Across the driveway there's a Work Out World and a grim, snow-caked parking garage.
Less screen time for Lannisters, eunuchs, and armored heroines, more screen time for neon-eyed C.G.I. snarlers, staggering toward us in a grim blue-gray snow.
In the next scene, Jon Snow, looking grim, gets a letter from Ramsay; "Your brother Rickon is in my dungeon" is one of the friendlier parts.
It must have been particularly grim when it rained or snowed.
But it took a certain cast of mind to see a hopeful place in those grim November woods, in the early snows of 1620, among the lingering effects of nine hard weeks at sea.
The next day did its best to put the "grim" into pilgrimage, with sleet, hail and snow.
For China's leaders, the gold-medal haul is wonderful news after a grim few months that have seen crippling snow storms, upheaval in Tibet and a deadly earthquake.
IFA staff did their best to salvage the situation on Friday by shovelling snow from the pitch in grim conditions, but their efforts were in vain.
These grim situations attracted relentless media attention: family plus snow plus stranded equals human-interest story nonpareil.
In Bock's rendition of that grim late-1930s landscape, there is nothing but mud, snow, bullets and blood.
The prospects are grim for the rest of the week, with snow predicted in Wales, the Midlands and northeast England, and with temperatures expected to fall again to as low as minus 4 in northern England and Scotland overnight.
