Sentence examples for a somewhat grim from inspiring English sources

Not long ago, this was a somewhat grim, gray stretch.

My adventure had finally led me to Gallery 77, in a somewhat grim foyer off the museum's 77th Street exit.

The program opened with Mozart's Adagio and Fugue in C Minor for strings, music inspired by the composer's discovery of Bach, in a somewhat grim and bass-heavy performance that had too much rectitude for its own good -- not the message you want to send in opening the "Great Performers" series.

The bigger picture has been a somewhat grim one for the digital music industry: although digital has overtaken recorded, physical music as the primary way that people "purchase" and consume music today, the economics of the business have never added up.

Allen doesn't deny that some good fortune allowed him to escape a somewhat grim world of limited possibilities in suburban Dallas, where he grew up.

Like Licence to Kill, starring the under-rated Timothy Dalton, Quantum of Solace was a somewhat grim revenge flick set largely in Latin America.

Hee-soo, a determined, somewhat grim young woman (Jeon Do-youn), tracks down Byoung-woon, a feckless, talkative young man (Ha Jung-woo), at a racetrack in Seoul.

The speech, which called for action from men, women and the spectrum of genders, presented a realistic and somewhat grim picture of the current status of women's rights around the world.

A New York City couple turned their pregnancy announcement into a homage to "Star Wars" and made sure to give it an unexpected (and somewhat grim) twist.

At a time when domestic manufacturing is in decline and the national mood is somewhat grim, Foege makes a case that a return to tinkering might show us the way forward.

The automaker also used the ice-encased Yeti to illustrate the somewhat grim results of a happiness survey it conducted among 2,000 British adults.