Sentence examples for grim isolation from inspiring English sources

Also old-fashioned is the idea of building stadiums that stand in grim isolation on greenfield sites on the edge of town, divorced from the communities they are meant to serve - which the British have done over and again.

Alcatraz had a notoriously high suicide rate, and up in the hospital wing are two grim isolation cells for mental patients, with tiled walls and a food slot in the door.

The grim isolation blocks act as jails within jails, operating under the radar of the EU's "Human Rights Charter" that Spain are supposed to adhere to.

Instead, Hag-Seed leans into the elements of theatricality, imprisonment and deception within "The Tempest," telling the story of Felix, a once-ambitious artistic director who's been living in grim isolation since his righthand man stabbed him in the back and took over the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival in his place.

Deciding on New York state as their lawsuit lab, Wise locates a handful of primates as noteworthy plaintiffs, including a pair named Hercules and Leo, kept for research purposes at Stony Brook School of Medicine, and Tommy, an ex-showbiz chimp (from the 1987 Matthew Broderick movie "Project X") living in grim isolation in a makeshift cell with a television.

While many Russians are cheering him now, we doubt that they will be eager to return to the grim days of Soviet isolation.

In her grim years of imposed isolation, under house arrest in Rangoon, Aung San Suu Kyi may not have fully understood the extent to which she had become a global democratic symbol, long before the word viral took on its modern, digital meaning.

Two Australians on death row in Indonesia have completed the grim journey from Bali to isolation cells on Nusa Kambangan, the prison island where they are due to be executed along with eight other drug offenders at a time and date to be announced shortly.