grimness

Example Sentences

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There’s a particular grimness to this deal happening at this moment, and with this A.I. giant.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2026

And this is why all efforts to escape from the grimness of the present into nostalgia for a still intact past, or into the anticipated oblivion of a better future, are vain.

From Salon • Nov. 18, 2023

With their return to Ukraine just days away, the grimness of the future that awaits the trainees at the French base was perceptible in the men’s determined, unsmiling looks.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2023

That this wasn’t just another episode of television for Barclay was made even more apparent by the grimness of the final moment.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

A kind of grimness had been growing on the Godslayer the nearer they drew to their destination.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor