| Idriess's recreation of the massacre, during which two children were shot at point-blank range, makes grim reading. |
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| After spoken language came the written word, and the boy dove into literature with grim determination. |
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| As grim a life as you'll ever witness is preserved in coal dust in a melancholy flick book. |
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| My teammates whooped and yelled their agreement, and we all looked towards our coach, who was still looking grim and worried. |
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| Laughter used to be the best last resort in a grim situation, but nothing's funny anymore. |
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| In the film's madhouse passages, the grim mise en scene contrasts starkly with the warm glow of nightclubs and cabarets. |
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| Junichi watched as Murasaki chided her master with a grim expression on her face and her tone was gently admonitory. |
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| The grim statistics, even when reported and attributed to such sources as U.N. agencies, haven't made much noise in the media echo chamber. |
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| Determined to escape this grim prospect, she jumps a bus to Sydney in the hope of rejoining her estranged father. |
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| After firefighters put out the flames they made a standard check of the vehicle and made the grim discovery. |
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| The city had promised those who worked there that they would get other jobs once that grim task ended. |
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| A worthy winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction, Levy's novel is set largely in the grim greyness of post-war London. |
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| He felt the two mages clash, their grim determination and faith in their opposing deities setting the air around them aquiver. |
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| Companies must act responsibly and tell the truth to avoid their shareholders being added to the list of victims in this grim tale. |
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| Alice, the head nurse, wore her usual grim expression and young Lily stood at the foot of the bed with wide, expectant eyes. |
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| He wears such an infectious smile all the time that one finds it difficult to associate him with a subject as grim as mental health. |
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| We should realize that maybe the emergence of UPS will arouse us from a state of complacency and readies us for the grim challenges lying ahead. |
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| However, the reason it is truly grim is because it is badly sung, poorly produced, and mixed in a food blender. |
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| Ross watches Alex's long, lean face fall into an expression of grim frustration, and for a moment he feels sorry for him. |
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| The air is heavy with the scent of dates and rain, and the umber of the dunes is brilliant against the grim sky. |
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| The death row he's fabricated is credible, being grim but not operatically doomy. |
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| But a career Naval officer learns early to do his duty, to shoulder responsibilities no matter how grim they may be. |
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| Flood-hit residents, buoyed by the ' Dunkirk spirit ' at the height of the crisis, now face the grim reality of life in temporary accommodation. |
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| The statement came shortly after staff at the five-year-old firm, which employs 11,000, arrived for work looking grim as they awaited news. |
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| Since then, Mann has made two albums in a row of glorious melodies matched to grim sagas of addiction, dud relationships and dead-ends. |
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| Then he'd walked away, looking so grim she'd known something was horribly wrong. |
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| The Holloway road is a grim grey artery filled with traffic pollution and lined by nondescript retail outlets. |
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| All that is left is a grim arena where matter is collected by scavengers and transformed into useful merchandise. |
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| Andrew entered through a side door to the observation room and stood beside the Doctor, face grim with worry. |
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| He toiled manfully with the task, bravely maintaining that the national picture was not as grim as the newspapers would have us believe. |
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| Nichara made a grim expression and drew her cloak more tightly about herself and prodded at her cheeks with quivering fingers. |
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| In a brief, grim speech to the nation late on Saturday, the president did not say if he accepted their resignations. |
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| It's just a very grim and gritty setting for a sci-fi vision of the near future. |
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| It's been replaced with a grim collection of non-locales and coarse interpolations. |
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| With a jowly face set in a permanent scowl, he is perfectly suited to the grim realities of war, and he knows it. |
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| Edward is cheerful, albeit in a rather dark way, while Cara is grim and determined. |
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| Lowering the hand holding his cordless phone, Charles walks up to Tyler, a grim expression on his handsome face. |
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| The natural surroundings of the airfield, draped in early morning mist, look too lush and fecund for a country gripped by a grim war. |
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| There is no grim diagnosis of their relationship, no claim they had drifted apart, no mention of divorce. |
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| Devon's jaw dropped slightly and then quickly pursed them together, forming a grim line. |
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| Against this circumnavigation of every thought by other, rugged little thoughts, is set the grim forward march of Ahab's will. |
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| It is a sad and grim reminder of how vulnerable we are to the force of nature. |
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| His anxiety mirrored Marcuse's grim assessment of technology's colonization of everyday life. |
