How rough was the overall mood of the place?
Your puppy is sick/ill, and is not in the mood for rough playing.
The expressionists' rough, bold strokes and melancholic mood captured a sense of the ephemeral, as well as Bowie's imagination.
Barry Bartlett evokes a similar mood with his rough clay versions of soft toys that one normally considers benign objects of childhood affection.
The music is minimal and rough, but it changes in mood to match Dizzee Rascal's emotional, metrically nimble rhyming; it feels alive in a way that little else does.
Torii's free and powerful style, nicknamed hyotan mimizugaki ("the gourd-earthworm style") because of its strong, tapering brush strokes, became popular because it reflected the general mood of the aragoto ("rough style") Kabuki plays of the period.
As the students drift from song to song, the mood becomes festive as the rough, weather-beaten faces of tall, Russian men break into broad smiles and their tense, thick-set shoulders relax.
To get in the mood, they can watch episodes of "Rough Science," to be screened at 2, 3 and 3 30 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday.
A version of this popular notion lies behind the "town hall meetings" staged by campaigns and news networks, which aim to smooth the rough edges of political disagreement by invoking a mood of open-minded neighborliness.
Maybe your parents are in a bad mood or are going through a rough time and might not want to do the idea you suggested; don't be discouraged.
