Sentence examples for grim promises from inspiring English sources

But while Trump's administration has struggled to implement the major policy changes he vowed as a candidate, Duterte has fulfilled many of the grim promises of his campaign.

The staging is broadly successful, with its darkness and redness underscoring Philip's grim promise to Posa that "death has a rich future in my hands".

But the offerings were, almost without exception, rather grim, and few promised a life at anything near standard speed.

Its grim texture seems to promise some terrible reckoning of violence or sadness 15 minutes before the end, some domestic armageddon.

This horrific set piece, and the grim scenes that follow, promise something powerful: a meditation on the stop-and-start nature of surgical innovation, one grounded in the economic and racial fractures of the era.

They "promise a grim future for the entire nation," added Amnesty International.

No less different from the class before them, they entered a grim world where the promise of a better opportunities guaranteed by a degree were hard to find.

The story told in "Eastern Promises" is a grim and violent one, set in London's expatriate Russian underworld.

The book begins with an epigraph from T. S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" — "Humankind cannot bear very much reality" — and promises to provide "grim" answers to questions such as "Do our lives have meaning?," and "Would it be better if we could live forever?" Benatar was born in South Africa in 1966.

They had come hoping for some of that old Obama magic — and what he gave them instead was a promise of the grim hard slog ahead.

Some hard-pressed governments are belatedly coming to the grim conclusion that they have promised workers more than their sagging economies can deliver.