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| It gets more and more grim and relentless, and its hero more and more unpleasant. |
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| This could be grim news for millions of consumers whose life savings are invested in pensions, endowments and other savings contracts. |
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| After driving in, breaking all previously known records, I parked in this grim subterranean car park, at astronomical hourly rates. |
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| He is no longer the grim dictator with the power of life and death over his subjects. |
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| His mother stood in the frame of the kitchen door, hands on her hips and a grim expression on her face. |
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| At most, the jokes caused her to interrupt her grim straight-faced staring to write a note to her lawyer. |
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| All this ology and itis is so off-putting, not to mention grim HIV warnings all the time. |
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| By the end of his life his Hollywood good looks had faded, replaced by the grim visage captured in Bruce Weber's documentary film Let's Get Lost. |
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| Those are just some of the grim realities that illustrate the sorry state of education in black America. |
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| Let's hope we can all finish this grim year off with a huge riotous belly laugh. |
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| The advantage in the World Cup is with the team that stays the course to the grim end. |
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| This means the prognosis is probably not as grim as conventional wisdom would have us believe. |
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| And like most contemporary science fiction it offers a fairly grim view of the future. |
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| The two bandits, their haggard features grim with battle-blood, edged toward the tall warrior. |
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| A process streamlined into grim efficiency, yielding one more line on the scholar's vita. |
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| Blur rebounded from a grim American trek by inventing Britpop on Modern Life Is Rubbish. |
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| The 1,500-strong work force at the Gipsy Lane plant were given the grim news yesterday. |
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| The employment outlook is grim for front-end staff with basic web design and development qualifications. |
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| Some of the children will also be dressed in a black T-shirts as grim reminder of the drivers, passengers and pedestrians who died. |
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| The first two lines, containing only monosyllabic words, mix a sing-song dimeter with a grim subject matter. |
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| Asa pinched her lips in a grim line, meeting the strange man's cold green eyes. |
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| Ms Wilkins says until the unexpected turn of events she faced a grim Mother's Day. |
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| However, Health Protection Agency Figures dating back to 1995 paint a far more grim picture. |
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| Such grim and gloomy comparisons between today's economic slowdown and those of yesteryear are common. |
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| Things look especially grim for him when they learn the actress had bequeathed him a ranch property in America worth quite a sum. |
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| They can't blame the frustrations of inner-city poverty for their actions, or the bleakness of life on a grim estate. |
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| A rumble of borborygmic thunder crashed across the grim landscape of his consciousness. |
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| A day later, the mood was grim and many corporate financiers were not willing to comment on the prospects for the tech sector. |
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| A grim smile played briefly on his lips and she knew she wasn't fooling him one bit. |
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| She saw a dark, grim street with drunks falling over their own feet and puking down the gutters. |
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| The vote of a single mum on a grim estate is currently worth a tiny fraction of the vote of a lawn-mowing Middle England mum in Basildon. |
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| In that film too, the Berlin I saw was a grim city, divided into east and west by a wall topped with barbed wire. |
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| Ever wondered how the NHS struggles by in the grotty, run-down and ultimately grim areas of this country? |
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| Arriving in the UK as a refugee, she and her mother ended up on a grim estate in Mitcham, Surrey. |
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| It's divide-and-rule, playing us off in a grim bidding war of who will work for the least money. |
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| The tiny port is dominated by a grim stronghold castle, previously home to the pirates who terrorised the coast for centuries. |
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| When I first started reporting on Cuba more than a decade ago, the island was a grim place. |
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| An occasional oil-lamp burned in the upper stories of the grim tenements, above black shop-fronts. |
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| If I can be so bold as to generalise, relief centres are as grim as they are hectic. |
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| The big trees that dissolve into dark fields insinuate a sort of grim spirituality, a hint of wood sprites or trolls. |
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| Arizona is one of the three poorest states in the US and Flagstaff reflects that grim economic reality. |
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| Others are angry but matter-of-fact about a lifestyle that seems unbearably grim to the outsider. |
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| The climate of Kolyma is extreme, even compared to the grim background of eastern Siberia. |
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| For many it was the hope of escaping the misery of their grim working lives that led them to sign up. |
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| My goal was to record the grim daily lives of a people who had endured a half century of warfare. |
