Look, a living sculpture, the controller of the village, ' he says as he points to a gruff dog watching us from a gatepost.
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.
Mr Webb, though also a successful writer, is a gruff warrior who glories in his humble southern roots.
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Then he was just as good playing a gruff, paranoid dealer funny, convincing.
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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Certainly Brahms led his personal life in just such a fashion, presenting a gruff, impenetrable exterior to his friends, and never letting romantic attractions lead to commitment or even, so it seems, consummation.
"I would suspect that it's because of his position as a sort of an avuncular authority figure, your old Uncle Ted, who's sort of a gruff guy who cares about you, but he doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve about it, " Mitchell said.
It makes sense that Bachmann's remarkable new To the Races marks his first conventional album as a solo act: Shedding the prickly remoteness that has made him an acquired taste, he crafts a spare collection that pairs his gruff, world-weary lyrics with a newfound approachability.
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.
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.
Gruff made his stage entrance in a crash helmet and later ate an apple while singing on stage.
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So, when I came to the session as a mentor, I was gruff and dismissive.
While Berrard is a gregarious charmer, Huizenga appears gruff and guarded on first encounter.
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.
Gwede Mantashe, the gruff secretary general of the governing ANC and a former NUM leader, placed most of the blame for the unrest squarely at the feet of Lonmin and other mine owners.
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.
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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Two brothers find their lives turned upside down when their gruff, bad-tempered father returns home after more than a decade in prison.
Labour is gambling that such a nuanced take on crime goes down less well in gruff northern towns than in liberal enclaves of London.
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