Sentence examples for grim impasse from inspiring English sources

Going through the British political archives, what got us to this grim impasse becomes clear.

In November 2007, after 15 years of voraciously eating his way around the globe, including a four-year stint as New York magazine's Underground Gourmet, Mr. Kaminsky found himself at a grim impasse.

The movie starts with a wounded retired general, the Marquis de Montriveau, declaring his love to a nun — the duchess of the title — through a latticework of iron bars, and continues as a flashback to the entanglements that led to that grim impasse.

SHANGHAI -- However grim Washington's debt and deficit negotiations may seem to Americans, the impasse is nearly as disturbing for China.

In his place is Vladimir V. Putin, the grim former K.G.B. colonel whose return to the Kremlin has ushered in a frostier relationship freighted by an impasse over Syria and complicated by fractious domestic politics in both countries.

There was an impasse.

That impasse continues.

Result: impasse.

A tragic impasse results.

Karim described an impasse.

The political impasse continued.