Too grimly unfunny, I suspect — and too overtly political.
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"People come in and steal the chairs," Valentino said grimly.
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The tone of everyday life was circumspect and grimly proper.
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But the couple had to grimly acknowledge nicotine's physiological grip.
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"Well, we have an orchestra here," he says grimly, chillingly.
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Maybe it's that she is so grimly literal about everything.
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"That's what I'm worried about," he said grimly before relenting.
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I gulped my beer grimly, feeling like the dumbest idiot ever.
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The face, with its grimly downturned mouth, is imprinted with tension.
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Bedient says the death toll, grimly, will give the final answer.
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Trump can't believe it and goes back to grimly slumping forward.
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It was a narrow, grimly lit space with sky-high ceilings.
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Still, Reicher, like so many environmentalists, goes grimly about his business.
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"No photographs," he says grimly, nodding at the men waiting outside.
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" She pauses, then adds grimly: "It's a world without human relations.
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"The basin has a mind of its own," Fincham said, grimly.
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The tragic elements of the work are played straight and grimly.
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" He added grimly, "They have a fertility rate three times ours.
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PRESIDENT ZELENSKY ( grimly ): We might as well invoice Putin for Crimea.
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The scenes inside the lab and beyond its windows are grimly contrasting.
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"I see this grimly portrayed in many corners of life," she says.
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The production, though simple, was charming and, by the end, grimly effective.
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"Other bridges don't have troubled spirits lurking about," Ms. Mackinnon insisted grimly.
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The Harvey Weinstein verdict is at once gravely disappointing and grimly satisfying.
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Francis grimly sets about this task while his brothers remain conveniently oblivious.
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Or, more grimly, he is aware of it -- and simply doesn't care.
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COLOGNE, Germany — "A fiasco," said a local lawmaker, shaking his head grimly.
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"Thank you, or not, as the case may be," Frank said, grimly.
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"I'm not usually this much of a mess," he said, mock-grimly.
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There is no need for Twitter to grimly quest for preeminent success alone.
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Given this behavior, his assaults on the judiciary and media are grimly unsurprising.
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The usually photogenic Republican governor of Missouri looks drawn, his jaw grimly set.
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That an issue so important could be determined so arbitrarily seems grimly fitting.
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The number of houses allied with her, Jaime admits grimly, is maybe three.
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However, some part of me is grimly certain he will die at 2.
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And the prospect, of course, of all of this continuing, grimly, for months.
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For a man accursed by history, Adolf Hitler led a grimly charmed life.
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"We had running battles with some very fat squirrels," Ms. Blashek said grimly.
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"If we were able to get more 3s," Popovich admitted grimly, "we would."
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Brexit will make this grimly easier, since Britain will offer fewer and worse jobs.
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Insisted on mounting a grimly negative campaign against her opponent that most probably backfired.
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Wloszczowska hung on grimly but could not live with Rissveds in the final reckoning.
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On one striking full page, Grill grimly presents the 130 distinctive traps Seton used.
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But then the old soldier grinned grimly, gritting his teeth, and glanced at Are.
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Some stared grimly at Matt as he made his way quickly toward the door.
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" Though maybe, Meyers said grimly, that means Trump will be "a great fucking president.
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The arrival of rescuers is a grimly familiar sight to regulars at the beach.
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Holbrooke despised the fugitives but had grimly made up his mind to meet them.
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" Singer comments: "Marx got it wrong, and Bakunin's 'nightmares about authority' were grimly prophetic.
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In the clip above, we see Dan struggle grimly inside a giant water balloon.
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"We thought maybe we could buy a few thousand lottery tickets," Zohar said, grimly.
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"I thought that I felt all I could feel about this story," he said, grimly.
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It's a wordless collection of scenes of the characters grimly striving at various unclear tasks.
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One Democratic health care lobbyist grimly predicted to me Sanders would take the Democratic nomination.
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Instead, Ms. Power grimly made her way through a day haunted by the boy's death.
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Hackman's "Popeye" Doyle has two modes throughout The French Connection: Grimly determined and maniacally determined.
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Though Olsen is based in Copenhagen, his statement rings grimly true in a global context.
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It's such a horrifyingly casual display that it becomes grimly amusing before it turns devastating.
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As a director, when he's not being grimly literal, he's all flourishes and shock effects.
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The season started grimly, with a lockout, eventually costing 16 games of the regular season.
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Present Day Burnham appears to die while the rest of the Discovery crew grimly watch.
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"Men, on the other hand, never fully recover," one summary of the research grimly concludes.
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Hill's worldview, though bleak, has a moral coherence; things make sense in a grimly perverse way.
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He stars as Wilfred James, a farmer grimly clinging to his family land in 1920s Nebraska.
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A bestseller in his homeland, it offers a grimly compelling insight into the psychology of fanaticism.
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In the super tease, Parker grimly attends the funeral for his grandfather alongside his dad Roger.
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We've had months and months of winter, with more grimly cold and slushy weather to come.
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We then cut to Chris Harrison, in real time, who grimly announced that they broke up.
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The most grimly funny scene, however, happens to be the moment judge Brad Dawkins (Higgins) dies.
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He says that he prefers to work "behind the scenes," and his wish is grimly granted.
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"I grit my gums, I brace myself against the uterine walls," the fetus tells us grimly.
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Worse, extreme nationalist and xenophobic movements are grimly reminiscent of the dark decades of Europe's past.
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It's still grimly pleasant, but stabbing rather than shooting video game opponents feels inherently more personal.
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All day, every day, horizontal sheets of mockingly humid rain pelted down with grimly robotic efficiency.
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When I was there, her grimly matter-of-fact brainstorms were interspersed with her kids' drawings.
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These characters represent young and old, noble and commoner, the grimly serious and the cheerfully friendly.
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"The government is asking me to retire at the age of 75," he said, laughing grimly.
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Little boys hand all the Guardians boxes; Nick looks at his, and then stares at June grimly.
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It became a grimly funny pay-off for an experience which, at times, seriously spooked me out.
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The plot—all the women are waiting to see who will be stabbed next—is grimly inevitable.
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Immediately across the street the devastation that the great fire brought to this city is grimly apparent.
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" Brother Quirk paused, then added, grimly, "The real cross is that he may have to postpone vows.
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The Russian approach, enough to make supporters of waterboarding wince, has by some accounts been grimly effective.
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The result was a deafening chorus of whistles and shouts as King Juan Carlos grimly looked on.
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Even months after returning, some children remain grimly silent, despite various therapies and pampering from their grandparents.
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This is why they cannot move on, why they came together to write a grimly nostalgic memoir.
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Grimly putting Ian in sexual peril merely to make us anxious for him would have been cheap.
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His works are often both grimly fascinating and off-putting — just like the man who made them.
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It's impressive how, at such a young age, Barbara is so grimly devoted to her self-appointed duties.
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This is a grimly violent movie, filled with vicious stabbings, frequent profanity, and a general sense of fatalism.
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What can this country's youth possibly discover in their current president's grimly corrosive visions, proposals and fearful expectations?
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One where you marched to a log factory or whatever and grimly led out your life, sawing shit.
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The deal has been broadly, if grimly, welcomed by a wide political spectrum at home, including this page.
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Tom Visser's apocalyptic lighting — penetrating from above as if through clouds of smoke or dust — is grimly picturesque.
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When the survey asked those students why thought they had been drugged, the majority of women responded grimly.
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His hood-induced nausea is grimly authentic, as is his appraisal of the difficulties of super lab construction.
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He described gangsterism as a vicious cycle, a grimly inevitable response to racism, ghetto poverty and police brutality.
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"I'm not going to celebrate," he said, walking grimly out of the courtroom with his mother and father.
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Many spoke grimly of a "Burma Cell," a special police division responsible for cracking down on Rohingya migrants.
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If that happened, the boat would be sprawled on its side, sails flapping and everyone hanging on grimly.
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Grimly compelling this year, the Prototype festival of new music theater continues through Sunday, so get on it.
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This sort of incident has become grimly commonplace: hundreds of Palestinians have carried out similar attacks since September 2015.
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Kass sat with her back against the wall, grimly watching Janet murder her way through level after endless level.
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It was dark and had the same disturbingly realistic feel that made the show's first season so grimly effective.
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"We estimate fewer than 19 vaquitas remained as of summer 2018," the authors grimly noted in the new study.
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But we did need to see Littlefinger confronted with the consequences of his actions, and that was grimly gratifying.
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"We harvest now throughout Northern California three to four weeks earlier than we ever used to," Grahm said grimly.
