Sentence examples for grim air from inspiring English sources

The grim air of Beijing is the most obvious sign of societal mismanagement.

Most of the horrors of New York's environmental past, they say, like the grim air episodes in 1953, 1962 and 1966, were chronic and cumulative.

But there will be a grim air at the start on Sunday.

Rather, he exhibits the grim, perplexed air of a man trying to work out why his team have now adopted a similar Jekyll and Hyde routine in the way they play football.

To an outsider, the program can have a grim, 1930s air, with its canned stories of anonymous triumph and countless slogans: "One day at a time" and "stinkin' thinkin'".

Sucking in London's grim, dirty air is an inevitable part of living in the city.

And he eventually chases Gorillaz off the side of a cliff, looking down with an air of grim satisfaction as the car, already sunk from view, presumably sinks to whichever large body of water can be found at the outer reach of this particular desert.

But the merriment here is countered by a smaller image (1977) of the playland as a hellhole, with a grisly clown holding grotesque masks; rockets and an enemy plane in the air; grim men on horseback rushing off in the foreground; and amusement rides like Wonder Wheel seen as sardonic mockeries.

He clambered over concrete rubble and the bodies of Iraqi soldiers, the grim results of air and artillery strikes that led up to today's raid.

Last month, the city of Harbin was effectively shut down as air pollution levels beat the grim records set earlier this year in Beijing.

Eric and Pam, meanwhile, are watching this grim scene with an air of detached amusement.