Sentence examples for grim truths from inspiring English sources

There have been been grim truths about the triangular trade and what it means to transport human beings as cargo.

CHICAGO — When Karen Freeman-Wilson was elected the mayor of Gary, Ind., last year, she found herself confronting some grim truths about her hometown.

Either that, or confront the grim truths about modern society that give weight to this author's absorbing but disquieting existential mysteries.

For him, this relationship stands to reveal "grim truths about humanity that we would struggle to express otherwise — those desires so unspeakable that we have to evolve a kind of code".

In Ozick's telling, they encounter a postwar city of dark, grim truths: "The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees and these Americans were playing at fleeing!" With a satirical eye, but one that also recognises the great value and luxury of her own country, she writes of "these coddled Californians, with no inkling of endurance.

If this suggests, rightly, that he took a certain pride in facing up to grim truths about the human condition, Stegner sought to achieve that "livable accord" with grace and style and wit (not long before this quotation, he discusses DeVoto's little book in tribute to the cocktail hour) and with a rectitude that a good Puritan would admire, albeit unhitched from any transcendent source.

Appreciating that potentially grim truth is part of growing up.

The grim truth about this new bloodshed is that it was not unexpected.

This show's bleak ending is undeniably a downer, but it's a grim truth.

Flashbacks of betrayal and deceit reveal the grim truth behind the glitz of Tinseltown.

The grim truth about this "media strategy" is that it works.