Sentence examples for a grim one from inspiring English sources

The good news: we are called on to embark on a joyous enterprise, not a grim one; only the situation is grim.

Far from being a champion, Russia's record on human rights violations is a grim one.

For students spending an average £8,000 a year in tuition fees, the prospect of ending up in bar work or on a factory floor is a grim one – but by no means remote.

But the prospect of the provision of affordable housing being reduced, through a misguided "you know best" green light for local authorities, is a grim one – not only for the 354,389 households on local authorities' housing waiting lists, but also when it comes to us ever achieving true sustainability, that precarious holy grail of environmental, social and economic harmony.

The future that employee agents were supposed to prepare for was a grim one.

If you stick to watching state television, the picture being painted is a grim one.

Ten years ago, in "The Tormented President," Robert E. Gilbert, a political-science professor at Northeastern University, made a grim, one-sided case for Coolidge's having been, during the four years after his son's death, "a disabled chief executive" whose long naps must be seen not as endearingly Reaganesque but as a depressive manifestation of hypersomnia.

Utley's moral is a grimmer one.

It's also a grimmer one, however, with few likable characters, even this revamped, younger Faith.

Running in counterpoint to Macy's tale is a grimmer one about that stony-faced worker at the checkpoint (Lynn Hawley), a Tradepack who kills her mother with a knitting needle to end her suffering, in the process becoming a symbol to an underground rebel movement.

The bigger picture has been a somewhat grim one for the digital music industry: although digital has overtaken recorded, physical music as the primary way that people "purchase" and consume music today, the economics of the business have never added up.