grainy• Aged Gruyere: Five years old, this cheese is grainy and piquant with a sweet, long finish.• The photo is a grainycollage of blacks and whites, with dots and lines scratched across the murkybackground.• Its defrosting is subtle, gradual: but Eisenstein rather than Antonioni: grainy, gritty even.• Another videoweakness to guard against is the coarse and grainy look of plain surfaces in brightprimary colours, especially reds.• grainymustard• I stare at the screen while they show a grainy old black-and-white photo of me, younger, with longer hair.• Below the fold was a grainy photograph taken on primary night.• It also includes a grainy, retouched photograph of the man holding the death mask in his hands.