As he sat at his desk late in the day, clicking through the high-resolution reconnaissance photographs stored on his computer, the general, who is ascetic, even grim, focused on a different slice of West Bank geography.
The new report brings this picture into a sharper, grimmer focus.
He looked grim and focused as he did his homework, even with a television murmuring barely a foot away.
The first series was grim but focused less on the nastiness (most of which was off-screen) and more on the juggle between female strength and struggle.
Keith Bristow Bodicote, Oxfordshire If anyone in Chalfont St Giles wants help in organising a hunger march to the north east, please get in touch ('It's grim down south', Focus, last week).
It may be that the best way to get a deal is not to traipse through the best five-star hotels in Europe, but to sit negotiators down in boring, even grim, surroundings to focus their attention.
As I crane my neck for the facilities, I see a half dozen other guys, sprung-shot from their motor coaches, faces locked in that same grim, single-minded focus that makes the fact that you're about to enter the site of one of the worst crimes against humanity ever secondary to hoping you don't wet yourself before you get in. .
With a new government and a referendum on legalising the personal use of marijuana to take place before or with the next election, one reaction to the latest grim toll has focused on whether legalising cannabis is the answer.
He approaches the scene as though it is a kind of theater, constructing a stage and casting characters in a grim play, seeking to "focus on the issues that are serious for the country and for its people.
It is, however, a useful way of framing matters for those in the Pentagon and the military who don't want to think seriously about the grim course of action, focused significantly on civilian populations, they are pursuing, which often instills anger and the urge for revenge in such populations and so, in the end, runs at cross purposes to stated U.S. aims.
