roughhewn
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That’s some of the enjoyably kooky plot in “Missed Connections,” the charming if occasionally roughhewn screwball comedy that Faction of Fools Theatre Company is staging outdoors at the Parks at Walter Reed.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2022
Intellectuals mocked what they called the “enthusiasm” of self-taught preachers whose pulpit thunder exceeded their formal learning, just as the roughhewn itinerants knew little of Isaac Newton.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The L.A. artist’s closest touchstone may in fact be Philip Guston, whose late work employed a roughhewn graphic style to paint brilliant images of existential dread and loneliness.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2016
Negriel Dumas built a roughhewn shack for his family on the barren hilltop.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2010
These roughhewn logs were filled with sap, and as they dried out, the wood contracting and expanding with changes in temperature, the roofs sagged, the walls buckled.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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