Sentence examples for a grim state from inspiring English sources

We walked to a grim state bookstore around the corner from a street of designer boutiques, and climbed to the third floor to look at the foreign books.

Says Johnson bluntly, "This market just sucks right now! Fundamentally, it's in a bad way; technically it looks like it's in a grim state, and on sentiment, there's still too much optimism".

Bleed For Me, by Michael Robotham (Sphere, £14.99) Robotham's sixth thriller is a grim state-of-the-nation address – that nation being not the author's native Australia but Britain, where he worked for several years as a feature writer at the Mail on Sunday.

But it's a pretty grim state of affairs," said an analyst, Stephan Beckert, at the TeleGeography Research Group.

By the end of the show, I'm usually in a pretty grim state.

The opening piece, "End Days," is little more than a bitter screed about the grim state of world affairs blared at anyone who will listen by a bar crank named Hoffman (Gordon MacDonald) marinating his bile in whiskey.

What happened to him to give him such a piercing insight into the grim state of the country?

On Jan . 13 Beaulah Smith was seated beside her husband, Isaac, as he lay in a hospital bed listening to a team of doctors explain the grim state of his health.

During the crisis in '98, I attended a closed-door briefing given by a senior Federal Reserve official, who laid out the grim state of the markets.

In the letter sent by e-mail to likely supporters of Mr. Lhota on Saturday, Mr. Giuliani, who is a Republican, warned that in the hands of a Democratic mayor, the city could regress to the grim state of its not-so-distant past.

The GOP is clearly in a dismal state, but the grim numbers alone do not tell the full story.