Sentence examples for grim matter from inspiring English sources

Black on white, it suggests some grim matter.

So in this grim matter, as in the matter of Howard Hughes, we were beguiled by secrecy & its twin, publicity.

Yet, despite its grim subject matter, Peace is a book of immense energy, tenderness and beauty.

Despite grim subject matter, Keyes is funny with a fine line in unsentimental humour.

The fierce competition this year, and perhaps its grim subject matter, makes "Amour" something of a long shot as best picture.

Despite the grim subject matter, the colorful, whimsical works are suited to, and originally intended for, children as young as 6, she said.

Ross Raisin would seem to fit the bill: his novel God's Own Country has the authentically gritty language and grim subject matter.

The eerie, meticulous beats — by Juicy J (his brother) and DJ Paul, both of Three 6 Mafia — cleverly echo Project Pat's dichotomous approach: grim subject matter, whimsical delivery.

While Copland had dealt with grim subject matter before, the sexual violence depicted in "Something Wild" prompted him to depart from the soaring populism he so famously nurtured and revisit the hard-edge modernism of his early concert work.

The grim subject matter — I.R.A. hunger strikers in a British-run prison in the 1980s — and Mr. McQueen's unsparing, rigorous approach to the depiction of bodily extremity guaranteed that the audience would be small, serious and self-selected.

Lyrically it is characteristically pithy, while musically it's upbeat and almost cartoonish; juxtaposed against the grim subject matter, it makes it all the more a blackly humorous caper.