Sentence examples for grim memories from inspiring English sources

Even before last summer, many Long Islanders had grim memories of blackouts that were not pretend.

It is a name which recalls grim memories for New England fans.

In its lesser moments, the singing here evokes grim memories of the portentous movie version of Les Misérables.

For now, at least, with tens of thousands still without power and millions of others harboring grim memories, a chimpanzee could sell generators by the truckload.

Antigovernment protests are extremely uncommon in Syria, where grim memories are vivid of thousands of Islamic militants mowed down by government troops in the early 1980's.

Both June and Hector, we learn, are haunted by their grim memories of the Korean War, and also by their love for Sylvie, in whose awful death both played a part.

At a former courthouse used by the KGB and Gestapo as prison, torture chamber, interrogation centre and execution cell, the grim memory of the Soviet Union has been preserved, as memorial and warning.

The auto industry's near-collapse of 2009 is now a grim memory.

Acne is a condition banished to the back of most people's minds - a grim memory of their teenage years.

"Years after the horrors they had endured were still a grim memory," Collier writes of the women the Japanese forced to serve in World War II brothels, "many of the women recalled that the most degrading job at the comfort stations was that of cleaning the condoms at the end of the day".

I have a grim memory myself of arriving at the Bordeaux home of my French pen-pal aged 11, in a neat red dress my mother had made me, and Dominique's grandmother pronouncing tartly: "Elle n'a pas honte" - roughly translated, "She's a shameless hussy".