| My hostel, on first encounter, had an institutional grimness defying the more immediate forms of description. |
| It is a far and delightfully welcome cry from the grimness and grime usually associated with building sites. |
| The grimness and uniformity of daily life in Pyongyang and in provincial areas is clear from the photographs. |
| Rather than go out and spend in the shops, consumers are packing up and going on holiday to escape the growing grimness of life in Britain. |
| The frugality of the life, the hypnotically hard work of farming, the grimness of conditions during the dust bowl demanded an economy of words. |
| After each jump, she gestured her thanks, the intensity at once gone, the smile as blazing as the grimness a moment before. |
