Sentence examples for grim theater from inspiring English sources

For the Boston Red Sox, the failures of the last week have amounted to some grim theater: Josh Beckett, their best pitcher, getting beaten up by the Baltimore Orioles, who were ostensibly eliminated from meaningful competition months ago.

Mr. Freud's dingy studio became his artistic universe, a grim theater in which his contorted subjects, stripped bare and therefore unidentifiable by class, submitted to the artist's unblinking, merciless inspection.

Of all the grim theaters of conflict in World War II, none were more dismal and murderous than Italy in the winter of 1944.

It sounds rather grim for a theater festival.

Things looked grim earlier this year when the theater lost its lease in Chelsea, but next month it will move into temporary quarters just down the street.

Russia's official television network, ORT, showed film early today of the scene inside the theater, including the grim scenes of the raid's bloody aftermath and the bodies of several guerrillas.

With this arresting opening image, the solo play "Absolution," at the 59E59 Theaters, establishes its grim, horrific tone.

"I WAS looking for Cary Grant with high notes," the director Doug Hughes said, describing the job requirements for the role of the not-so-Grim Reaper in his Roundabout Theater Company production of "Death Takes a Holiday".

You can't help wondering what grim events have beset these gothic "Masterpiece Theater" surroundings.

"A bunch of lucky guys," General Henebry recalled in a memoir, "The Grim Reapers: At Work in the Pacific Theater" (Pictorial Histories, 2002).

The ousted official, Anatoly Iksanov, who led the Bolshoi, Russia's most revered theater, for 13 years, looked grim as he sat at a podium during a hastily arranged news conference.