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310 examples of Gritty in a sentence

What I do know is that talent doesn't make you gritty.
In other words, we need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier.
I fling out of my chair and faint onto the gritty hospital floor, wailing.
That's an old-fashioned, hard, gritty, physical stunt.
So arguing against, a man who's been at the nitty, gritty heart of the energy debate and the climate change debate for years.
We need to kind of get down and do the gritty work of reducing our dependence upon this fuel and these molecules.
You can approach it in one of two ways: (1) A gritty, realistic movie turned sappy; or (2) a sappy, ABC-afterschool-special with profanity, violence and animal cruelty.
Indie film brat John Carpenter, fresh out of film school and with one film - his class project's no-budget spoof of 2001 called Dark Star - under his belt, finishes a gritty actioner called Assault On Precinct 13.
There is a certain gritty, unglamorous reality to the way the criminals are portrayed, but the overall effect is more like a bad soap opera.
The story is gritty and real and does not compromise.
It's fairly gritty and realistic without exploiting the characters but still it's not that interesting either and Billy Dee's character, though maltreated by white authority figures, doesn't really come off as sympathetic.
This story ended up feeling like a sappy soap opera rather than a gritty indie feature, which is what is should have been.
The idea that this film is gritty and realistic is laughable.
The only gritty true to life event in the whole film was the Range Rover murders where some overblown bouncers got rubbed out for messing with people they could not handle.
It has no plot and no decent acting and just relies on being violent( gritty and realistic as some people like to put it) The sort of people who made this film should not be allowed near a budget or film camera just as the sort of people this film is about should not be given the opportunity to tell this pathetic violent little tale of no consequence.
The original "Assault on Precinct 13" is gritty, witty, and - perhaps most importantly - short.
The first film was thrilling, gritty, and a joy to watch.
The plot was gritty and satisfying--even if the acting was often amateurish.
True, some pretentious folks will scoff because it's a Hollywood film, and doesn't show "the gritty reality of war" like this "wonderful foreign film" does, but it has better flow and is all around just more fun to watch.
I was encouraged to hope that this might be a gritty and accurate man-vs-nature odyssey.
Instead of watching nature take its course with two fabulously attractive people in a picturesque landscape, we are treated to endless, (and I do mean ENDLESS) shots of Brian Keith flashing his walrus sized choppers and delivering gritty sermons on the joys of being Teddy Roosevelt.
At any rate, this film is as gritty as anything the Old Zeff has produced since "Jesus of Nazareth."
Then finally when it got down to the nitty gritty, I was ready for some real gore action.
I had hoped we'd be seen emulating his definitive role in GET CARTER and as the film progresses it does seem to take on the qualities of a tough gritty revenge thriller but the whole tone of the film jumps around so much you'll be confused as to what genre it's trying to fit in to .
This was a very gritty movie about anti-semitism.
Unlike other subgenre heavyweights like Mario Bava and Dario Argento, Fulci takes a decidedly gritty, grounded, and socially perceptive approach to the giallo narrative in this film.
I just watched the DVD version of BORN BAD and found it to be tense, gritty and, near the end, too graphic for the faint of heart.
as the plot gathers pace, and the dialogue is crisp and gritty.
Based on Nelson Algren's novel that won the 1950 National Book Award, this gritty, uncompromising, 119-minute, black & white melodrama deals with heroin addiction.
John Kielty's debut is a delight and adds a real touch of truth and realism to this deep and gritty film.
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