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"rough-hewn" Definitions
  1. (of stone, wood, etc.) cut in a way that leaves it with a rough surface
  2. (formal) (of a person or their behaviour) not very polite or educated

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Supernatural needs its main characters to be defiant, rough-hewn, and broken.
But Wisconsin has led the way down this rough-hewn path before.
Edgerton imbues the character with such rough-hewn edginess that he instantly
The Moth and the Darter are rough-hewn father figures to him.
Still others could be close-ups of rough-hewn, jewel-like coral reefs.
That means the moral import of those rough-hewn landscapes are gone, too.
And what would this cardigan-wearing fellow make of these rough-hewn semi-abstractions?
It's slow, confusing and how many oddball, rough-hewn tchotchkies does anyone need anyway?
Traeger intensifies the effect with thick swaths of black ink and rough-hewn outlines.
Durgo Bann is a rough-hewn, frenetic comic about an interstellar cop with beautiful visuals.
Democrat campaign signs sprout from the lawn and rough-hewn art is hammered to trees.
Ms. Bernstein's rough-hewn beasts are both comic and foreboding in their mutations of the human form.
At Wolfgat they're poured into delicate stemware, contrasting with the handmade, often rough-hewn pottery and wooden dinnerware.
Awards: Supporting Actress (Laura Dern) Noah Baumbach is America's foremost chronicler of rough-hewn and disintegrating family units.
Trouble immediately jumps the two, and Garry Brown's thoughtful, blocky linework adds a rough-hewn gravity to this comic.
Chiodo means "nail," and the shop's ethos is further reflected in its exposed beams and rough-hewn wooden slats.
A former Boy Scout camp, the center comprises a series of rough-hewn cabins surrounded by pines and cedars.
It is a mischievous, irreverent, rough-hewn album that could as comfortably be called punk as it could funk.
"This isn't a place," a staffer told me while rolling a joint on a piece of rough-hewn garden furniture.
With no Jews left to tend to the graveyard, the rough-hewn tombstones were worn blank by wind and weather.
Probably the only thing remaining — if anything — of the original 1693 house is the rough-hewn stone foundation, Murphy said.
Alert viewers may also recognize a rough-hewn Lino Ventura — already a fixture in policiers — as one of Maigret's men.
The project is a bright, clean little package effusing Ladies of the Canyon-era Joni Mitchell with a rough-hewn contemporary twist.
The 100 minimalist rooms have off-white linens, pale oak walls and black cabinetry; rough-hewn timber tables lend warmth and texture.
During the Philadelphia years, the works gained the pared-down imagery and rough-hewn materiality that have characterized his work ever since.
With his pencil-scratch, rough-hewn style, Sherman has spent the last month making a loud and bold impression on the comic scene.
The knots you see along the bodice of several dresses are supposed to be little rough-hewn, but with aspirations of something fancier.
On exhibit are two bodies of work: funky, rough-hewn totems composed of driftwood, textiles, nails, feathers, and odd Joseph Cornell-like constructions.
Botha has perfected a rough-hewn, not-quite-finished aesthetic (full of zip ties, vices, wires, and cables) that tantalizingly straddles different interpretations.
The sculptor's rough-hewn and loosely figurative assemblages of plaster, wire, wood, and found materials are instantly engrossing and pulse with inner life.
His brightly-colored canvases and rough-hewn ceramics take classical source material, cut them up, and re-assemble them in a collage-like process.
The damage exposed the rough-hewn timbers cut by Willard's great-grandfather when he arrived from Czechoslovakia to this very spot in the 20173s.
But wait until "White Horse" concludes the LP with bluesy, rough-hewn guitar leads and a dusted monologue from the man behind the music.
Everything Is Fine marks the project's first proper full-length, and in spite of its downhome, rough-hewn feel, comes stacked with highfalutin credentials.
Goggins knows that actors with rough-hewn good looks who start out excelling at heavies aren't always allowed to evolve out of their specialties.
Meanwhile, Poland have a rough-hewn mountain of a centre-back in the form of Kamil Glik, partnered by the equally boulder-like Michal Pazdan.
It contrasts rough-hewn rock with shiny metal surfaces, plus a few scattered antiques, just to show how wealthy and sophisticated its villainous owner is.
My grandfather, Harold (Hod) Chrisinger, was a rough-hewn man — undereducated and overburdened — who joined the Army in the summer of 1944 at age 18.
