1.   He has won praise as indefatigable, though paying, perhaps, too much attention to the gritty details.

2.   Results of the voting are expected in about five days, but the hardest part comes next--the nitty gritty details of running a newly independent country.

3.   The nitty gritty details of the framework would be completed sometime by September.

4.   The president may not delve into the gritty details of things, but he knows the direction he wants to go.

5.   The speech was also notably lacking in any partisan rhetoric as Clinton tried to position herself as a lawmaker concerned more with gritty legislative details than with politics.

6.   Too often he is repetitive and overly philosophical, and the lack of specificity and gritty detail here makes these stories difficult to follow.

7.   You know most of the gritty details by now, how Belfour, having probably the best season of his career, went to The Mansion for dinner.