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Set in a grimly realist France, its abundant starving poor and oppressed are entirely disconnected from the wealthy classes.
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"We are facing a crisis, an epidemic that is coming," Macon said grimly, accompanied by Health Minister Olivier Véran.
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An American agent was parked outside, but Philip grimly ignored the pleas of Tuan and Elizabeth to turn around.
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" He went on, more grimly: "The war that is raging in Syria is not just a Syrian internal war.
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Syrian forces, backed by Russian air power, have pummeled its citizens, including, most grimly, in the city of Aleppo.
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Shortly before joining the White House, Bolton described a grimly constrained set of options, which seemed to preclude diplomacy.
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He hung on grimly in the first set, saving a break point at 4-4 with a beautiful dropshot.
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Or gripping your steering wheel grimly on the Taconic while S.U.V.s hurtle past you, come to think of it.
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Each of his four victories leaves Joseph Goebbels (Barnaby Metschurat), the Nazi minister of culture and propaganda, more grimly crestfallen.
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The reason, as some had grimly suggested, was confirmed to be because of child pornography being hosted on the site.
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In "Lake Success" Barry is a striver, a titan of finance grimly determined to make it to the very top.
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In Hillary Clinton's grimly relentless trudge toward the White House, the part of the bear is played by Donald Trump.
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Like a person sprinkling petals on a bed, Shockie grimly filled the dicky with nails and ball bearings and scrap.
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Instead, its first section is full of grimly wry near-future speculation, starting with a massive, weaponized fake news event.
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This nuanced, cautiously evolving identity is lost in a local politics that is crudely sectarian, and becoming grimly more so.
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In the video, Yasuda grimly addresses his friends and family, and apologises for not being able to speak to them.
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"So far all I've heard from Donald Trump is that we need to 'get tough on crime,'" Kaufmann said grimly.
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Editorial John Kelly, President Trump's chief of staff, is grimly suited to addressing the family of a fallen service member.
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Once a mummy's-boy basement dweller, he's invented a line of grimly compliant sex bots that cater to every taste.
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What stays constant is his depiction of the victims: one dead, one dying, one grimly preparing to meet his fate.
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Something about this situation seemed to make Riley a touch uneasy — or, at least, to strike him as grimly amusing.
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Meanwhile, for this year, I feel grimly resigned to the apocalyptic nature of these hotter, longer and more frequent fires.
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When the sirens blare and lights flash, Fer and Juan can make a formidable, at times grimly diverting, tag team.
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Pundits have repeatedly declared his candidacy dead, but he has hung on grimly, beating back challenges from within his party.
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Still, he noted grimly that Mr. Trump had "enormous momentum" and could "easily be unstoppable" with another big night on Tuesday.
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In Wednesday's match against Morocco, they struck early, again through Ronaldo, then held on grimly despite having only 47 percent possession.
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The passengers were sorted into haves and have-nots, rebels and sellouts, and their struggles were both surprising and grimly familiar.
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Philip, Gabriel's troubled prodigal proxy son, didn't say goodbye so much as confront him, grimly staring him down in the shadows.
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Sitting on the concourse, Jayden watched as his fellow passengers grimly tried to talk to the exhausted and overwhelmed travel agents.
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What this means, in practice, is that I spend a lot of time in my chair grimly chortling at my phone.
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"In Russia we know what bats are, but we don't know how to use them in sport," Mr. Borisov grimly joked.
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Grimly, marital rape is still legal in India, which could complicate criminalization of the victim's alleged rapists and relief for her.
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Whole stretches of the ruminative "Purgatorio" movement are diaphanous and mystical, interspersed with chorale-like passages and an grimly industrious fugue.
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Citizens who grimly count the toll of wars and terrorist attacks now share battle stories of surviving the health-care system.
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People got thinner and joked grimly about the dreadful food and having to brew coffee using the same grains multiple times.
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The Czechoslovakian-born French photographer Josef Koudelka makes things grimly clear in a slide projection, a foldout book and one panoramic photo.
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Basically, some people don't think the severed head plonked grimly in front of Ramsay in episode three belonged to Rickon's direwolf Shaggydog.
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But they are radical for central Tokyo, where each day waves of black-suited Stakhanovites make their way to grimly utilitarian offices.
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For a man clearly rattled by the rapid spread of social media, and grimly determined to tame them, the venue was fitting.
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To illustrate this, it's pulled together a host of tiny predictions for our future, from the adorably silly to the grimly dystopian.
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Today's cold, corporate world, in which gray-faced hunched-over adults grimly slog through life, is depicted in severe, rectilinear computer graphics.
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Trap Them's music sounds bloody, beaten down and grimly compelling, stomping up and down the scale between death metal and hardcore punk.
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The track, a mile-long oval, encircles a pond and some idyllic greenery, a fabricated Eden surrounded by a grimly fallen world.
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"My granddaughter has a beauty shop right up on the right," Mr. Horne said grimly on Monday, pointing toward Carolina Class Salon.
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"The extreme acts of the rioters brought dark hours to Hong Kong last night and half paralyzed society today," she said grimly.
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"We have a criminal living in the White House," Ms. Harris said, nodding grimly before appearing to tweak Mr. Buttigieg's rosy view.
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"The Greenwich Village Story," originally released in 1963, grimly explores the consequences of love among a glum set of New York bohemians.
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In Iowa, party leaders grimly contemplated the end of a four-decade run in the national spotlight with a borderline gallows humor.
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On Monday, Mr. Fillon joked grimly that the only Plan B was "Bérézina" — a reference to Napoleon's disastrous 1812 defeat in Russia.
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That the Shen Fever originates in China feels grimly ironic: It's one last "made in China" for the end of the world.
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So, instead of plunging us into Hanna's life and having the viewer gradually piece together the facts, we begin with grimly lit backstory.
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Festivals now look as grimly stratified as British society—the exact thing that you hoped attending a festival would get you away from.
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"Orange is the New Black" has reached a seventh series, while the grimly prescient "House of Cards" has racked up 33 Emmy nominations.
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Brutal civil wars have been tearing apart African countries for years on end, and the characters and their circumstances feel entirely, grimly, relevant.
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Heidi Schreck's arresting "What the Constitution Means to Me", off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, also benefits from grimly auspicious timing.
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When I asked for a return ticket to Birmingham the ticket seller replied grimly that "nobody ever asks for a one-way ticket".
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A special moment at the outset, which finds the game's heroine Ellie sharing a tender moment at a dance, grimly transitions into violence.
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It would be grimly ironic if, by singling out the gang in speeches, the Trump administration makes it more attractive to potential recruits.
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The most grimly fascinating parts of Bacarisse's investigation come when she pieces together Fisher's journey to men's rights activism and The Red Pill.
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At other times, the level's trap would be visible from the start and I'd pull a face and grimly tap at the screen.
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And she stood grimly silent when Trump joked they'd both been spied on by Obama, an episode Trump griped about later to aides.
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Former employees are also grimly struck by the similarities they saw with WeWork's financial troubles and its CEO's ignominious exit from the firm.
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Today's cold, corporate world, in which gray-faced, hunched-over adults grimly slog through life, is depicted in severe, rectilinear computer-generated animation.
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No one was more grimly adamant that the world was in mortal peril, or had more fun trying to save it from itself.
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If you want to watch a horse grimly trot around a dirt patch to "Hot in the City," then Dressage is your sport.
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The idea of a handful of young men preparing for a race war by boxing in a Warrington gym can seem grimly comic.
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In a story line that has become grimly familiar in New York and around the country, he was prescribed painkillers and became addicted.
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It's Blake Shelton's latest paean to rural life, a song about hard-working, churchgoing farmers that's not cozy and nostalgic, but grimly fatalistic.
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Throughout the afternoon, Ms. Power grimly made her way through the refugee camp, sitting with women who had been brutalized by Boko Haram.
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But then there's also OJ Mayo, hovering grimly at the periphery, and he is just a bummer that reeks of failure to launch.
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Ms. Jarcho, who won an Obie in 2013 for "Grimly Handsome," will present her espionage thriller "Every Angel is Brutal," directed by Knud Adams.
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His tone is not celebratory, but grimly realistic: as long as one pits one person or culture against another, imperialism and exploitation will result.
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"If our heads of state think someone can come from outside and ensure peace inside the country…" He shook his head and smiled grimly.
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Even so, the show's present-day trappings anchor it to a world where bodies are judged mercilessly and fashionable body modification is grimly conformist.
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" An immigration lawyer reviewed the movie and concluded grimly that "I would … assess Paddington's prospects of success before an immigration judge as virtually zero.
