Sentence examples for grim shadow from inspiring English sources

The resultant surge in carbon emissions will cast a grim shadow over the coming decades.

The grim shadow of the impending Holocaust abroad presages, it turns out, a smaller-scale disaster closer to home.

No, though censure of the legacy of Mrs. Thatcher, who resigned in 1990, is implied, and since it is 1996, there is the grim shadow of AIDS.

The economic crisis in Syria cast its grim shadow over middle-class people in Homs, who were struggling to survive in the face of soaring prices, high taxes and low incomes.

In July 2012 the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., during a midnight screening of the latest Batman film, the apocalyptic The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan), cast a grim shadow over Hollywood.

The New York Times article reporting the events noted that, "While the ceremonies marking this major historic event were taking place communal strife continued to cast a grim shadow over [the] future".

One can imagine its essentially hopeful outlook for the future fighting off the grim shadows of the plays around it.

The figures of open wombs, many with the child still inside, offer mute revelations about birth's darker side--and Tessa Harris expertly explores just such grim shadows.

The Guardsmen are under a grim security shadow, and they warn visitors to walk with a buddy between dusk and dawn.

The results are shocking and sharp as a knife, but be warned – the unfolding real-life tragedy in the Alps casts a grim unforeseen shadow over the opening segment.

Grim lunch with shadow chancellor Dully McDullvoice – "Oh, I never drink before autumn" – who delivered a droning lecture on the vacuous tautology of contemporary humour.