Sentence examples for grim hard from inspiring English sources

They had come hoping for some of that old Obama magic — and what he gave them instead was a promise of the grim hard slog ahead.

It's brutal in its particulars, with dreary streets, bleak houses, stray and (maddeningly) barking dogs and the grim, hard faces of men and women wearing masks bequeathed to them by Ceausescu.

There are no opportunities for education or employment, and the upper-caste families in the neighboring village routinely coopt government provisions meant to alleviate the grim, hard lives of Amni's lower-caste Dalit families.

Despite its showcasing of the grim, hard work of single mothering, "16 and Pregnant" seems calculated, above all, to incite viewers of "The Hills" to working-class voyeurism, given how many clichés of lower-income Middle American life are exploited.

"In Northern England it was quite grim, quite hard," said Mr. Morrissey, who grew up in Liverpool in the '70s.

They have succeeded not through verve and skill but grim, unflashy hard work, which their fans seem to prefer.So the ideal of Englishness embodied in the team mirrors the idea of leadership that Mr Brown has tried to promote.

The light in the North is grim and hard, compared with London's sunshine, and the existences of Tom's brother, Ronnie David Bradleyy), and his family are bleak and circumscribed.

Life is grim and hard on this beautiful but impoverished island.

It's a hard, grim, challenging game, which takes the same cultural references as Grand Theft Auto but treats them in a very different way.

Shaw "overemphasises Courage's swaggering energy and resilience," complains Benedict Nightingale in the former, "and underplays what's hard, grim, voracious and weather-beaten".

"Through the black-and-white photos of the era's great documentarians, we often see places like this as grim reminders of hard times or of pending change," Professor Sandweiss said.