grimness

He looked about him with a sort of total grimness.

"We wanted them to have a break from all the grimness."

Maybe so, he thought with just an edge of grimness.

"We'll see what it looks like outside," he said with a certain grimness.

But what came through to Ford was the grimness of the effort.

There was a grimness around his eyes and mouth as he spoke.

She herself, from the North country grimness of a manufacturing town.

But there was a grimness on his face that suggested something more.

But he made no effort to play down the grimness of the new statistics.

But then, when he lifted it back up, the grimness had gone.

The grimness of the officer's face was plain when he turned to her.

Seated at her side he could see the grimness grow.

It did his heart good to see them cheered so, when grimness was the order of the day.

And there was enough of grimness in the present situation to make it cruelty.

Then she spoke with a grimness that was almost frightening.

"I know," and there was an unexpected grimness in his voice.

Couldn't get much further away from those conditions, I thought with some grimness.

There was a brisk grimness in the way he spoke.

She caught the grimness - and the fatigue - in his mind.

The grimness of his message, sent across space to our captain, caught me by the heart.

There was a slight grimness to the humor in her voice.

He looked at me with an old man's grimness.

"We seem to be in technology hell," she says with mock grimness.

It makes life much easier,' he added with faint grimness.

My dear man, the grimness of that story is not to be depicted in words.