Sentence examples for rough kind from inspiring English sources

She never finds her, but she does receive a rough kind of mothering from a streetwalker, Marie.

"Just before I started playing with John, I'd had a rough kind of couple years," said Murray, admitting he had been close to quitting at that time.

We are talking here about providing a very rough kind of measurement, the assignment of a single summary score on, say, a seventh grader's essay, not commentary on the use of metaphor in a college senior's creative writing seminar.

And then I think about 2006" — when he lost to Federer in the final — "just as much, because I was in a rough kind of career transition that summer.

It makes a rough kind of sense, until you actually see the plays on stage and realise that naturalism and romanticism were always fighting a battle for dominance inside Ibsen's Nordic soul.

Fired up by early rock'n'roll, their lyrical landscape was one of girls, drink and the estuary industry around which they grew up: real life with a rough kind of glamour, stripped down to brass tacks.

Corrupt, incompetent and brutal as many of Europe's post-communist governments have been, political and economic freedoms, albeit often of the roughest kind, have burst forth in many places that had seen none before.

They include Joe Ryan, the politically connected union boss who ran much of the waterfront; Albert Anastasia, the syndicate man who meted out the roughest kind of justice; and Father John Corridan, the activist priest who went toe-to-toe with the thugs and later inspired Karl Malden's character in the movie.

Red and blue are both colors, but different from rough (a kind of texture) and knowledge of grammar (a kind of knowledge).

His performance as a rough but kind Pashtun in the 1973 film "Zanjeer" solidified his stature as a character actor, while the film itself elevated Amitabh Bachchan, who played his friend, to superstardom.

"What captivated me about Montauk is that it's really 'the End,' " he said, adding that he likes it that the place is "still rough and kind of raw".