Sentence examples for grim context from inspiring English sources

In that grim context, to be a game away from Wembley is the stuff of dreams.

It is a grim context for a return to civility, but an encouraging sign of potential coöperation as Japan pursues its rescue and recovery efforts.

The self-knowledge they gain adds a grim context to the narration, which becomes both more detached and more informative as a result of its distanced quality.

Mr. Kander and Mr. Ebb have written a zesty if not top-tier score, but the pleasures of a jaunty ragtime melody and a clever lyric are hard to savor when they are presented in such an unavoidably grim context.

The grim context of the play is lightened by comic moments involving a prostitute and a permanently hungry hotel manager, with the humour generated by the pidgin English with which Hemingway patronisingly renders their Spanish.

And in a jolting cutaway, we glimpse the martinet Kerry in the shower, her glowing face blasted by water, singing "Rescue Me" -- a hint of her growing crush on a coworker, and in this grim context, a startling glimmer of hope.

Another is by re-creating the grim physical context in specific detail.

She collected those photos, as well as her own of the colourful murals set in their grim institutional contexts, for her book Prison Landscapes.

Our bloody past does not foretell an inevitably bloody future, and violent behaviors that make grim sense in one context can become maladaptive in another.

Zane's novels and short stories about women's sexual gamesmanship are sometimes set in a context of grim social realities.

If it had done so, it would have discovered, among other grim details, the disturbing context in which its Namibian remains were collected.