Sentence examples for grim object from inspiring English sources

Even as Darfur bleeds, Iraq has become a grim object lesson in the dangers of foreign adventures.

And then there is the way he manages to make these otherwise grim objects seem airy, intimate, almost cozy.

Or perhaps this is Alden's point: the women barely matter here at all except, grim thought, as objects of men's desire.

This fairy tale, based on a West African legend, sends its indomitable little-boy hero with a ridge of sculptured hair atop his head on his way to outwit the evil sorceress Karaba and her minions: grim, obedient fetish objects and a thirsty beast that consumes all the water in sight.

His idol was the splendor and workmanship of medieval decorative arts, which he saw as an antidote to the soulnessness and grim functionality of modern industrial age objects.

The epic ends with the return of the spirit of Enkidu, who promises to recover the objects and then gives a grim report on the underworld.

Thousands of residents from the top of the state to its celebrated Central Coast repeated the grim ritual of leaving homes and securing precious objects from ferocious blazes.

Grim Fandango mixed static pre-rendered background images with 3D characters and objects.

Set in a grim tract house in North Hollywood, the film chronicles the process by which people become attached to objects and begin to prefer them to people.

But several of the objects are less interesting for their beauty than as documents of what must have been a fairly grim reality.

Perhaps Mr. McVicar simply wanted to suggest a disturbing underside to Tito's magnanimity, but the sight of this grim object eviscerated the opera's uplifting final moments.