That turn on Machiavelli (and "The Godfather") caught the spirit of Giuliani's governing style, which assumed enmity in untested allies and eschewed even the rough graces of New York politics.
Furthermore, no one writes with more rough, intuitive grace about tending crops and tending animals (Cain's and Abel's callings, respectively).
3. TUNE-YARDS "Whokill" (4AD) Discursive but focused, brash but precise, shot through with rough kinetic grace, the second album by Tune-Yards, a k a Merrill Garbus, is a spring-loaded marvel.
Mr. Magnenet, a tall and beautifully proportioned dancer, brought a nice mix of rough pleasure, virile grace and musical spontaneity to his discovery of his three muses and his godlike gifts.
Dean's characters have the rough edges and surprising grace of real people, and her fierce humanism animates every page.
The mysteries held in the silence of an empty church, the grace and rough beauty of a line of burnt brick arches, a mountain lion's paw print in a floor tile.
A grouchy, sensitive loner with retractable metal claws and apparently unretractable facial hair, Wolverine brooded and growled through the first three "X-Men" pictures, helping to supply them (or at least the first two) with welcome grace notes of rough humor and macho pathos.
I've had enough of this rough stuff and want some grace back in my designs.
Ellington's career was on the upswing in the late 1950's after several rough years -- his picture graced the cover of Time magazine in 1956, two years before he became involved with "Saturday Laughter" -- but he was still an unproven commodity in the theater world, his name less than enticing to potential investors.
