Sentence examples for grim war from inspiring English sources

The king recovered, but a grim war broke out.

The originals all based on a feeling of abundance after the grim war period.

A telegram from the Canton Council said: "Only grim war and resistance can save China, since an appeal to the League and conciliation have failed".

Before battle the soldiers perform a grim war dance; the wheels of the famous horse that doomed the Trojans loom in the background.

SAS: Rogue Heroes is a great read of wartime adventuring, in a long, grim war of attrition where adventure was hard to find.

Carter has positioned himself at a very unusual place: the intersection between the high ideals of Christian and secular moral philosophy and the exigencies of a very grim war.

That was followed by the even grimmer wars between Catholics and Huguenots, when it became okay, even morally desirable to, say, burn women and children alive for their views on the Immaculate Conception.

But, he says, "I think the thing that makes [the book] universal in a grim way is war and competition.

And the closing stages don't even try to be funny, as Toksvig addresses the grim Boer war backdrop to her novel.

She carried the scars of a survivor — of a troubled upbringing, of a grim World War II, of an unhappy marriage and painful love affairs, of late-in-life acclaim accompanied by ostracism by the Italian left.

Egyptian air strikes now hammering Islamic State positions in the east of the country, in response to the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians, is a further twist in an already grim civil war.