Sentence examples for grim acceptance from inspiring English sources

Grim acceptance of the inevitable set in early.

The mayor faced these realities with grim acceptance and grace.

Wins, remember, were greeted with grim acceptance rather than happy exuberance during the general's joyless junta.

There is a grim acceptance among Western expatriates and visitors here that they will be felled by it — often on multiple occasions.

It also reflected the grim acceptance among submariners that if a serious accident occurred in hostile waters, they probably were not coming back.

The vanquished, Kenny Perry, a 48-year-old whose life is filled with everything but a major championship, wore a look of grim acceptance.

Mr. Tan's has the soloist imitating the reiterations and glissandos characteristic of the Chinese lute, or pipa, and is fascinating in discovering a musical territory where Spain and China are near neighbors: a territory not only of shared melodic, harmonic and rhythmic features but also of a grim, resolved acceptance and ritualization of death.

Kezia Dugdale, leader of Scottish Labour, has said she will not resign, and there is finally a grim-faced acceptance by party veterans that this failure is larger and more comprehensive than anything that can be remedied by a mere change of leadership.

They lack your grim sense of acceptance, I suppose.

But the announcement on Saturday by the Supreme Court confirming Uhuru Kenyatta's election as president, and Raila Odinga's grim-faced but graceful acceptance of defeat mean that ever-entrepreneurial Kenyans can finally get back to making money.

Instead there were grim nods and grunts of acceptance.