Sentence examples for a grim potential from inspiring English sources

In her 2011 book about Twitter, The Independent's TV critic Grace Dent outlined a grim potential scenario where private information was made public.

Yet now we are coming to learn of its grim potential as a system of control, when abused by the NSA and others.

But he also senses in them a love of dark prophecy — an attraction to the future's grim potential, to the amorality of futurity.

Another example of their grim potential was highlighted last week when doctors reported that a bagpipe player had died because deadly fungi had infected his pipes.

The film-makers shrink from the grim potential of their chosen topic: the seriousness with which it could have been handled is resolutely eschewed.

The grim potential of the latter was hinted at by the vast field of debris that China's test left, posing a threat to any passing satellite or space ship.

After my presentation, Dr. Watanabe, a soft-spoken nuclear physicist, painted a grim picture of the potential impact of a plant only 6 km from the coastal town of 20,000 and its threat to local fishing.

The play paints a grim contemporary portrait while trying to grapple with the potential for change.

It is a grim context for a return to civility, but an encouraging sign of potential coöperation as Japan pursues its rescue and recovery efforts.

For all the talk of his potential troop increase - maybe 40,000, maybe some other large figure - Obama got a grim reminder of the number that counts: one.

That was a grim, grim day.