Sentence examples for grim life from inspiring English sources

It was a grim life, grimmer still because it was the only choice open to many.

"I am under no illusions about how grim life was below stairs back then".

In China, meanwhile, Shou-Kung, an electrical engineer, had a grim life working at the television factory.

I'm told they can be tricky to shoot: they run up trees, hang on for grim life.

There is a wonderful windmill sequence that has everyone hanging on for grim life but never quite falling off.

But we are bearing witness to the difference that Lendl made and the mistake that Murray made in not holding on to his services for grim life.

He views the outside world through the tiny porthole of his grim, gruesome life experiences.

In this vision, a job may provide a kind of grim life-boat camaraderie, along with a paycheck, but the work itself is meaningless unto mendacious: a metaphor for the lies and illusions that underlie our economy, if not our civilization.

And Mr. Kantor was eventually herded into a cattle truck and transported to a much grimmer life in Auschwitz.

The Grims' life in Woodside, Queens, was unpoetic to a fault, dominated by their lodger, Henry Fool Thomas Jay Ryann), a charismatic brute savant who eventually married Fay and fathered her only child, Ned (Liam Aiken).

How grim can life be?" Kaliada recalls the terror of prison, deprived of water and sleep, ordered to face a wall and remain still or be beaten up.