Stretching across the mammoth and rough-hewn space, it felt like you were stumbling across the light sculptures in the wild, their starting points unknown.
Expansive (easier to make expansive things here) and intricate and ceramic and funny and painterly-sloppy and feminist and curious and rough-hewn and large-minded.
The three handmade weather vanes recall the region's traditional architecture, and the base of the building, made of rough-hewn fieldstone, recalls old New England masonry.
This particular canvas is somewhat representative of the group, as it is defined by rough-hewn vertical rectangles, their edges jagged and vague, their dimensions irregular.
But this was no ordinary double-braid: The two chunky, rough-hewn plaits waterfall down the singer's back and are adorned with a black velvet bow.
The structures, built with rudimentary materials—rough-hewn timber, sun-bleached corrugated metal, thatch, tarps—were linked by makeshift bridges, drooping electrical wires, and laundry lines.
But a living wage was not what the young Trump wanted and so he headed west, winding up in Seattle, then a rough-hewn logging town.
The sculptures' rough-hewn papier-mâché construction makes no effort to pass them off as plausible copies of their well-wrought ceramic, glass, and alabaster originals.
As a role player, he added an essential element, his brute-force bars operating as a blunt instrument, their firmest connection to a rough-hewn street aesthetic.
It may be that he saw in it a physical approach to paint, a kind of "abrupt, rough-hewn brushwork" similar to his own, Ms Robbins suggests.
For me, these read in part as send-ups of the genre of rough-hewn, macho, fork-lift-enabled sculpture that arose in the US the 1960s.
If the Texan were no longer in contention, his voters would flock to the more rough-hewn alternative of Trump and not the smooth establishment charm of Rubio.
For 15 years, she and her husband, the Colombian designer Oscar Peña, lived in a book-filled loft in the rough-hewn Borough district; her studio was above.
Noah Baumbach is America's foremost chronicler of rough-hewn and disintegrating family units, and in Marriage Story, he pries open one divorce to find the beating heart inside.
He adores the rough-hewn music and iconography of his native Texas, but he has never been too cool to sing sweeter, softer songs about suburban love gone right.
And yet, with just a handful of rough-hewn and improvisatory films to his name, Rice is a seminal, if little seen, New York underground filmmaker from the 1960s.
The dancers are all barefoot, but a large part of their vocabulary looks like rough-hewn ballet, with academic positions of the feet and prolonged use of half-toe positions.
A live ranking for hotel reservations put Liverpool in first place among European cities, Merseyside's rough-hewn charms briefly trumping Venice and Barcelona (and apparently benefiting from a special offer).
His speaking voice is higher than his rough-hewn croon would let on, and when he's excited, or emphatic—which is often—it rises quickly in both pitch and volume.
While Wilco would trade much of gritty, rough-hewn twang for synths and Beatles-indebted pop exuberance on their third album Summerteeth, the energy from their earlier oeuvre never left.
Vladimir Guerrero Sr., the former Expos star, and several other family members sat in the rough-hewn box seats above the first-base dugout and bore proud witness to both milestones.
PARIS — The rough-hewn sounds of clacking spoons, twanging banjos and humming fiddles might seem to be something of an anomaly in a city known more for Edith Piaf's sensuous lullabies.
If you decorate your living room with Ina's "rough-hewn salvaged wooden beams" and "river stone hearth," people will think your main home was taken away because your husband went bankrupt.
The years since have seen a pronounced 80s soul and pop influence temper the band's rough-hewn majesty into muscular, glistening arena-anthems as their fanbase and fame has grown exponentially.
The eminent bassist Christian McBride has been playing recently with a new quartet, often exploring the repertoire of Thelonious Monk and toying with the rough-hewn sound of 1960s post-bop.
And Moreau's rough-hewn, obscure landscapes harken back to the shadowy backdrops in Leonardo da Vinci's portraiture, especially "The Virgin of the Rocks" (22003–22014) and "The Mona Lisa" (20053-22005; 2980).
Gypsy pegs had a streaked, rough-hewn look, as if brushed with ash from the open fire, and a little ring of reclaimed tin near the top to hold the wood together.
I never saw a vision of God's face on my fingertip that told me to paint sacred art like Howard Finster, who has several rough-hewn pieces in the National Gallery exhibition.
Outside the towering, rough-hewn stone facades of Lee and West Ambler Johnston residence halls, where suspects Natalie Keepers and Eisenhauer lived, respectively, students were reluctant to speak on or off camera.
