Sentence examples for grim and remote from inspiring English sources

It is an old, fenced house tucked into a grim and remote corner of the city.

Near Sandaoling, a grim and remote mining town on the edge of Xinjiang, the new line runs close to the world's largest concentration of steam locomotives in active service.

Near Sandaoling, a grim and remote mining town on the edge of Xinjiang, the new line runs close to the world's largest concentration of steam locomotives in active service.In this section Two weddings, two funerals, no fridge Rarer than pandas Creative destruction ReprintsThe Sandaoling mine, which opened in 1970, is on a branch of the old railway line between Lanzhou and Urumqi.

On a recent afternoon, she sat at a metal table in the empty cafeteria and talked about the events that led her to that place -- so grim and remote that most of its 1,100 female inmates, who are from New York City, call it Far Beyond.

"Too grim and too remote, too Gothick" to attract the curious traveler, Scroop is inhabited by a widower named Davenant, his spectral, moon-faced daughter, Evie, and various predatory hangers-on, flitting ghostlike among the "livid and arsenical" shrubbery.

A team of Indian geologists and remote sensing experts published the alarming news this week--a grim warning that if the trend continues, it could jeopardize the fresh water supply of more than 500 million people in India.

"Unless the international community takes immediate action to provide major emergency aid and support, the country risks turning into what until now has remained only a grim, but remote possibility — a failed state with nuclear weapons".

Someplace both quiet and remote.

The surroundings are wooded and remote.

Neighbors found her sulky and remote.

Picasso, a god, was ancient and remote.