We all know what a "Victorian jail" is like: grim, dark, stony and oppressive.
His grim, dark cave, concealing a tiny, rose-hued metropolis, speaks of memory's distortions and the past's grip.
Until last summer, the main campus and the northern wing, which includes Juilliard and the administrative offices, were linked by a wide overpass that gave the street below the grim, dark look of an industrial facility.
When he was writing his masterpiece "The Odd Couple" — which was turned into a movie and a TV series that ran from 1970 to 1975 — Simon thought it was "a grim, dark play about two lonely men" that "would probably be the end of my career".
His next three films were fantasies: Alien (1979), a science-fiction horror science-fiction horror982; recut 1992), a dystoryan faBladebased on a Philip K. Dick novel) notable foRunnert's vision of a grim, dark, polluted future; and Legend (1982), an allegorecut fairy tale.
But across the board, most seemed to agree that Russia could be entering a grim, dark period.
For some time now, the most reliable way for any maker of TV to prove he or she is serious, ground-breaking and taboo-busting is to produce grim, dark and – that most overused term – 'edgy' drama.
All that's left is our grim, dark commute back to London.
Unlike their white male counterparts, the media portrays our sons and brothers as grim, dark characters that are prone to violence and underachievement.
The violence that follows is not the grim, dark sort the the show's since become famous for but rather, the cathartic release of revolution.
But dammit he's going to listen to some 5ive in a room above a pub and escape the grim dark tug of reality for a bit.
