Sentence examples for has been so grim from inspiring English sources

THE news from Broadway has been so grim -- or at least pallid -- the last year that you can forgive Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Robyn Goodman if they're a little bit self-congratulatory.

Economic output in the euro zone continued to decline in the fourth quarter of last year, and the outlook has been so grim that a recent report finding zero growth in the first quarter of this year was widely greeted as good news.

I cannot remember a time in my life when the news has been so relentlessly grim, so tripping over with eagerness to offer ever more depraved examples of the horrors human beings can inflict on each other.

But reports from the ground have been so relentlessly grim — July's death toll of 66 American troops was the highest since the war began — that Mr. Obama needs to do a better job right now of explaining the strategy and how he is measuring progress.

A further 2.2 million have been so discouraged by the grim labor market that they have given up looking for jobs altogether.

But at a time when so many images associated with the Middle East have been so grim from the haunting photographs of Alan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian refugee who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea a year ago, to ISIS' gruesome videos of beheadings this snapshot of Arab youth culture offers a necessary change of pace.

Had the situation not been so grim, it would have been pure stand-up.

If Ronny Deila had not been so grim-faced and concerned at the alarming lack of resistance amongst his own players, he would have admired Salzburg's accomplishment.

It's Brandon's absolute cut-offness – his inability to have a relationship – that's so grim, and so real.

It's so grim, he has to bum money off of Levar Burton.

The sassi deteriorated badly under the Fascist regime, when paved roads wiped out all the green areas and public spaces, and economic conditions were so grim that people had to crowd into their storerooms and stables with their animals.