Sentence examples for grim purpose from inspiring English sources

Pollock seems vigilant against acts of grace; whenever any flicker of light appears, he pinches it out with grim purpose.

During his 11-month stay, though, he helped to create, supervise and tear down a village of grim purpose: the sifting of 1.8 billion tons of World Trade Center debris.

After a week of frantic worry in which his wife had made a public appeal for him to get in touch, the grim purpose of Boumeester's visit to a wood at Winkfield became clear when a body was discovered on Sunday morning.

But this creature's grimmer purpose is to "search the faces of the dead".

The movie's unvarying tone of grim menace and stern purpose has none of the energy of even the most banal of science-fiction cheapies.

Normally used for classes in movement and rehearsals, this spare, unassuming studio has, over the last five years, taken on a grim secondary purpose as Juilliard's unofficial grieving space.

Her owner, a Dominican who may or may not have considered his pit bull ruined for some grim atavistic purpose, balked at the expense and bother of veterinary treatment, so Ava's fate was thrown to the kindly cop's whims.

Paying attention to details isn't only useful for grim, serious purposes.

If all of this sounds grim, remember that the purpose of "Our Children at Risk" is to defend childhood by jumping into some of its larger crises.

We plod on, eyes fixed on the muddy path, and find ourselves in an Iron Age cutting called Grim's Ditch – it's original purpose is unknown, but today it is home to the biggest nettles I've ever seen.

Her work with Caleb Schwako and Bloom seemed to give her a renewed sense of purpose and hope, until the grim denouement.