Frank Sinatra stars and delightfully shows up for the part, while Sterling Hayden helps with a fine supporting role performance and the gritty 80-year-old James Gleason provides some laughs for this grim narrative ... What I liked best was that Frank Sinatra wore a fedora throughout, even indoors.

He mused, " As the gritty, raspy-voiced sergeant, Mr. Eastwood's performance is one of the richest he's ever given.

Melodic. net and MetalSucks. net offered stronger support with the latter calling it " tremendous " and describing Pann's vocal performance as " a soulful, gritty version of Filter ’ s Richard Patrick.

She was awarded the Arjuna award for the year 2004 for her gritty performance.

By contrast, films such as The Duellists, fight directed by William Hobbs, Once Were Warriors, fight directed by Robert Bruce and Troy, fight directed by Richard Ryan are widely famed for including gritty, realistic combat scenes.

General George Marshall came to Huston and the film's defense, stating that because of the film's gritty realism, it would make a good training film.

Experiencing a career and personal rejuvenation, Norwood was eager to scale back on her previous pop venture, and return to her authentic R & B, soul sound and love vocalizing on sixth studio album Two Eleven, for summer 2012 release, which would acquire a " gritty " and experimental edge.

The Fast and the Furious was met with mixed reviews, with a score of 54 % based on 142 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes ( 64 % among 33 top critics ) Todd McCarthy of Variety called the film " a gritty and gratifying cheap thrill, Rob Cohen's high-octane hot-car meller is a true rarity these days, a really good exploitationer, the sort of thing that would rule at drive-ins if they still existed.

One of Gundam's contributions to the genre was the use of a gritty wartime backstory as a part of the fantasy, and so it is almost equally fashionable to build the robots in a weathered, beaten style, as would often be expected for AFV kits as to build them in a more stylish, pristine manner.

Ennis has stated that he would " like to see less superheroes "; this desire is reflected in the gritty, realistic tone and the anti-heroic portrayals of both the title character and Nick Fury, who made two guest appearances to the series.

Although Woo told his cast that the film would be more gritty and not as stylish as his previous films, Hard Boiled became more stylish as the filming began.

[...] Never again would Esham be so gritty.

Its look would be " mature, detailed, gritty and very stylish, similar to that of a western graphic novel ".

Introduced to Shatterstar for the first time, Liefeld's issues — a high-octane, gritty run typical of 1990s comic book trends — would establish the characters ' friendship.

Lewis would repeat this formula when he acquired a gritty psychological piece called The Vortex and released it as Stick It In Your Ear ( 1970 ) to be shown as a second feature to The Wizard of Gore ( 1970 ).

Brown and his group got the basis of writing their first song together after seeing the band Bill Johnson and the Four Steps of Rhythm perform a gritty version of the Big Joe Williams blues classic, " Baby Please Don't Go ", which would be re-recorded by groups such as The Orioles.

The gritty and / or scratchy feeling is sometimes localized enough for patients to insist they must have a foreign body in the eye.

Its gritty reputation kept real estate prices below those of most other areas of Manhattan until the early 1990s ; rents have increased dramatically since and are currently above the Manhattan average.

However, tubers and other gritty food, which cause distinctive tooth wear in modern brown bears, do not appear to have constituted a major part of cave bears ' diets on the basis of dental microwear analysis.

The WHL is stereotypically known for producing large, hard-hitting defencemen and gritty power forwards, although recently a high percentage of quality goaltenders have come out of the league as well, as evidenced by the fact that the five of the last six winners of the CHL Goaltender of the Year award have come from the WHL.

Efforts to transform Utashinai from a gritty coal mining town to an alpine tourist destination have met with mixed success.

The producers may have been more interested in capitalizing on his boxing skill and appearance than his acting ability, casting him as the conniving bad boy in such films as the gritty Hell Drivers and the steamy potboiler The Gypsy and the Gentleman, and after a few films and some clashes with the management, the contract was dissolved.

Maxfield made a number of mesmerizing, though gritty, electronic minimalist pieces, a few of which have made it to commercial recording.

We wanted to have a gritty edge to it.

The early 21st century is seeing an increase in prominence of the work of authors such as George R. R. Martin and Joe Abercrombie, whose high fantasy novels ( works set entirely in fantasy worlds ) have been referred to as " low fantasy " because they deemphasize some typical " high fantasy " elements such as magic and non-human races in favor of a more gritty portrayal of human conflict.

While the main appeal of the film seems to have been the art and music, some commentators also appreciated giving the modern viewer a peek at the decimated Lower East Side of 1980, saying " the real star of the film is the gritty milieu of a New York long gone ", and that " New York Beat ... conveys the vast gulf between Manhattan ’ s rich and the forgotten corners of the city, and the marginal existence of the artistic underground who tried to survive in between these worlds.

The folk influence, bluesy, gritty feel with a minimalist approach may have been seen as contradictory to what some believe as the ' surfing music market.

Some have argued that P robustus had a diet of hard gritty foods such as nuts and tubers since they lived in open woodland and savanna.

More recent research suggests that this taxon was more of a dietary generalist, and others have argued that they principally consumed hard and gritty resources as fallback foods only during time of nutritional stress.

Recently, some video games, such as the Max Payne third-person shooter series, have been portrayed in a film noir style, using heavy, gritty, dirty urban themes.

The aspects of Martin's work that have endeared him to fans are abundant here – rich world building, narrative twists and turns, and gritty depictions of the human struggle for power.

In a story meant to embody and comment on the darker " grim and gritty " trend of modern comics, the original Escapist is said to have been killed in action, leaving a young locksmith as his successor.

Her deep, rich, gritty vocals have drawn comparisons to Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, and Tina Turner.

The rocks hereabouts do have blackish colourings in places of very early plant life and even primitive fishes have been found but mostly as disarticulated remains. Fish Scales, boney plates and scales are usually found in pellety gritty beds.

With a long history of blue-collar labor politics — from the railroad workers of the 19th century, to the longshoremen of the 20th century, to the Labor Ready workers of today — Tacoma has long been known for its rough, gritty image.

Nash was also impressed with the album's autobiographical tone, noting " Faithfull's gritty alto is a cracked and halting rasp, the voice of a woman who's been to hell and back on the excursion fare which, of course, she has.

However, jazz had been added to the palette of hip hop producers, and its influence continued throughout the 1990s whether behind the gritty street-tales of Nas ( Illmatic, Columbia, 1994 ), or backing the more bohemian sensibilities of acts such as The Roots and Common Sense.

It has also been suggested that " laksa " may derive from the Chinese word 辣沙 (), meaning " spicy sand " due to the ground dried prawns which gives a sandy or gritty texture to the sauce.

The novel has also been praised for its gritty realism.

The art of Rando Ayamine has been praised for having the dark and gritty mood emphasizes he makes in the series making readers think that the Jagan scene of Ban Mido is a " horrifying nightmare ".

Kennedy's work has been described as gritty, energetic, chunky and raw.

Ferguson had previously been a producer on ITV's The Bill — a hard-hitting, gritty and successful police drama, which seemed to be challenging EastEnders in providing a realistic vision of modern life in London.