gruffness
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“After all these years of gruffness … I’ve changed,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2025
Both Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan from “Banshees” ought to make the cut: It’s Gleeson’s gruffness that sets the plot in motion, and Keoghan’s tragic fool that makes you laugh, then weep.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
“They’re kids,” he said, with the same gruffness he uses to call the entire war “nonsense.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
As NPR wrote, Ward "brought gentlemanly gruffness to films."
From Salon ● May 13, 2022
Nin’s gruffness never bothered her; she’d known the woman all her life.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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