Sentence examples for mood of grim from inspiring English sources

But "The Grey" unfolds in a mood of grim earnestness and is grounded in an idea of masculinity under duress that is no less authentic for being thoroughly sentimental.

Hunters are depicted in prehistoric art, but it cannot be known whether the hunters pursued their prey in a mood of grim necessity or with the joyful abandon of sportsmen.

At the Justice Department a mood of grim resolve replaced the disappointment over Attorney General Janet Reno's fruitless trip to Miami on Wednesday to talk the relatives into giving up the boy.

Further rounds are to be staged at two-week intervals, meaning that the detailed count for all 498 People's Assembly seats is not expected until mid-January.Expectations of a long, suspenseful wait accounted in part for the mood of grim determination that many voters seemed to show.

The novel's mood is one of grim urgency—"The Road" for the tween set.Katniss is a stealthy grey-eyed realist.

Diplomatic efforts to end the fighting are intensifying, but there is a mood in Israel of grim determination.

The election night mood in France was one of grim introspection.

Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Gabourey Sidibe, Frances Conroy and many other fine thespians assembled in a gorgeous house in New Orleans, and the mood was a suitable mixture of grim and giddy.

The mood of the nation is grim, after the 4th Arab-Israeli war, which began when Egypt & Syria attacked on Israeli solemn religious day, Yom Kippur, Oct. 6.

Gergiev caught the grim mood of the "Symphonic Dances," the composer's valedictory statement; the final movement, with its allusions to the Dies Irae, was propulsive, even brutal.

Even so, foreign staff workers who had been ejected by the Taliban are now starting to return in a mood of optimism, tempered by grim experience.