Sentence examples for grim refusal from inspiring English sources
The question about this missing person is triggered by the F.B.I.'s grim refusal to accept the phrase Cold Case squad.
What he really thought of them — let us not forget that this is the man who popularized the term "voodoo economics" — and what he now thinks of his party's grim refusal to move beyond them, one can only speculate on.
The ordinariness of the main characters, the drabness of the digital-video cinematography and the movie's grim refusal of sensationalism brought the danger close to home, even to a viewer who would never dream of putting on an oxygen tank and jumping off a boat.
There's something particularly Clintonian about the grim-faced refusal to amend a story, even when the preponderance of reportage refutes it, and there's video besides.
But the opposite is true: Tai's aloneness in the crowd, his grim, rattled, dignified refusal to back down, makes him the sympathetic figure in the scene, regardless of the motivating issues.
Another grim parallel is the refusal by leaders to take politically tough but economically necessary stands.
Peterson's memoir seemed like a stubborn, childish refusal of Edwards's grim outlook.
His refusal to leaven the grim narrative with titillating thrills or moments of catharsis, however, signaled a deliberate critique of Hollywood practices.
A grim picture, but what also comes across is Seth's refusal to change to accommodate the demands of the school.
Janie Rodriguez, the manager of Towne North Mobile Home and RV Park, said that Ms. Grimmer often told her she was frustrated by the state's refusal to give her benefits and that, one day weeks ago, she showed her a fax receipt for documents she had sent the social services office.
