"grim" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Even at his tender years, Mr. Levin was aware of this grim backdrop to the production.
- Against this grim backdrop, exacerbated further by a permanent war on terrorism that does not resemble the first slamdunk war in Iraq, "Assassins" hits much closer to home.
- With this grim backdrop, some economists are arguing for a deficit-be-damned approach of more spending early on in the Clinton Administration.
- It's a recognition that the stagnation economists predict means that the 2015 election will be fought against a grim backdrop, and that to be credible Labour has to acknowledge that fact.
- The ravaged neighborhoods of New Orleans make a grim backdrop for imagining the future of American cities.
- The pre-pandemic case fatality ratio of over 50% provides a grim backdrop for the fact that the currently circulating H5N1 strains have certain genetic similarities with the Spanish Influenza pandemic virus.
- The red-alert siren continued, a grim backdrop to the chaos all around.
- It was an ever grimmer backdrop to efforts by Iraq's first Shiite-majority government to fill gaps in the new cabinet from the restive Sunni minority.
- In today's increasingly disturbing world, home to Al Qaeda cells and suicide bombers, offshore sham partnerships and document-shredding auditors, the grim backdrop against which Gatsby's life plays out feels depressingly right.
- It was a grim backdrop for any incumbent president to contemplate a bid for a second term.
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