She steadily uses the accretion of these gritty details to give her novel authenticity and weight.

Sadly, though, the love gets caught up in the grittier details, transforming what would have been a grand romance into a modern American tragedy.

Judging by the way she avoided his gaze, he guessed that she'd left out some of the grittier details about her marriage.

Instead of being sheltered from the reality of adult life, these children are privy to all the gritty details.

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

The tour offered a glimpse of the gritty details of prison life.

An hour later the fine points of logic had faded, as they so often did, before the gritty details of the experiment itself.

However, his novels portray the gritty details of manual labour, about which he may claim to be knowledgeable.

Party discipline may break down when the gritty details must be dealt with.

That's what I was looking for, I didn't know the gritty details of the protocol.