Sentence examples for grim pronouncement from inspiring English sources

When I asked Kenneth Heideman, the society's director of publications, about this omission, he responded with a grim pronouncement: "I would guess that most people can figure out what it means".

The finale moves seamlessly away from, back into and to one side of the grim pronouncement from Wagner, which is always in the background, an idea that will not go away, until the music rides off with a soft clatter of bones.

My reverie broke when I was handed the biopsy of Sarah's brainstem to rush to the lab where the pathologist made a grim pronouncement: glioma.

He sprinkled humor into his grim pronouncements on the health of the state's economy.

Pozzo's grim second-act pronouncement — "They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more" — sounds rather too poetic as intoned in Mr. Stanford's rich baritone.

Their sentiments were mainly nativist, their tone mostly grim, and their pronouncements almost uniformly apocalyptic.

"The Cottagers" is a novel of grim insights and troubling pronouncements.

It has also exposed his administration to accusations of a growing credibility gap between optimistic White House pronouncements and the grim realities on the ground.

At the end of the work he made a pronouncement that was sweeping as well as grim: "In the long sequence of interaction and fusion between Orient and Occident out of which our civilization has grown, the crusades were a tragic and destructive episode".

This analysis, with its grim determinism, is reminiscent of many of Marx's most sweeping pronouncements.

** This analysis, with its grim determinism, is reminiscent of many of Marx's most sweeping pronouncements.