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| If you want to shape up, but running and rock climbing leave you cold, maybe it's time to consider something less grim and solitary. |
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| Rural life is shown as harsh and grim where the ablest and younger peasants sought to escape to the factories in the cities. |
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| They held on like grim death to their advantage for eight minutes and actually came close to adding another score. |
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| I have seen people clinging on for grim death as they were almost tossed over the side. |
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| His superbly chiseled lips, ordinarily compressed in a grim line that bespoke indomitable will, at the moment hung open flaccidly. |
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| It would have made for marvelous photos, except that I was too busy hanging on to my horse for grim death. |
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| There is a certain grim logic in going from one kind of bloodlust in war to another in addiction. |
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| Now, there was a flinty look in Eddie's eye and a grim expression on his face as he sat down alongside the assistant coach and the manager. |
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| They seem to have got some grim kick out out of their cunning, duplicity, guile and secrecy. |
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| The director says they are faced with the grim prospect of having to discontinue services to the 600-plus people who sleep on the city's streets. |
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| The look of astonishment faded though, and all that was left was her usual look of grim disgust and displeasure. |
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| The boat boys' faces became more and more grim and all sorts of debris was floating in the sea. |
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| There's a certain grim irony here from comments made at the 2001 shareholders meeting to consider the domicile shift. |
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| Despite the grim financial climate, several smaller theaters find themselves planning expansions. |
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| The stench has become a simple fact of life for those who work here in eight-hour shifts as they carry out their grim task of naming the victims. |
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| So unless there is a deep double-dip recession, the future for traditional commercial television looks less grim than it has for some time. |
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| The exchanged looks, downcast eyes, or brutal and grim determination of the guards all make this film seem real. |
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| Those who work at the Department of Defense's only mortuary in the continental United States see firsthand a grim reality of war. |
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| Despite a sense of grim inevitability hanging over her, she brings conviction and depth to a role that could easily have been two-dimensional. |
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| As a matter of fact, three of the four first round games yesterday were grim blowouts. |
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| Instead of the grim faces of commuters on their way into work, people were bleary-eyed but smiling for no particular reason. |
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| The Marine's eyes blazed fiercely, her lips set in a grim line as her hair drifted, hiding the bandages on her face. |
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| Company staff were forced to carry out the grim task of prising the animals free. |
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| The shooting down of a Lancaster bomber in France in July 1944 was just another grim statistic for Allied commanders. |
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| To date, there is also little evidence to support this more grim prognosis. |
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| It mockingly contrasts the glittering fantasy of Bollywood movies with the grim reality of Bombay life. |
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| The grim and filthy morphine shooting galleries in New York City of a century ago, though very true, were never much in the news. |
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| I've sat in on these liver distribution meetings, and it's a grim calculus. |
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| For he was a kid from the wrong side of the tracks who could so easily have become another grim statistic, whether in jail or the morgue. |
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| It tumbled at first, then caught the air in its frail wings and fluttered away, a spot of gold and emerald in the grim alleyway. |
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| The boy turned and walked back into the woods, then paused and turned back towards Kevin, all former traces of a smile replaced by a grim anger. |
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| A grim shadow crossed his face, however, that quickly turned the grin to a frown. |
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| The tote board is looking pretty grim right now, and we're nowhere near our goal. |
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| Another, grim with concentration, eases herself tortoise-like along the passage on a walking frame. |
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| The juxtaposition of press clippings and grim artefacts offers a memento mori. |
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| The grim battle in the twilight of the Arctic Circle was the last time men of the Royal Navy faced the enemy in a battleship. |
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| Let death itself stare him in the face, he will presumptuously maintain his hope, as if he would look the grim messenger out of countenance. |
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| There is nothing grim or threadbare about either the building nor the attitude. |
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| Acts of barbarous inhumanity are a grim reminder that, in the scheme of things, we are not much above wild animals. |
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| Suddenly, he is in the equivalent of a street scrap, a grim battle against the odds. |
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| We know from grim experience that footballers slavishly follow the lead of their manager. |
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| Visitors to the Castle Museum will be able to discover more about the building's grim past centuries ago when it served as a debtors' prison. |
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| In all the grim news of the past couple of weeks the Special Olympics stood out as an example of the good that is in the world. |
