gruff

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• Close, a gruff iconoclast and minimalist who created Photorealist portraits across five decades, died on Thursday in New York at 81.

• Lindell appears in those ads to hype his pillows with Billy Mays levels of gruff enthusiasm.

• To the hordes who wanted time with Lincoln, the gruff and efficient Nicolay was the “grim enforcer.”

• We needed him to be wary, absorbed, and a little bit gruff, and he gamely complied, thereby furthering his own self-made legend.

• Bichir manages to be gruff but sensitive, honest yet mysterious, making Ruiz a mix of righteousness and compassion.

• Kevin Whately has been playing gruff, sensible detective Robbie Lewis on ‘Morse’ and ‘Lewis’ for 26 years.

• He has played the gruff detective from 1987 to 2000 on Morse and from 2006 to the present on Inspector Lewis.

• As they were passing a place where the bushes grew thickly by the side of the road, they received a gruff command to halt.

• The fact was that Benny himself did not know why he liked this stranger who was so gruff at times and so pleasant at others.

• Even the gruff, grumpy, unsociable rhinoceros amiably allowed him to stroke its head with his trunk.

• He spoke angrily, and no longer in a low tone, but gruff and loud enough to be heard some distance away.