But he struggles furiously, engaged in the grubbiness of life through an inertia of commitment that is stronger than protective cynicism.
Courier's muted style is most striking in contrast to the sport's Las Vegas running rebel, Andre Agassi, a model of meticulously manicured grubbiness .
On the grubbiness of buffalo-hide hunters in the 1800s: "Their blankets would get so full of lice and bedbugs that they'd lay them on anthills so that ants could carry away the .
Malcolm Turnbull in NEWS.com.au Matt Handbury is a businessman of undoubted integrity - it just demonstrates the grubbiness of Wayne Swan that he is trying to smear a man like Matt Handbury,Mr Turnbull said.