grimness

Example Sentences

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Grimness becomes a habit, and it's been hard in the past couple of years not to fall into it.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2022

Meanwhile, police in Orkney are dealing with reports of flooding at Evie; on the Airport Road near Kirkwall; and at Grimness in South Ronaldsay.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2017

On the Batman Grimness Scale — with Adam West's campy Caped Crusader on one end and Frank Miller's psychotic "Dark Knight Returns" on the other — Bermejo's Batman leans strongly toward "Heartless."

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2011

Grimness and distortion took place of all that used to bewitch me into transport, and subdue me into reverence.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden

Grimness had settled down over the sleighing party.

From One of Ours by Cather, Willa Sibert