To that end, the girl spends time with a rough-hewn school escort (Albrecht Schuch) who believes that patience and emotional support will have a greater and more lasting impact than medication.
He said that Rapa Nui is considered the most isolated inhabited island in the world and that most visitors (and locals) never make it to that rough-hewn side of the island.
Behind them wore their black cloaks like their own yellow fish heroes wearing a rough-hewn figurehead, a black trout slashed on a huge chest, with colors crossed inside and forth their heads.
You can find weird stuff and places that way: rotten bridges of rough-hewn logs and steel cable; rusting steam engines; trees that have grown around old cables in grotesque and baffling ways.
These hover in our peripheral vision as Mr. Rawls and the musician Chris Kuklis concoct ceremonial dance and song of their own, clad in rough-hewn regalia by the Serbian designer Sasa Kovacevic.
Earth's surface, in his abstracted, horizon-less photographs, does look like a massive supine dragon or an impossibly immense dinosaur, some reptilian beast with cracked, rough-hewn skin and eyes about to open.
The book, "Fishing With John" (22015), is both a love story about her relationship with the rough-hewn Mr. Daly and an examination of the world of commercial salmon fishermen in British Columbia.
Here, the row of rough hewn tally-marks were set off like prison bars against the soaring verticality of the Corinthian columns and the timeless values of democracy they are meant to communicate.
From the record's swaying, uncertain introduction right through to the finale, a warm, rough-hewn platonic love song called "Sunday Roast", Barnett's sophomore record feels like an altogether more fully realised portrait of herself.
Once I got the cochlear implant, a transmitter of rough-hewn sound that set my skull rattling and my nerves screeching, I found that music jolted my core in ways I could not explain.
Sabogal drew from traditional Andean and popular arts, like engraved mate gourds, to illustrate the magazine's pages, and favored rough-hewn, figurative woodcut prints, a medium allied with international Socialist causes of the time.
A person familiar with LG's plans has told The Verge that the company is aiming for an all metal and glass design, which the rough-hewn material pictured here would not be in sync with.
On the one hand, Watson is simply attempting to do for gospel what Fat Possum did for Mississippi blues—to introduce it to the eager Americana audience that values rough-hewn authenticity and overlooked folkways.
Illustrated with a boxy, rough-hewn look by Hayden Sherman, and featuring a tight and compelling script by Sean Lewis, The Few follows Edan Hale, a drifter taksed with keeping a baby safe in the badlands.
In his bowls, Carl Eller (a former Viking and Pro Football Hall of Famer) pays homage to the state's 10,000 lakes with rough-hewn shapes in which his large, sensitive fingers have left waves and rivulets.
The last time I'd seen Groene was almost a year ago and he was showing me two stuck-together pieces of black cardboard, the rough-hewn seedling for the product idea that would become the Surface Book.
Kara Rooney's "Alter No. 8" (2016) cuts its own path between the streamlined and the rough-hewn, with two columns of ravaged white hydrocal rising above a sleek, black-framed, abstract digital photograph jammed into their base.
But his career would forever be defined by his turn as Wyatt, with his stars-and-stripes helmet astride his motorcycle, "Captain America," in "Easy Rider," a rough-hewn character that often times reflected his personal life.
On this December afternoon, she is still dressed in the headscarf and rough-hewn dress of her character, Isabelle Arc, the mother Joan of Arc, with legs covered in makeup to mimic the dirt of rough country living.
The clip mostly consists of verité lo-fi footage of Hunt singing and picking through the dirt and brushing her teeth, rough-hewn stuff that emphasizes the contrasts between her work and the raw material that informed it.
"I have a very Mediterranean sense of style," she said, nodding at the arched doorways, the walls that were faux-finished to resemble aged plaster, and the limestone and rough-hewn marble floor in the double-height foyer.
"Rootabaga Stories," Carl Sandburg Grossly underappreciated, this is in my view the best of all children's books — wildly, passionately imaginative, gently moral and quintessentially American, both in its diction and in a certain rough-hewn but kindly common sense.
I would've told her that I remembered once at camp lying next to Davis on the edge of a dock, our legs dangling over, our backs against the rough-hewn planks of wood, staring together up at a cloudless summer sky.
The renovation by Creative Space, LA and Annabelle Selldorf makes for a dynamic experience, as visitors progress from white cube to sun-drenched atrium and into rough-hewn warehouse galleries, while smaller, more intimate rooms allow you to catch your breathe.
