The use of gritty materials such as diatomaceous earth scattered on the soil surface is also used. |
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It was interesting just seeing how the nitty gritty fundamentals of business works. |
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George navigates the reader through the gritty New York streets revealing an underground erogenous culture of successful buppies. |
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Now, the true Bath bun is soft, like a marriage between a brioche and an Easter hot-cross, but encrusted with currants and gritty nibs of sugar. |
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They will certainly be competitive because they have some pretty gritty characters in there. |
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That film is taut and moving, with impressive camerawork and gritty performances that reach a 2005 audience. |
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The same gritty determination of Corsican folk, which spurred Napoleon to expand France's empire, can be found in Spinetta. |
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Also look out for Ireland's finest west coast harmonisers, The Thrills and gritty US punk duo, The Kills on the evening session stage. |
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From then on in, it's all clever schemes, gunfights, inter-agency politics and stuff getting blown up, all done very gritty and realistic like. |
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The film even showed Porter in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion, as gritty and gung-ho as a poilu. |
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The Western Bulldogs are both a very gritty football side and a classy side. |
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It captures city life with a deliberately gritty touch, showing the lives of street vendors, street kids, and farmers. |
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This collection has some exquisite items engulfed amongst gritty streetwear. |
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Although seldom looking a danger they showed gritty determination to keep their line intact. |
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The camerawork is artistically gritty, capturing surprisingly haunting images. |
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It has that gritty realism that small budget English films are becoming known for, but plenty of lighter moments to balance the gloom. |
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We went to a couple more of these seedy places savouring the sour gritty horridness of it all and then eventually went home. |
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The story plays out against a gritty, hyperreal New York backdrop that seems to be drenched in a perpetually oppressive, insipid drizzle. |
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At its peak the mix reaches 1, 450C before exiting as a hard, gritty material called clinker. |
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The words pour forth like lava, steadily and ominously, packed with gritty images and metaphors. |
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Australian landscape painting is perhaps better known for scenes of the vast uninhabited bush, or else gritty urban scenes. |
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His world is strange, fantastic, gritty and believable, it works very well as a fantasy world. |
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Their streets were grimy and gritty, awash in alcohol and laced with drugs. |
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The film has a very gritty, realistic feel, again lifting it above being a merely stereotypical genre exercise. |
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Besides, it only adds to the gritty, realistic feel Bogdanovich was aiming for. |
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He has a majestic voice that is supple and inflective while still being just a bit gritty. |
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The one question about him has always been whether he is gritty enough to apply his gifts concertedly. |
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But his childish repetition of gritty details makes A Million Little Pieces not only tedious, but downright farcical in spots. |
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Cruz is devoted to gritty realism as many of the romantic interludes are explicitly graphic. |
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It's a gritty, violent, amoral action thriller with plenty of twists and some surprisingly funny moments. |
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There's always sand in the cogs somewhere, even if these days its the ionosphere, or the troposphere, where things get gritty. |
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Other parts of the painting have the gritty texture of sand, which Sudduth has added to latex paint. |
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As long as you are prepared for the repugnance, you will more or less enjoy this graphic, gritty cinematic experiment. |
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The script was gritty and the role of the lead character interested Kirk Douglas greatly. |
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York Central is an industrial wasteland of the type favoured by gritty cop dramas. |
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His writing is apocalyptic in feel, describing a gritty futuristic world in which dream meets reality. |
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Some people I spoke to gardened under very difficult circumstances, but gritty determination was winning the way towards a beautiful back yard. |
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His forehead is pressed against the rough, gritty plaster of the wall, sharp against his nose. |
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Keith had a deficit of 15 metres to make up and with a very gritty performance he handed over the baton only five metres in arrears. |
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The United States of Leland was not intended to be a brooding, alienating, gritty art film. |
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He shuns the high-gloss artificiality of big studio productions, preferring a gritty, jittery vision borne of handheld, digital camerawork. |
