Sentence examples for grim emphasis from inspiring English sources

The job, she said, with grim emphasis, was, "my life's work".

The graveyard, with its grim emphasis on numbers, calls to mind the thousands of lives lost recently in the World Trade Center.

It's a return of the Grimm fairy tale approach to life with an emphasis on the grim".

Perhaps Warchus's emphasis on the drama — and a grim drama it is — robs the musical of some needed show-biz soul.

So Obama reached for both candor and can-do, blending the kind of grim honesty that has become his trademark since taking office with a greater emphasis on optimism.

The emphasis on works is a Protestant standby, but in this case it is without the grim Calvinist suspicion that maybe the works won't get you to Heaven.

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