roughhewn

Example Sentences

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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

Meanwhile, parking shortages along Edmonds’ bustling Main Street and Fifth Avenue South, and the roughhewn appearance of some of the temporary outdoor dining structures have prompted calls to regulate or remove the streateries.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2021

Contemporary magazines told them how to train their roughhewn husbands to respect their newly beautified interiors, keeping boots off the furniture and tobacco juice off the carpet.

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

Here in the shop only great sarcophagi were built, and blocks of stone roughhewn to size, ready for the sculptors.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw