But I also felt a kind of grim relief, even resolve.
WHEN the news broke in July 2005 that London's Metropolitan Police had shot dead a suspected terrorist as he boarded an Underground train, there was grim relief.
In the first six months of this year Guatemalan authorities seized cash, drugs and arms worth more than everything they had seized the previous year, according to the police.Guatemala's deepening nightmare could eventually mean grim relief for Mexico.
The market responded to the impending leadership change not with exultation, but with grim relief.
Who could forget, "MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" He also was genuinely warm, likable, a sunny upbeat relief from grim Jimmy Carter.
He leaves with relief the grim "shuttered city" of Valladolid, which has shocked him with its poverty, and walks south for several days, "living on figs and ears of wheat".
Stowe read Dickens aloud to her children, and must have learned from him, and from Shakespeare, how to leaven a grim story with comic relief; even Legree's hellish plantation has on it two clowns, the brutish black henchmen Sambo and Quimbo, who finally leave off villainy to become Christian converts.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Stowe read Dickens aloud to her children, and must have learned from him, and from Shakespeare, how to leaven a grim story with comic relief; even Legree's hellish plantation has on it two clowns, the brutish black henchmen Sambo and Quimbo, who finally leave off villainy to become Christian converts.
** Stowe read Dickens aloud to her children, and must have learned from him, and from Shakespeare, how to leaven a grim story with comic relief; even Legree's hellish plantation has on it two clowns, the brutish black henchmen Sambo and Quimbo, who finally leave off villainy to become Christian converts.
The atmosphere in the square was one of relief, defiance, and grim anger.
Peter Strummer was a genial Sacristan, providing lighthearted relief amid the grim drama.
