graininess
- n the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
- There, in all its grace and graininess, is the small of the back for Actor Claude Rich; the belly, dappled with goose flesh, for Dancer Jean Babile.
- Paint "equals" water in much the same way as, in some Renaissance portraiture, the graininess of pigment "equals" the cellular structure of flesh.
- The career scenes are shot in high-contrast graininess, the early ones in a pellucid sunlight that Charles would soon lose sight of.