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" His paper grimly predicts that "the more extreme these events, the greater the potential to push ecosystems and communities beyond their ability to cope.
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That's what Hatred got wrong—it was so grimly bleak that it was completely boring, its shock value receding to meaninglessness eight kills deep.
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Rodrigues decides that he is Kichijiro's keeper and grimly bears up as Kichijiro apostatizes again and again and finally betrays him to the shogunate.
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Many people escaped down the staircases, but the authorities grimly predicted that the death toll would surely rise as bodies were found and identified.
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Japan, a nation grimly accustomed to natural disasters, has invested many billions of dollars in a world-class infrastructure meant to soften nature's wrath.
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Andrew, staring grimly at the devastation that surrounded them, his face ashen and his eyes bloodshot, did not seem at first to have heard.
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I loved flashing forward to see an older Nora, gray hair streaming down her back, grimly eating an egg sandwich as it dripped yolk.
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I'm grimly preparing for a line around the block, but secretly hoping that everyone will have lost interest, and I'll breeze through in 03 minutes.
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By the end of the process, Mr. Trump was calm, grimly determined to soldier on and uncharacteristically noncombative, according to people close to the president.
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"Kandy Proctor is not the kind of girl who falls into wells," Kammie notes grimly, as one of the popular girls peers down at her.
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"Place your bets!" the announcer cried, grimly prompting the audience to predict how many black people die each day in Brazil due to racial violence.
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So we must ask: Will the president and some members of Congress compound the grimly real disaster now unfolding with a self-inflicted fiscal disaster?
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But the dramatic incident underscores the challenges the White House and the CIA have faced in promoting Haspel — and grimly foreshadows her hearing this week.
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The big thoughts and small details constitute a grimly earned expertise here and particularly in New Orleans, which sits just 75 miles down the road.
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"We are finally telling you the true story of the radicals behind the Occupy movement," Mr. Breitbart, the film's star, says grimly into the camera.
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Just a few years earlier, that course would have been grimly straightforward: more than a year of chemotherapy that might stop the tumor from growing.
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He grimly commits himself to defying the United States ambassador and bringing the Cali Cartel to justice, no matter the diplomatic headaches he might cause.
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My fellow voters seemed grimly determined, quietly set on delivering a message even though there were no competitive races (or competitive Republicans) on the ballot.
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As this riveting novel unfolds — in brilliant, laconic, grimly comic fashion — it becomes apparent that the state is, in its own way, a frightful head.
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This week's leak was grimly familiar for Bob Banderet, a rancher on the Keystone route in North Dakota, about 20 miles north of the spill.
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But overall, the evening could have been mistaken for a grimly satirical parody of Hollywood awards ceremonies at their navel-gazing and backward-looking worst.
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National Democrats are calling for a calendar change, and state party officials are grimly contemplating the end of a four-decade run in the spotlight.
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Hu Bo's first and only feature film follows four characters over the course of a single day in a grimly industrial city in Northern China.
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He never imagined "Exit West" would become so grimly prescient, with the crisis in Syria displacing millions, and nationalist movements gaining ground in the West.
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Gawande grimly observes, in his interpretation of the available information from the Congressional Budget Office, that the bill could increase early death for many Americans.
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Large black holes gouge the city's roads, grimly exposing the underground tunnel system ISIS operatives built to evade detection, shield their weapons and spoils of war.
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He dropped serve sloppily at 2-2 and faced four match points when he served at 3-5, but hung on grimly to test Lopez's nerve.
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It is, as a senior Tory said grimly to me, a battle for the soul of the Conservative Party, and over the nature of British politics.
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A high-court judge who this week ordered him to be transferred to hospital said grimly that Mr Alam was fortunate not to have been "disappeared".
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The deep shadows, the mean co-workers, and the general grubbiness of Simon James' surroundings are all meant to make the corporate world look grimly dystopian.
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But as an outside observer, it would be easy to imagine that it might strike military planners as a potential distraction, at a grimly busy time.
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Ben Croll of website The Wrap called it "grimly violent and willfully oblique ... more of a collection of accomplished filmmaking moments than a wholly satisfying film".
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There are plenty of shark-eyed maniacs sleeping on cots in their offices and sweating coffee and grimly offering their entire beings to this bizarre job.
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"We're lucky we had one last ride together," Amy said now, watching grimly while my husband, Steve, dragged the bikes and twisted rack off the highway.
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Left alone, Rigoletto grimly reflects that he, who wounds people with verbal barbs, and the assassin, who stabs them with a blade, are not that different.
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Amid rapidly shifting tones — from slapstick light to grimly dire — the bathroom is soon demolished and its white surfaces predictably redecorated with a bold red accent.
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In Conway, residents like Ellen Arnold and Peter Saltzstein were busy dealing with the problems in front of them while also peering, grimly, into the future.
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As we all moved out, nodding grimly to each other in the halls, I felt this fabric unravel, my standing in the world grow less sturdy.
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Lorne's actions brings major changes to the lives of insurance salesman Lester Nygaard; Officer Molly Solverson, the daughter of former chief; and Duluth Deputy Gus Grimly.
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Even after Trevor-Roper had at last cottoned on to Peters's innumerable frauds, he remained fascinated by him, following his adventures from a grimly amused distance.
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That conflict was grimly similar to the American campaign in Iraq, in which a modern military fought in crowded urban confines against fighters concealed among civilians.
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It is typical of Brooker's grimly ironic narrative sensibility that Cooper's escapism should bring him to a technologically enhanced haunted house, a dark parody of home.
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The motif of a lonely woman setting out to escape a miserable family or a grimly claustrophobic community and ending up "lost" recurs throughout Jackson's stories.
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They are voices grimly familiar to riders on the train, via vague announcements — "we should be moving shortly" — but not often heard speaking about their work.
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Now and again, a European filmmaker heads to the American West to re-explore (and of course reconquer) it, often to grim and grimly obvious ends.
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My personal brand is more self-denial than indulgence, of grimly carrying on doing the bare minimum rather than leaning in to bath bombs and bottomless mimosas.
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The tempo glides from leisurely, as stay-at-home parents enjoy late-morning calisthenics, to strenuous, as grimly efficient employees churn through their calorie-burning lunch hours.
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The ACA is grimly specific about the financial component of wellness programs, but it is much less specific about what those programs are allowed to consist of.
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Still full of fuel, 1820 carried on until it absolutely couldn't anymore, and Jayden grimly wondered if the captain and first mate even still intended to land.
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Smith grimly observes that, while Manhattan's residents talk incessantly of "liberty and virtue, virtue and liberty," black men and women are led in shackles through its streets.
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Holding assault rifles, they stood behind barricades on the banks of the grimly named Massacre River, looking like rudimentary replicas of the US Border Patrol in Nogales.
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In his review for The Times, Stephen Holden wrote, "Phrase by phrase, image by image, it is an astonishingly rich, detailed and grimly moving piece of work."
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You're always grimly aware that these aren't just movie characters, but figures based on real people who belonged to the same ecosystem that Tarantino would eventually join.
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As Sunday dawned grimly in the Carolinas, the heavens opened for the fifth straight day, swelling rivers past record-breaking levels and drenching already half-drowned towns.
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On his journey, a series of improbably attractive women — a crew member, a film student, an actress — insist on having sex with him, and he grimly complies.
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Neither is immortal, and both will face the choice of whether to hand off power to a successor or cling grimly on until they die in office.
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Ms. Tesori's strong yet subtle score is combined with Mr. Thompson's grimly elegant and snappy words — one of the best librettos I've heard in a long while.
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The whole section — one of four in this ambitious, time-leaping novel — is as grimly thrilling as anything in "Lord of the Flies," and also more intimate.
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While Garstka's rebellion was against a system that most Germans now look on as a grimly repressive regime, he says young people today remain rebellious and always will.
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Keys looked on the verge of retiring several times in the deciding set but battled on grimly despite being in obvious pain as she reached for wide balls.
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Considering the grimly turbulent week our world at large has endured, hopefully the artist's classically vibey, soul-soaked beats can shine a bit of optimism into the mix.
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There was a fractious general election, in which Theresa May's Conservative Party barely hung on to power, and the slow, grimly momentous process of leaving the E.U. began.
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The ambulance service, with at least 1,500 vehicles, has become grimly familiar in Pakistan, whether ferrying people maimed in terrorist attacks or carrying those injured in natural disasters.
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After Shaggydog's head was grimly presented to Ramsay — along with a captive Osha and Rickon — by SmallJon Umber, the theories immediately started picking up steam on social media.
