Sentence examples similar to a grim evocation from inspiring English sources

Other notable proletarian novels included Jack Conroy's The Disinherited (1933), Robert Cantwell's The Land of Plenty (1934), and Albert Halper's Union Square (1933), The Foundry (1934), and The Chute (1937), as well as some grim evocations of the drifters and "bottom dogs" of the Depression era, such as Edward Anderson's Hungry Men and Tom Kromer's Waiting for Nothing (both 1935).

Everything is painted black, which may be overdoing it, but as an evocation of the shadowy, depressive side of the American experience and a meditation on death, it exerts a grim poetic mystery.

That was a grim, grim day.

A grim smile.

It is a grim portrait.

It's a grim business.

Scarcity is a grim reality.

A grim sight awaited.

WAVERLY: (A grim joke).

What a grim story.

A grim selection.