Sentence examples for a grim reflection of from inspiring English sources

The movie, filmed in a semidocumentary style, is both a religious parable and a grim reflection of Eastern European immigration to the West.

True enough, but that in itself is a grim reflection of the realities of power, four years after Burma's ballyhooed switch from army to democratic rule.

In a grim reflection of the gang's motives, the children were described as being in "perfect condition," said Faisal Edhi, whose family foundation runs one of the largest charities and orphanages in Pakistan.

But what a grim reflection on the present climate in Washington that small, reasonable steps like mandatory trigger locks cannot be openly raised and debated even in the context of trying to prevent children from committing suicide.

However, like the very best horror flicks and transgressive dramas, the THC films are not interested in silly jump scares, but in peeling off society's mask of civility, unleashing the id, examining contradictions and hypocrisies, questioning the unstoppable desire in some for power and dominion over others, and refitting pornographic tropes into grim reflections of our inhumanity.

His new song from that show, "This Is Not an Exit," is a grim, metaphysical reflection on the annihilation of self, voiced by the novel's murderous protagonist, Patrick Bateman.

A similar combination of high gloss and narrative confusion flaws Gilles Bourdos's beautifully filmed but grim reflection on the budding relationship of two young lovers who have survived childhood traumas.

They had had 90 or so long, long seconds of descent — ample time for grim reflection and if-I-live promises.

Some livestock economists pointed to the thefts in this hog-rich region as one more sign of the grim economy, a reflection of record-high prices for hogs this year and the ease of stealing pigs from the large barns that are often far from the farmer's house.

It was a grim kind of tourism.

Cholera is a grim byproduct of displacement.