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The double bill's director, Mariusz Trelinski, slyly creates connection between "Iolanta," with its triumphant ending, and the grimly pessimistic "Bluebeard," a Symbolist drama about a very fraught honeymoon.
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It fell to Mr. Rubio, as the lone Republican senator at the town hall — and one highly rated by the N.R.A. — to grimly take much of the scolding.
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His earnest face swings from bewildered to grimly amused in seconds, his jaw often left hanging by whatever new horror Trump's latest Cabinet pick or histrionic tweet might portend.
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More grimly, a member of an immigrant community might become alienated once in the United States, become associated with similarly disgruntled people and begin to engage in hostile activity.
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Rewind Grimly dystopian yet bursting with cinematic brio, Alfonso Cuarón's "Children of Men" (2006) is a film that, set in 2027, feels like the present day — only more so.
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When CNN returned to the live shot, Burnett and Klobuchar sat side by side in folding chairs, squinting grimly at what appeared to be a monitor located somewhere offscreen.
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Mayya stays married to Abdallah, but, like Asma, she retreats into an isolated and grimly defended maternity: she sleeps a great deal, and bitterly relishes the liberty of silence.
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Soon, the men were performing Uzi's dizzying "XO Tour Llif3," Mr. Sheeran singing grimly and Lil Uzi Vert working the stage like a catwalk while bleating out his lyrics.
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As I walked down to La Perle du Lac, Geneva's exceptional lakefront park, rain clouds scudded grimly across the sky and the city felt like it was still asleep.
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Instead it is a grimly fascinating account of how, after first fleeing to his father's ancestral village, Mr Nuhanovic's family made it to Srebrenica, and of everyday life there.
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Or maybe — more grimly — it's just that the anger once directed toward Starbucks cups is now playing out, at a fever pitch, in every other sphere of American existence.
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Remember that this episode opens with Philip — essentially a father of three sons between Henry, Tuan, and far-flung Mischa — grimly flashing back to how warm his father could be.
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But still, lawyers for Google were wreathed in smiles after their big victory, laughing and hugging each other as Oracle lawyers huddled grimly on the other side of the courtroom.
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Around 15,000 concert-goers watched Michael and bandmate Andrew Ridgeley sing hits such as "Careless Whisper" and "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" - as police grimly stared at them.
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Before The Flood, an advocacy documentary that grimly examines climate change around the planet, debuted in September at the Toronto International Film Festival and opened in theaters on October 21st.
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As you probably guessed, things do not go according to plan, and we're soon treated to multiple shots of handsome men grimly dragging duffel bags of money over the mountains.
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Waiting for us above ground was a statue of Dostoyevsky, bigger than life, grimly slouching, eyes cast down, tension in his legs and in the hand resting on his thigh.
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My dusty bones are well pleased with Brooklyn College's grimly titled showcase, If your life is burning well, poetry is just ash, on view at 6013 Artspace in Manhattan's Chinatown.
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"I Am Not a Witch," a grimly absurdist debut feature from the Zambian-born, Welsh-raised director Rungano Nyoni, opens with a scene that uncomfortably implicates its own gawking audience.
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"As this riveting novel unfolds — in brilliant, laconic, grimly comic fashion — it becomes apparent that the state is, in its own way, a frightful head," our reviewer, Jason Goodwin, writes.
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Rike's stoic competence and Wolff's attractive, contained performance have led you to think that she can handle anything, a fantasy that is as reassuring as it is grimly, horrifically false.
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It seems grimly conceivable that Berlin will nod and smile politely when Mr Macron visits again next Monday, but cling to its own tired orthodoxies when it comes to the crunch.
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The relevant economic terminology is indeed grimly suggestive: those over sixty-four are part of the "dependent" rather than the "productive" population; they are "the burden" that the young must carry.
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He often would capture his opponents' pieces even if it exposed his king to danger, and then go into a defensive crouch, grimly trying to hang on to his extra booty.
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Sure, it's agonizing to watch her twist the truth, but so many people fall for it that it's also grimly satisfying: We get to feel smarter than the people being played.
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In all cases, the stories told by those who returned (and, more grimly, the fates, known or unknown, of those who did not) helped create an enormous appetite for polar adventure.
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But for a woman who as Democratic leader has clung to power grimly for 14 years, it will clearly take more than a few defeats to pry her from her office.
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Be it a newfangled flavor of soft drink or a recently released line of jeans, early adoption of a product by households in these ZIP codes augurs grimly for its future.
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In a rundown of Soviet history before Gorbachev's ascent, Herzog turns the successive funerals of the much older Soviet heads of state who preceded him into a grimly humorous recurring joke.
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The autopsy photographs shown in a hearing room at Police Headquarters on Wednesday grimly illustrated the damage caused to Mr. Garner's huge frame by Officer Pantaleo's left forearm during the struggle.
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But some of it is better grasped through anecdote and social history — particularly the extent to which the '70s saw the drug-enabled exploitation of kids on a grimly horrifying scale.
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And if you are familiar with addicts' war stories, you will know that in their broad outlines they're all the same, each lurching plot twist grimly unsurprising, however shocking the details.
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Her subjects there, in addition to the Spook-a-Rama, included an arguing couple, their disagreement so theatrical that you can practically hear the woman berating her grimly closemouthed male companion.
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ROCHESTER, N.H. — Maggie Hassan, the Democratic governor of New Hampshire now running for the Senate, squeezed by an older woman grimly examining some potatoes at a grocery store here last week.
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The grumpy beast was spotted grimly butting its way through an icy London canal yesterday, wagging its snowy tail in frustration as it carved a slow path through the frozen water.
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Its (very good) metal soundtrack matches the action in cadence and intensity, but is also melodic and grimly triumphant in a way that a lot of later black metal consciously eschewed.
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Pliskova held on grimly, saving three more match points when serving to stay alive at 5-4, before breaking Williams to love and charging to 40-0 in the final game.
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Dahl's adults are ignorant, lazy autocrats (several of his novels share this preoccupation, grimly inspired by his own experience at boarding school.) They try to change Matilda through mockery, bullying and intimidation.
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Female action heroes tend to be serious when they're in the midst of action, at most dropping a grimly amused one-liner, because women who laugh are frequently assumed to be incompetent.
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If superheroes are meant to represent our best selves, our most brave and altruistic impulses, what does it say about us if we expect our best selves to be grimly emotionless robots?
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In particular, Albertine describes the tight-knight unit that formed after her parents' divorce—of her mother, sister, and herself—and vividly portrays her mother as a hardworking and grimly supportive parent.
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None of the pamphlets mention the psychological toll of waiting to die or of waiting for (even grimly rooting for) someone else to die so that you can get that person's lungs.
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That's the image that comes to mind because, for all the theatricality of Fern's other projects, Vatican Shadow is the space in which he explores the grimly dehumanizing everyday of religious fanaticism.
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What Kelley would say, and what this grimly up-to-the-minute show implies, is that when facts lose their purchase in both art and politics, mental breakdown is the logical outcome.
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And, as with the dreamscapes in "Inception," the special effects in "Doctor Strange" serve beauty and meaning rather than the grimly tedious destruction that drains energy out of most contemporary superhero movies.
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Jeff remembered grimly what a pleasant change he'd thought this job would be, but now he looked back on those six harrowing weeks working for Harvey Weinstein like a long-ago Hanukkah.
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If you saw her at home, she would be grimly bouncing on an exercise ball, muttering, "All best, all best, all best, all best" and wondering whom to say it to next.
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In earlier works, she has taken her dramaturgical chain saw to such staples of mainstream narrative entertainment as the police procedural ("Grimly Handsome") and the babealicious action series ("Every Angel Is Brutal").
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It's no accident that it's the gauche Mr. Beevers, a despised outsider with the wrong accent, who grimly explains to the impoverished Conways that their cavalier assumptions of privilege are now worthless.
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But for months, diplomats have joked grimly about a "Tweet of Damocles" hanging over Afghanistan - the fear that Trump could take to social media to announce the United States was pulling out.
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A supercilious narrator, who is later revealed to be the journalist responsible for ending McChrystal/McMahon's illustrious career, mocks everyone except a right-on German journalist played by a grimly determined Tilda Swinton.
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Confronted with the rise of an "other," and grimly holding onto a memories of a past and dread of the uncertain future, the factions of the Metro turn to various forms of nihilism.
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Grimly certain that droughts will recur — and when there won't be an oil contingency fund to tap — Mr. Mohammed has opened talks with the World Bank to devise a national drought insurance plan.
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Sensing her moment as Halep served for survival, Wozniacki fired a searing forehand winner to edge a 16-shot rally for match point and then held on grimly until the Romanian finally buckled.
