roughness

• “Not just on acting ability, but all of them have a certain roughness to their appearance which Ledger just doesn't have.”

  Filmstalker: Heath Ledger is The Joker?

• “The chaos and irregularity of the world - Mandelbrot referred to it as "roughness" - is something to be celebrated.”

  BBC News - Home

• “The Android team's mandate to continuously iterate is admirable, but according to Lockheimer, it accounts for some of Android's so-called roughness.”

  Ars Technica

• “It was the other kind of roughness in which resided no warm affection, no heart-touch of love.”

  CHAPTER VII

• “But balls need a certain "roughness" to maintain balanced flight, so Mr. N rnberg's team added the texturing so it wouldn't wobble like a beach ball.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Ball They Can't Leave Alone

• “Crowley: It is the kind of roughness that made her a household name, but in the end it may also make Sarah Palin a player who helps shape the party, not a player who leads it.”

  CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2009

• “Mr. BEN RATLIFF (Music Critic, The New York Times): The first time you hear Ornette, there's this kind of roughness and chaos in it.”

  NPR: Ornette Coleman: Decades of Jazz on the Edge

• “There was something odd about the transit, a kind of roughness, perhaps a heartbeat longer of disorientation, but Denoriel accepted that as a difference in the kind of magic Treowth and Gilfaethwy used.”

  This Scepter'd Isle

• “It was a different kind of roughness; Flinx thought it very becoming.”

  For Love of Mother-Not

• “When I began to see any kind of roughness I just sent both the boys downstairs (it was in a big hall upstairs).”

  Oral History Interview with Harriet Herring, February 5, 1976. Interview G-0027. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

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