hoariness

One suggestion has been that Botticelli was deliberately contrasting the handsome vitality of the young man with the hoariness of the ageing saint.

Horgan is the best thing about it, undercutting any hoariness with a curl of her lip or a withering aside.

But as a portrait of an embattled woman pulled between the demands of love and success, “Funny Girl” still exudes the tear-stained hoariness of a black-and-white weepie from the 1930s.

What assaults you instead is the fusty banality of the dialogue and the hoariness of the characters.

West banks of the Mississippi, Mo. The character of hoariness appears to be imparted by very minute crystals, or concretions of quartz, on the surface of radiated quartz. o.