1.   The book describes the gritty realities of life on the streets.

2.   Armstrong is excellent as the mom, but Irwin comes off as more of a shallow bumbler than it should be in a show so anchored in gritty reality.

3.   Clinton, who has often seemed to enjoy campaigning more than the gritty reality of governing, spoke openly of his eagerness to return to the stump.

4.   Commerce may hide under an elegant patina, but it is there, in all its gritty reality, nonetheless.

5.   Generously sprinkled with salty language and naked, willing women, the show seems to be proclaiming its gritty reality.

6.   Its original plays do not sanitize or sentimentalize the gritty reality of life on the street.

7.   That gritty reality stands in pointed contrast to Huntsville State Park and Sam Houston National Forest, with their homespun entertainments of horseback riding, canoeing and fishing.

8.   The film, executive produced by Jodie Foster and starring Laura Dern, brings a gritty reality and ambiguity to its made-for-TV premise.

9.   Unlike music videos, movies can show the gritty realities and, moreover, troubling fantasies of gangsta life.

10.   We claimed him as rightfully ours, a living link to a sentimentalized past transformed long ago from gritty political reality into soaring nostalgia.