Sentence examples for grim potential from inspiring English sources

But he also senses in them a love of dark prophecy — an attraction to the future's grim potential, to the amorality of futurity.

The film-makers shrink from the grim potential of their chosen topic: the seriousness with which it could have been handled is resolutely eschewed.

Another example of their grim potential was highlighted last week when doctors reported that a bagpipe player had died because deadly fungi had infected his pipes.

In her 2011 book about Twitter, The Independent's TV critic Grace Dent outlined a grim potential scenario where private information was made public.

The grim potential of the latter was hinted at by the vast field of debris that China's test left, posing a threat to any passing satellite or space ship.

Yet now we are coming to learn of its grim potential as a system of control, when abused by the NSA and others.

Its mushroom cloud remains a vivid symbol of Promethean hubris, of technology's grim and uncontrollable potential.

In the book's foreword, Mr. Gingrich calls the grim scenario a potential "future history" that should be "terrifying for all of us".

The aftermaths in both cases were grim: all Lenin's potential heirs were killed by Stalin, and the struggle after Stalin's death in 1953 was described by Winston Churchill as "bulldogs fighting under a rug".

After my presentation, Dr. Watanabe, a soft-spoken nuclear physicist, painted a grim picture of the potential impact of a plant only 6 km from the coastal town of 20,000 and its threat to local fishing.

The endless potential, the unbearably grim reality.