"It was risky, in the early part of [the 20th] century, to presume to write fiction about ordinary, rough-hewn people engaged in the rigors of dry land farming in frontier Nebraska," Kathleen Norris writes in her introduction to the novel.
While he isn't channeling a rough-hewn character like Ned Kelly, as he did in "True History of the Kelly Gang," his second Man Booker Prize-winning novel, his two narrators still like to kink and twist their Aussie phrasing.
Against a nearby wall of the long, low-slung industrial building, Shechet had piled wood in various stages of fabrication: hollow, car-tire-size slices of trunk with the bark still on, towering rough-hewn beams and thin sheets of plywood.
They adhered to a version of wabi-sabi, privileging rough-hewn and period-appropriate materials, including Flemish stone tiles from a historic house in Belgium and a vintage French pharmacy counter (now the reception desk), over those with perfect polish.
While Dear You would smooth the band's approach all the more—had "Save Your Generation" been a single maybe Jawbreaker could have been the next Nirvana—it's one of the band's most rough hewn songs that has had the deepest resonance.
Utilizing hardware synthesizers, a loop pedal, and a breakbeat editing software from the around the turn of the millennium Kuhn's approach to drum and bass tropes is rough hewn, handmade feeling—worn and comforting like an old quilt from a loved one.
Sitting in a comfortably shabby trattoria near the West Village apartment he shares with his wife and daughter, he was craggier, more rough-hewn, with a star-shaped dimple on his right cheek, a sweep of silver hair and a short, scraggly beard.
Formed by bright red Quonset hut ribs and flanked by two smaller partial domes, the structure — whose windowless front is done in inky coal masonry studded with rough-hewn chunks of aquamarine glass — looks like a spaceship that's pulled up its jet bridge.
"Most uptown galleries, with a few notable exceptions, were showing stuff that still looked like Impressionism," said Ms. Dodd, 89, in an interview in the rough-hewn walk-up loft on East Second Street where she has worked since the late 1950s.
The work ranges from an oversized version of a traditional, rough-hewn Roman cage cup by Karla Trinkley, to a vase inspired by South African pottery by Mieke Groot, selected from a series wherein the artist recreated vessels encountered on her world travels in glass.
In the mid-1990s, North Korean authorities announced they had discovered the tomb of Dangun and his wife just outside Pyongyang, going so far as to "reconstruct" a white stone pyramid flanked by rough-hewn obelisks and statues of ancient princes and snarling beasts.
Fumi weathered the downturn by becoming a destination for those seeking daringly contemporary work, from the expressionistic, rough-hewn vases of the German ceramist Johannes Nagel to the cast bronze, gum-paper-clad storage units by the Anglo-Dutch design duo known as Glithero.
Despite the scale of the work, and the rough-hewn feel of the materials Nonas uses, the grittiness of lived experience and a real human past prevails here, something that is perhaps less about the architecture and the factory's process, and more about the factory workers themselves.
In person, these works, done in acrylic, Sumi ink, and collage on enormous sheets of paper, tread a fine line between the purposive and the accidental, the exquisite and the rough-hewn — an uneasy mix of lustrous surfaces, refined lines, carved-up supports, and ingenuously awkward brushstrokes.
In the sparsely furnished parlor, beside a rough-hewn mantle-less brick fireplace (Cotton convinced the couple not to replace it), a pair of low-slung settees covered in blue-and-white ticking face each other, and a 19th-century mahogany grandfather clock stands in the corner.
Perhaps most remarkably, she's able to portray Toni's transformation from a rough-hewn dancer into a confident one, arms and legs moving with a sinewy precision that doesn't convey catharsis so much as it communicates a visceral frustration with a life spent searching for something somehow out of reach.
Just as the Sentinelese appear to modern eyes to stand outside of time, with their rough-hewn weapons and ocean-bound lives, so does their rough administration of justice, suggesting some iron decree that is immemorial, nearing the divine: Cross this line and you will be struck down.
Soon, bands like The Lawrence Arms and The Honor System would offer up their own takes on this brand of punk, and before long, this kind of lo-fi, rough-hewn strain would become Chicago's chief export to the rest of the punk scene over the next decade.
Inside, Vervoordt and his project manager, Erik Van der Pas, adhered to a version of wabi-sabi, privileging rough-hewn and period-appropriate materials, including Flemish stone tiles from a historic house in Belgium and a vintage French pharmacy counter (now the reception desk), over those with perfect polish.
