Were the Russian people programmed somehow in the Stone Age to an eternally grim destiny?

The grim destiny confronting rookies and veterans alike is that they will someday go off with the Turk, who arrives at dawn, and may never again be seen by their teammates.

One can only conclude that the older children are fulfilling their own grim destiny as part of the "five times more likely."

The result was a dense movement haiku - the entire narrative compressed into a relentless progression across the stage as the two protagonists moved toward their grim destiny.

You are a child of grim destiny.

I sometimes wonder, Elric, if this grim destiny of yours is the figment of your own guilt-ridden mood.

Standard heavy-metal songs flaunt toughness, railing against grim destiny or trying to exorcise it through exaggeration.

They knew only logic and efficiency and the grim, unyielding destiny they brought to Brahmin II.

And Mr. Kilmer's murderous vagabond is so narcotized by the prospect of his grim destiny that he actually appears to be sleeping through much of the trial and interrogation scenes.

You wonder, for example, exactly when the seeds were planted for SoHo's grim destiny as an open-air mall.