When the last perpendicular post was hurled onto the pile of wreckage, the man climbed atop the heap, leaned on his sledge hammer and grimly surveyed his handiwork.

"As you say," Maarni said, her shrewd blue eyes under tight curls of mane grimly surveying the landscape as a general might the bloody aftermath of a battle.

He grimly surveyed the groups of capos and their soldiers gathered around him in the chamber.

IN Lucille's tent, the sheriff was grimly surveying overturned chairs and upset articles upon the dressing table.

His portrayal of trench warfare has the urgent feel of documentary footage, and there's a crane shot that grimly surveys a battlefield littered with the corpses of dead horses.

"That cannot be done," Feldrin said, grimly surveying the area.

At midnight on April 20 Heinrici grimly surveyed his maps and tried to analyze the situation.

Dr. Lakshman grimly surveyed the snow blowing freely through what was left of the shuttle's cabin.

Walworth grimly surveyed my cloak, quietly appraising the damage the fisherman's sup had done to me.

Mr. Hammond flagged down a passing sheriff's deputy, William Kirtley, who grimly surveyed the property.