scabrous

Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues.

Especially when you listen to the likes of Trolley Dashers, a track which combines unvarnished, adolescent energy with the sort of surreal, scabrous humour Mark E Smith would have been proud of.

They are wild-eyed, injured from collisions with cars, possess scabrous pelts and scavenge in rubbish heaps.

On the strength of Monday's opening episode (Channel4, 10pm) of this new Transatlantic toe-curler though, I'm glad to say Baron Cohen's back on scabrous, skewering form.

On the strength of Monday's opening episode of this new Transatlantic toe-curler, though, I'm glad to say Baron Cohen's back on scabrous, skewering form.

Covering a vast territory of roughly 140 square miles--in which newly refurbished lofts and hipster hangouts sit a stone's throw from the slouching, scabrous shells of abandoned homes--Detroit can sustain either narrative, demise or rebirth.

In medieval Europe, street beggars would rub it on their faces and into wounds to sustain their scabrous appearance.

Hype aside, it was a dazzling performance, fabulously secure technically with, for a composition of such scabrous activity, a vibratorich tone that in the Moderato Kanneh-Mason developed into a full-blown, effulgent presence.

For Turcato, even the use of an unorthodox material such as foam rubber was functional to his research into unusual color tones, as he affirmed when he explicitly made a connection between the "Tranquillanti" and the "Superfici lunari": "I use rubber because its scabrous crust is full of new and wonderful events.

Playing as a septet, with the addition of trumpet and violin, they delivered a two-hour set laden with their deliciously scabrous trademark stories rolled out on Moffat's two-in-the-morning drawl.

Generating its own unique energy, this film directed by Sean S Baker is colourful, scabrous and sad.

"An 'opera' whose musical foundations seemed entirely borne of the fleshpots and gin palaces, specifically an opera where arias - instead of being arthouse confections - were a festering muck-heap of scabrous little ditties belonging to everyone and no-one.