If the stations seemed, as people said, Dantesque, that was not simply because the subway was belowground, and a punishment, but also because it offered an architectural order that seemed to be free from any interfering human hand, running by itself in its own grim circles.
Normally, a new Brooklyn-based artist like him would trek around the Northeast in grim circles, visiting and revisiting cities like Boston and New York and Chicago in order to slowly build an audience — playing for 3 people the first time, then 10, then (if he got lucky) 50.
Mr. Littleton returned to his truck and clipped Mr. Borbon's mug shot — slicked-back hair, a salt-and-pepper moustache, grim eyes with dark circles underneath — onto his sun visor.
As we close in on the tunnel ("Alternate Merge," "Stay in Lane"), the dark thoughts start to circle again, my grim, reliable crows seeking a perch on my interior telephone lines.
The assassination, claimed by the Taliban, convulsed the country's political circles, serving as a grim reminder of the Taliban's lethal ability to strike their opponents.
Located in the Bowery, it exhibited a Grim Reaper riding a bumper car in circles to an elaborate light show, fog machine and Blue Öyster Cult's (Don't Fear) The Reaper.
It felt so profound, so mordant, that I didn't want to step outside the small circle of light to walk back to my grim motel room.
The reason for the concentration of the prime minister's mind on Helmand, despite unpalatable diversions like the economy and the Norwich North byelection, is a grim statistic now doing the rounds in military circles.
Turkish state media aired new footage Tuesday of a man believed to be the Islamic State gunman who killed 39 people at a nightclub, showing a grim selfie video of the suspect as he circles Istanbul's most famous square.
In the grim, rationed Britain of the early 1950s, Mr. Hamilton joined a circle of fellow artists, critics and architects at the Institute of Contemporary Arts to discuss the place of new technology, advertising and mass culture in modern art.
