Sentence examples for grim uncertainty from inspiring English sources

Their wives handle the grim uncertainty in different ways: one is stoic, the other retreats into denial.

Abdullah's death was not unexpected — his half-brother Prince Salman, the defense minister, assumed the throne almost immediately — but it comes at a time of grim uncertainty in the Gulf.

I was previously skeptical of this theory because, even if the community were suffering from the collective stresses of poverty and grim uncertainty, outsiders had also suffered from sleeping sickness without being a part of the cultural milieu.

Despite their grim uncertainties, the stories in "Among the Missing" sneak resolutely up on you, like new weather that hits before you know it.

If court procedures are impeccable, if citizens can believe, at last, that the law applies to all without exception, then a group that based its power on hatred and fear will provide Greece with the greatest gift in these grim years of uncertainty: new faith in its democracy.

But it is possible to piece together from scattered accounts from survivors, diplomats and aid groups a picture — at once grim if tinged with uncertainty — of a storm of immense power but a rescue operation of not nearly the same magnitude.

"Nobody likes uncertainty," a grim-faced Blackmun said yesterday.

A picture taken by a White House photographer captured his grim face in that moment of uncertainty.

Where Sicario was perhaps a touch grimmer, both films reflect the anxiety and moral uncertainty of our politically and economically stratified era.

But now that we know the story's grim logic, the first film's quietly haunted uncertainties — and Ethan Hawke's sturdy portrayal of a selfish, befuddled true crime writer wracked by grisly voyeurism — are sorely missed.

Such a degree of uncertainty, in a place like this, is a grim testament of what the storm did to Hackleburg.