Sentence examples for grim reaction from inspiring English sources

Introducing the Gershwins' "Who Cares?," a song that blithely exclaims, "Let a million firms go under," she amusedly recalled the grim reaction of an audience of corporate high rollers when she performed it in San Francisco on one of the worst days of the 2008 financial crisis.

Whitman, looking very grim, especially in reaction shots, in which she frequently glowers or gives a curious laugh, was much more aggressive than in her first two debates.

The grim diagnosis brought reactions of shock and prayer from many senators of both parties and from President Bush.

"It would be a sad day for this country if an impression was created that there is one law for the poor and disadvantaged and another for the rich and famous," Judge Masipa said.The Pistorius family's reaction was grim but resigned.

Orwell thought that fascism, as a degenerated continuation of capitalism, was linked to socialism - a grim distortion of or reaction to socialism (Orwell 1958).

CNN correspondent Jim Acosta gave an exceedingly grim summation of the reaction to Mitt Romney's speech before the NAACP on Wednesday.

Mercury poisoning can affect the central nervous system, causing tremors, excitability, insomnia, and a grim range of psychotic reactions.

Or perhaps Lamar, who is clearly intelligent and empathetic, has noted that we live in a grim world of instant reactions and first-listen reviews and decided to throw critics a bone, knocking out something straightforward and throwaway that can neatly be summarised after a few cursory spins.

Understandably, her first reaction after the grim Dumfries prognosis had been to give up.

pctrevski, blog post It seemed that one reaction to the grim Thatcher/Reagan years was to embrace the psychedelic heights of better times.

His reaction expressed the grim paradox that has come to dominate Israeli politics -- granite realism and determination but in the face of increasing security risks.