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South of the border, though, the realism is as gritty as a towel rub-down with sandy suntan lotion. |
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Right from the beginning of the pilot, what I liked about it was its gritty realism. |
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The reason for India's good performance in the last couple of years was due to the solid performance of this gritty batsman. |
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A warmly lyrical idiom gave place to a gritty astringency that must have been very disturbing to erstwhile admirers. |
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These images have none of the airbrushed niceties of much modern photography, and you pay for the gritty realism. |
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As the flesh-like tones play off each other, the gritty, tactile nature of the surface tempts the touch of the viewer. |
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He began his respected career in the mid-1980s, creating gritty urban landscapes that commented on the decay and decadence of modern life. |
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Silver-colored, the molas have a rounded hind end and gritty sandpapery skin that is covered with copious amounts of mucus. |
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England's qualification will rely on some gritty away performances and I feel they may be few and far between. |
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This colt came out on top in gritty style in a hot maiden race at Haydock last time and does not look overburdened on his handicap debut. |
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Her courage, gritty determination and undoubted commitment to charity work is held in high regard throughout the world. |
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His story is partly one of gritty determination, perfectionism and hard work. |
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Common symptoms are pain, an oppressive feeling behind the eye, a gritty sensation in the eye, double vision, and photophobia. |
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It ripples and furrows, drips in long trails, gathers in gritty, crusty patches. |
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Rife with cold shoulders and heated exchanges, this gritty, uplifting telemovie is a jewel. |
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The film's magical, mythic undertones are combined with a gritty, sparse realism that means things always err on the right side of sentiment. |
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Softer than the sound produced by a temple block, the woodblock is a harsh and gritty instrument. |
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It's just a very grim and gritty setting for a sci-fi vision of the near future. |
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Both bands have the ability to write heart melting ballads and also manage to write gritty anthems packed full of aggression. |
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The record has a variety of tunes, from lightly gritty rock to melodic pop to romantic power ballads. |
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But he's a gutty, gritty player who always seems to come up with a big play when his team needs it. |
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The same gritty determination holds true when it comes to answering a physical challenge. |
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He's been a wonderful Captain, a wonderful batsmen, a gritty, determined competitor. |
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Autobiographical immediacy gives his fictitious reign of terror gritty actuality. |
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This film is maudlin where the original was tough, antiseptic where the original was gritty. |
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With this film, Loach digresses from his usual gritty themes of social realism to pose questions of culture, race and religion. |
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John produced a gritty performance just to finish, when others were falling about him. |
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The action takes place in a single subway car, and the company worked hard to capture the gritty, anonymous feel of the underground. |
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The general mood is slight shock, covered by a gritty determination to get on with whatever needs to be done. |
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And he was covered in sheets of metal, while she stood naked of protection in her gritty clothes. |
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To claim that the All-Ireland champions performed badly on the day would do an injustice to the visitors' gritty performance. |
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In a typically gritty display they hauled themselves back into the tie and earned themselves another chance to progress. |
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I kick up dust for those behind me and the gritty gravel sandpapers their wounds. |
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I was apparently indoors, though the floor was dingy and muddy and covered in gritty sand. |
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Fill with stones until three-quarters full then top up with gravel and a layer of very gritty compost on top, about 3in deep. |
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The sand felt gritty beneath her toes as she saw the dark shadow standing, watching the waves go out. |
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The rocky, gritty soil offers perfect drainage, but digging is nearly impossible. |
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When the hard anthracite coal is mined the very fine, gritty material is called culm. |
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Blood is running freely from his nose and an open wound on his head, and he's covered in gritty, grey dust. |
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The rough stones jutting out from the gritty mud walls appeal to my visual and tactile senses. |
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Everyone's favourite cheeky actor comes undone in a disappointingly miscast role in Channel 4's latest gritty urban drama. |
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Limestone comes in a range of guises from soft open poured travertine tiles to gritty, rugged flags. |
