asperities

He subjects a broad array of current and classical source imagery to processes that merge the visual asperities of inkjet photo-transfers and the archaic allure of gold and silver leaf.

ArtScene: The Southwest's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2010

He subjects a broad array of current and classical source imagery to processes that merge the visual asperities of inkjet photo-transfers and the archaic allure of gold and silver leaf.

ArtScene: The Southwest's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2010

It must be fun writing for Prickly Pete, whose just full of fine asperities such as the “frog-like mouth flapping” of Mr. Price and dismissing his rival as "Kenny and his haircut."

Mad Men Reaches Its Appointment in Samarra: James Wolcott Wolcott, James 2009

Instead, he said, we "consider the acquiring of property to soften the asperities of sickness, of age, and for the benefit of our posterity, as one of the greatest incentives to industry."

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

It was fortunate for her that the possession of money occasioned him so much employment next day in the way of eating and drinking; and withal had so beneficial an effect in smoothing down the asperities of his temper; that he had neither time nor inclination to be very critical upon her behaviour and deportment.

Oliver Twist 2007

Our two characters have kept their natural asperities and defects, but the mutual comprehension of our souls has tightened the bond already close between us.

The Imaginary Mistress 2007

Then, though there may exist some general rules to soften the asperities of marriage, there are none by which they can be accurately foreseen and evaded.

A Marriage Contract 2007

So this education, and the consequent asperities of character, which would have been softened down in a higher social sphere, could only serve to make her ridiculous at Angouleme so soon as her adorers should cease to worship eccentricities that charm only in youth.

Two Poets 2007

You will suffer when you find so many asperities in a nature which, from

Modeste Mignon 2007

This encounter was so highly agreeable to Miss Fanny, and gave her so much to think of with triumph afterwards, that it softened her asperities exceedingly.

Little Dorrit 2007