The movie is most impressive in its re-creation of the metal subworld of Zion — caverns and corridors in grim blue and black, and as cold and wet as a New York subway tunnel in winter.
On Perrotin's lower level, Ms. Pivi — for whom excess is a frequent theme — is showing "Money machine (true blue, baby I love you)," a big, grim blue metal cube that regularly disgorges a few coins or $1 bills from one of three slots.
Less screen time for Lannisters, eunuchs, and armored heroines, more screen time for neon-eyed C.G.I. snarlers, staggering toward us in a grim blue-gray snow.
The situation looked grim for the Blues early, when Geelong bounced out to a 27-point lead with just 20 minutes played, but they were at least able to muster some sort of challenge to remain within striking distance 34 points in arrears at halftime.
It was Mr. Zimmerman's first moment in court, and he looked wide-eyed and grim in a one-piece blue-gray prison uniform, a couple of day's growth on his face.
The strange grim day wore on into the blue-and-white flashing night, with the apparent and blessedly peaceful and rightly well-applauded surrender of a more or less intact Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The general nature of the film is clear and similar in both: Spielberg has slathered the story – set largely in grim US CIA offices and even grimmer communist East Berlin – with "serious" steely greys and icy blues.
The first month of the season was grim for the Blue Jays, who were 10-21 through May 4. At that point, the only teams with worse records were the Houston Astros and the Miami Marlins, who are both rebuilding.
When I arrive at the prefabricated briefing room in the office compound, the faces arrayed around the table are grim under a bright blue United Nations flag.
He fleshed out a liturgical cadence on "Who by Fire," sounding grim; on "Famous Blue Raincoat," an encore, he struck a complicated but familiar chord of contempt, compassion and self-pity.
"The situation is fairly grim," said Jack Nerad, an executive market analyst at Kelley Blue Book, in a telephone interview Thursday.
