Word: grimness
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...glut of offices, condos and hotels threatens builders and lenders. Coca-Cola is under pressure again. Grim reapings for farmers...
...visible. But this was deceptive. The plane had broken apart, and major parts of it, as well as its human cargo, had been flung into the ravines and gullies on either side of the narrow ridge. The air was filled with a vile stench from the burning plane, in grim contrast to the cool, clear, bracing air of the cloud-shrouded mountaintop...
...romance and sees courtship and marriage as raw struggles for power, owes much to Brook. But the insights into the characters, the reasoned resistance to happy endings and especially the mesmeric visual imagery are Ciulei's own. From the first moment, this Dream shows itself to be more about grim realities and revelatory nightmares. The captive Amazon Queen Hippolyta (Lorraine Toussaint), garbed as a soldier and coiffed with a Grace Jones-style Mohawk, stands mute yet defiant as the guards of Duke Theseus (Gary Reineke) surround her. They tear off her uniform and toss it onto a fire, revealing...
...scandals, headed by the exposure of the Walker-family espionage ring, proliferated as rarely, if ever, before. The scare of the year was medical: the spread of AIDS touched off public anxiety and hysteria far beyond anything warranted by the facts, though the facts were surely grim enough. Of 15,775 people who had caught the disease, 8,122 were known to have died...
...family was thrown into Yodok, an isolated work camp for political prisoners, and Kang spent the next 10 years there. His book recalls occasional moments of childhood normality?Kang played in the woods, and writes of his astonishment at seeing a bear. But Aquariums is mostly grim. When two prisoners were hanged for trying to escape, guards ordered other inmates to stone the corpses?women who couldn't bear to do so were beaten. When a sister of one of Kang's close friends died of starvation in winter, she couldn't be buried deep because the ground was frozen...