James Levine drew rich colors from the orchestra, yet his slow tempos contributed to the grimness of the night.

NEWYORKER: Fiasco

The grimness is alleviated by absurdist humour, grotesque situations and snappy rejoinders reminiscent of Saul Bellow or, rather, Woody Allen.

ECONOMIST: Novels from the Netherlands

That's not to suggest that Bachmann has lost his gift for grimness.

NPR: Touring the World, but Always Lost

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

ECONOMIST: Treating both sides of an intractable conflict

Apparently he preferred the starkness, grittiness ofttimes grimness of black and white.

FORBES: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Aesthetic Contrarian

Still, for all his grimness, the groom-to-be recalls the fire of that first sexual encounter with Sylvia it took place on a passenger train and that there was something magnificent about the woman.

WSJ: Television Review: The Battlegrounds of Love and War

The earnestness of attitude, the grimness of the humor, and the careful compositions will perplex audiences too young to have seen Bergman movies and sadden, mostly by force of nostalgia, those devoted moviegoers who were raised on little else.

NEWYORKER: Faithless

This consists of wearing the spectacular head dress and attending the carnival of unmitigated pain: the head clamp allows endless agony-enhancing chemicals to be pumped directly into your brain while you're simultaneously force fed images of extreme grimness of all kinds, shapes and sizes.

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