Sentence examples for grim question from inspiring English sources

— Summer's arrival, usually cause for celebration on Cape Cod, has been dampened this year by a grim question: Who is killing the gray seals?

The collapse of the 205-foot crane on Saturday — described by city and union officials as one of the worst crane accidents in memory — gave rise to a grim question, Mr. Fernandaz writes: If that crane fell, where would it hit?

Put bluntly, there is a huge, grim question over where £10.25m has gone, which was lent to the club by Northampton borough council between September 2013 and August 2014, specifically to pay for improvements to its Sixfields stadium, including a new East Stand.

It's a grim question considering that despite security breaches, Snapchat seems to still be growing strong with teens.

So this month, an official state legal manual was published in New York to serve as a guide for judges and lawyers who could face grim questions in another terrorist attack, a major radiological or chemical contamination or a widespread epidemic.

The audience is hurled from a rousing exhortation ("Come on up to the rising") to a grim, familiar question: "Who'll be the last to die for a mistake?" "That's why we had to get that very right today," he said later.

For 20 minutes in the broadcast, Colonel Harmoush, his face grim, answered questions that seemed intended to humiliate him.

And with that increased understanding, the storms of emotion surrounding the grim, disturbing questions have quieted some.

It is a grim but unavoidable question: Must Japan brace for a silent wave of suicides in the years ahead?

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.

The grim summer raises the question: if success brings such a tide of bad news, should supporters of smaller clubs even wish for it?