G.O.P. Economics: Trump Change Economic policy was barely an afterthought during Donald Trump's relentlessly grim acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night, with only a few minutes devoted to subjects like taxes and trade.
I grew up in a world where grim words such as "handicapped" and "retarded" were part of everyday speech, and disabled people were too often shut away.
Stern and grim-faced in a speech in Milton Keynes, north of London, Mr. Cameron said, "How we deal with these things will affect our economy, our society — indeed our whole way of life".
In what appeared to have been a coincidence, Jonathan Evans, the chief of Britain's domestic security agency, MI5, issued a grim warning in a speech on Thursday that Britain continued to face "a serious risk of a lethal attack" by Al Qaeda-linked terrorists operating in the country.
Larry Flynt has been in the press lately for something a bit more grim than freedom of speech or porn.
While media reactions widely characterized Trump's speech as grim due to its references to "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones" and "American carnage," people who watched the inauguration or later coverage of it are more than twice as likely to consider the event "optimistic" rather than "pessimistic".
Mr. Samaras recounted that grim episode in a campaign speech on April 27, sounding a nationalist note that resonated with Greeks who believe the country's loan deal represents a loss of sovereignty to Germany.
His speeches brim with grim economic prognoses and stern injunctions to Singaporeans to tighten their belts.
Mr. Trump, who recently declared himself "a nationalist," appeared grim as he listened to the speech through an earpiece and clapped only tepidly afterward.
Cuomo's own favorite speech, perhaps tellingly, was the grim commencement speech that he gave in June 1984, at Iona College.
