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  • You'd think he's just a brooding, gruff-voiced, type-cast ogre, but no, there's a humanistic method to his madness.

    /Film Boston - An Interview with Michael Madsen | /Film 2010

  • She dabbed her eyes and her gruff-voiced groom promised to honor and respect her.

    Fourteen Couples Get Hitched Atop Empire State Building AP 2011

  • I had seen the best of the breed, the captains of the liners, and he no more resembled them than did he resemble the bluff-faced, gruff-voiced skippers I had read about in books.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • Madrid's anthem was sung by Plácido Domingo, lauding a "field of stars"; Atlético's was called Reasons for a Feeling and was sung by gruff-voiced folk singer Joaquín Sabina, in which he declared "war on arrogant [Madrid]".

    Atlético Madrid can put end to glory of suffering in Liverpool semi 2010

  • For years there have been rumblings of a big screen adaptation of Fox's popular real-time action-thriller series 24 starring the gruff-voiced Kiefer Sutherland as unstoppable counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer.

    Fox Finally Developing Feature Film Version of TV Series '24' « FirstShowing.net 2010

  • Quaritch, a gruff-voiced military man with scars running down the right side of his head.

    Comic Con: 25 Minutes of Avatar Screened | /Film 2009

  • [Edit: Nice work, Yndy!] * Prompting a ChattaCon moment of drunken hilarity in a room party - [from a gruff-voiced man in full Klingon make-up] - Look at the great size of this man!

    January 30th, 2006 mtjames 2006

  • Speaking in Imperia, a town Mussolini created in 1923 to symbolize his power, the gruff-voiced Bossi suggested World War II would never have happened if Germany hadn't "tried to change the balance" against "Anglo-Saxon" domination of the world economy.

    The Knight Errant 2007

  • Worf turned back toward the gruff-voiced intelligence officer.

    A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

  • Worf turned back toward the gruff-voiced intelligence officer.

    A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

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