Word: gruffness
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...staff of the new Tommy's is--how should we put this?--friendly. A little too friendly, we think. Part of Tommy's old charm lay in its rudeness. We don't want to be asked how we like our food. We have certain expectations: gruff service, unapologetic, a rude yelp at closing time...
...author has a persuasive notion about why Charles, who often seems obtuse, is so elusive. He places the responsibility largely on gruff Prince Philip, whose military deportment may have terrified the little boy. Philip thought it took a hard education to make a strong prince, and packed the sensitive Charles off to Gordonstoun in Scotland -- a place that was as much marine boot camp as school. He hated it. Of Diana, Rees-Mogg said that "she knows herself to be a remarkable person, and remarkable people usually need to be admired. It is no good asking a star to accept...
Rachel Cohen's Ophelia was a great complement to Hamlet. When she changes from Shakespeare's weak, supplicating girl to Heinrich Muller's strong, gruff-voiced feminist, she threatens to overshadow the play's lead character. Though her solo dance left much to be desired on both her part and that of choreographer Kaiama Glover, her unorthodox lines were delivered with sufficient punch and conviction to enthrall the audience...
...course of the evening, Adam assumed the voice of an Australian zoologist, a gruff machine tank and a sarcastic robot named Marvin...
...from a list approved in advance by both campaigns. (Big Ears reentered too late to help vet his questioners. That's part of the problem with politics in America, he would say. If it needs to be done, just do it. Don't fuss with all these committees.) The gruff television anchor/moderator will remind the men of their preapproved time limits and then let them loose in the first round of the battle of the briefing books...