How To Use Grimness In A Sentence
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a spirit which Satan had bound, the schoolmaster caught sight, -- caught from its commonness, its grimness, its defeature, inspiration and uplifting, for there he beheld the oppressed, down trodden, mire fouled humanity which the man in whom he believed had loved because it was his father's humanity divided into brothers, and had died straining to lift back to the bosom of that Father.
The Marquis of Lossie
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All it is a balm from the relentless assault of cliched grimness we endure in SciFi.
Is a grim, dark, nihilistic view of the future in SciFi...groundbreaking?
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NZ On Screen
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From the grimness on the doctor's face as he studied the X-ray, I guessed it might well be the latter.
NIGHT SISTERS
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The novel depicts the grimness of life for the unemployed in Salford.
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Luckily, some levity is emerging amid the grimness and serious analysis.
Times, Sunday Times
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The overall tone of the collection, despite the general grimness of the panorama, is gentle and serene.
Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev – review
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The book is unsparing in revealing the grimness and horror of war, of the sudden loss of friends, of living under appalling conditions, of ‘trying to do what I could with a tourniquet of webbing on a youngster who had lost a leg’.
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After each jump, she gestured her thanks, the intensity at once gone, the smile as blazing as the grimness a moment before.
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But now most popularize objects are aged and with low self-stuff, the popularizing agricultural technique faced grimness circumstance.
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The kind of 10-minute blast of unadulterated grimness which turns up out of the blue late at night on BBC2, haranguing you with supposedly meaningful images of alcoholic depressives shouting at each other in tower blocks.
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The grimness and uniformity of daily life in Pyongyang and in provincial areas is clear from the photographs.
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Those whose work constantly expose them to the unrelieved grimness of human suffering and death take refuge in gallows humor.
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It is a far and delightfully welcome cry from the grimness and grime usually associated with building sites.
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Brilliantly though the power of war to destroy, corrupt and degrade everything it touches is conveyed, the book's unrelieved grimness will be a problem for some.
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It is a prosperous society of states - productive, diverse, but subject to waves of disruption and containing pockets of unobserved and unrelieved grimness.
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I expected to meet a creature of almost heraldic grimness -- rampant, disregardant, gules.
Set in Silver
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Grimness, in its suggestion of a dire situation, of even a hopeless one, makes it pretty difficult to take issue.
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There is in these stories a curious mixture of humour, insight and pathos, with here and there a dash of grimness and a sprinkling of that charming irrelevancy which is of the essence of true humour.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891
