Sentence examples for at the grim from inspiring English sources

Another, Henry Homeyer, shook his head at the grim job ahead of me.

The new arrivals Lizzie had in mind were patients at the "grim public mental asylum," where she works.

Alina's unexpected arrival at the grim convent where her friend has been taken sets up a poisonous confrontation with the harsh, intransigent local priest (Valeriu Andriuta).

Yvette C. Brown Wahler a five-foot Navy officer, strode to the fore at the grim hotel gathering down the road from the gashed west front of the Pentagon.

Analysts immediately wiped £2bn off their forecasts for 2011 – which had been at about £6.5bn – after taking fright at the grim outlook for margins.

Disconsolate residents looked on at the grim scene, repeated at random along the coast, with some beaches and cliffs escaping unscarred.

He looked at the grim-faced man who leaned against the wall and knew the man's associates would succeed in their plan to kill the president unless John was somehow able to escape.

It called for the closure, in no more than a year, of the detention camp at the United States Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — the grim emblem of President George W. Bush's lawless policies of torture and detention.

For the bereaved relatives and the 242 wounded survivors of Breivik's killing spree, the 21-year sentence with the prospect of further indefinite detention offered at least the grim consolation that he had not escaped accountability.

Objective To determine the speed at which the Grim Reaper (or Death) walks.

Should this prove to be the case, it would, if nothing else, at last confirm the grim mystique that alcohol can generate disease.