gritty

This is action on a grand scale that, despite its grittiness and naturalism, boasts very high production values.

“Grittiness is what differentiated it in from the beginning,” Henderson said.

As with the teen drama Skins, it was that British grittiness that was part of the allure to millions of teenage viewers.

Very often the texture of pear-flesh is marred by grittiness to which some varieties are much more subject than others.