grimness

Both groups are Nuer, but hate each other with a grimness that has come to characterise relations between many pastoralist peoples in Africa.

The grimness of the situation was evident in their faces.

The novel depicted the grimness of war with vivid detail.

The grimness of the weather made outdoor activities impossible.

Despite the grimness of the news, they remained hopeful.

The film captured the grimness of poverty in a powerful way.

The grimness of the task ahead weighed heavily on their minds.

The soldier's face showed the grimness of battle scars.

The grimness of the economic forecast caused concern among investors.

The grimness of the reality hit her hard.

He tried to lighten the grimness of the situation with a joke.

Was it perfectionism? Was it, you know this very serious grimness? And you wanted to be more playful?

" Don't worry: I'm going to tell you, " she said, her grimness not relaxed.

Like a junk heap from the Industrial Revolution, the structure exuded inhuman technological grimness and steel-bound barbarity.

Some tried to explain the grimness and monotony of their world in terms of an endless cosmic war between good and evil, in which humans were the battleground.

He had reached the stage in a young man's life when the grimness of the general human situation first becomes clear; and the realization of this causes ambition to halt awhile.

She asked the question, meaning if possible to get from him some hint of his intentions; but the grimness of his answer, though it only confirmed her vague suspicions, startled her.

And this is why all efforts to escape from the grimness of the present into nostalgia for a still intact past, or into the anticipated oblivion of a better future, are vain.

The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.