For example, when a rather gruff, distant father shows vulnerability, “I'm proud of you, Flint. I'm amazed that someone as ordinary as me could be the father of someone as extraordinary as you.”
And, then this gruff awkward man without any proper training who'd only been painting a few years comes barging in and rushes off in a couple of hours what poor father couldn't dream of painting in two lifetimes.
The image of a queen who kept cereal in plastic boxes and fed toast to her corgis while a gruff Philip breakfasted next to her listening to a battered old transistor radio did much to endear.
Talk about the limits of knowing how to write for somebody, at first all you can picture is like we'll do comedy around Harrison Ford who will be gruff.
The gruff tones of Hugo's voice, with an occasional shout when his feelings overcame him, were very impressive, and the audience applauded the moment he paused for breath.