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the same sentimentality and earnestness he throws over every subject" (James Collins, Time ). Techniques recycled from Burns' documentaries on baseball and the Civil War--including background fiddle music and actors reading wistful letters--are singled out as especially grating.
The film is sappy and grating: Even the easy to please Gene Siskel calls it "utterly unctuous" and asks, "Who would want Mork at their bedside?"
' To help non-Scots readers, I should add that girning by a bairn is the precursor or consequence of greeting, which, like girning, is very grating to a parent.
Sankt-Peterburg is awkward, is un-Slavic, un-Russian, grating.
An amplifier was used to produce an analog signal, the voltage of which was proportional to the sarcomere length, based on the median intensity profile of the first-order diffraction pattern [ 12 ] . The system was calibrated before every experiment with a test grating (12.