Gritty in a sentence as an adjective

More people need to focus on the real nitty gritty issues that go on in congress but don't make it into campaign ads.

And the those Covenant grunts run around comically when you throw a sticky grenade to them... so gritty.

If you wanted to know the nitty-gritty details about the universe of EVE Online, the QEN was hard to beat.

Like he said in the post, as a company grows, the CEO role tends to shrink farther and farther from the technical nitty-gritty.

In a first-person perspective, in a dark and gritty environment, in what was seen as very realistic.

Here's to one perfectionist programmer who really cares about the nitty-gritty details of great game design.

A number of older game developers decided, when they made the change from 2D to 3D, to pursue a similarly "gritty" realism.

All this sounds nitty-gritty and totally irrelevant, but the SO is 'always-on', will listen to any **** and this is something we terribly need.

>> "It is also a story of an Obama Administration obsessed with health care reform policy but above the nitty-gritty of implementing it.

Scientists may publish how their experiments work in broad strokes, but the nitty gritty details are often something that can only be learned by working in a lab. If your country has a lot of labs, you have a workforce that commercial enterprise can draw upon to bring products to market based on research.

I, for one, would much rather read about the nitty-gritty details of this project than debate about how great Facebook's engineers are or read another opinion on whether or not PHP is a good language for X.

I asked him [0]: Have you considered open sourcing more pieces of Dwarf Fortress so that the community can try to help with the nitty gritty engine bits while you can continue having sole ownership of the underlying direction?

So the outcome is predictable: you see prizes being awarded to people who are fleshing out ideas which have been known for a half century; the low-hanging fruit has already been picked, so you have to work for years in the nitty-gritty to push the bounds.

Then there is a general child care leave than can extend to three years, it gets nitty gritty with the bureaucracy of compensations but effectively it is possible to take care of your kid for the first three years and still have your old job back when you're done.

-- I've also never developed software with a team larger than five, and certainly don't know the nitty-gritty details about spreading the work over a dozen countries and hundreds of developers, the vast majority being low-cost Chinese and Indian coders.

Gritty definitions

adjective

composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue"

See also: farinaceous coarse-grained grainy granular granulose mealy

adjective

willing to face danger

See also: game gamy gamey mettlesome spirited spunky