Sentence examples for grim recognition from inspiring English sources

The scene has a dreary authenticity that triggers grim recognition.

Eventually he'll look my way, and I'll catch in his eyes a look of grim recognition.

Jelani Cobb on the "grim recognition" spurred by Ferguson: African-Americans are hemmed in between the dangers of crime and the perils of policing.

He drifted in and out of sleep, awakening each time to the grim recognition that his elevator confinement had not been a dream.

The anger in Ferguson reflects a grim recognition: African-Americans are hemmed in between the dangers of crime and the perils of policing.

But others, like me, will read this news with grim recognition and the sad realization: "That could have been my kid".

One imagines the observation sending a grim smile of recognition across the features of the Russian novelist Victor Pelevin, whose scalding satires of the moral bankruptcy of post-Communist Russia have won praise in the United States and Europe, and whose admirers see him as the natural heir of Gogol and Bulgakov.

The president read this grim news with pained recognition, for he had been advocating precisely this action since the fall of 1861.

BOSTON — All the Rangers' brave words of the last few exasperating months are gone, replaced at last by the recognition of grim reality.

I still find it difficult to reconcile those unreal magazine pictures of JonBenet (whose perverse celebrity includes first-name recognition), with the grim reality of a dead child, stashed under a blanket in a basement with the garrote that killed her around her neck.

In Russia, where indigenous people get no special recognition, the outlook for all Arctic people is grim.