Mr Mak tells this part of his story vividly and in great, gory detail, moving from grim fields of battle (Verdun, Stalingrad) to stirring places of revolution (Petrograd, Berlin), and on to ghastly charnel-houses of death and destruction (Auschwitz, Dresden).Through the book runs one powerful common strand: nationalism and the end of Europe's multi-ethnic way of life.
Dylan, casualty of a train crash between Glasgow and Aberdeen, finds death a minor inconvenience compared with the grim school-field-trip sensations of the journey to the underworld that follows.
The white space surrounding every grim command is the field of action where those mandates play out.
Police have not yet given a concrete motive, but the massacre already serves as a grim marker for the field of journalism.
He spent the first half of his penultimate day in the field with a grim face as Warner made hay with quick runs needed in the second innings, his favourite match situation, as England's bowlers will ruefully confirm.
According to the New York Daily News, Grim LeRogue ran onto the field and was tackled by police before he could reach the star third baseman.
An estimated 12,000 scientists, medical workers, advocates and policymakers are traveling to the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia — a "mega event" for their field — amid the grim news that dozens of their colleagues, including a top researcher, were killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine.
But field notes reflected a grim reality.
Earlier, sitting in the modest bleachers at Carver's practice field, Faulk tempered the grim surroundings with his favorite high school story.
For the Yankees, the linescore that stretches above three sections of the left-field bleachers told a grim tale.
