Sentence examples for becomes grim from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bou-Gedeon becomes grim when asked about the role of comedy, and dramatic art in general, in Lebanon.

However, the moment she is gone, the Doctor's expression becomes grim.

Mooallem takes a quirky, funny-sad look at the spectacular lengths Americans will go to to save endangered species, even as the general prognosis for wildlife (such as it is) becomes grimmer and grimmer.

That the government deliberately built PIP with tightened criteria – and is sitting by as the system descends into disarray – becomes grimmer still when you consider that this is being done to a benefit tied to other essential disability services.

Taking stock of the anemic turnout, his expression became grim.

But magazine companies other than Condé Nast have become grim places to work in recent years.

The finances of the Favaloro Foundation, as the hospital was known, became grim.

But after the oil-price crash in the mid-1980s, liforfor most of the young became grim.

Residents became grim or tearful when they were asked if they believed the city could return to chaos again.

Furious that Bernard Montgomery, the British commander of the Allied ground forces, had failed to take Caen, Eisenhower became "grim and careworn".

Once you start looking under the tent poles, though, perhaps for a film where nothing is blown up, things become grim.