Word: grimming
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...possible to spend any prolonged period visiting public school classrooms without being appalled by the mutilation visible everywhere-mutilation of spontaneity, of joy in learning, of sense of self. Because adults take the schools so much for granted, they fail to appreciate what grim, joyless places most American schools are . . . what contempt they unconsciously display for children...
...those in authority from the eyes of the censor of his letters. He refuses to lie to his parents, to tell them that he believes in their white god, their subservience, that he will bend as they want to the overwhelming oppression of white society. The letters are grim, determined, their only humor an irony about failings. They are composed in a style that is all steel, spare, hard, the kind of style one imagines that comes from being always menaced, from knowing that you may die any minute-a blow from behind from another inmate, a shot from...
Domino Dropouts. The disappointing turnout pleased only the swarms of grim-faced FBI men and 8,000 New York police assigned to U.N. security (some of the U.N.'s own 230-man guard force used the occasion to stage a "sick-out" in support of wage demands). In 1960, the 34 world leaders who showed up for the U.N.'s 15th anniversary included such luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Jawaharlal Nehru and Fidel Castro...
With the pious tales Bergreen is somewhat less at ease. The Pardoner's Tale is a Chaucerian masterpiece because of the power of the image of the old man who waylays the three revelers on their way to conquer death. The old man in the original is the grim figure of death himself. On stage, the impact of his appearance is lost. It is an impossible task for an actor to become death, or the emblem of death. On the printed page, the image is a powerful one. On stage, the figure becomes faintly comic...
...visions of happiness which television offers us-men and women "running through fields, strolling on beaches, dancing and singing"-contrast with our own very sullen faces. Slater notices a gap between the commercial fantasies by which our lives are formed and the grim realities which are our lives...