Sentence examples for grim affairs from inspiring English sources

Protests in Syria against Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship were far from grim affairs.

Not caring much about food, they were pretty grim affairs, with minimal wine, and perhaps a vermouth before.

Because one was Clara's twin, her birthdays since have been grim affairs featuring presents, ostensibly from the departed children but actually bought by her mother, and a trip to the family mausoleum at Kensal Green cemetery.

Modern war movies tend to be heroic calls to patriotism (think Pete Berg and Michael Bay) or grim affairs mired in hopelessness (think any documentary about Iraq or Afghanistan).

Then our last gig in Birmingham was a grim affair.

But the real escape became a grim affair.

Yes, leaving yourself to the tender mercy of airport cuisine can be a grim affair.

For Hunt's part, there is only one aspect of this grim affair that offers him any solace.

How did an institution formerly thought to increase the measure of happiness in the world get a reputation for being such a grim affair?

If so, they might look particularly hard at the one move that dragged this grim affair into the public spotlight more than any other: the campaign to have scheduled speakers boycott the Oxford Union.

With less success, the singer Grant-Lee Phillips addresses the same decade in "nineteeneighties" (Zoë), a collection of covers that turns a sombre song like Joy Division's "The Eternal" into an equally grim affair, but with more harmonica.