Sentence examples for grim one from inspiring English sources
The good news: we are called on to embark on a joyous enterprise, not a grim one; only the situation is grim.
Far from being a champion, Russia's record on human rights violations is a grim one.
For students spending an average £8,000 a year in tuition fees, the prospect of ending up in bar work or on a factory floor is a grim one – but by no means remote.
But the prospect of the provision of affordable housing being reduced, through a misguided "you know best" green light for local authorities, is a grim one – not only for the 354,389 households on local authorities' housing waiting lists, but also when it comes to us ever achieving true sustainability, that precarious holy grail of environmental, social and economic harmony.
"It's pretty grim," one Western diplomat said.
The future that employee agents were supposed to prepare for was a grim one.
It opened on Saturday night in the McCarter Theater Center at Princeton University, paired with another grim one-act opera, Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle".
David Stubbs Robert Webb and Victoria Hamilton play warring divorcees in this superbly performed, spectacularly grim one-off from former Simpsons writer Julie Thacker-Scully.
Anna Golici has made an uncomfortable bench from a tree, facing not the water but Nicolae Golici's grim one-liner: a small house wrapped in plastic and duct tape.
Ten years ago, in "The Tormented President," Robert E. Gilbert, a political-science professor at Northeastern University, made a grim, one-sided case for Coolidge's having been, during the four years after his son's death, "a disabled chief executive" whose long naps must be seen not as endearingly Reaganesque but as a depressive manifestation of hypersomnia.
"Il Prigioniero," Luigi Dallapiccola's rarely heard one-act opera, first performed in 1950, is presented by the adventurous Opera Festival of New Jersey at Princeton University's McCarter Theater Center, paired with an equally grim one-act work, Bartok's more familiar "Bluebeard's Castle".
