Sentence examples for a grim certainty from inspiring English sources

In the days leading up to the ceremonies, the war, a grim certainty 8,000 miles away, was a nagging echo in the back of everyone's minds here, complicating emotions and plans, and enmeshing the burdens of patriotism with the daily duties of an industry that requires broad (and shockingly white) smiles.

Relegation to League One seems a grim certainty.

This is a film that expresses with grim certainty its belief that children inherit their parents' demons.

But all around him, the grim certainty of his future was evident.

You push on, even with the grim certainty that describing your pain will invite more.

It triggers grim certainty that Mr. Lehane's tenderly drawn players will not survive the events that envelop them.

As the events of this week illustrate — at least 480,000 acres burned, 1,575 residences destroyed and 7 people killed — the cycle roars on with higher stakes, greater risk, and the grim certainty that it will happen again.

"They'll ban it", he said with grim certainty.

And so many of us feel so alone because we don't fit into either the "new atheist" fundamentalism of grim certainty that there's no one to hear us pray, or the religious "certainty" that God is hearing our prayers.

Beyond that bed was the council estate, caravan or B&B we were living in, usually in a rough area with all the grim certainties of life on the margins.

His science fiction works, meanwhile, seemed liberated from some of his grimmer certainties and were notably even-handed in their treatment of moral and ideological dispute.