Sentence examples for grim snapshot from inspiring English sources

His first day in command offered a grim snapshot of those difficulties.

One, commissioned by the Washington office of the minerals agency, reported a "grim snapshot" that "illustrates the lack of preparedness".

"This grim snapshot illustrates the lack of preparedness in the industry to shear and seal a well with the last line of defense against a blowout," said the September 2004 report, written by West Engineering.

Alongside of Knowels' photos of employees wearing lime-colored wigs, is a grim snapshot of life inside the Wal-Mart corporation itself.

It was the snapshot of American black and white college students reacting at the moment O. J. Simpson was pronounced "not guilty" -- the blacks exploding in celebration, the whites grim-faced and angry.

A rare candid — and quite grim — Dean family snapshot appeared on page 1 of the August 6th edition of the Burlington Free Press last summer.

Philip Larkin summed up the trouble with long relationships in his poem "Talking in Bed", a snapshot of a grim nightly intimacy in which it becomes "still more difficult to find / Words at once true and kind, / Or not untrue and not unkind".

The snapshots of Grozny remain grim.

Economists remain concerned about the labor market, and say they expect the government's monthly employment snapshot on Friday to be grim, in part because of the snowy weather.

The snapshot of their workload is a grim portrait of a profession plagued by long hours and "unnecessary and bureaucratic tasks", according to the survey.

The report's "snapshot of life as contingent faculty" is grim.