| 单词 | gratingly |
| 例句 | It had curled gratingly around the end of the truck and, still spinning and sliding, was about to collide with me again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z For some it will be cutely melodramatic, for others it will be gratingly kooky and twee. New band of the day – Lowell (No 1,382) 2012-10-29T17:08:21Z The only person involved in the making of “Youth in Oregon” — a gratingly awful family drama about assisted suicide — who seems to grasp the movie’s thematic potential is its cinematographer, Ross Riege. Review: ‘Youth in Oregon’ Takes a Family on a Contentious Ride 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Such indictments tend to have a short shelf life, and, as satire, Mr. Elliott’s production can feel gratingly dated. Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman in David Rabe's 'Sticks and Bones' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z In the film, Christian Bale plays Dr. Michael Burry, a partly blind stock market investor with a penchant for gratingly loud music, flailing on his drum kit and working alone. Actors of ‘The Big Short’ Talk About the Debt Crisis, in Beverly Hills 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Such mainstream work seems gratingly incongruous in this context, but elsewhere interesting dialogues between insiders and outsiders emerge. Art Review: Metro Show and Editions/Artists’ Book Fair 2013-01-24T22:27:36Z But during much of the evening her singing was flat, sometimes gratingly so. Review: Jessye Norman’s Salute to the Love Song at Carnegie Hall 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z The performance is gratingly mannered, and it’s sometimes literally hard to see unless you turn your head around. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The onslaught of information certainly impresses by illuminating a rich and not-often-discussed slice of feminist history, but the execution is distractingly flashy and gratingly unfocused. ‘Rebel Hearts’ Review: Sisters Act Up 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Yet their conversations are gratingly anodyne, invoking platitudes like “truth,” while the visuals insipidly jump between screens, close-ups of faces and slow motion shots of the two on the road. ‘Anthem’ Review: Flying High 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Less kooky and gratingly precious than “Jojo Rabbit” or “Life Is Beautiful,” the film nevertheless also taps history with a movie-magic wand. ‘Persian Lessons’ Review: Performing for His Life 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z But what could have been gratingly bad instead became a long-running cult hit, on the air for 10 seasons, first on a single UHF station in Minneapolis in 1988 and eventually on Comedy Central. Cheesy Movie Lovers, Rejoice: ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Returns 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z At first, it seems that this will be a predictable, gratingly cute tale of heartache and betrayal. A Story of Two Doctors, and a Secret Between Them 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The movie falters at some points, and Mr. Gleeson strikes a few gratingly overeager notes, but it is well served by a ragged, quizzical style. ‘Frank,’ About an Offbeat Band and Its Eccentric Leader 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Jurisdictions notwithstanding, cop and fed will work all their cases gratingly together. Winningly ill-matched in 'Battle Creek' 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The crackling old soul samples don't add their traditional warm glow: they either spin gratingly out of time with the beats or else are fragmented into piercing squeaks and squeals. Kanye West: Yeezus – review 2013-06-17T14:56:34Z The music goes through fitful episodes, with percolating riffs, pummeling percussion and gratingly dissonant clusters. Review: At the Philharmonic, New Music for a Changing World 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The screenplay tracing the characters’ struggles has a tidy, workshopped feel, and the dialogue and acting can be gratingly flat. ‘Drunktown’s Finest,’ by Sydney Freeland, Shows Navajo Life 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Which is to say that she is bracingly, winningly and sometimes gratingly real. Film: Greta Gerwig?s Breakthrough Performance in ?Greenberg? 2010-03-26T19:34:00Z Somewhat gratingly, “King Otto” treats its story as a tale of national stereotypes colliding head-to-head. ‘King Otto’ Review: For Greece, a Whole Different Ballgame. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Neither human error nor human nature will interfere with your gratingly perfect morning. Books of The Times: ‘The New Digital Age,’ by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen 2013-04-25T22:05:35Z Characteristic is the “Sherry Art Fair” foyer display of tacky knickknacks personally displayed by the gratingly flamboyant performance artist Ann Liv Young or her aggressive alter ego Sherry. Dance Review: At American Realness Festival, a Range of ‘Fringe’ 2014-01-16T23:19:53Z But when Mike and Parlow fall into their self-mocking dialogues, the stage suddenly thrusts through the pages, and they sound as gratingly artificial as characters in a Mamet parody: Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Despite often being lumped together these days in what gratingly gets called the “wellness sector,” psychotherapy and Buddhist meditation might be seen as almost opposite approaches to the search for peace of mind. What Unites Buddhism and Psychotherapy? One Therapist Has the Answer. