Sentence examples for a grim portrait from inspiring English sources

It is a grim portrait.

The numbers, they say, paint a grim portrait.

The report also painted a grim portrait of the country's financial well-being.

Mr. Khalikov sketched a grim portrait of what was happening on the ground.

His mother, his coaches and a teacher paint a grim portrait of Bryant's childhood.

In the association's 51-page report, the authors paint a grim portrait of the lockdown units in some state prisons.

A grimmer portrait was painted for the campaign when end of the month finances revealed it was nearly broke with only $61,765 cash on hand from the $391,693 that had been raised overall.

(Andy Webster) Film Series 'The Devil, Probably' (Friday through Thursday) A new print of Robert Bresson's 1977 feature, a relentlessly grim portrait of a generation of university students so disgusted by the moral decay and physical pollution they see around themselves that suicide beckons as the only way out.

If you've just presented a really grim portrait, or a really technical series of details throughout a speech, the ending can be a great time to lighten things up a bit and end on a positive note.

Mr. Shedd outlined an equally grim portrait of a spreading Sunni-Shiite sectarian conflict if Mr. Assad's government fell or he was killed.

Despite a similarly grim portrait of conditions in Colombia last year, President Clinton waived a series of human rights benchmarks mandated by Congress in order for the military aid to flow.