Sentence examples for a grim life from inspiring English sources

It was a grim life, grimmer still because it was the only choice open to many.

In China, meanwhile, Shou-Kung, an electrical engineer, had a grim life working at the television factory.

Mr. Tierney's update imagines Oliver as a blond, virginal teenager (Joshua Close) who has run away from a grim life in the provinces to the big city.

"You're an African," Prudence Mabele told the secretary, describing a grim life of discrimination and rejection for those like her who carry the virus.

Also in the field, amid the strewn wreckage of what was left of a grim life, was the device that had kept it going a while longer: the oxygen tank.

Tolokonnikova portrays a grim life for inmates where, in a practice surviving from the Gulag system, the authorities delegate certain prisoners to do their dirty work for them and keep the other inmates terrorised.

It was a pretty grim life as far as freedom of movement or speech or thought were concerned - but music, the most abstract of the arts, they could control the least.

It's a familiar tale of grim life on a tower-block estate: a wife-beating dad, a granddad dying of cancer, isolation and an addiction to violent movies.

The company that represented joy as a gorilla drumming along to Phil Collins's In the Air Tonight returns to the theme with a commercial depicting the grim life of a toy duck attached to the grill of a lorry.

When Helen runs off with a sailor, leaving behind her father and home, she also leaves behind Moll, who has been consigned to an unwilling marriage and the grim life of a plantation slave.

But while Mae speaks freely, even eloquently, of her grim life as a child prostitute ("I never saw horror films when I was little," she tells Donovan. "I just lived in one")., she doesn't share her fears that she may have unwittingly killed again.