks; harsh noise sits next to shimmering, pristine sounds, dissonance directly up against eerie silences.
