Roughness is a harsh quality that emerges in music when two tones have very close, but not identical frequencies.
However, this is meant as a pleasant, mild, non-harsh quality, quite different from the taste quality of a sweet receptor sensation.
Just as the Australian prime minister speaks fluent Mandarin, his hard-working deputy communicates in a variant of 'Strine, a pinched and nasally dialect with harsh, penetrative qualities.
Follow-Up Test: 2005 Chrysler Crossfire SRT-6 Although the performance of the Crossfire SRT-6 is more than satisfying, its harsh ride quality borders on intolerable on a day-to-day basis.
The harsh voice quality tends to appear when the excitement level of the speaker increases.
In surprise/unexpectedness, three types of speaking styles were predominant: br/wh voice along the whole word/phrase (40% of the tokens), aspiration at the end of the utterance (26% of the tokens), and a harsh voice quality (due to irregularity in the vocal fold vibrations) along with breathiness (20% of the tokens).
Although aluminium has a reputation for producing a harsher ride quality than other materials, this bike didn't cause any lingering aches and pains post-ride.
Russia, despite its famously harsh winters, lacks quality Alpine ski resorts and other elite winter sports facilities.
Even the famous "I Want You" World War I recruiting poster, with Uncle Sam pointing directly at the viewer, has a certain harsh and judgmental quality to it.
Bratton and Giuliani instituted harsh measures against quality-of-life offenses, based on the "broken windows" theory of addressing minor offenses to head off more serious crimes.
