Sentence examples for a grim realization from inspiring English sources

In a grim realization that predates Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" by several centuries, that isolated set of islands in the southern Pacific Ocean lost many of its native birds to introduced mammal species, Homo sapiens among them.

Adeyoola held out the forlorn hope of a second referendum being called in the fall, should the immediate economic shock to the pound evolve into a national recession and that in turn beget a grim realization of what's coming down the pipe, even before the government has embarked on the vast task of unpicking treaties and renegotiating trade agreements and reconfiguring migration flows.

Unfortunately, the resolve and unity of the American people to smite those who did this to us may very well morph into a grim realization that we are shedding American blood and expending treasure to ensure our continued access to cheap oil.

It is a grim realization, but all is not lost.

This grim realization comes from personal experience: each has a teenage daughter who falls prey to heroin.

No author was better at that sort of grim realization of the price of one's desires than James M. Cain.

His is the moral voice, through which comes the grim realization that ordinary human beings become pawns to fulfill the destiny of power-mad, pseudo-messianic leaders.

Arriving on the shore, the immigrants face the grim realization that they have left behind one war only to be drafted immediately into another.

Many of those who voted, as I did, for Barack Obama must have experienced a similar simultaneous sense of relief and despair last night, as jubilation gave way to the grim realization that the political paralysis of the past four years will become, if anything, worse and more bitter.

IN many communities, dreams of upward mobility are yielding to despair and the grim realization that the economy — not strong for less-educated workers even when it was growing — may now be shrinking, making it tougher than ever to find a job.

That grim realization, among others, awaited our survivors inside the walls of Terminus during Sunday's Season 5 premiere.