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z One of the girlfriends in her life is named Sara, but Whitney gratingly adds nonexistent consonants, referring to her as if she were summoning her to Latin American trench warfare: “Saarragh!” | 'The Real L Word': On Showtime, Gay, Female and Overworked 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z Some of these images can be gratingly obvious conflations of commerce and redemption, as in “Save”; others succeed by virtue of their syntactic failings, for instance, “Everything is Not $1.” Art Review: ?Zoe Strauss: Ten Years? at Philadelphia Museum of Art - Review 2012-01-12T23:57:45Z There’s something knowing and clever, but never gratingly so, in the way she’s balancing ideas of newness and collective memory. Shura’s ‘Nothing’s Real’ Channels the 1980s 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Other characters behave so gratingly that a viewer will welcome their deaths just to be rid of them. Prometheus: Alien Minus One 2012-06-05T13:20:45Z “This Was the End,” an experimental meditation on Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” at the supercool Long Island City arts space The Chocolate Factory Theater through March 8, begins both mesmerizingly and gratingly. | A Digital Deconstruction of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” 2014-02-24T21:04:36Z The plot is a tissue of familiar contrivances, some of them gratingly unpersuasive, like the make-or-break deal that will secure the future of Amy’s father’s vaguely defined business. Movie Review: ‘Hello I Must Be Going,’ Starring Melanie Lynskey 2012-09-06T23:04:51Z It’s a gratingly uncool and reactive cut-up of an effortlessly cool and timeless work, albeit seemingly deliberately so. The Matrix Resurrections is more interested in being self-aware than being good 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Six weeks into the season, it has happened frequently enough that it has become not so much random but a gratingly regular occurrence, with Lue counting sometimes 17 wasted possessions a game. Clippers grind out win against shorthanded Trail Blazers 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z In other words, there’s just not enough here to distinguish it from any number of post-apocalyptic entertainments we’ve had in previous years, other than the gratingly single-minded protagonist. Review | In the sci-fi drama series ‘Y: The Last Man,’ half of society drops dead, and it’s ponderous picking up the pieces 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z I spoke to him in 2000 for my Time article, and I found him to be a gratingly loquacious spin doctor. Opinion | Patti Davis: No amount of time since the attempt on my father’s life is enough to heal 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the rhymes in the lyrics are willfully, gratingly, exultantly imperfect: “Beach Boys” to “get moist” to “gunpoint.” null 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Although the precise numbers of casualties are still debated, the Nanjing massacre is not an invention, as some prominent Japanese politicians and historians gratingly insist. Could Trump’s blundering lead to war between China and Japan? 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z And, though I refuse to cede that “Transparent” is a comedy and find the characters gratingly narcissistic, it’s sure to be nominated, too. Who deserves an Emmy nomination? We make our predictions 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Everyone who feels strongly about these issues has a right to protest, and that includes gratingly self-important celebrities at massively high-profile events. Celebrities getting political at the Oscars? Give them an award 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s gratingly intrusive when it tries to keep you busy, and transcendentally comforting when it settles for just keeping you company. ‘Final Fantasy XV’ review: All the poetry and frustration of a road trip 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z These good efforts – valiant efforts – have done nothing to stop ESPN’s coverage from being relentlessly, gratingly parochial. Why Fox Sports, not ESPN, is winning America's summer of soccer 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z The experience led the firm to invest in a consulting firm, gratingly called Hy!, which introduces old-economy executives to startups and helps them plan their digital transformation. Does Deutschland do digital? 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z One would think Hollywood could get over its fear of subtitles, especially in light of the success of multilingual shows like Narcos, but The 33 feels gratingly retro by comparison. The 33 trivializes the Chilean mining accident, and it’s also boring 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z That man," he muttered, sort of gratingly: "I had completely forgotten. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z According to Baker, Sanger was fantastically admirable and at the same time gratingly unlikable. Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger Had Slew of Lovers: Books 2012-01-03T16:54:23Z Then a door slammed and a key turned gratingly in the lock. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z The sensation was almost as though one of his own bones turned gratingly on nothing. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z In any case Mr. Brokenshire gave me no time, for he laughed gratingly. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z I'm finding the ever increasing demands for 'Respect' from Premier League footballists gratingly annoying. The Fiver 2011-02-14T16:18:52Z The case this week is quite similar — almost gratingly so — to the case last November that posed the question of whether faith is a mental illness. House Health: Is Heroism a Sign of Brain Disease? 2011-01-18T22:00:00Z "Kill 'em both with one stone, then," wheezed the turnkey, gratingly throwing open the door of the cell. