The Centre Street court building was grim and forbidding in a Stalinist sort of way (towering, gray, squint-windowed), but it clearly beat the heck out of the Inquisition.
Stern and grim-faced in a speech in Milton Keynes, north of London, Mr. Cameron said, "How we deal with these things will affect our economy, our society — indeed our whole way of life".
The pub is grim in a different way.
In a masterly and grim book, "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps" (Little, Brown, Andrea Pitzerr articulates some of the perplexities of her subject.
Twitter can, at times, be a cesspool, with rants, insults, and grim news sloshing together in a muck of looping text.
The movie turns dolorous and grim — and also spectacular in a conventional way, with cars and buses flung across open spaces.
Mine, the equivalent of an American junior high school, was one of the smallest and bleakest: two grim classrooms in a building that lacked windows and electricity.
Recently it looked at its executive roster, which has expanded back to 850 top jobs, and faced a grim truth: "In a few years, between 35 and 40percentt of our executives will be eligible to retire, and we could be up the creek," said Stephen A. Leavey, manager of corporate personnel management.
The man, who asked that his name not be used to protect his privacy, sat grim and ashen in a sunny exam room, his wife at his side, his daughter across from him.
