Grimly realistic, the Pistons are just mean enough to beat the Knicks out of professional pride.

His work "has its roots in painfully lived experience", and portrays a grimly realistic vision of life.

The Mayor's staff members had hoped he would take some time off this summer, but now they are becoming grimly realistic.

It is a grimly realistic piece set in France during the Hundred Years' War.

At the time the film was released, the New York Times praised Cry of the City as "taut and grimly realistic."

In its very individual and grimly realistic way it is very romantic, but this is not pretty cinema!

The early chapters are grimly realistic, with heavy emphasis on the futility of illusions.

At times a grimly realistic On the Road for the 21st century, the novel is rife with unsettling observations of our love affair with spiritual ruin.

One gang member, whose trade is robbing and mugging, sounds grimly realistic about his prospects.

This piece of grimly realistic arithmetic persuaded most Civil War commanders, on both sides, to devise alternative punishments for those who ran away.