Words similar to grittiness

Example sentences for: grittiness

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It earns praise for having restored grittiness to the whimsical tradition of magical realism.
Just as the staid, old British English was rejuvenated after the First World Was by the injection of American, no-nonsense grittiness, so modern American English is being saved; this time by the charge of honest and potent street-talk into the flim-flam and flummery of the body linguistic.