Sentence examples for if rough from inspiring English sources

But he would not say if rough pavement had anything to do with the accidents.

The house's music director, Daniel Klajner, conducted an orchestra that sounded energetic if rough.

If rough play is allowed to impact the games, it takes away from his strengths".

Rather, it was a collegial (if rough) caution from one brother to another, about a third, politicians all.

It brought unavoidable if rough comparisons to the rape case in Steubenville, Ohio, last year, where repeated violations of a teenage girl were chronicled in social media.

Still, the group's total annual revenue from dues is a useful, if rough, barometer of the number of individuals who find the NRA's cause compelling enough to join the group.

The Paris accord lays out, if in rough terms, the path that the world ought to follow.

(Likewise, in the Wooster Group's "Didone," non-operatic performers made for a charming, if rough-edged, chorus).

However, if you penetrate Tainan a little further you're rewarded with quirky, bohemian streets, crazy indoor markets and wonderful, cheap if rough-edged restaurants.

What Baghdadi has done is fuse the political Islamists' aim of seizing state power with the neo-traditionalists' more global vision to create a recognisable if rough-edged state that is simultaneously supposed to be a launchpad for greater expansion.

For the last year, with the site shielded from view by a chain-link fence lined with black plastic tarps, workers have been transforming it into a meticulously designed, if rough-hewn, outdoor museum.