His albums reveal the rough-hewn ambitions of their immediate predecessors but refined and rendered in flawless HD. Late Registration unveiled an orchestral ambition that had been just under the surface of College Dropout; My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy solidified the portrait of obliterated ego that drifted through 808s and Heartbreak.
Given the turbulent politicizing the British four-piece offered on their ruthless, Mercury Prize-winning debut Silence Yourself and the rough-hewn catharsis of their feedback-drenched live sets, there's something a little disorienting about the fact that Savages' newest record, Adore Life, is almost entirely an album of… love songs?
But the unscheduled year ahead would nonetheless yield Savage Times, a collection of the 19 songs and five EPs that El Khatib would churn out over the course of 2016 in an alternatingly steady and fraught flow, rough-hewn tracks knocked out in the moment and released online just as impulsively.
Here, though, she placed them at the center of her project by creating full-size furniture pieces that are otherwise nearly exact copies of her prototypes, which range from three to six inches tall or wide, honoring their rough-hewn look and accepting whatever problems of proportion arose during their enlargement.
Christopher Hoyt's excellent set design, a simple wooden platform with rough-hewn study tables that evoke the old-world synagogues that immigrant Jews rebuilt in this country in the early decades of the 20th century, allows Ms. Loveland to underline the parallels between the Malter and Saunders families with symmetrical, overlapping scenes.
For one home built in 2002 in Las Mercedes, a recently gentrified neighborhood adjacent to Asunción's historic center, Benítez shielded the three-story structure with pleated brick screens, a rough-hewn reinvention of the mirage-like brick waves used by the Uruguayan master Eladio Dieste in his 1960 Church of Christ the Worker.
I'm still in the wee hours of the game, on the first island, but it so strongly evokes the mountainous terrain and sun-kissed shores and rough-hewn towns of the show, the statues of the gods and goddesses and the call to mythical adventure, and I keep humming the theme song while playing.
The 2016 edition of Prophecy Festival followed in the German label's decades-long tradition of supporting what they term "eerie emotional music," a nebulous tag that meant we got to see proggy French shoegaze, legendary British neofolk, and celestial Norwegian black metal comfortably share a rough-hewn stage over the course of two very intense days.
Last year we said that, "Robert Hood doesn't so much make music as craft hulking, huge, ridiculously massive mechanisms that bolt relentlessly on and on, getting tighter and tighter to the point where implosion seems inevitable," when referring to the other side of this tremendous 2015 release ("Ritual" by Floorplan) and the same applies to this rough-hewn monster of a record.
Its galleries, courtyard and cavernous, rough-hewn hypogeum are filled with a wide-ranging collection of mostly Italian works from the end of the 19th century to the present day, including Berto Lardera's "Apparition VII," a 1962 metal work that resembles a minimalist pirate ship, and a Picasso-esque polychromatic head with four eyes that the sculptor Enrico Baj rendered in majolica.
In between, he pushed the boundaries of genre and style to their absolute limits with albums like Dirty Mind — economical, explicit, and rough-hewn — and Sign o' the Times, a sprawling, sensual, and socially conscious double LP. And while his popularity peaked with the 1984 album-movie combo of Purple Rain, his discography was rich enough that it's hard to pinpoint any one release as his true creative peak.
Levov was one of those slum-reared Jewish fathers whose rough-hewn, undereducated perspective goaded a whole generation of striving, college-educated Jewish sons: a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn't as easy to escape from as he seems.
Roosevelt at the time was an ad hoc collection of spare progressive parts, including the upkeep of the F.D.R. Library in Hyde Park, N.Y. Rich believed that if you weren't in Washington, and you weren't beholden to the party apparatus, and if you got the right people — people who were too idiosyncratic or rough-hewn for academia, or academics who wanted to be politically relevant but needed help with finding an audience for their work — you could create a new kind of institution on a looser, livelier model.
Extravagant food displays have become a motif at high-end fashion, design and other events in the past few years, from the pyramid of shrimp layered with roses and the three-foot-long challah surrounded by butter renditions of the face of Michelangelo's David, created by the New York-based artist Laila Gohar for the opening of the Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées in Paris in March, to an event last October at Longchamp's SoHo boutique, where the Brooklyn catering company known as BoardGirlsNY dispensed with serving ware and instead heaped food directly on the six-foot-long table, a sprawl that was at once wreckage and bounty, with macarons tilting up against raw broccoli florets, cherry tomatoes tumbling over coins of salami and giant rough-hewn cantaloupe halves daring someone to scoop out their flesh.

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