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Her movements, in spite of their gratingly basic monotony, were particularly something to watch, for Zelda had blue-black hair down to her shapely shoulders, wide-apart blue eyes, sulky mouth, and an astonishing body. At the Post After all, it was so much simpler than if he had won, for then––then––He laughed gratingly at the thought. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Lift the latch quietly, though, for there is grief in the room, and noise comes harshly and gratingly upon a sorrowing ear. The Elm Tree Tales But now he began to make such a strange crowing noise, just like a chair drawn heavily and gratingly along a kitchen-floor! The Grey Woman and other Tales He held a sword in his hand, and his face wore an ugly look as his words came harshly and gratingly with the foreign accent of the Korinchi people. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula Grasping her gunwale, Percy dragged her inch by inch gratingly down over the shingle, every sound magnified to his ears by his dread of discovery. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good "You are possibly exceeding your duty," he said, gratingly, "in recalling a happening of which I was but an innocent victim." The Secret House The spectators beheld the jolting vehicle come slowly and gratingly along, like a sturdy recusant, holding back, until the straining horses had tugged it by main force to the brink of the fissure. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 The words, spoken in a harsh voice, fell gratingly on Donald's ears, and brought to an abrupt end the happy thoughts with which his mind was occupied. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands As the bolts Drew gratingly to let them pass, he seem'd To gather consciousness, and restless grew With an unspoken fear, lest at the last Some sterner turnkey, or gruff sentinel Might bar their egress. Man of Uz, and Other Poems And he raised his arm high, bringing the point of his spear gratingly along the carved surface. Star Born Slowly, gratingly, the golem turned and lumbered out of the cave, clumsy and ponderous. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town "I'm-Great-Black-Back!" he said very quietly, quickly, gratingly, and tersely; and then, as if expecting an answer, added, "Eh?" in a hollow undertone. The Way of the Wild "Let me know when your son is coming and I'll try to make it possible to meet him here," he said rather gratingly. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush The words came from him hoarsely and gratingly. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia A key turned gratingly in the ponderous lock—bolts and chains fell, and the massive door swung back on creaky old hinges. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week It was as though she had physically felt the steel of his blade slide gratingly once more down from her parry. The Brimming Cup The door swung gratingly back--the gleam of spears shot along the wall. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 He spoke gratingly, with the dull anger of years. Pardners He laughed again, gratingly, and went out, followed by his persistent apparition. A Spinner in the Sun As the first rays of sunlight filtered into their cell a key turned gratingly in the rusty lock of the door. The Boy Allies at Liege And the words!" he began to sing, gratingly off-key: "Put on your sky clothes, Put on your fly clothes And take a trip with me. Cheerful—By Request Either you killed him," the voice repeated gratingly, "or she did. Within the Law A plain man like Godfrey Cass, speaking under some embarrassment, necessarily blunders on words that are coarser than his intentions, and that are likely to fall gratingly on susceptible feelings. Silas Marner He began to sing, gratingly off key: Put on your sky clothes, Put on your fly clothes, And take a trip with me. One Basket It creaked gratingly outwards on its pivots, and a slim hand and a white arm slipped inside, beckoning me to quietude. The Lost Continent "Come to my cabin!" said Panke gratingly, and led the way. Traffics and Discoveries Soot came down, stovepipes gratingly grudged to go together again; the stove was heavy and cumbersome, and many a pain in a rural back dated from the journey of the stove from outhouse to kitchen. In the Midst of Alarms The chains of the anchor clank gratingly on the ear. A Love Story "I'll make one more try," said Emerson, between his teeth, gratingly, as they swung out into the darkness a second time. The Silver Horde She stood up and the abrupt movement pushed the table gratingly across the floor. The Old Wives' Tale As he talked, Gavin scratched gratingly on the tree trunk, and gazed up in ostentatious admiration at the coy Simon Cameron. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Reassured by this thought I addressed myself to Stella, making my voice as gratingly harsh as I could, for I dreaded the child's quick instinct. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten I heard him clear gratingly his parched throat, and became all attention. Under Western Eyes The surge of water rolled in—a long, low, white, creeping line that softly roared on the beach and dragged the pebbles gratingly back. The Call of the Canyon The hoots of the mob, amidst whose plaudits he had so often guided his graceful car and bounding steeds, still rang gratingly in his ear. Last Days of Pompeii The cow-house door had closed noiselessly behind them and the key had turned gratingly in the lock; then they heard Bertie’s voice pleasantly wishing them good-night and his footsteps retreating along the garden path. The Toys of Peace, and other papers Carruthers led the way to a room at the back of the hall, whose door was open and from which issued a hubbub of voices—one voice rose above the others, heavy and gratingly complacent. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale |
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