The rush of emotion in this expectation took her by surprise: most of her feelings, over these past months, had been muted, as if she were persisting through grim effort.
The announcement represented an end to a grim effort to find a place to bury the bombing suspect, who was shot by the police and run over by his brother, Dzhokhar, after the two tried to elude the authorities during a chase that began April 18.
The grim efforts to reach the men illustrate the difficult calculus behind any submarine rescue mission.
Kane's grim efforts to sort out his past form the backbone of this movie, which with a few thrills might have qualified as a thriller.
Jonathan Wolken's "Memento Mori" is a ghastly effort at a different kind of symbiosis: the grim comedy of loveless male-female partnership or marriage.
Already, the story of the men of the mine, known as San José, has defied the death tolls and scenes of grief-stricken relatives and grim recovery efforts that often follow mine accidents.
Rebuild we should, as soon as the grim recovery efforts have ended.
Reports of the status of Tanzanian fisheries and the coral reefs in general are grim, because fishing effort has doubled in less than 20 years [25], and destructive methods (e.g., dynamite) are commonplace [26].
Rhys's biography is grim, despite the efforts of Pizzichini, a British author, to be sympathetic.
He's retroactively investing the modern world with the spirit of unquestioned and selfless struggle, ripping the floorboards off the ostensibly peaceful daily life of today's Canada and Great Britain (and, by implication, the United States of Hollywood) to reveal its foundation in the grim and dangerous efforts undertaken, unquestioningly and unflinchingly, in the Second World War.
While the nation hangs on stories of remarkable rescues by the more than 140,000 relief and medical workers involved in the effort, the grim realities of the enormous devastation that has destroyed this region are settling in.
