Sentence examples for grim forces from inspiring English sources

Torre looked great last spring — 5 or 10 years younger, when I saw him in Florida — like a guy who could breathe again, away from the grim forces of the Steinbrenners.

The Modernist has a defiantly international approach, but at heart it remains the work of a city-specific group of individuals who stick two fingers up at the grim forces of urban regeneration.

Pummelling and bleak, this testament to the spirit of survival still carries a grim force.

(Theories credit everything from bright new waves of immigrants to grim forced marches of incarceration, and the sociologists can't decide which is right).

The simple fable of the Lorax and the Once-ler is wrapped in gaudy, familiar business and festooned with grim, forced cheer.

She collars the reader, however, with a zigzag rendering of events that reveals information in cryptic half bits, only to deliver the full news later in all its grim force.

But the idea of a hero turning out to be the offspring of the most inconceivable evil, an immensely grim force that dominates out of pride, did not begin with George Lucas.

As the piece progressed, it seemed to inevitably accumulate more and more grim force.

If that day ever came, it would provoke a grim reckoning, forcing Brooke to rethink — provided he was still capable of thinking — whether this is a life worth holding onto.

With irony and grim analogy, it forces us to confront our own disavowed capacities for viciousness, hatred and harmful acts.

"Not a forced, grim, tense order — just life.