Word: gruff
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...they clash with my stylishly faded jeans”) and hygienic anxiety (“What if the person before me, you know, had really gross feet?”). It was hard to argue with such impeccable logic. She ultimately relented, though, successfully persuaded by the charming, if gruff, attendant that no, it would not be acceptable for her to bowl in socks. No, not even if they were from Barney?...
...bringing a raucous crowd response. Deep Dish punctuated an otherwise continuously driving sound every ten to 20 minutes with climactic flourishes that inevitably brought noisy approval and renewed the dancing. Trite as it may sound, diversity was a key component of Deep Dish’s music. Ranging from gruff spoken words to exotic Middle Eastern sounds, their samples were not limited to a single genre or form. The rhythms were even more exciting, with a highly developed complexity that enabled the widest possible range of movement...
Detective Leon Zat, wonderfully played by a gruff Anthony LaPaglia, suffers intermittent chest pains and more or less permanent heartache. He's rather grimly cheating on his wife, mostly because men of a certain age tend to do that. He can't quite control his anger and has become abusive with suspects. He's particularly hard on John Sommers (Geoffrey Rush), whose psychiatrist wife (Barbara Hershey) mysteriously disappeared on an Australian back road one night. He's convinced that this arrogant man must be a murderer...
...network TV, it turns out, you still cannot say motherf_____. In every other respect, however, this fresh sitcom stays true to the foul-mouthed Original King of Comedy's riotous stand-up voice. Playing a comic (surprise, surprise) who takes in his sister's troubled kids, the gruff, unsentimental but likable Mac takes the cuddly out of family comedy...
...successful, childless comedian in Los Angeles (named Bernie Mac, natch) who takes in his sister's three kids because she's on drugs and about to lose them to the state. Bewildered but determined to do the right thing, he turns out to be a soft touch, if gruff. Driving the kids home from the airport, he breaks the ice by asking, "Anybody want a big-ass doughnut?" Later, he walks them through his spacious house, ticking off items they're not allowed to touch. "Don't get me wrong," he says. "This is our home. But this...