rough-hewn
Example Sentences
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At Superposition, John Rivas’s multimedia paintings and rough-hewn wooden sculptures depicting his kin are testaments to the importance of family.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
His vocal addendum is a wax stamp finalizing the rough-hewn collection of distinct voices.”
From Salon • Jun. 16, 2025
His brooding, rough-hewn features were recognizable worldwide, his name a rallying cry from South America to the Vatican.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2024
And it’s earned Fisk his third Oscar nomination, a capstone to a career crafting rough-hewn on-screen worlds with such fine-grained dimensionality that you feel as though you walked through them.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024
At the Database Center, where staff members had been working with North Koreans for years, Shin was viewed as a kind of rough-hewn prodigy.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