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| Only with the cunning of the fox can you extricate yourself from these grim precincts. |
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| She paints a grim portrait of divorce's vicious circle of depleted resources, emotional and financial. |
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| In front of the posse a mime artist sporting a gas mask and grim reaper costume moved ominously above bins covered in toxic waste signs. |
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| Sibelius was portrayed as a grim faced gentleman with mad, bulging eyes, bald as a coot. |
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| The forecast for the rest of the week looks pretty grim and the bad weather looks like staying with us. |
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| Last night, back in the city to deliver a lecture, he repeated his grim warnings. |
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| As Berry arrived at his house, he was prepared for a grim and tearful leave-taking. |
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| He had undergone a kind of religious conversion to the people's cause after hearing a workman in a tea-house tell the grim story of his life. |
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| He stuck at it with a grim determination, though inside he was boiling with frustration. |
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| The atmosphere it creates visualizes the most grim and macabre nature of the artist. |
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| They did a fantastic job on an extremely grim and physically demanding task, and I'm very proud of what they achieved. |
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| The grim reality is that terrorism and asymmetrical warfare can never be defeated in the way the enemy can be overrun in conventional warfare. |
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| This should serve as a grim warning to those poised to embark on their university careers of the need to manage their money sensibly. |
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| The sharp sound of boot heels came from far away, approaching their barracks like some grim reaper, come to harvest their humiliation. |
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| The laddie from The Lakes is known as a gobby upstart with a taste for the grim things in life. |
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| Jerry Davis shook his head with a grim set to his firm jaw, rubbing the back of his neck with his large, callused hand. |
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| Professor Jones recites the grim litany of human tragedies that have plagued our planet over the last 100 years. |
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| There was a long pause as the two stared out over the grim and lifeless landscape. |
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| However, although the specter of death hovers over the entire film, it is neither a grim nor a depressing experience. |
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| I met them in front of the tennis courts by the jumble of parked bicycles as we had decided only to find them all wearing grim faces and frowns. |
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| The series's triumph is in making a depressing premise funny, while never losing sight of the grim reality beneath the laughs. |
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| The comic treatment offsets the grim subject matter and the film won a well-deserved trio of Oscars. |
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| Their grim task is given urgency by the knowledge that some 250 firefighters and police officers are entombed in the wreckage. |
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| Small is currently ranked 37 in the world, a grim reminder of just how far he has slipped down the rankings. |
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| A strange whimsy makes a grim memory of smoke and fog no less grim but perhaps more haunting. |
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| I feel confident in saying that America is once again divided, and the media is torn in its representation of a grim reality. |
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| The news of widespread rain in the region may bring some cheer to the grim faces of farmers. |
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| The estimated box-office takings for most of this year's British films show how grim the situation is. |
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| Every death has been a grim reminder that our roads are not safe for crossing. |
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| We all feel desperately for a little girl who has lost both parents in such grim and public circumstances. |
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| The film is shot in washed out colour and bears grim tidings for all who lament the earlier and earlier death of childhood. |
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| She pointed to a grim looking giant bald monkey tied to a stall with a bright red glowing collar around its neck. |
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| A new emotion registered on his face, but it quickly switched again, now to grim thanks. |
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| After riding through grim landscapes in wintry weather, on Christmas Eve Gawain comes upon a beautiful castle where he is graciously received. |
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| The young man nodded, his expression frozen in grim acceptance. |
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| Who can say where the bloodbath, the spiraling destruction, the grim tornado that strews cadavers in its wake could end? |
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| His grim personal experience gave him the bona fides not to look soft on crime. |
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| We find ourselves at funerals, pondering the capriciousness of the grim reaper. |
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| My grim Mexican ferryman didn't utter a word throughout the crossing. |
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| Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape. |
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| After a grim nine months spent recovering from shoulder surgery and trying to remember how to win matches, Henman finally wrapped up 2003 with a flourish. |
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| The scene is grim and portentous, and a sense of foreboding looms. |
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| From the grim expression on Frank's face, it's clear that the game is up. |
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| But despite this grim subject matter it is not a depressing play. |
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| He slowly descended the stairs with a grim look on his face. |
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| In purple prose, Frank paints a grim picture of the state and its towns. |
