Sentence examples for grim setting from inspiring English sources

I think that all fairytales have a grim setting.

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

But a lamppost, in that grim setting, didn't need to be straight from Narnia.

Amid a grim setting, Barack Obama tries to send an inspiring message to Indiana voters: He'll bring back jobs.

The state's advertising partnership extended to a record number of cities this year, including Flint, the grim setting for Mr Moore's documentary, "Roger & Me".Whether all this will do much good remains to be seen.

After a while, the grim setting and Mary's relentless bullying took their toll on Pai, who said she was beginning to feel suicidal, surely a perfectly healthy response to the trade, to say nothing of the decor.

Stark and grim, set on a blank stage carpeted in soil, it shows the selection and death of a sacrificial victim.

Labour MPs, packed into the government benches for the weekly ritual of prime minister's questions (PMQs), look on with grim, set faces as Mr Cameron mocks and denounces his antagonist.

When Lara regroups with the other survivors, Whitman decides to go with Lara and search for the still-missing Roth, while the rest of the group (Reyes, Jonah, Alex and Grim) set out to find Sam and Mathias.

But today, three months after Hurricane Sandy tore and spat its way through the region, Ms. Jackson's roster of properties includes a much grimmer set.

Those of us who are rarely touched by its ebb and flow might feel its absence from the tax base in services reduced, in streets less clean, in parks less green, in a grimmer set to people's faces and perhaps in a diminishing graciousness.