| There are those tales too of a somewhat grimmer nature concerning the use of humour to palliate the horrors of war. |
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| Even grimmer and more grotesque scenarios are amply available in the world of globalization. |
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| The consensus was that things were bottoming out, but in recent months the picture has got even grimmer. |
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| And the numbers are even grimmer in neighborhoods like Johnny's, where students are five times more likely to have underqualified teachers. |
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| The wording was practically archaic and the message it conveyed was grimmer than it needed to be, in her opinion. |
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| After two days on foot over difficult mountainous terrain, what we discovered was even grimmer than expected. |
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| It is fair to say that in each debate the news has been grimmer then in the preceding debate. |
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| Notwithstanding the hardships faced in many parts of the developed world, the scenarios unfolding in many developing countries are grimmer. |
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| The outlook for the European car market over the year as a whole has proved to be grimmer than was earlier foreseen. |
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| I am sure that many women are facing a grimmer plight than what was obviously present at the conference. |
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| That jarring clash mocked their faces, made grimmer by anxiety, crushing any peace and arousing atavistic fears. |
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| Effectively balancing these grimmer themes, Ms. Roumillac gives Elza a youthful, searching energy. |
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| The film's subject-matter could not be grimmer, yet Lang enlivens grey emptiness with an Otto Dix-like burlesque energy. |
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| America's role in Cambodia became even grimmer during the 1980s, after the Khmer Rouge were driven from power by a Vietnamese invasion force. |
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| As the film progresses, you go from these beautiful desert vistas to a much darker, grimmer look. |
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| The colors in the exterior scenes in India are bright and deeply saturated, but once the film's tone becomes grimmer, the color palette becomes muted and desaturated. |
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| If we do not derive the priceless lessons to be learned from the catastrophe and if we fail to take concrete steps, we will face the possibility of having to deal with an even grimmer situation in the future. |
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| From diamond mining to exploration for new minerals, from the service industries to aviation, trucking and expediting of the oil and gas work in the Mackenzie Valley, the situation is grim and getting grimmer. |
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| The grimmer battle of St. Julien lay ahead. |
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| His face, however, grew grimmer and sterner still. |
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| After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself. |
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| Behind these encouraging trends there lurks a grimmer reality. |
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| But its own internal report paints a much grimmer picture of complacency throughout its top management, which was told about growing problems with reserves, but chose not to enquire into them. |
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| My guess is that the grimmer elements of Piketty's forecast have only a 50-50 chance of coming true even if plutocrats achieve and maintain a lock on politics for the next three generations. |
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| Although some of this drop was due to the call-up of military reservists, the numbers were worse than analysts had expected. In Europe, the news has, if anything, been even grimmer. |
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| As Batman comic books grew grimmer throughout the 1970s and 1980s, it was felt that Batgirl's existence weakened Batman's, and Gordon hung up her cowl. |
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| A narrow squeak for England against Papua New Guinea in Townsville at the 2008 World Cup was uncomfortable and a harbinger of grimmer times to come. |
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| He was certain that there are grimmer elements in the play, but they are overlooked because the audience focuses on the story of the sympathetic young lovers. |
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