Sentence examples for overly grim from inspiring English sources

Taken together, there is fear that those negative messages may be pounding home an overly grim view of the economy.

Baggott tells what might have been an overly grim tale with crystalline precision, offering a hint of hope in the novels to follow.

Even in an expanded cinematic universe, an overly grim entry to the Star Wars series would certainly jar with what's come before.

Certain organizations, the media and international bodies paint an overly grim picture of the future to serve their own plans and goals.

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The story works toward a gruesomely unhappy ending, but I can't escape the feeling that both creator and re-creator have trapped an American couple in a grim, overly mechanistic system of dead ends that reflects the artists' own ambitions and temperaments rather than some stinging truth about American incapacity.

His prognosis was oddly uneven: grim and overly optimistic in equal parts.

The battle began last spring when Weinstein, the film's American distributor, did not like the cut delivered by Dahan, a French director best known for the 2007 Edith Piaf biopic, "La Vie en Rose," deeming it grim and overly melodramatic.

The battle began last spring when Weinstein, the film's American distributor but not its producer, did not like the cut delivered by Dahan, a French director best known for the 2007 Edith Piaf biopic, "La Vie en Rose," deeming it grim and overly melodramatic.

Still, some of the mayor's grim budget seems overly dire — particularly his current plan to lay off 6,700 educators.

Overly sensitive and disdainful of her tough life, Lilly Ms. Woodd) longs to escape the grim cabin she shares with her mother, Maggie (Ms. Blanchett), a healer, and little sister, Dot Jenna BoydDot Jenna Boyd