In the grim green light of the basement hallway, he looked at his hands, as if he'd forgotten what was or wasn't on them.
Perhaps these are the people we should put on our posters, not the ones for tourists, but for regular folks in cities, so everyone notices the grim, green battle rolling out in the Indian wilderness.
After years of investing little money in physical improvements, the Stronach Group churned into action at Laurel Park, building two 150-stall barns on the backstretch, replacing bulky old televisions with 850 sleek flat screens, adding new bars and concession stands and painting over the grim institutional green that used to cover the walls.
They reek of sex and death, with many of the gaunt figures coloured a grim shade of green.
After driving through Atlanta traffic and paying for parking, the interns were greeted by grim faces instead of green slips of paper.
Although the opinion polls for both Fianna Fáil and the Greens make grim reading at present, there may be no way back for the smaller party in a real contest.
Many of the old buildings are pastel, rose, pale yellow, green, not the grim gray of its old reputation.
The Glare is what such golfers aim at you if you are in any way enjoying yourself or, especially, if you are holding up their own grim march to the 18th green.
That theme is as apparent in "Violent Saturday" as in Fleischer's matinee classic "The Vikings" (1958), the Gilded Age melodrama "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing" (1955) or even in his 1973 science fiction film "Soylent Green," with its grim vision of an end-times America.
Those of us who are rarely touched by its ebb and flow might feel its absence from the tax base in services reduced, in streets less clean, in parks less green, in a grimmer set to people's faces and perhaps in a diminishing graciousness.
The image that went viral was an innocuous little green pencil a grim-faced Russian president had snapped in two - a fitting symbol of fraying nerves and negotiations that came perilously close to collapse.