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| The headmaster and priest was there, a grim expression on his face. |
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| With these grim figures to consider, it is expected that Carlow would be one of the first test centres in the country to benefit from any forthcoming additional resources. |
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| The war was a grim reminder of the inhumanity of man to man. |
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| His choice of language was a bit doom-laden, but his take on the current oil situation appears to justify his pretty grim view of what's in store. |
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| But somehow, that sort of irreverent, grim humor doesn't seem appropriate. |
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| Although it took 13 reconstructive surgeries in six years to put her back together, Bray cultivated a certain grim sense of humor about her injuries. |
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| Sitting in the shade of the fig trees in Westminster's bustling Portcullis House last week, Ian Cawsey recalled with grim humour the moment when he almost died. |
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| The first draft I write by hand in my local library, where the room is so grim there is nothing else to distract me, so I concentrate on the writing just to get out of there. |
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| I walked on all the way to Dartford, which is a bit grim to be honest. |
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| It is a grim suburb of Wishaw, composed of high-rise tower blocks and a network of lower-level blocks of flats, narrow alleyways and parking lots. |
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| People were hanging on for grim death as I looked around for the sick bag! |
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| The winds howled their dirge about the rough-hewn stone dwellings huddled under the grim fortress of the Sorcerers who kept watch over the once-great plains of Kal Maros. |
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| Not many science-fiction authors can spin off a great first chapter which is gives you a disquieting, grim gradual revelation of being in a completely alien environment. |
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| That said, a double-action revolver with a more maneuverable 4-inch barrel is probably the best bet in a grim last-chance situation with the bear already on top of you. |
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| The result was a grim monthlong whirlwind of doctors' visits, medical tests and furrowed brows. |
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| The moment of grim realisation that I was procrastinating in an obsessive fashion came standing at the sink one day, when I caught myself polishing the cutlery. |
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| The grim forecasts of the tragedy of the commons are not without challenge. |
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| But for the well-heeled and well-advised, only the grim reaper is a dead certainty. |
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| Unofficially, Mike Thomas calls himself body snatcher, grim reaper, night stalker, bag man. |
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| The results reflected the change that has come over Indian morale and training since the grim days of 1962, when the Chinese walked all over them. |
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| Television cameras clustered around a single man, evidently drunk, who spoke brokenly of his grim experiences. |
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| The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances. |
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| They were the eyes of a dwindling life, of a horse accustomed to the rowel on her silver bit, to a man's grim hand on her headstall. |
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| This is the grim reality of the Korean peninsula, stemming from the nuclear threat. |
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| The Central African region, in particular, presents a prime example of this grim reality. |
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| In the Security Council, for instance, we have observed this grim reality on many occasions. |
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| The grim reality tells us that the international community has a long way to go towards fulfilling its duty to protect civilians. |
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| Already the grim images of the war have become jumbled in my mind. |
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| In such an emergency, doctors may be confronted with a very grim choice: transfuse or allow someone to die. |
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| But grim headlines from other parts of the world impel international fund managers to reduce their exposure to developing countries in general. |
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| In 1909, he wrote from France commiserating over the grim weather in Cambridge, but suggested the city had many consolations. |
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| She set off with grim purposefulness, then ran into a spot of trouble early in her morning. |
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| The world is a better place for the removal of his influence, of that I'm certain, but I feel it's a time for grim determination and resolution rather than cheering. |
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| A landmark in film realism, its grim irony and brutal honesty were untempered by optimism or compassion. |
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| The rear of Selfridges is a grim place, just a service road lined by characterless buildings, and totally unlike the elegance of the imposing frontage. |
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| The situation was never so grim in Canada, where a tradition of orderliness at least made our cities relatively safe places to live in and visit. |
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| So there's a striking contrast between the grim aspect of the kitchens and vaults at ground floor level, and the movement of space and light at first-floor level and above. |
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| Just as soon as a useless worry shows signs of seizing a firm hold upon you is the time to abandon appeasement and take grim measures. |
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| It should not endeavour to write a cookery book, which is subsequently used in some new night-time session to concoct a grim menu. |
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| They are experienced with the grim side of husbandry, but they are not inured to it. |
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| We are all depressed by the endlessly grim sequence of events in the region. |
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| The agent was waterborne, he believed, and its spread was the fault of the grim sanitation that Londoners then endured. |
