Sentence examples for grim practical from inspiring English sources
For now, Sherrell's outlook is a mix of bravado and grim, practical reckoning.
There's a catastrophic McGuffin motivating the action and a catastrophic backstory sustaining it, but even these potential disasters are resolutely and comprehensively earthbound, belonging not to outer space or to supernatural spectres but only to the grim extremes of practical politics — and even these dangers loom as mere possibilities of horror, in no need of depiction.
The peaceable Thoreau extols this grim killer for a practical reason: Brown has taken action, violent action, against the sanctioned violence of the slavery-protecting state: It was his peculiar doctrine that a man has a perfect right to interfere by force with the slaveholder, in order to rescue the slave.
Without the video, Walter Scott was on track to become just the latest in the grim roll call of black men killed with practical impunity by cops, the majority of them white.
Their goals are often varied, but carry a common refrain: to represent the political interests -- and practical needs -- of chronic drug abusers, a sometimes grim agenda that includes everything from providing clean needles to finding safe places to nod out.
Though he commanded only 90 acres in the grim, industrial Black Country, Drabble's influence was immense and his practical experience of commerce, conservation, agriculture, landscaping and the media made him unique.
The remarkable and little-known destiny of Voznuk is the history of the Soviet rocket technology experts who had a severe practical schooling of command by the military forces of the first combat missiles "Katucha" during the grim military years (including the grandiose fight in Stalingrad) and then they have continued to launch the ballistic missiles.
