| The musician in me won't let me tune out the abrasively bland songs coming out of the speaker above my head. |
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| In fact, Elmer Rice's 1923 expressionist satire seems abrasively modern in its attack on the dehumanising effect of industrial capitalism. |
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| Until now, conventional hydraulic oil would break down sooner, leaving your machine's metal abrasively scraping against metal. |
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| Spa therapy abrasively cleans the skin. It becomes more supple and smoothness lasts several months. |
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| On his Saturday evening talk show, and everywhere else, he said what he thought abrasively, defiantly, sometimes obscenely. |
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| However, as a general rule, the louder, cruder and more abrasively McCarthy behaves the funnier she becomes. |
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| In the poems, surface trivialities glide abrasively against densely crystallized ideas, producing a kinetic friction. |
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| His music is deceptively straightforward, often concealing within a conventional form what would have once been considered as abrasively modern. In this section France's autumn blues Does China awake? |
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| Logical explanations, though, are less interesting than the overall mood of menace that Wheatley instils in this ordinary world of suburban discontent – not least, through Jim Williams's abrasively oppressive score. |
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| The dominating figure in the play is Bessie Berger, an abrasively dislikable Momma Portnoy. |
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| Mabor Achol likes to be acting abrasively which is abusive behaviour, insensitive to the needs of others, distant, aloof and arrogant. |
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