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| The Integration and Development Centre is unfazed by these grim findings and pins its hopes on the encouraging results of its work. |
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| Secondly, it had referred to a particularly grim page of the history of France. |
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| The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. |
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| This caricature shows the grim reaper with his scythe aboard a chariot bearing a coffin. |
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| In grim desperation the Labor Party has voted for its self-survival in a bid to deny or cripple an Abbott government. |
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| The sea lanes of the world, especially those of the North Atlantic, were a grim battleground. |
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| The FA will live up to that responsibility.' The FA customarily takes a grim view of players and managers assaulting fans. |
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| If Jimmy Grimble is about the grim realities of childhood, it is also about the stories we tell ourselves that allow us to escape. |
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| Cattle producers who normally market their calves in the fall are facing a grim picture this year. |
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| Maybe that is why they are using something like this to take up House time and distract from the grim realities in which they now engage. |
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| This suggests that analysts and investors were not as grim about the economy as before. |
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| However, scientific data paints a grim picture of the future of these stocks if fishing continues. |
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| So in this sense, it is good that the political efforts being made on all sides are accompanied by grim determination. |
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| The grim poverty of the world's first workers state began with the economic and social backwardness inherited from the old tsarist empire. |
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| Despite the grim and worsening realities of the war in Afghanistan, Canadians have been able to contribute to a better future for Afghans. |
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| Despite such grim social statistics and difficult challenges, Nunavut is also a territory that has incredible potential and opportunity. |
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| That was the only grim moment in a brilliant career which almost span a century. |
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| People refer to it all the time with toothy glee as a way to convey just how grim the great outdoors looms. |
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| There are moments the grim metal can overpower the sleazy pop charm of early material. |
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| But their protestations often were marked by grim frowns or quieter caveats when they thought the formal interview over. |
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| His eyes were brown and narrowed in a look of impassability, and his mouth was set in a grim line that nearly sent a shudder through the young initiate. |
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| A grim future awaits the area if the pits are allowed to go under. |
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| With Makoto now on the defensive and Inoue treated as a plaything, the entire situation looked grim for the entire village and even bleaker for the two defenders. |
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| The grim discovery of the body was made by a farmer yesterday morning. |
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| They stood behind him when he sat on the Court, a Court he constantly sought to make aware of the grim realities of life for millions of other Americans. |
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| His focus on the grim and the disturbing is beautiful, and becomes rhythmic, atmospheric, and addictive. |
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| Alan Gross was in a cheery mood, having survived a grim five-year stint in a Cuban prison. |
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| This is only made that much worse by the grim statistics we augmented on Friday. |
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| The grim events that surround the early use of chlorine gas have become a staple of horrifying war stories. |
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| Amid grim alternatives, clooney helped remind us all that one man still can make a difference. |
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| For the less gullible among us, the administration's alarmist rhetoric in 2002 was a grim farce, and the unfolding of the nightmare we see today was a foregone conclusion. |
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| Starr refused to withhold the doctor's grim prognosis from Ellard. |
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| Instead, rather intriguingly, it has become a grim battle of the superpowers, both engaged in a hard fight to keep the media wolves from their door. |
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| Perhaps it's because I was wearing bright red on a cold, grim rainy day. |
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| Some see all significance in the grim front of the destroyer, and some in the bitter sufferers of the Lost Cause. |
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| The news made tabloid headlines around the world, a grim case of do-gooding apparently gone wrong. |
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| The medical record, from an Ebola case, made for grim reading, but dr. Ian Crozier could not put it down. |
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| True, they had no shower gel at the time and the heat treatments softened the grit and grim for removal while the cold waters revived the weary bather. |
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| The withered trees and dry streams portray the grim situation. |
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| Still, at its largest in 1944, the Gestapo had only 31,000 agents to fulfill its grim brief across all of occupied Europe. |
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| In a grim echo of Michael Brown, the white New York City cop who placed Eric Garner in a banned chokehold wasn't charged. |
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| Incidentally, the casualty ward is a grim place at the best of times. |
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| Lifeboats are very grim places, with satisfyingly simple rules. |
