Sentence examples for grim idea from inspiring English sources

But he also seems sentimentally attached to the grim idea that life has no answers.

But it also suggests the grim idea that the performance artist, liberated from Soviet state control, may be carrying his own culture's atavistic wish for order and repression.

Matt Fowler of IGN, in a review of the My Two Favorite People DVD, noted that while "the idea of a walking, talking heart named Ricardio who plans to cut out Princess Bubblegum's heart is potent nightmare fuel", the show nevertheless "finds a way to make that grim idea accessible and fun".

Back then, a Canadian coal company, Grande Cache, was bought by Asian interests for C$1 billion; last week, a controlling share was sold for just C$2.That grim background makes the idea of an LNG bonanza more attractive, but not necessarily easier.

Grim as this particular idea may be – and it comes after foreigners were banned from visiting Tibet, following months of protests and a series of self-immolations – the notion of "model villages" is an old one.

There were fewer supernatural overtones and ghost-train jump-scares, but the second series reinforced the idea of grim history repeating, that Whitechapel might be some sort of infernal echo chamber for sins of the past.

If we loosen our grim clutch on purist ideas of originality, we may actually locate more clearly what kinds of copying do in fact offend and how we might deal with them.

His father, a fine and original clown himself, was a monster Dickens would have been proud to have invented, a savage brute (known as the Signor, but more generally referred to as Grim-All-Day) whose idea of training children for the theatre was to put them in the stocks or suspend them in a cage 40ft above the stage.

(A thought that one could see crossing the mind of the grim Bill Belichick the other day, though the idea of Belichick being even grimmer in defeat than he is in victory is itself so grim that it hardly bears thinking of).

Which was not to say that Holland hadn't enjoyed the idea of playing Grim Reaper to the Group of Death.

There's a combination of reasons for this such as concerns over solicitors' fees, ridiculous and unnecessary legalese used in will documents and just the sheer distaste many feel at the idea of the grim reaper.