Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes produces truly frightening effects (as in The Big Jump, a film in which he struggles with a madman on a high building ledge), but in the most low-keyed of his stories he still lures the viewer by making the television screen a sort of peephole into a grim new world...
...Myself (with grim patience): Is that so? I wonder. But then, money is not everything in life...
Mostly, the amiable Russians seemed more bent on winning friends than influencing people. The Finns, on the other hand, were inclined to be a little grim. Finnish Coach Antera Lauri, who had taken a team to Russia the year before, scoffed at reports that the Russians were unbeatable. One Finnish skier was more explicit: "We're going to do to them what they did to us in the winter...
...literary age often characterized by intentional obscurity and rampant symbolism, it is interesting to find a first-class novel which affects neither. The Night of the Hunter, Davis Grubb's first attempt at novel writing is mainly a narrative--grim, sometimes sordid, but at the same time warm and deceptively optimistic. And the author surprises readers hardened to literary cynicism with the rarity of a happy ending...
...left him haunted by the certainty that Giuliano's friends would seek revenge. "One of these days they will kill me," he was sometimes heard to mutter as he paced the tiny cell he shared with his father (also a convicted bandit) in Palermo's grim Ucciar-done Prison...