Sentence examples for grim eye from inspiring English sources

The government agreed reluctantly to the mission and keeps a grim eye on it.

I go outside and stand in the cold, smoking a cigarette, under the grim eye of the Wehrmacht eagles watching from our World War II-era barracks.

Love… is immersed in fathoms of disco and synth-pop past, but with a grim eye on a parlous present of bankers' bonuses and tough times, in which our jilted, exiled lover rediscovers the radical pleasure of "drinking tea like Tony Benn".

Pessimistic companies tend to slog away "solving problems," always with a grim eye on retrieving sunk costs.

At Telluride fest, two films cast grim eye on Mideast.

The last of these institutions were shut down in 1996, and Peter Mullan's grim, eye-opening drama about them is well worth taping or staying up late for.

Mr. Littleton returned to his truck and clipped Mr. Borbon's mug shot — slicked-back hair, a salt-and-pepper moustache, grim eyes with dark circles underneath — onto his sun visor.

Losing bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror by Richard Miniter (Regnery, $27.95 chronicless in grim, eye-popping detail how the Clinton Administration mortally bungled our pre-9/11 efforts against global terrorism.