- a blue day.
- a dark gloomy day.
- a disconsolate winter landscape.
- a dispirited and resigned expression on her face.
- a dour, self-sacrificing life.
- a forbidding scowl.
- a gloomy silence.
- a grim joke.
- a grim man loving duty more than humanity.
- a grisly murder.
- a week of rainy depressing weather.
- black humor.
- depressed by the loss of his job.
- downcast after his defeat.
- feeling discouraged and downhearted.
- fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit.
- ghastly wounds.
- gloomy at the thought of what he had to face.
- gloomy predictions.
- grim determination.
- grim laughter.
- grim necessity.
- grim rainy weather.
- gruesome evidence of human sacrifice.
- lonely and blue in a strange city.
- macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages.
- macabre tortures conceived by madmen.
- relentless persecution.
- Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty.
- the dark days of the war.
- the darkening mood.
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November.
- the grim aftermath of the bombing.
- the grim task of burying the victims.
- the stern demands of parenthood.
- took a grim view of the economy.
- undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw.