Sentence examples for grim exercise from inspiring English sources

The whole grim exercise is a disaster".

Two rows of cages were being used as a grim exercise yard for segregated inmates and the practice of 'slopping out' effectively continued on the vulnerable wing at night, it said.

Two rows of individual "bleak cages" are being used as a grim exercise yard for segregated inmates at one of the UK's top security jails, the chief inspector of prisons has disclosed.

But he says many prisoners on the vulnerable prisoner wings said they did not feel safe and prisoners on suicide watch were often held in the segregation unit, which had a limited regime, staff who often appeared uninterested, and a grim "exercise yard".

This "Miami Vice" is a grim genre exercise — fascinating, certainly, and impressive at times, but only intermittently enjoyable.

Two years before coming to the city, she was gang-raped in her hometown, and about 10 minutes into Takashi Ishii's grim minimalist exercise in sex and brutality, one of her attackers shows up at her door.

Viewed today, exactly 20 years later, as an exercise in grim foreboding it is hard to imagine how Alfred Hitchcock might have done it better.

There have been two Thomas Hardy adaptations ("Jude" and "The Claim"), an exercise in grim British realism ("Wonderland"), a Balkan war movie ("Welcome to Sarajevo") and, last summer, a gaudy chronicle of the Manchester rave scene ("24 Hour Party People").

The Ummayads exercised both grim brutality and demanded fierce unity; they created a culture of extraordinary devotional architecture and relentless expansionism.

Ditch the workout, start world peace For some of us, exercise is a grim necessity.

Another endless stack of pages, pink ones by Bruce Nauman based on a 1974 concept, offers grim, typewritten instructions for an exercise that consists of pressing your body against a wall.