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Home to nearly 2 million people, the neighborhood is a gritty tapestry of mechanics, metal grinders, junkmen and laborers. |
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Colors are limited to gritty, earth tones, as would be expected in a western. |
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Thorn's lyrics combine a gritty realism with a bitter sense of irony-yet remain deeply optimistic. |
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A gritty community of fishermen and farmers, Hythe has always had its ferrymen, or wherrymen as they were known for centuries. |
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The play has a distinctively harsh and gritty vocabulary and poetic tone throughout, thriving on rough monosyllables. |
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They come from the gritty underbelly of society where one has to be tough in order to survive. |
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It is usually caused by the scouring action of sand, gravel, slag, earth, and other gritty material. |
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By the next day, between a quarter and an eighth-inch of gritty, gray volcanic debris covered everything. |
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This is pure classic fairy-tale material, and what it may lack in gritty complexity it makes up in primal symbolic resonance. |
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By the age of 17, Pauline started slinging beer in gritty taverns where bands played rock and blues. |
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It split immediately, with a puddle of yellowish cocoa butter pooling around a gritty, pulpy center. |
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Nothing matches either the gritty buzz-pop highs or the dreamy drugged-out booziness of the slower material on their debut. |
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Shooting the entire series on location in Baltimore was an essential part of this rough, gritty feel. |
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Colors are restrained and desaturated, adding to the gritty feel of the handheld camera work. |
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It gives the audience a gritty, detailed, and carefully researched view of daily life and deadly combat aboard a ship of Nelson's navy. |
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The ruffians wore goatskin hats, gritty cloaks, and leggings of leather, all diffusing the odor of a hundred bathless nights and days. |
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He's gritty, he's precise and, perhaps most importantly, he's not doing this for the love of it. |
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Shifting from gritty and fervid to soft and wet in the blink of an eye, she flicks away all competitors with effortless facility. |
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Grant's gritty man-of-the-match performance against Crewe on Saturday was the perfect answer to criticism from manager Stan Ternent and the knockers in the Turf Moor stands. |
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By Rich Goldstein Are audiences tired with caped crusaders and gritty reboots? |
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Great new novels on hippie California, a bookish adventure, and the gritty Midwest. |
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The heat, however, is on Hurt Locker, which has received countless kudos for its gritty, claustrophobic, doc-like quality. |
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The flavour was weak and the texture was unnervingly gritty. |
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Denim is worn with blues and reds, padded items are silver and white, whilst chainmail dresses and kinky PVC numbers are in a palette of gritty greys and raven black. |
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Though it may have been a depressing environment, the gritty streets of Washington gave Gil plenty of inspiration for his lyrics. |
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The question is, what kind of refreshment is Smith's gritty realism? |
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The ruffians wore goatskin hats, gritty cloaks, and leggings of leather. |
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Away from the glowing testimonials, the fight for trans equality remains gritty. |
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This is a question that We Could Be King, for all its gritty pleasures, never dares to raise, let alone answer. |
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Matthew, for a contract to be valid, there are actually lots of gritty details and for that reason it's sometimes not a bad idea to see a tame lawyer. |
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I was always a fan of realism in Westerns, and hombre had a gritty, realistic feel to it. |
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He does a really good job of capturing a real city, not a Hollywood city where gritty is represented by new stuff with smudges of schmutz on the top. |
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The gritty story of a coal miner's young son who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer is now a musical that's receiving rave reviews and nightly ovations. |
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Her voice is thick, gritty and powerful, with a big, broad range. |
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Her experience works well for the film, as her rendering of the gritty harbour town anchors it in a sense of reality, avoiding overly mawkish sentimentality. |
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He does a lot of gritty dark melodramatic flicks where hundreds of guys get shot down in crazy action scenes, then all the good guys die horribly in a tragic ending. |
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Now he runs a Caribbean record shop in partnership with a Trini, and worries more about his absent wife than about such gritty matters as guns, perps, and drugs. |
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Galactica is gritty, dark, and relevant for today, while still being full of space battles and gun fights and killer robots, zap kpow blam and such. |
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There's a jaw-dropping depiction of an overlooked son and even the slushy romantic moments refuse to glycerine the lens, maintaining gritty honesty throughout. |
