Sentence examples for during the grim from inspiring English sources

"A Civil War Christmas," Paula Vogel's play with music, is set during the grim holiday season of 1864.

Founded in 1948 during the grim postwar era, the National Health Service is essential to Britain's identity.

Despite his dour professorial manner and absence from politics since his premiership during the grim years of the Iran-Iraq war, he has rallied powerful support with calls for wider freedoms, economic pragmatism and reduced tension with the outside world.

IT WAS one of many price controls brought in during the grim, panicky period between the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 and America's move to a full wartime economy in 1943.

In 2010, Lula referred to his country's "historic debt" to the continent; more than 10 times as many African slaves were brought to Brazil than to the United States during the grim decades of that transatlantic trade.

During the blithe bits of Mozart's Mass, Mr. Rioult has his dancers walk, fall, turn and jump around, crudely but ah, so blithely; during the grim bits, he has them fall and writhe, crudely but ah, so grimly.

Investigators are reviewing dozens of other unsolved murder cases, many from the long period during which the Grim Sleeper was apparently inactive, for indications that Franklin was the killer.

A steady parade of firefighters, police officers and construction workers trooped into the town house at 308 East 50th Street to gape during breaks from the grim work across the street, where rubble was being cleared from the site of a similar town house that had been flattened as it took the full force of the falling crane.

In the mid-nineties, Annan served as head of the U.N. Peacekeeping department for nearly four years, during which he oversaw the grim withdrawal of the U.N.'s force from Somalia, and the catastrophic failures of its missions in Bosnia and Rwanda.

And at historic St . Pauls Chapel in Lower Manhattan, a block from ground zero, parishioners at sunrise services were joined by police officers, firefighters and other workers in dusty boots who had found sanctuary there during the long, grim shifts at the disaster site.

"That's not going to happen," he said at different points during the evening, shrugging off the grim prognoses, according to multiple officials briefed on the conversation.