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We were grimly reminded this past month of just how little progress our leaders have made on the issue of gun control, and it is time for our elected officials to do more.
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In a finding that grimly foreshadows the risk of repudiating the protection of public health, Inglesby's team recorded a worldwide death toll of 150 million, including 15 million deaths in the United States.
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The Making of a Criminal "A man by himself isn't honest for long," thinks the wily, impulsive, unemployed narrator in Patrícia Melo's grimly amusing thriller "The Body Snatcher," translated by Clifford E. Landers.
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What he learned when he asked around, and what I later confirmed, was that the unions were, in many cases, making a grimly pragmatic decision in his race and others around the state.
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By now, some of my colleagues are veteran chroniclers of such shootings, grimly bumping into one another with gallows humor over the past few years in Las Vegas; Colorado Springs; San Bernardino, Calif.
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And both were eventually jolted out of their youthful naïveté by the same grimly modern rite of passage — the killing of an unarmed black man at the hands of a white police officer.
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After 20 whole minutes of very wheezingly dragging every single piece of luggage I owned up to the fourth-floor walkup, and grimly accepting the possibility of permanent lung damage, I was ravenous.
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Shortly after midnight one night in late February, outside of the grimly palatial Trump Tower in Manhattan, a Trump supporter was screaming at a small group of anti-Trump protesters clustered on the sidewalk.
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Some of the liveliest scenes take place in a beat-up diner, where everyone gathers at the crack of dawn, to eat eggs and gossip, a grimly companionable demimonde that resembles an office cafeteria.
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That good news came a day after ministry officials grimly announced that two other Italian hostages in the country had likely been killed in clashes between ISIS fighters and local militia fighters near Sabratha.
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Another priest and half a dozen or so of my erstwhile school friends were already there, three of them sitting by the fireside in the living room with grimly polite expressions on their faces.
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She didn't mean my personal future; she meant the future of the planet and of the human race, the same future she's imagined so grimly in The Handmaid's Tale and in her MaddAddam trilogy.
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It's disheartening to watch the ostensible bandleader struggle in isolation through a large band's performance, and calls into question whether we're here to celebrate, exploit, or just sort of grimly acknowledge his towering legacy.
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In a violent reaction of remorse and PTSD, they retreat together into a messy rat hole — the reality of the pristine idyll we saw at the start — in a grimly ineffectual attempt at healing.
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But some are grimly aware that they are likely to have to hire lawyers of their own as the special counsel inquiry takes shape — a circumstance that can drain the finances of presidential associates.
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Grimly firm in its maintenance of a walled utopia vibe, the techno church continues to stand its ground against the rising tide of social media lifestyles, infamously mandating that taking photos inside is verboten.
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Ben Whishaw and Bertie Carvel, each a major talent in his own right, faced off for the first time to giddy and then grimly compelling effect in James Macdonald's production of "The Bakkhai" by Euripides.
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In democracies governed by elites who struggle with each other for power, while paying lip service to equality or liberty—and who sometimes deploy violent means to pursue their goals—his arguments remain grimly compelling.
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The idea of a sitting governor openly auditioning for a job as a sports-talk radio bullfrog is ridiculous, if also ridiculous in a way that has been kind of grimly predictable for some time.
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But soon after, she heard Mr. Trump grimly and inaccurately describe the economic and social status of African-Americans: "You're living in your poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs," he said.
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An earnestly planned New York school lunch menu, the enormous appetite of a hungry man at a New Jersey transients' camp or a grimly inventive recipe for liver loaf can move the reader to tears.
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The political climate forces us all to decide grimly what bunker will welcome us, and the new culture wars spur people to define themselves before somebody else does it for them to possibly violent effect.
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The same theater's less-vaunted titles of note included most recently the American writer Julia Jarcho's "Grimly Handsome," a macabre fantasia that featured actors dressed as pandas adrift in a "paradise of perversions" (don't ask).
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When the Austrian missed a string of first serves, he pounced in the sixth game to create a break point and grimly held firm until Thiem fell on his sword with a forehand into the net.
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Speaking of the visiting Christian charismatics who descend upon her family in times of crisis, she says slowly and grimly, "They come with fruitcakes," and you know everything you need to know about these god botherers.
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The performance stopped cold at the very instance in the opera at which Orfeo looks back, then an unearthly little coda for violin and orchestra by Mr. Aucoin provided a grimly dramatic end to the evening.
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That grimly creative spin on this simple premise — gotta die to be reborn — gives Russian Doll a burst of dark comedic energy in its early going and eventually helps it zero in on more dramatic territory.
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But there's something to be said for leaning into this dark mood instead of desperately trying to keep it at bay (for me, at least; YMMV), and in that regard, Chernobyl is a grimly appropriate choice.
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While the pandemic has brought sports to a shuddering halt across the globe, Australia's major leagues are grimly ploughing on with a "too big to fail" mentality while shutting out fans as part of containment efforts.
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The images, textures and moods in Mr. Lynch's work are derived from his personal experiences — he has said that his grimly comic, surreal debut feature, "Eraserhead" (28), was significantly influenced by his time living in Philadelphia.
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When he asserts that he is "completely responsible" for everything that happens in the factory that is his studio, it is grimly comical: his teams of silent, industrious workers look like they are on an assembly line.
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Those last semesters ticked by and each day came with a new barrage of regrets: the fanciful ones (Why hadn't I studied Greek?) and also the grimly practical (What was I thinking, not learning how to code?).
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The bad news is that he might not be able to do very much for the ones Mueller has already indicted — or any that Mueller indicts between now and the grimly historic day when Trump fires him.
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Baptized the "bolivar fuerte" or "strong bolivar" by former leader Hugo Chavez in a 2008 devaluation that removed three zeroes from the currency, many Venezuelans joke grimly that it is now the "bolivar muerto" or "dead bolivar".
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That's a hallmark of the show's writing, which is grimly purposeful in how it makes sure every joke serves the show's larger stories and themes about the existential queasiness of working for a corporation like Hampton DeVille.
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It soon becomes clear that the point of this book, the titular "more," is Forbes's stuff; we're given page after page of photographs of that stuff — so much so that the book grimly resembles an auction catalog.
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Phelps, the most successful and possibly the most scrutinized Olympian in history, was caught making a grimly determined face that only the internet could love as he prepped Monday for his semifinal in the 200-meter butterfly.
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At a climate change conference in Thailand this past week, some delegates reached by telephone said that the setting — the heart of Southeast Asia, a region where challenges relating to warming are readily apparent — was grimly fitting.
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It's a grimly cynical view of modern Russia that's inarguably blunt (especially in an extended shot of Zhenya, running on a treadmill to nowhere, the word "Russia" emblazoned on her sweatsuit) but no less chilling for that.
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This bleak reality is grimly unsurprising in the United States, a country that has relied on brutality and prison to control large portions of its citizens from the days of slavery to the era of mass incarceration.
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"Virtual reality has given us a post-literacy landscape more grimly banal than Bradbury could ever have imagined, where it is not necessary to burn books because no one wants to read them anyway," Dr. Brett concluded.
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The most striking groups of work in the show, however, are his two bodies of large-scale paintings, one grimly monochromatic and speckled with affixed Polaroids, the other dazzlingly colorful but embedded with small scenes of violence.
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Behold a whole precarious world of media hopefuls swarming every bitter inch of the culture war, filming angry Americans, filming each other, filming themselves, grimly determined to find or frame a few seconds of a reality to sell.
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Paradoxically, the sight of Sunnis being bombarded in Aleppo will be particularly ominous to Western Muslims who believe in liberal democracy, and perhaps less unwelcome to radical types whose Manichean view of the world has been grimly confirmed.
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The Boss introduces many characters that seem ripe for callbacks and story arcs — Michelle's sycophantic-but-fickle bodyguard Tito (Cedric Yarbrough), her disappointed mentor Ida (Kathy Bates), grimly brutal scout Chrystal (Eva Peterson) — and then apathetically drops them.
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So grimly accustomed are we to sexual violence onscreen that to see sex flourish as a rebuke to violence and a remedy for loneliness, which is what "The Shape of Water" provides, is a heady and uplifting surprise.
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Written by John Sayles and directed by David Petrarca, this week's episode ups the ante for its main characters considerably, in a fashion grimly familiar to fans of genre fiction: It killed off the male lead's love interest.
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Cersei — Lena Headey's grimly determined Lannister matriarch — finally achieved her ultimate revenge on all those who had doubted her, blowing up most of King's Landing with wildfire and wiping out her most pressing enemies in one fell swoop.
