The latest in the series, Waves 2015 was produced days after the grim attacks on Parisian bars, restaurants, and the Bataclan that happened last November.
The early 2000s were grim: terrorist attacks in America, a global outbreak of SARS and the war in Iraq all tempered people's appetites for international travel and frivolous purchases.
The Grim Sleeper attacks failed to raise alarms the way other famous serial killers such as the Hillside Strangler or the Nightstalker did.
I suspect Cameron felt impelled to authorise the Reaper (as in Grim Reaper?) drone attack from RAF Waddington in distant Lincolnshire (or from the even more distant US airbase at Creech in Nevada, where UK crews also operate) because any failure to prevent a terrorist attack of which the intelligence services had prior knowledge might have finished his career.
Indeed, most school officials did little to halt the grim parade of attacks and indignities foisted upon Daniel.
The Ottoman sultan Selim I (the Grim) responded by attacking the reinforced Mamlūk army in Syria, probably as a preliminary step in a new campaign against the Ṣafavids.
The attack, a grim reminder of the dangers militants pose to their opponents, comes just months ahead of national elections, expected to be held in the spring.
When First Lt. James Brown and his team of bomb investigators arrived at the shredded remains of the truck, the grim significance of the attack became clear.
"The Life Aquatic" begins at a première, where a Jacques Cousteau-like filmmaker named Steve Zissou Bill Murrayy) presents his latest documentary — a grim piece showing the attack, by a "jaguar shark," that left his best friend dead — to a dubious audience.
He received distressing updates from a client, the Hawaiian Telephone Company, and then, in grim recognition that the attack meant war with Japan, he said, "I came home to my family".
