Sentence examples for grim practice from inspiring English sources

Ephron co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Delia, and you can understand their wish to try something different — to get away from the grim practice of the "Charlie's Angels" franchise, say, which stretched its slender material to twice the length of the TV show, only to realize that the Angels had been specifically devised to fill a shorter slot.

The Islamic State, whose Sunni fighters burst out of Syria over the summer and overran an arc of Iraqi territory, has made a grim practice in recent months of beheading captives and posting videos of the killings online.

"The L.T.T.E.'s grim practices are being exploited by the government to justify its own atrocities," the report said.

To enforce their global system, Americans never shied away from torture, black sites, death squads, assassinations, and other grim practices.

The Rangers were a grim lot after their practice, unsurprisingly.

"McConnell's hold on Kentucky is a grim reminder of the practice of power in America -- where political excellence can be wholly divorced from successful governance and even public admiration," the Huffington Post reporters continued.

McConnell's hold on Kentucky is a grim reminder of the practice of power in America -- where political excellence can be wholly divorced from successful governance and even public admiration.

— Goaltender Martin Biron, normally effusive after Rangers practices, looked grim Monday sitting at his dressing room stall.

Is the United States resuming its chummy military relationship with Egypt, despite growing concern over the Sisi government's counterterrorism practices and grim human rights record? Fallout from Egypt's 2013 military coup had disrupted the previously-steady stream of weapons and military aid flowing from Washington to Cairo.

But he looked weary during Wednesday night's 98-86 lons on the road against the Detroit Pistons, and grim-faced after Friday's practice, even as he proclaimed himself secure.

Archeological critics of antiquities collectors see the practice in a much grimmer light.