It was the precisely the kind of gruff, plain speaking that appeals to Australians.
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So, when I came to the session as a mentor, I was gruff and dismissive.
"My way is new, " Wang says, with the gruff candor of the building foreman.
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While Berrard is a gregarious charmer, Huizenga appears gruff and guarded on first encounter.
The anecdotes of Jim's gruff criticisms, his searing, acerbic comments on writers' stories, are legion.
Goldberg maintains her gruff tone, which helps keep the film from stagnating with sappiness.
His stocky build, gruff voice and leering grin led him to be frequently cast as the villain.
Gruff made his stage entrance in a crash helmet and later ate an apple while singing on stage.
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Mr Webb, though also a successful writer, is a gruff warrior who glories in his humble southern roots.
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And, of course, the gruff New York coach isn't shy about saying so.
An addition to the Welsh festival scene brought New Order, Primal Scream and Gruff Rhys to Portmeirion in Gwynedd.
Despite his gruff and emotionless on-field demeanor, Mr. Murray became an icon in Baltimore, where he began his career.
Time and daily routines have softened the communal grief as the workers carry on, trading jokes and gruff male banter.
Two brothers find their lives turned upside down when their gruff, bad-tempered father returns home after more than a decade in prison.
Then he was just as good playing a gruff, paranoid dealer funny, convincing.
It's Ephron's valentine to those hard-charging, heavy-smoking, gruff reporters she met in newsrooms with ink in their veins and booze on their breath.
Look, a living sculpture, the controller of the village, ' he says as he points to a gruff dog watching us from a gatepost.
Elsewhere, Neon Neon is the latest project by Super Furry Animals oddball-in-chief Gruff Rhys and producer Boom Bip, so is technically a debut album.
Labour is gambling that such a nuanced take on crime goes down less well in gruff northern towns than in liberal enclaves of London.
And that's when he asked me - and he got strong and sort of gruff and he said, tell me, what are you doing?
Contrary to the caricature of a gruff old scout arguing with a nerdy young analyst, Eppler and Fishman are both in their 30s and work in tandem.
Gruff and craggy, Hanssen consciously psyches out the younger man ("Your name is Clerk and you call me Sir or Boss, " he instructs an overly familiar Eric).
Giuliani even brought along gruff New York Rep. Peter King for a recent campaign stop at a retirement community in Bluffton, with Giuliani touting their shared Brooklyn roots.
But unlike Eddie, David had this gruff, tough baritone voice.
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Off-site children's theatre will include Bank On It, a topical production about economics, while Super Furry Animals singer Gruff Rhys has co-created a theatre show called Praxis Makes Perfect.
Singer Gruff Rhys told BBC Wales that it was "like a dagger to the heart, we've had a petition to try and stop us playing and the mayor's complained".
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She says the defining characterisation of the animals in the 20th Century was framed by Kenneth Graham's classic The Wind in the Willows with its gruff, wise, brave Badger.
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Many view Christie as a strong leader, and despite his sometimes gruff ways, he polls pretty well, as evidenced by a Quinnipac poll posted by the New York Post.
His gruff, idiosyncratic voice only seems to gain more character with each passing year, and Hiatt seems determined to put it to use, with six albums released in the past 10 years alone.
Ms Fuller's cast is made up of her father, a gruff but gentle tobacco farmer with cigarette ever in hand, her mother, blonde and brittle as an eggshell, and her sister.
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