Sentence examples for grim set of from inspiring English sources

Still, she downplayed as much as she could, hating the grim set of her mother's mouth more than she could remember hating anything.

Out goes the flirting and the tuxedo, and in comes a grim set of the jaw and a generous but random distribution of giant fireballs.

Johnson's win over Labour's Ken Livingstone was the bright moment in an otherwise grim set of local election results for the Conservatives.

Wales, after a grim set of A-level results last week, remained unchanged with 66.6% getting A*-C grades – the same as England.

On February 14th the Swiss bank's top brass unveiled a grim set of results, headlined by a fourth-quarter loss of SFr12.5 billion ($11.3 billion) due mainly to the misadventures of its investment bank in America's subprime market.

The latest grim set of monthly NHS performance statistics also revealed other evidence of serious stress on the service as it heads into what many doctors fear will be a very difficult winter.

He takes the Scottish setting seriously; the cast (including Welles, in the title role) performs the text — which they prerecorded and lip-synched — in plain speaking voices thick with brogues, on a dark set of forbidding mountains, grim grottoes, and mournful plains, amid mud and filth, wind and cold, and their own sweat and grime.

(Maree Kearns's grim set, in shades of concrete gray, lends credence to Patricia's talk of doing time and incarceration).

Inside, the room echoes with elements from a teenager's room, creating a grim set that evokes the feeling of teenage angst.

"In Darkness," which was written by David F. Shamoon (drawing on the book "In the Sewers of Lvov" by Robert Marshall), obligingly supplies the desired emotions, which means that, in spite of its grim setting, it is finally more comforting than troubling.

Yet despite its grim setting, this is not a book of hopelessness and meaninglessness.