Sentence examples for a grim game from inspiring English sources

The film becomes a grim game of Six Little Indians, as each of the characters is systematically eliminated — film noir fatalism at its starkest.

Instead, a grim game of musical chairs began, with the senior roles in the company endlessly redefined so there was enough for everyone to do.

Pick that?" Pattinson has joined her in these early stages of her US tour, a sweet gesture that has unfortunately launched a grim game of cat and mouse around the city, the pair trailed everywhere by a school of paparazzi.

In practice, the highway chase is part of a grim game of cat and mouse, because the men of the monitoring directorate are there to watch the inspectors like hawks.

The police and Falun Gong followers played a grim game in Tiananmen Square today, with lean young cadets dashing across the vast open space to snatch down ocher banners briefly unfurled by middle-aged members of the banned spiritual discipline.

President Richard Trumka spoke movingly about Americans "trying to hold on to a good job in a grim game of musical chairs where every time the music stopped, there were fewer good jobs and more people trying to get and keep one".

Give Walters his due, despite missing his two previous penalties, he stepped forward, and gave his side the lead in a pretty grim game.

One of the more anticipated premieres at this year's festival is "The Grim Game," a long-lost 1919 Harry Houdini film that preservationist Rick Schmidlin recovered last year from a retired, 95-year-old juggler living in Brooklyn and which contains a dramatic, real-life, midair collision between two airplanes.

For years, the only remaining footage of Harry Houdini's 1919 silent adventure thriller "The Grim Game" was a five-minute excerpt of an actual mid-air collision involving some spectacular derring-do from the legendary magician and escape artist.

And a grim recession game of musical-chair seniority has commenced.

"Stephen Crabb has come under fire for links to a group that claims it can cure homosexuality, and, having had a quick look at him, he's definitely cured me: his beaming face is like a grim party game where blindfolded children have to try to place the eyes on to an identikit photograph of a murderer".