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"I accept the verdict of the people," Mr Najib declared grimly the morning after the election, although he did suggest, quixotically, that there was some uncertainty as to which party the king might nominate to lead the next government.
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And, maybe most of all, it was Nadine Coyle, grimly determined to Be a Popstar no matter how much she had to lie on the telly: silly, far more dramatic than it ever deserved to be, and unbelievably entertaining.
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Robinsons go she is shy but ironic, seemingly insouciant but grimly trapped in a sterile marriage to Gordon Macleod, a nondescript British Empire type who is given all the most charmless attributes of both his generation and his race.
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There's the grim morning commute, the grim weather, the constant undercurrent of rage lurking below the blank faces of workers grimly travelling to and from the city... but then again, us Brits are a pretty cynical bunch, aren't we?
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Clicking through the site, you'll traverse a map of the online underworld as imagined by Hieronymus Bosch, one populated with stolen nudes, gore, suicide pictures, grimly repetitive racial slurs, and rampant homophobia juxtaposed with the hypersexualisation of cartoon hedgehogs.
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DANIEL M. FARRELL Columbus, Ohio To the Editor: As an Irish-American, I am haunted by how grimly the terror in Brussels was foreshadowed by the bloody Dublin Easter Rising of 1916 — more so after reading Lawrence Downes's essay.
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When the situation looks especially desperate, Pat offers a lesson drawn from a long-ago paintball match, the point of which is that the only way to defeat grimly determined professional warriors is with a defiantly playful, anarchic spirit.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Leering at the photographs mounted upon the seedy walls of a back-alley bar in the Times Square of 1977 is present-day Nan Goldin, grimly assessing the work of her younger self.
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One project, Architecture, by collective åyr (formerly AIRBNB Pavilion), explores private spaces become public, an architectural model of the future of the sharing economy, grimly reminding us of the sinister potential of platforms like Airbnb, if we abuse them.
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The two men try to decipher whether the book — grimly titled "Death & Taxes" — is a comedy or a tragedy, and Harold goes out of his way to find Karen and convince her that his life is in her hands.
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Defense lawyers grimly joke that if you're falsely convicted of a crime, it's best to be sentenced to death — because then at least you will get pro bono lawyers and media scrutiny that may increase the prospect of exoneration.
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She signed up with a speakers' bureau, formed the Margaret Thatcher Foundation, and travelled the world in the remunerative manner—as a kind of auctioned icon—that is now grimly customary among former world leaders, but was then unusual.
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Make no mistake: The GOP base's reinvigoration by the Kavanaugh confirmation fight is a pleasant -- and much-needed -- surprise for Republicans who had become grimly accepting of their near-certain fate at the ballot box in 33 days' time.
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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which claimed responsibility for Tuesday's terror attacks in the Belgian capital of Brussels, has become grimly familiar to the world after its Middle Eastern conquests and now its growing terrorist campaign abroad.
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As it happens, Steve Bannon — who is essentially a grimly unfunny Alex Jones — believes in both of these outlandish scenarios: international warfare as well as a stealthy attack from within powerful enough to bring the US to its knees.
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So although we spend plenty of time watching Pine gaze grimly into the distance, charge bravely into battle, or suffer nobly at the hands of English soldiers, it's hard to say we really know him by the end of the film.
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His journey through the Niger desert, up through Libya and toward an eventual rescue at sea by emergency services is a grimly familiar story for the more than half a million people who have arrived on Italy's shores since 2014.
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The city's residents had begun grimly referring to it as "Chiraq", a portmanteau of "Chicago" and "Iraq" that caught on after news outlets reported that deaths due to homicide in Chicago were greater than those of special forces in Iraq.
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MAZATLAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Relatives of 17 suspected gang members killed late last week by police in northwest Mexico fear a skewed death toll points to what has become a grimly regular complaint in recent years - summary executions by security forces.
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He's gotten some flack for his over-the-top stage gyrations, but I'd rather watch someone go all out with spins and high kicks and pogos than see yet another bunch of long-haired grumps stare grimly down at their fretboards.
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Framed as a psuedo-documentary with "interviews" by Harding, her mother, her ex husband, and her former coach (all played by the actors), it shows all of the nasty details that make this story so simultaneously sad and grimly fascinating.
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Over 130,000 people saw the work there, ten-foot-tall vagina and all, many standing in line for hours to get a look at this grimly delightful pop-up monument to the brutal nineteenth-century trade and its cultural aftertaste.
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General Kamal said that two or three more days would probably still be needed to clear the villages, but by evening, as the day's toll was becoming clear, the mood among the pesh merga seemed more grimly determined than celebratory.
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That makes Marni especially welcome at the present, when the reigning stance of luxury fashion is aggression, reared up on its hind legs: a mash-up of street wear — in the Virgil Abloh/Supreme sense — and finery, logo-spattered, grimly protective.
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The victims were strewn around the courtyard in front of the Ali Abad Hospital in Kabul, where relatives preparing for burials tried grimly to match trunks with limbs or heads with trunks, and doctors searched for anyone with a pulse.
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Mr. Trump announced grimly that federal guidelines requiring most Americans to avoid nonessential travel, going to work, eating at bars and restaurants, or gathering in groups of more than 10 would be extended at least through April 30, and possibly longer.
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Editorial New Yorkers are grimly familiar with state prison horror stories featuring guards who beat and torture inmates, knowing that their union will shield them from punishment and that district attorneys in towns dominated by prisons will look the other way.
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The same Catholic ideology that campaigns to protect the unborn didn't believe that the unbaptized — never mind the unborn — were worthy of full burial rites (as grimly demonstrated by the story of Davin's hometown, Tuam, where 796 children were buried unrecorded).
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The 32-year-old Hammer, winner of five individual pursuit world titles in her illustrious career, steered rising stars Kelly Catlin, Chloe Dygert and Jennifer Valente to victory over a Canadian quartet who hung on grimly but could not keep up.
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A crucial thing to understand about the coronavirus threat — and it's playing out grimly in Italy — is the difference between the total number of people who might get sick and the number who might get sick at the same time.
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At one point in the evening, Atlantic Council cybersecurity policy expert Josh Corman grimly pointed out that America would likely experience a "high consequence" hacker attack on Bossert's watch—a breach that disrupts critical infrastructure, like the power grid or hospital systems.
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Here's how the authors grimly describe it in their study:In the present work, careful inspection of the victims' skeletons revealed cracking and explosion of the skullcap and blackening of the outer and inner [layers of the cranial bone], associated with black exudations [i.e.
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DeLillo's first novel, the slightly overstuffed but grimly hilarious Americana, whose WASP protagonist drops out of his well-paying job in network television to go on a Godardian road trip into flyover country with a squad of misfits, was published in 20073.
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And I know myself: grimly chanting "my body was built for sprints" won't take any of the agony out when I do them, and won't provide any more pleasure than I usually get (none; there is no pleasure in sprints) when I finish.
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What makes the whole thing seriously impressive, though, is the final angle — a front shot showing an injured Cruise grimly clambering onto the building to finish the stunt, despite the fact he's just mangled one of his bones against a concrete wall.
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After all, the white race is the minority race and if the two great powers of the Northern Hemisphere don't band together, we are going to end up as farmers—or, worse, mere entertainment—for more than one billion grimly efficient Asiatics.
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Painfully aware that I couldn't just go and tell the receptionist I didn't feel well—and ask if she could ring my mum to come and pick me up—I was grimly resigned to one of the grimmest days in living memory.
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He seemed genuinely concerned that if he sent me to the "ghetto," he might be putting me at risk of bodily harm, but he finally acquiesced and grimly gave me some cross streets in south LA to look for my next destination.
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Grimly shaking a pair of maracas as if he were about to use them as a murder weapon, Gallagher launched into a performance of the single "Wall of Glass," taken from his upcoming debut solo album As You Were, due October 6.
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Propaganda organs pretend there is no contradiction between these two personas—a smiling President Xi talking to foreigners about global villages, and Xi the general secretary grimly demanding party discipline and vigilance in the face of hostile external forces and internal threats.
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It's a little too long and winding to work as a feature film, especially in the horror genre, and might have worked better as a limited series, with a little more room for the many characters who populate its grimly imagined American landscape.
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Two films — Tim Sutton's "Dark Night," an inspired-by-facts fictional feature, and Kim A. Snyder's "Newtown," a straightforward documentary — deal with recent mass shootings, and they are sure to be even more painful and grimly relevant after the massacre in Orlando, Fla.