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Shabby buildings stand next to stylish apartments and craft centres giving the game a gritty image and inner-city feel to appeal to a trendy audience. |
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The main weapon used in the battle against leaves is a substance called Sandite. It looks like gritty wallpaper paste and it helps trains to get a better grip on the rails. |
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Similarly, as with previous recordings, their latest opus is an effective mix of sprawling environmental textures, clanging, gritty percussion and humorous samples. |
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On a bright yellow ground, round or oval passages of gritty, greenish relief become squirting slices of citrus fruit, their outlines sketched in charcoal. |
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After crossing the gritty plain where the outriding developments of greater Los Angeles creep inexorably outward, the road climbed steeply, all curves and switchbacks. |
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Even the change in location from a gritty industrial city to a glossy, sunlit place like L.A. was a misstep that undermined the necessarily bleak tone. |
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It possessed a phantasmagoric nightmarish atmosphere, as you might have anticipated from a ballet inspired by Goya's gritty, bitter 18th century etchings Los Caprichos. |
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Its typical ocular manifestations are recognised by a variety of clinical features including pain, gritty eyes, photophobia, chemosis, diplopia, and exophthalmos. |
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Symptoms of pink eye can include redness, blurred vision, sensitivity to light, itching of the eye, a gritty feeling in the eye, pain and increased tear production. |
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The documentary-style of the movie also lends it a necessarily gritty look, so that viewers almost feel as though they are intruding on a real life situation. |
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Between poussin and Guinea hen, choose the latter if you love dark meat and because the gritty diavola sauce of wax beans and tomato enhances the bird's succulence. |
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He also desaturates the color palette, removing many of the reds and blues in favor of browns and yellows, again accenting the gritty feel of a metropolitan locale. |
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Finally, a gritty, color desaturated appearance is used for Mexico. |
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A grainy or gritty texture isn't considered a plus in the chocolate world. |
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Shadow areas often take on a gritty or rough textured appearance. |
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This time, the main concern was a significant ash plume carrying gritty pulverized rock and silica that could damage aircraft engines and the surfaces of cars and homes. |
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Feeling incredibly dirty and gritty, from all the dirt that she was covered under from her ride, Ari ran a bath for herself and scrubbed herself clean. |
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Also, the underlayer of cement primer makes the ochre-gold acrylic surface look gritty and holds the tendency towards the decorative in counterpoint. |
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If and when it comes to pass, then Carlow could become a very serious contender, given the gritty way they have played against several teams with full-timers on board. |
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Of modern Australian batsmen that I have seen, the best was Chappell, who had great power and elegance, plus gritty determination when he needed it. |
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Theirs was a gritty performance which belied their recent run of form. |
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He outmanoeuvred and overpowered the gritty Australian to race through the opening two sets, hitting the corners of the court at will with his heavy groundstrokes. |
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It took the genre back to its gritty and violently uncompromising origin. |
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But my appetite was whetted and I craved more gritty details. |
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This form of gritty realist cinema relies upon constant improvisation. |
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Stumbling out of bed, I groped blindly in the darkness for the light switch, flicked it on, and sleepily rubbed gritty, irritating gunk out of my aching eyes. |
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The Dwellers' music could be described as a mixture of funked-out, jazzy-fantastic, savvy soul grooves with a hint of drum and bass and a gritty hip hop edge. |
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One such author is Carrie Mac, who incorporates gritty social realism into a futuristic fantasy setting with her new Triskelia trilogy. |
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In contrast to scallops captured by a dredge across the sea floor, diver scallops tend to be less gritty. |
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Gray is best-known for his novels, particularly the groundbreaking Lanark, with its spectacular mixture of gritty realism and morbid fantasy. |
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Jeesperse CPW blend needs to achieve the same separation of molecules or else the wax would recrystallize and the emulsion would feel gritty. |
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The artwork has a gritty, surreal style that aptly reflects the ruthlessness of interdimensional war. |
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It's a gritty subtitled crime drama that brings together garrulous, priapic Dane Martin and exacting, socially inept Swede Saga. |
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There's something serene amidst the chaos, the cramped tents, gritty food, blaring loudspeakers and ravers. |
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The novel, a gritty tale of the rise of a drug baron, generated controversy with its raw subject matter and sales skyrocketed. |
