It is a grim portrait of this fledgling government coming face to face with its constituents.

The report provides a grim portrait of dilapidation.

The numbers, they say, paint a grim portrait.

Outside the school yesterday, students painted a grim portrait.

This grim portrait doesn't mean that there are no oysters left in the Chesapeake.

And by yesterday afternoon, the grim portrait of rape and abduction had evaporated.

In the association's 51-page report, the authors paint a grim portrait of the lockdown units in some state prisons.

But by all measures, the data released yesterday were a grim portrait of employment in New Jersey.

Scratch that surface and you'll discover more than just a grim portrait ". "

The film is a grim, melancholic portrait of a young man searching and failing to find meaning in his life.