Sentence examples for grim damage from inspiring English sources

The consequences can be grim: damage to young brains, a reduced capacity to learn, even death.Yet helping children requires more than a supply of base calories.

The hardened, suffering speakers in her recent fine story collection, Taking Pictures, use this tone; the grim damage of her Booker-winning The Gathering is energised by all that darkly comic unflinchingness.

Abedin isn't much for begging donors for money, but she likes the game of optics, telling the campaign spokeswoman, Barbara Morgan, to put on a cheerful face for reporters when she walks out of a grim damage-control meeting.

Next week, diplomats from around the world will gather in Geneva to negotiate a treaty on global emissions of mercury – a lethal neurotoxin that includes, among an inventory of grim effects, brain damage and the loss of IQ points in unborn children, injuries to kidneys and heart, and results in tens of billions of dollars in healthcare costs every year in the US alone.

The movie is a grim diptych of damaged daughter and destructive mother that is vivified only by the transcendent performances.

While no fatalities were reported – one man reportedly died from a heart attack that was possibility related to the shock – locals were on Thursday carrying out a grim assessment of major damage to homes and churches in towns across Marche and parts of Umbria.

The government's estimates of the damage are equally grim.

Gary Crowe, the owner of Custom Framing, looked grim as he surveyed the damage.

I spent a couple of weeks in a dizzy haze as my medication kicked in and, by the time it cleared, I saw the grim reality of the collateral damage my state of mind had caused.

The outlook for the storm's long-term damage is very grim, Abner Gómez Cortés, the island's emergency management director, said at a Wednesday press conference. .

Hated makes for a grim portrait of a man damaged on many levels, whose one "asset" was his kamikaze approach to life, art and morality.