He's no Scorsese, but he roughens the surface of his scenes, letting characters interrupt and talk over one another.
Not only does Hughes omit this crucial touch, but he roughens Aeschylus's tone: 'A woman without her man learns desperation' - where andros is, indeed, 'man', but where 'husband', as in other versions, matches Aeschylus's register.
Retrospectively, he wishes that he had "roughened up" Mark, as he was "too designery".
He has also said that he believes Mark was too "designery" and wishes that he had "roughened him up a bit".
Since leaving the Quai d'Orsay to become interior minister, he has roughened his edges in the company of policemen and firemen.
Sir Elton's robust voice has roughened slightly, and he has begun to use scratchy notes strategically like Ray Charles.
Heteropterans produce sounds by moving one roughened member over a roughened area of body surface.
He played with this new metrics, roughened it, fattened it.
Slowly stretching out his deeply tanned and roughened hands in front, he asked me to look down -- my mouth dropped open as I stared at a multitude of what looked like knife scars, some deep, some shallow, and a few recent and burning red, that crisscrossed the wide expanse of his hands.
He could feel them descending, feel his mouth lengthening!... His voice was guttural, roughened.... His hands were thickly covered with hair!" Hmmm.
