Sentence examples for grim effects from inspiring English sources

Given its grim effects, it would seem foolish and deeply reprehensible to base an entire musical sub-genre around cocaine.

On Saturday afternoon, the former Energy and Climate Change Secretary – and much-tipped Labour leadership contender – Ed Miliband delivers one of this year's big eco-hits: a video-link conversation with the president of the Maldives, the cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean that's already dealing with the grim effects of an overheating planet.

The exorbitant prices of most tickets has many grim effects, such as preventing the vast majority of the population from considering going to a match – including virtually an entire generation of young people – and rendering the atmosphere in most grounds dull or excessively angry.

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.

They meet again, to grim effect, in pictures by the famous Felice Beato.

But not this time: suddenly, I was about six years old, the 1970s were in full grim effect, and - even though it was mid-August - it was Christmas.

Matt Damon plays a former medium (whose visions resulted from a near-death experience) who has retired from the field due to the grim effect of his trade on his inner life: he found that the dead were taking over his life.

One grim effect of these drills and procedures, though, is to normalize the threat of an act so heinous, so abnormal it's hard to take in.

Triplets have even higher rates of prematurity, enduring sometimes grim side effects.

It also found that violence against one journalist has grim, ripple effects, leading to vast self-censorship.

The problem is in the architecture – compromised in a different way to Broadcasting House, this time a typically 21st century fudge between coherence and variety combined with the grim architectural effects of ruthless cost-cutting – and the planning.