Sentence examples for a grim sort of from inspiring English sources
It will be fascinating, in a grim sort of way, to see what happens this time.
Michael Caine, however, makes the movie worth watching, even enjoyable, in a grim sort of way.
Moreover, as McCain suggested during last month's debate, time is, in a grim sort of way, on his side.
"Last Best Chance" is entertaining, in a grim sort of way, but entertainment is not its raison d'être.
So last week's news that teenage birthrates inched upward late in the Bush era, after 15 years of steady decline, was greeted with a grim sort of satisfaction.
Yet on Friday, Sergeant Sorrento, a police officer who is among some 10,000 rescue and cleanup workers at ground zero who sued the city for health damages, felt a grim sort of satisfaction.
Again, my first instinct is that they must have been rubbernecking, the sordid allegations having made HRH a rather grim sort of draw, or at the very least not as ferociously dull and pointless as the rest of the apres-ski programme.
With its genesis in torture cases that shamed the authorities, the grim sort of things this bill could keep secret are apparent.
Where Never Let Me Go succeeds is in being a dreamlike parable of Britishness – a particularly miserable Britishness, a Britishness which submits numbly and uncomplainingly to authority, a pinched Britishness which has an unshakable loyalty to unhappiness, and, with the coming of death, regards not raging against the dying of the light as some grim sort of social or municipal obligation.
I suppose in some of the details you can see this grim, sort of Blade Runnner-type society somewhere in the future, which is the backdrop to the lyric.