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The Englishman, who won the 2013 U.S. Open but has never quite clicked at his home major since finishing tied fourth at Birkdale as a 17-year-old amateur in 153, had toiled grimly all afternoon but finally managed to raise a smile.
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" NATE CHINEN During a week that has seen violent clashes in Charlotte, N.C., and another round of back-and-forth denunciations over issues of racial injustice, there's something almost too grimly on point about the new song by Common, "Black America Again.
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Geissler's writing, translated into English by Katy Derbyshire, is precise, strange, intelligent and grimly funny — and manages to present a vision of the digital age which is for once not oriented around the consumer, but around the ever-present and increasingly invisible worker.
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WASHINGTON — One by one, the senators shuffled to the lectern on Wednesday, explaining themselves grimly, reflecting on the specter of mutually assured destruction and wondering aloud how the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch had delivered the institution to this moment.
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"The world is at acute risk for devastating regional or global disease epidemics or pandemics that not only cause loss of life but upend economies and create social chaos," grimly proclaims the report, published today by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB).
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" On June 20, he paused between taping segments to talk frankly with his studio audience about how many times he's been stopped by the police in the few years he's lived in the United States, grimly joking that this fact always "blows white people's minds.
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The less said about this grimly poignant speculation the better, so suffice to say that matters of mass extraction have never been more urgent than now, in the wake of a hurricane season fueled by climate change and wildfires spread across our increasingly tinderbox'd earth.
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" There is no movie marketing machine as sophisticated as the Star Wars marketing machine, as if those in charge of it witnessed that first Christmas of 1977 — when kids famously couldn't get their action figures depicting characters from the film — and grimly said, "Never again.
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I went in thinking it would be a dark thriller (sort of a creepy, you-don't-know-who-you're-living style page-turner) and I guess in some ways it is — but it's also grimly realistic, and packed full of some very unpleasant details.
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White House chief of staff John Kelly — who watched grimly as Trump held forth in the lobby of Trump Tower — was frustrated at how Trump's appearance played out, including the President's unplanned decision to take questions, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
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That even with limited hardware, Delphine was able to manifest terrific atmosphere across a bold variety of settings, from the jungles and underground cities of Titan to a grimly futuristic Earth via a Running Man-indebted game show where to lose is to die.
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There's nothing worse than the seemingly frozen moment after you've dropped your phone and have to gingerly pick it up off the floor, as you stare grimly at the face-down device and wonder whether or not your screen survived the landing this time.
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Kandis Williams, showing with L.A's Night Gallery, shares Slinger's use of collage, grimly updated to show pornographic photographs of skeletal anorexic women, all displaying themselves beneath a canopy of figures from the white patriarchy: from the founding fathers to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
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Visiting Washington on Saturday, Ms. Trafton, 46, grimly studied the front pages of dozens of newspapers on display outside the Newseum, noting how each had treated Friday's revelation of a tape of Donald J. Trump having a vulgar conversation about pursuing women he found attractive.
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When the news broke on Sunday morning, many transgender people, world-weary, saw it as grimly predictable: With two weeks to go until the midterm elections, the Trump administration was considering a new move that would undermine federal civil rights protections for the transgender community.
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It's about how a woman who appeared to have everything was trying to hold it together, privately grappling with marriage, motherhood, addiction and the aftershocks from her crappy childhood — and how, after she hit rock bottom, she grimly hoisted herself back up, stone by stone.
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Here's a grimly edifying set-piece for twenty-first-century feminists to ponder: when my grandmother was a teenager at Greenwich Academy, a girls' prep school in Connecticut, she and her fellow students were required to pose nude for photographs taken by the P.E. teacher.
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And yet, the movie was obviously hastily modified after Trump's win in November, and the film grimly forces viewers to remember that Trump has always dismissed the idea of climate change wholesale, and pledged during his campaign to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement.
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For years, the nascent medium of prestige TV drama was defined by what author Brett Martin has called difficult men—grimly captivating white guys like Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and Walter White, struggling to find a foothold in a culture and economy that were leaving them behind.
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The speculation is spun out of an old product spec Biddle stumbled upon, about which I'll only say that he imagines the sort of grimly absurd situation in which you might need to make a claim for a refund against a poorly functioning nuclear event detector. Enjoy.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - Ana Luz, sister-in-law of Ronald Blanco, looked on grimly as neighbors of the murdered Honduran man washed away the rills of blood left where his bullet-ridden body had lain outside his house in a troubled barrio on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa.
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Sharapova's game is not yet firing on all cylinders but the Russian's competitive fires still burn bright ands he broke Halep to open the third set then grimly hung on for the win, dropping to her knees and bursting into tears as the Romanian's return sailed long.
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On the one hand, "Creed," like "Black Panther," keeps reminding us that a major studio has money in the game; the musical score, in both cases, is grimly insistent, as if to insure that the emotional content of each scene is packaged and delivered on cue.
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"It's grimly problematic that the attorney general who blocked the impeachment investigation and who has not gone forward with the Bentley criminal investigation is rewarded with the U.S. Senate appointment," said the state auditor, Jim Zeigler, a Republican who is a frequent critic of the governor.
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" Cartoon by Jeremy Nguyen Taylor, who had learned about the freezing of military aid to Ukraine on July 18th, said that, after a visit later that month to the front lines in the Donbass, he had become grimly aware that "more Ukrainians would undoubtedly die without the U.S. assistance.
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"The particularly nasty twist in this now grimly familiar tale is the mountain of debt and giant pension deficit this public services contractor leaves in the wreckage of its collapse – with an accompanying massive hit to the public purse," said Work and Pensions Select Committee chair Frank Field.
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Ellie Fredricksen's life montage at the beginning of Up, the toys grimly facing oblivion together at the end of Toy Story 3, and Bing Bong's tear-jerking decision in Inside Out all tap into painful emotions around death in order to underline the joy the characters feel around life.
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Quite predictably, these "contrasts" stop being simply interesting to look at once Italy enters WWII: the exhibition grimly closes with the studies for the project E42, "Luminous Gardens," in Rome — sketches on cardboard depicting renderings of "dancing fountains" and gardens with elaborate lighting designs that would never be completed.
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Ending the album is the more grimly determined "Pray for Me," with the Weeknd mournfully vowing to "spill this blood for you" and Mr. Lamar rapping about how "I fight the world, I fight you, I fight myself" over a track that vaguely suggests African drumming and traditional ululations.
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Though he was eventually able to rise to his feet, eschewing the wheelchair that had been brought for him, and hobble across the finish line long after the race ended, with his Jamaican teammates walking slowly and grimly beside him, he soon dropped to the track again and grimaced.
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To choose Bloomberg as the alternative to Trump, then, is to bet that a chaotic, corrupt populist is a graver danger to what remains of the Republic than a grimly-competent plutocrat with a history of executive overreach and strong natural support in all our major power centers.
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Meanwhile, as a kind of grimly ironic accompaniment to his scriptural musings, Buttigieg's hometown, South Bend, has just discovered that its longtime abortion provider, the late Dr. Ulrich Klopfer, kept a substantial collection of fetal remains on his property: 2,246 "products of conception," to be exact, carefully preserved.
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It is tempting to place Scorsese and Bong in two distinct political categories: the liberal filmmaker, who asserts the primacy of the individual in all his fathomless complexity, versus the Marxian filmmaker, who grimly pronounces the triumph of systemic-materialist forces over individual notions of beauty and truth.
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Good horror stories look at the world around us to draw inspiration as to what could go wrong, and with this book, Tremblay has penned a story that's not only a nightmare as it plays out on the page, but one that's grimly reflective of the times that we live in.
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The Russian managed to hold serve for the first time in the match at 4-2 and clung on grimly in the face of some hard hitting by her 19-year-old opponent before converting her fourth break point of the next game to get back on serve at 83-3.
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It was an empty gesture towards adventurousness that feels doubly cheap in light of how grimly reluctant the manager was to let Marcus Rashford loose on opponents, turning a blind eye to the Manchester United youngster's obvious excellence and the face-clawingly dismal output on offer from a knackered Harry Kane.
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I speak, of course, of "Burn After Reading," the Coen brothers' pitch-black comedy about morons attempting spycraft in Washington, D.C., which upon first viewing seemed too unremittingly misanthropic, too grimly contemptuous of its characters, without the flashes of grace that illuminate the darkness in most Coen depictions of human folly.
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" "Today is a great day for our country," Pelosi said moments after Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) grimly acknowledged ObamaCare will stay in place "for the foreseeable future.
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What at first seems an odd formal element by then becomes grimly meaningful; the brick-like text that evokes the sturdy masonry of the black church, an institution built up by place-by-place and date-by-date, in fact marks the many attempts to destroy it: arsons, bombings, murders.
