abrasiveness

His abrasiveness, the challenge he always presented her, was gone.

The old abrasiveness over the community budget had for the moment disappeared.

What are your thoughts on film scores and their abrasiveness?

"And if they talk about the abrasiveness of a dead plant manager as though he were still here, you've got an employee relations problem."

That's one way of solving a problem, but the overall abrasiveness is nearly unbearable.

With characteristic energy and abrasiveness, he devoted seven years to lobbying China.

As if that were not enough, former associates say, her management style was blunt to the point of abrasiveness.

The government's new abrasiveness showed itself especially in industrial policy as it related to the trade unions.

Now I'm starting to find even the abrasiveness appealing.

If you could just shed some of that townie abrasiveness.

These products are generally non-abrasive or have a very low degree of abrasiveness.

Where is the abrasiveness, or even a hint of comic vulgarity?

She blinked up at him, at the abrasiveness of his comment.

However, his reported abrasiveness with players and management led to his dismissal.

In the end, the wish for boldness won out over apprehensions of abrasiveness.

The term grit is used to describe the abrasiveness of the sandpaper.

Colin Powell never got it: there's nothing wrong with a little abrasiveness to win global domination.

It seemed as though gruffness and abrasiveness were a shield he used to cover whatever really lay inside him.

The ad, noted for its comic abrasiveness, was pulled from the airwaves after only 13 days.

Despite his abrasiveness, however, a genuine caring showed in his eyes.

He has a reputation for abrasiveness and for eclectic foreign policy views.

Her edgy insistence and abrasiveness appear to exist in limbo.

The abrasiveness touches the policy debate in Washington.

Like Florimel, he seemed to have lost a little of his abrasiveness after confession.