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| The dizzying altitude, schizophrenic temperatures, lack of rainfall, and coarse terrain make it one of the most grim of all the places that humans call home. |
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| The defendants watched from within a steel-mesh cage in what often seemed a grim scene from Kafka or the theater of the absurd. |
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| But the long-standing animal attractions are past their sell-by date, and will look particularly grim to families who've been to SeaWorld or Busch Gardens in Florida. |
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| This was a guy so surly and grim that he made Tommy Lee Jones look like SpongeBob SquarePants. |
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| It begins with a grieving boy beside his father's funeral pyre, who is claimed by a worryingly uncouth uncle and taken away to a grim new life of servitude. |
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| Like the Porter in Macbeth, his role is to provide a moment of levity in otherwise grim and serious times. |
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| Growing up with a mixed-race mother on the wrong side of the tracks in Seattle, she also has enough experience of grim reality that she never seems to run out of pain. |
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| It is a grim pilgrimage, a pilgrimage under duress, during which he is beset by threatening forces which he cannot fathom and yet needs to comprehend if he is to survive. |
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| Torrey has himself borne witness to the locking up of the mentally ill, and he paints a grim picture of the scene. |
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| The film, set in the bleak and grim coal mines of northern China, tells about two robbers' schemes to extort compensation money by murdering innocent miners. |
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| She was in her second trimester when she and her husband were given a grim prognosis. |
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| One minute, he was staring off into outer space with a dreamy smile on his face and a split second afterward, he was tensed up with a bleak, grim expression. |
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| But his desire to prove a point backfired in a grim and unambitious contest which spectacularly failed to live up to its pre-fight hype as a clash between two big punchers. |
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| This is partly to end slopping out, which is the lot of a quarter of Scottish prisoners, for whom grim Victorian buildings are no longer deemed adequate. |
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| Reagan proceeds to paint a grim picture of the State of the Union, starting with the economy and moving to Vietnam. |
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| If you have any fantasies about a pastoral past full of sunshine and sweet moments, unsullied by the grim industrial monuments of the current day, this should disabuse you. |
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| She looked up to see his grim expression and immediately sobered. |
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| But for a poignant and very enjoyable commentary on the grim perils of Vogue-inspired perfectionism, you could do no better. |
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| Every grim vaticination made by Malthus turned out to be wrong. |
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| Trrol saw as much apprehension as determination in their grim visages, and he read clearly, too, that they possessed little in the way of fencing skills. |
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| Doyle sighed, the beautiful voice at odds with his grim visage. |
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| In the ensuing chaos, she herself could have become another grim statistic in the terrible death toll of Sabra and Shatila, had her father not rescued her and her family. |
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| Moving between the cheery nimbleness of the Fourth Symphony and the grim battle against fate in the Fifth, a greater contrast is barely imaginable. |
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| Things were looking grim when Keynes went into cold storage. |
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| The only chink of light in this grim scenario is that there now seems to be a small group of influential voices on the political right that are willing to take on the pro-grammar lobby. |
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| And here then unfolded slowly but surely the, uh, grim story of what happened during the night, that the synagogues all through Germany had been set on fire, destroyed. |
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| The grim fa¿ade of the chapel, new red brick with no windows down below, and spyholes in dark locked door, flaunts its imperviousness to anti-Catholic rioters and children seeking charity. |
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| Never mind that the first stages take the runners through a grim industrial estate outside Athens: the idea of retracing Pheidippides's footsteps still grips many participants. |
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| It is unsupportable to blank out grim details. |
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| We must face resolutely the grim realities of this hour, fully cognizant of the fact that the Communists can be restrained only by firmness and countervailing power. |
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| In this case, rather than ambition being tempered by realism, there is a need to be cognizant of the grim reality facing all of us with the continued existence of nuclear weapons. |
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| The emperor Justinian observed with grim satisfaction the declining sea power of the Vandals, their fading military might, and the softening effect on them of luxury and excess. |
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| I am disheartened to hear about the grim prospects for Mozambique's youngest generation and cannot help but wonder what this means for the future of the country. |
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| But the sci-fi lullaby turned grim 20 days after the transplant. |
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| Of course, after a grim day over the washboard, most of us can think of ninety-nine things we'd rather do than carry on a stimulating conversation with a three-year old. |
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| Peacock played a spaceman, dying a grim death inside his pressure suit. |
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| I was carrying out the trash one afternoon and came upon what used to be the coal cellar, a grim crawl space now littered with shingles and mildewed cardboard boxes. |
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| Bad, he doubtless was. But when he tried to run a blazer on this grim little cowman, Slaughter had run him. |
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