Sentence examples for under grim from inspiring English sources

When the camera visits a government benefits office, it records a roomful of people waiting for hours under grim fluorescent lights.

Where, in the latter places, they provide proof of the life of the imagination and the endurance of fancy under grim circumstances, here the prevalence of muted tones and uniform outfits (and I'm not even referring to the actual brown uniforms of soldiers that are seen in one shot) evoke an era of greater public conformity.

He lists birds but also describes winds, skies and water, usually with a lyricism that the dour second officer Chris may laugh at but which can be lovely: night coming in "under grim veils", or bodies from a shipwreck, he imagines, "turning and tattering … somewhere in the water below".

Animal welfare advocates have always argued that cutting back on meat even a few meals a week ultimately means killing fewer animals, most of which are slaughtered under grim factory farm conditions.

Beckett's robust approach also works under grimmer conditions in "The Woman Who Cries".

Taken over all, debt levels in the advanced economies would rise to 122 percent of G.D.P. given an upbeat outlook, or 234 percent under grimmer circumstances, the study projects.

I go outside and stand in the cold, smoking a cigarette, under the grim eye of the Wehrmacht eagles watching from our World War II-era barracks.

The Guardsmen are under a grim security shadow, and they warn visitors to walk with a buddy between dusk and dawn.

In a city buckling under the grim yoke of street crime and a drug plague, the random and wanton nature of the shootings startled even jaded New Yorkers.

UNDER the grim conditions of captivity in Evin prison in Teheran, Iran, a physician found what he believes to be a new and remarkable treatment for the pain of peptic ulcers.

Warner had been the recipient of a rare venomous delivery in the first hour of the innings when there was encouragement for the bowlers under a grim, grey sky.