grimly
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However perverse and depraved the ideas that animate the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah, they inspire the kind of conviction that motivates people to fight grimly on against the odds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
The reasons for John’s ferocious emotional repression are not fully explored, but they seem intrinsic to his grimly sustaining notion of island heritage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Which, upon consideration of his Epstein-related difficulties, is grimly appropriate.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
By 1929 Vincent Sheean, an American journalist, was describing Jerusalem in a way that is grimly familiar to reporters there almost a century later.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025
Quoth Bono grimly, “Glorious, glorious. That is a pretty sentiment.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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