| The wording was practically archaic and the message it conveyed was grimmer than it needed to be, in her opinion. |
| The consensus was that things were bottoming out, but in recent months the picture has got even grimmer. |
| The film's subject-matter could not be grimmer, yet Lang enlivens grey emptiness with an Otto Dix-like burlesque energy. |
| Effectively balancing these grimmer themes, Ms. Roumillac gives Elza a youthful, searching energy. |
| It is fair to say that in each debate the news has been grimmer then in the preceding debate. |
| There are those tales too of a somewhat grimmer nature concerning the use of humour to palliate the horrors of war. |
