Sentence examples for the grim side from inspiring English sources

Predictions for holiday sales tended to be on the grim side.

The tendency to focus on the grim side of any issue, or group, goes far beyond the movies, of course.

It was an education to break through the cordon and unwittingly experience the grim side of Davos.

IN TODAY'S New York Times, Adam Nagourney focuses on the grim side of what looks like a positive population report for the state of the Nevada.

Jangling nerves Reprints Related items Ethiopia's resilient prime minister: The two sides of Meles ZenawiAug 13th 2009Yet the grim side is just as striking.

While one imagines the actual game-play to have been a little on the grim side ("You've just won a beauty contest.

Moreover, while we've seen some better numbers on the housing front, such as a 7.2% jump in July's existing home sales, there's no escaping the grim side--namely that 13% of the nation's roughly 41 million home mortgages are delinquent, growing number of mortgages are under water and more than a million foreclosed and abandoned houses are eagerly looking for buyers.

Chris Davis admits that he "...kept away from the more grim side of prison life the drugs and so on," and there are also no in-game gangs.

As he writes, "When I sent a first draft of this piece to critical readers, many commented that they found our turn to the dark side grim, even a bit depressing".

Still, Ms. Vassell said she was aware that the downturn had a grim side: sales will slow, prices will fall, jobs and galleries may vanish.

The apartment, which serves as the NBP chancellery, was tucked away on a grim side street in a concrete gulch below one of Moscow's most fetid locales, the Kursk train station.