cragginess

Half seen, the slope on which he stood caught at his feet with cragginess.

She wasn't beautiful - face too narrow and with suggestions of the father's cragginess.

He was conscious of his own large hands, deep-set eyes, a general sense of cragginess.

This cragginess keeps his interpretations of standards off-center in an intriguing way.

Stunning beauty in all things along with a towering cragginess that was just ugly enough to create an ecstasy.

In height, build and cragginess of features he bore a remarkable resemblance to John Wayne.

The cragginess of the northern European-those big bones he had mentioned- were hidden under the sleek Pacific flesh.

But for the scars, the cragginess that seemed to suggest age, that exposed visage might have been his- or a kinsman's.

The very roughness of his voice lent his ballad singing a cragginess that suggested a lot of hard emotional gravel under the polished surface.

"It doesn't have much to do with its age, it doesn't have much to do with its cragginess.

Mr. Joel, with his T-shirt, chinos and sun-baked cragginess, looks more like the guy who would clean the fish for you once you got back dockside.

And, sweeping slowly past it, was something that for all its city-sized scales, its crater-pocks, its lunar cragginess, was indubitably a flipper.

Coastal range mountains crowded to the edge of the mainland and spilled out upon the peninsula, the dark green of coniferous forests sculpting their cragginess, softening it.

One is that Schoenberg's rejection of tonality, with its comfortable hierarchical relationships, has meant the replacing of melodic and harmonic beauty with cragginess and dissonance.

Their intimate vocal chemistry found Ms. Lang's creamy alto the ideal balm to Mr. Bennett's vocal cragginess.

Mr. Leconte employs Mr. Hallyday for an existential cragginess, a weathered gravity that he could never have affected in his youth.

No one has ever sung the words "I love you" more tenderly than Ms. Lang, whose exquisite crooning pours balm over Mr. Bennett's eloquent cragginess.

Of course, unlike Bateson, who could buff himself up and shed the cragginess when he needed to, Bush could polish his skin off and still look like a shuttle mechanic.

Following, he trailed his hand along the wall, feeling its cragginess, brushing off loose bits with his fingers; the ceiling was low enough that he could have trailed his hand along it, too.

His long black hair was slicked down across his skull in a style that highlighted the savage cragginess of his features, the hard thrust of the cheekbones, the vulpine chin, the corvine nose.

Among my favorites were Bartolomé, for its red cragginess and incongruous staircase to the summit; Santiago, where Darwin spent part of his crucial five weeks; and the extraordinary Genovesa, its harbor a collapsed volcanic crater into which the sea has poured, forming a bay partially ringed by cliffs.

He stopped, drew his shapes, walked on, stopped, drew, walked, on to the spired old-century cragginess of Nabob Bridge, and over quickly through Kinken where the richer khepri moieties, older money and arriviste, preserved their dreamed-up culture in the Plaza of Statues, kitsch mythic shapes in khepri-spit.