They have a grim sense of how far they've come and how much self-esteem they've lost.

The audience listened out of a grim sense of duty.

They lack your grim sense of acceptance, I suppose.

There was no rage inside her, only a grim sense of satisfaction and something that felt almost like - pity?

The tableau even showed a grim sense of humor.

I didn't know why but I had a grim sense of foreboding.

A grim sense of completion, yes, but nothing more than that, for she'd known it would never bring Paul back to her.

A grim sense of failure settled over Charlie once more.

Unless it be that the gods have a grim sense of humour.

With a grim sense of foreboding, he now began to seriously question what she might have meant by earning her own way in the war.