Sentence examples for a grim spell from inspiring English sources

Taken as a whole, the stories cast a grim spell.

At his best Mr. Antunes can be magnificent — his stream-of-consciousness novel "The Inquisitors' Manual" (1996), about life under the long rule of Portugal's dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, casts a grim, unruly spell.

Grim spells at Manchester United, Real Sociedad and Sunderland may have left Moyes looking more like Mark Noble's gran than the Son of God, but a 1-0 victoverover Antonio Conte and co. has been enough for him to be widely hailed as the Moyesiah.

This trend spells a grim future for the American worker, and for the American economy.

In terse prose, Joly spells out just how and why it was such a grim ordeal to be sealed into a steel hulk and sent out to face superior arms and equipment across acres of baking wilderness.

That was a grim, grim day.

It is a grim portrait.

It's a grim business.

Scarcity is a grim reality.

It's a grim outcome.

It's a grim paradox.