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The schlock-waltz score (at times bordering on calliope music) by Charlie Mole is one of the most grating ever written: It has a way of making the lines seem facetious.
Without going into detail on each one of these, the difficulty I see is, for instance, with raucous appetite , for raucous means harsh, strident, grating and is commonly associated with voice , where, indeed, it is listed.
' 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.
So you can imagine how grating it is to me that Mayor Giuliani wants to spend up to one billion dollars of public funds building George Steinbrenner and his Yankees a new baseball stadium.
But I can't think of two more grating campaign personalities joined on a single ticket than Bush and Dole.