grimness

How To Use grimness In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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
• Grimness, in its suggestion of a dire situation, of even a hopeless one, makes it pretty difficult to take issue.
• I expected to meet a creature of almost heraldic grimness -- rampant, disregardant, gules. Set in Silver
• It is a prosperous society of states - productive, diverse, but subject to waves of disruption and containing pockets of unobserved and unrelieved grimness.
• 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.
• It is a far and delightfully welcome cry from the grimness and grime usually associated with building sites.
• Those whose work constantly expose them to the unrelieved grimness of human suffering and death take refuge in gallows humor.
• The grimness and uniformity of daily life in Pyongyang and in provincial areas is clear from the photographs.
• 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