Sentence examples for grim read from inspiring English sources
"It is a very grim read," Mr. Younkins said.
This might make it sound as though it's a rather grim read; yet somehow it isn't.
For students of the music industry, the weekly album chart can be a grim read, as the numbers hit historic low after historic low.
But what makes his latest book a truly grim read is the relentlessly mean-spirited tone, together with some of the more troubling interpretations and asides.
Speaking in his chandeliered office, Mr. Essawi offered a grim read on his place in a political crisis that has brought Iraq's power-sharing government to the edge of ruin and raised questions about the Obama administration's assertion to have produced a stable and self-reliant Iraq.
As ever, Roberts's use of the genre to explicate ideas – the allure of virtual reality and the consequent affectless society – is done with grace and economy, and what might have been a grim read is leavened by moments of irreverent black humour.
