Some inhabit a gritty blue-collar world, while others treat privilege as a selling point.

Joel Christie's young-adult novel offers a realistic (and surprisingly humorous) glimpse into the complex, gritty world of modern teens.

The gritty world of illegal drugs has never been for men only.

They demanded a writer who would have an entirely original interpretation of Blade's tough, gritty world.

In the gritty, insular world of East New York, adolescent life can end over a book bag, a snide remark or a betrayal.

On the eastern leg of the route, passengers glimpse the grittier world of areas severely affected by unemployment.

His investigations explore the gritty and lawless world of rural China.

The door of the car slams behind the little girl and the gritty, grainy world of hookers, bare feet and graffiti is locked out.

He would have lost himself that way, when the whole point was to remain a man, to stay in the gritty world and experience it directly, avoiding abstractions.

From the theatrics of the debate to the grittier world of day-to-day politics.