Sentence examples for a grim episode from inspiring English sources

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There is no getting away from the fact that this is a mixed and uneasy way of moving on from a grim episode.

LONDON — On Saturday, there was ugliness at Wembley, as the bloodied faces of a group of Millwall fans — who pummeled one another, and the police, in the stands in a grim episode of in-game violence — overshadowed Wigan's victory in an F.A. Cup semifinal.

They were smart, rude and angry ("The fucking weed is fucking turf/ The fucking speed is fucking Surf," goes the magnificently dystopian Evidently Chickentown – although the recorded version, which once closed a grim episode of The Sopranos, had "bloody" instead of "fucking").

Another problem in the modern estimation of Spenser is a jarring biographical note, for the author of these wholesome-seeming confections was for many years a settler and civil servant in Ireland, and is thus perceived as complicit in a grim episode of English colonial history.

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So much vitriol poured forth during the prosecution of former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce that it felt like a particularly grim episode of EastEnders - albeit with top barristers throwing the accusations on their clients' behalf.

But you likely don't know about an especially grim episode that occurred 21 years later, in the midst of a colony-wide sin outbreak, when a man named Thomas Granger was executed for having sex with a number of animals, including the bird that would become the Thanksgiving mascot.

Mr. Samaras recounted that grim episode in a campaign speech on April 27, sounding a nationalist note that resonated with Greeks who believe the country's loan deal represents a loss of sovereignty to Germany.

But this latest grim episode – which involved Letterman handing over a fake $2m cheque to the alleged blackmailer – is just the latest time Letterman's private life has entered the headlines.

There were insightful musical touches in her playing, as in the grim episode with weighty chords that leads to a contrasting playful theme.

This grim episode, known to history as the Amboyna massacre, marked a low point in Anglo-Dutch relations.

Some 1.5 million men and women were killed during this grim episode in European history.

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