The hospital where her son is being cared for is a grim place, lacking power and basic sanitation.
"Fever Pitch" still delivers the same terse, grim, and ironic power that it had when I first saw it.
His major characteristics of imaginative power, grim strength, and a certain coarseness of style are apparent in his illustrations for editions of the works of Theocritus, Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, Gaius Petronius Arbiter, and François Rabelais and for his own novel The Cautious Amorist (1932).
The muscular despair of grunge and the desolate, sinewy ballads of Tool live on in the grim, down-tuned, power-chorded dirges of Chevelle.
It strikes me as a grim perversion of the power of teaching.
Liberals should have no illusions that small sanities can save us from the grim playing out of power politics.
They include huge, engulfing canvases of Vietnam war scenes, riots, interrogations, death squads, racial face-offs and other grim tableaus in which power confronts the powerless.
The following decade-the grim years of revolution, power struggles, mass executions, civil war, economic depression and war with Iraq-is notably under-documented.
Midway through, Grimmy arrived, but, in the last installment of a recurring sketch called "Cheating Death," Colbert shot and killed the Grim Reaper, gaining the power to live forever.
I think he became entranced and naively dependent on the US president, almost flustered by the grim charisma of US power; he made promises he shouldn't have done, and found himself sucked by his own logic into a nightmare.