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Leicester realism the gritty In the meantime, don't suppose there's a restaurant doggie bag going spare the hungry staff? |
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The nitty gritty is the health assessment criteria in accordance with legislation which would baffle a Philadelphia lawyer. |
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Rankin is known for the fine writing and gritty, visceral dialogue and scenes that define his Rebus series. |
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If gritty realism is your thing, Hustle's shiny bubble of grifts and glamour is probably never going to be quite your bag. |
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Like he doesn't have enough to do, being in almost every scene of this gritty, appetizingly unsavory series? |
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Jackson wanted a gritty realism and historical regard for the fantasy, and attempted to make the world rational and believable. |
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It was spent supervising sandcastles and shell collections, soggy towels and gritty kids, with hardly a minute to ourselves for sunbaking. |
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O'Sullivan himself has stated his desire for entertaining the watching public, and has said that slow, gritty games put viewers off. |
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He is a true, gritty, grumpy, nuggetty character, who would do whatever it takes to connive and contrive a win for his beloved homeland. |
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During her speech Foster also thanked Bernard for being the huge support system and a strong and gritty co-parent. |
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It was a no-holds-barred, nitty gritty meeting where a few homes truths were told. |
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Out March 5 THIS gritty reboot tells the story of how Lara Croft evolved from being a trustafarian traveller into a hardened explorer. |
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Despite its gritty socialistic romanticism, it's also an unabashed charmfest. |
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But he was also showing a gritty and sully city in a beautiful way. |
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I remember when I was young, The steam trains through the tunnel, The lovely smell of gritty smoke, That came from the Loco's funnel. |
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Polly Walker, who plays the glamorous and gritty Frannie, is back along with Pippa Haywood as mousy Harriet, mum of even mousier inmate Gavin. |
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Polly Walker, who plays the glamorous and gritty Frannie, is back with Pippa Haywood as mousy Harriet, mum of even mousier inmate Gavin. |
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Bulging wheelie bins, A testament to our sins, Mountains of rubbish, cardboard city, Dazed at the prospect of getting back to the nitty gritty. |
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In this hard-boiled version of the Batverse, the characters were gritty, tough and more realistic. |
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The latest in a popular series of gritty war games has a whole section devoted to an assassination and car chase in Dubai. |
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McShane won for his role as foul-mouthed Wild West brothel-keeper Al Swearengen in gritty US TV drama Deadwood. |
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The book describes the gritty realities of life on the streets. |
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The light plays over her glowing face, and her Rapunzelian hair cascades down her shoulders in perfect contrast to the hard, gritty surface of the walls. |
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The reality TV star was headhunted to star in a gritty film about homelessness which will be shown to schoolchildren across Wales before being screened by the Beeb. |
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Visual effects model light emission, transmission, and scattering, allowing realistic fire, smoke, and particles to provide the gritty feel of the Coruscant underworld. |
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Close contact with the gritty, visceral needs of the sick has made me more alert to our singular focus on Christ's body from Passion Sunday to Easter. |
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The Ashcan artists, who challenged American Impressionist decorum after 1900, were committed to recording the modern world frankly and grappling with gritty urban realities. |
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A meandering central circulation path evokes a streetlike ambience, reinforced by gritty materials, including the old warehouse's original concrete floor. |
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They can be rooted directly into gritty soil outside, or in a cold frame. |
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Akinbo Formation lies on the Ewekoro Formation and it comprises of shale, glauconitic rock bank, and gritty sand to pure grey and with little clay. |
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Instead of gritty, sparse electronic, the brothers Schwarz have ventured into deep and often funky house territory, leaving a little of their signature techier moments. |
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Her prose manages to be at once lyrical and gritty, magical yet unsentimental, connecting a dreamworld of Ojibwe legend to stark realities of the modern-day. |
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The EP features four punchy tracks no longer than four minutes a piece that blend simple, classic guitar work with gritty vocals in true indie rock style. |
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Necropsy showed a white, 3X3X2cm, hard, gritty sternal mass. |
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Eating gritty vegetation abrades the teeth, particularly the enamel crown, however, research indicates that the enamel structure in manatee molars is weak. |
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Phil Grainger, who played on the wing, had goose pimples but he made a try-scoring tackle near the end of the game which summed up the team's gritty performance. |
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