Sentence examples for the grimmer from inspiring English sources
adjective
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
- Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
The problem with television today is that most of it, with the exception of [Time Warner's] HBO, is escapist garbage which defines our times, because we want to escape from the grimmer and grimmer realities of American life.
The grimmer subtext was clear.
Not surprisingly, Freyer emphasized the grimmer, grittier hues in the opera's palette.
But the grimmer the prognosis, the more inaccurate and more optimistic the surrogates' responses became.
One of the grimmer aspects was the extent of the internal rancour it stirred up.
It's a glib trivialisation of one of the grimmer chapters of Chilean history.
The grimmer it is, the better it is: slowly, reluctantly, comedy seeps through.
But so, surely, do representations of the grimmer, thornier thickets of experience.
In fact the closer you look, the grimmer those prospects appear to get.
The gag was a good break from the heart-stopping stuff, but it's nowhere nearly as popular as the grimmer videos.
Julie (not her real name, she said) liked to overexcite her pet, "Monsieur Gustave," with amorous kisses and fairy tales of the grimmer, more fabulous variety.