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Anderson, who hit 14 aces and 40 winners, fought on grimly to send the third set into a tiebreak, but Pella kept his composure, winning a stunning exchange of volleys that brought the crowd to its feet to earn two match points before claiming the biggest win of his career.
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These books are often built around love stories, but the real juice comes from the scenes in which the heroine shakes her head grimly at a veritable mess — a pile of unpaid bills, a messy room, an inefficiently laid-out shop — and then rolls up her sleeves and gets to work.
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"Backdoor access to every smartphone," a list of cooperating companies that includes "Google, AT&T, Uber, Apple, Verizon, Facebook": This wholesale collusion between the state and corporations to violate privacy is so grimly plausible it barely qualifies as fiction, even before footage of Edward Snowden is repurposed to comment on the scandal.
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"Transcription" defamiliarizes the present in terms of gender as well, but in something like the opposite way: in a world that otherwise seems to us almost exotically backward and benighted, the idea that social and workplace mobility for women is still subject to the imagination of men has a grimly recognizable currency.
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Too much of the tech industry keeps grimly trying to work the buttons and levers of that increasingly rusted engine, the clanking gears of the startup-disruption machinery, convinced that if it doesn't seem to measurably be making things better any more, then that just means they're not doing enough of it.
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In 2015, at the conference of a triumphant Tory Party briefly keen to present itself as the one of sensible liberal moderation, she ruined the party by grimly announcing a new assault on some of the most vulnerable people on the planet, promising to close borders to refugees and ramp up deportations.
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He brought in the visionary director Patrice Chéreau, who was responsible for two milestone productions: a grimly powerful staging of Janacek's "From the House of the Dead," then this "Elektra" in 2016, a collaboration with other companies that, sadly, arrived at the Met nearly three years after Mr. Chéreau died in 2013.
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Sharapova managed to hold serve for the first time in the match at 4-2 and clung on grimly in the face of some hard hitting by Sabalenka, a 19-year-old Belarusian ranked 102nd, before converting her fourth break point of the next game to get back on serve at 83-3.
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JERUSALEM — President Trump headed on Tuesday to Europe, where a devastating attack at a pop music concert in Manchester, England, grimly underscored his demand that Arab and Muslim countries drive extremists "out of this earth" and offered the first real test of how the president would respond to a searing terror strike.
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In a way, the movie is a grimly unwhimsical version of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," with Ms. Schneider's character wending her way through a series of abortive rehearsals, shabby hotel rooms and glum soirées (one including a 21913-millimeter projection of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis"), trying to comprehend what the adults around her are up to.
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Probably, though, he would have been intrigued by some recent work in the show: Kara Walker's animated excoriations of American racial history; John Edmonds's subtle video choreographing of black male erotic encounters; Cameron Rowland's grimly annotated Jim Crow relics; and Ja'Tovia Gary's video mash-up of 19th-century slave narratives and Black Lives Matter protests.
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" Under questioning from senators about why he had taken notes of these conversations when he never transcribed his chats with other presidents, Mr Comey grimly replied that he was concerned about Mr Trump's character and conduct, adding: "I was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of our meeting so I thought it important to document [it].
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After all, if people are buying water anyway — it was a $240 billion market as of 2017, and is expected to continue growing along with fears about contaminated water — why not put it in an aluminum can, which can be recycled far more easily than a plastic bottle, and why not give it a brand that's grimly funny?
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According to projections from the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its "New Policies Scenario" (which assumes significant but not drastic government efforts to curb carbon emissions globally), Asia, Africa, and the Middle East are likely to experience a substantially increased demand for petroleum in the years to come, which, grimly enough, means global oil consumption will continue to rise.
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"HSI has been working with dog meat farmers in South Korea for nearly four years helping them close their flagging businesses as more people in the county turn away from dog meat, so the closure of Gupo's grimly iconic dog market, which follows the demolition last year of the country's largest dog slaughterhouse complex, is a sign of more compassionate times," she added.
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Acknowledging the grimly realistic idea that a lot of our real-life paths lead to pretty mundane and predictable ends — and then torquing that to imply that if we just make the exact right choices, any of our lives could fly off the handle and lead to murder, madness, and magic — might not be as bleak and dour as Brooker likes to go.
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"The pilots grimly mentioned that everyone came close to dying many times over – from the pilots being sucked out of the window, to the fact that had the plane been further out on its journey, the pilots would have had no choice but to risk an almost certainly fatal water landing in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean," the suit states.
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He was about to stand and make grimly for the counter—he felt like a man heading off to be shot—when she stepped out from behind it and for absolutely no good reason came to saunter around his table, looking out at the rain that as sure as Jesus had returned to make another wet joke of the summer.
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On the surface the symphony's four movements seem to come from different realms: a brisk, purposeful Allegro with a searching development section that climaxes midway in a gnashing burst of dissonant chords; a grimly imposing Funeral March; a breathless Scherzo at once godly and giddy; a romping, mischievous Finale that is somehow the ultimate statement of the heroic in music.
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"The story described how a former senator from Putin's political party who had gone on to run the Central Bank of the Russian Federation was the subject of an investigation in Spain into money laundering by a Russian organized crime syndicate called the Taganskaya Gang," they write, describing a news article; it's a sentence only the most grimly determined reader could love.
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A top U.S. general was grimly reporting that the only "deliverable" after a meeting with his Chinese counterparts last Thursday in Beijing was "a framework agreement for a joint staff dialogue mechanism" — a 24/7 hotline to prevent catastrophic accidental mistakes and miscalculations as China and the U.S. keep chasing each other's air and naval military assets around China's maritime borders.
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On a less wholesome but still sincere(ish) note, Bobby and his billionaire girlfriend, Rebecca, stage a takeover of a struggling convenience-store chain the way the rest of us might approach going to the laundromat; his purchase of his-and-hers Mercedes for $132,000 a pop is a grimly funny reminder of just how far removed from the rest of us these people are.
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On Poetry If you were living in England a little over a thousand years ago, you might have listened with great satisfaction as a poet recited lines like these: We the West-Saxons, Long as the daylight Lasted, in companies Troubled the track of the host that we hated, Grimly with swords that were sharp from the grindstone, Fiercely we hack'd at the flyers before us.
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He wrote "Protocol" (1984), a vehicle for Goldie Hawn, and "To Die For" (1995), a grimly satirical take on the power of celebrity, adapted from a Joyce Maynard novel (itself derived from an actual news story) and directed by Gus Van Sant, which brought out a star-making performance by Nicole Kidman as a would-be newscaster who brazenly induces three hapless teenagers to murder her husband.
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In a week in which Stormy Daniels could plausibly be called the most famous actress in America, and with the nation awaiting revelations about the private predilections of the serial sexual harasser in the White House, it seemed grimly appropriate that, on a recent evening, a group of theatre professionals in New York would gather to discuss ways that their own industry might combat more routine manifestations of sexual transgression.
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Last fall at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, where his stripped-down, boldly revisionist, ecstatically reviewed staging of "Oklahoma!" had sold-out crowds tapping their toes to sparkling bluegrass orchestrations of Rodgers and Hammerstein gems, Mr. Fish could often be spotted watching a bit grimly from a seat by the control booth, his tightly crossed arms and legs pretzeled into a pose a yoga teacher might call Extremely Anxious Auteur.
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" But Toussaint loses his life in a Célestin protest march (he is hit by a tear-gas cannister), and in a grimly gaudy dénouement his corpse is roughly handed around by the pro-Célestin crowd, as if in death the boy had become a political mascot: "You couldn't really tell if he was alive or dead, because someone in the crowd had his head and others were holding on to his feet.
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Today, about 9 percent of the student body are on scholarships.) Still, as much as any parent who's unsure whether his child is getting the best education (in other words, all parents), I surveyed with envy the kids merrily clambering down jungle paths, the river gurgling in the background and the colorful shrines bedecking the hillsides, thinking grimly of my daughter encased in her sealed-window institutional public school building, shunted to the school gym to watch movies on days with a little bit of bad weather.
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Four hours later, Markey's well-informed inference was proven true yet again when Facebook trotted out a new blog post titled "Combating Hate and Extremism," It's surely no coincidence the image-troubled social giant is scheduled on Wednesday morning—along with representatives from Twitter and Google—to testify at the grimly titled hearing "Mass Violence, Extremism, and Digital Responsibility" before the Senate's Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee (of which Markey is a member.)Specifically, Facebook is expected to answer for its failure to act during the Christchurch, New Zealand, shooting in March.
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