Sentence examples for grim and distant from inspiring English sources

In a grim and distant future, teenagers fight to the death on live TV.

The dark tone and distant key of the very first sonata (in F minor) belongs more in temperament to the grim dramas of Beethoven's middle period (the "Waldstein," the "Appassionata") or even to the late-early "Pathétique".

For Stephen Underberg, a retired retailer living in Hastings-on-Hudson, the devastation of Hurricane Mitch, in which at least 11,000 Central Americans lost their lives in mudslides and floods, was grim, but distant.

It left a Catholic church rather too closely tied to the state for an increasingly secular country with a grim, if distant, history of religious persecution.

Sullen and distant.

Service was vague and distant.

And distant strangers matter still less.

I feel at once serene and distant.

She is tender and distant at once.

It's not cold and distant.

He was morose and distant.