Sentence examples for grim topic from inspiring English sources

Why does Mr. Ellis consider extinctions not to be a "grim" topic?

It seems, she said, an appropriately grim topic: "I kind of back into an issue and become this unlikely activist".

Fistulas may be a grim topic, but this center you readers have helped to build is a warm and inspiring place.

Ms. Labaki, whose previous film, "Caramel," was a warm, funny-sad exploration of feminine friendship set mainly in a Beirut beauty salon, brings an appealing humanism to what might be (as it was in "Incendies") an unrelentingly grim topic.

But in other films, grim topics are enlivened and enriched by inventive style.

Putting aside the dubious elision of Asian sisters and rape as equally grim topics, Goodwin is wrong.

Then there are the grim topics of his (hopefully) fictional tales, such as nightmarish current single "3am" in which he portrays a serial killer and quotes The Silence of the Lambs ("it puts the lotion on... ......), "Medicine Ball", in which he forcibly performs a home abortion, and "Same Song & Dance", in which he inhabits the character of a rapist who's stalking Britney Spears.

Based on an infamous 1930s case in Alabama involving white women, black men and false charges of rape, it's hardly the stuff of traditional musical theater, but the show, the last collaboration by John Kander and Fred Ebb, isn't the only Off Broadway production this season to tackle serious, even grim topics.