Sentence examples for grim glimpse from inspiring English sources

Their current problems provide a grim glimpse of the future.

If anti-Trump forces here don't address persistent voter disgust with the status quo, the Eastern European example offers a grim glimpse of a possible American future as right-wing libertarians, intolerant nationalists, and alt-right extremists secure their lock on the policy apparatus.

Yet as a whole, Bridgeport is no longer really deserving of its unfavorable image — despite the grim glimpses one might get in passing from Interstate 95.

The castle narrative, in which Keith lusts and schemes baroquely (while reading and pornographically reinterpreting a pile of classic English novels), is periodically interrupted by grim glimpses of Keith's angry, despairing future.

Nicholas Kristof's February 28 Column, provocatively titled "A Genocide Foretold", ventured to predict an impending massacre that would befall the Southern Sudanese, a genocide, as he glimpsed the grim future, perpetrated by the Government.

They stand in a single row, just to the right of the reception building, and provide visitors with a glimpse of the grim conditions of camp life.

I told him I had had a bad meal, taken a walk, seen a museum and generally gotten an unedited glimpse of the grim and threadbare life of East Germany.

I've seen French doors with frosted glass and sparkling stained-glass windows that bring in light but not glimpses of the grim interior courtyard.

"I said, 'You're really good at your job,' and he said, 'No, Amanda, it doesn't work like that, it's how lucky you are.'" Neither was out to knock the military – they both said several times how proud they were of what their men did – but glimpses of how grim the soldiers' lot can be came through.

Drunk videos, especially drunk-shaming videos and the grim "Intervention" addiction clips, sometimes give glimpses of true sickness.

Then, once the game with the Colorado Rockies began, Eduardo Nunez — the youngest current Yankee — provided a glimpse into the sometimes-grim, sometimes-glorious existence that is a franchise's future.