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grim reality

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meanings of grimand reality


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grim
adjective
uk /ɡrɪm/ us /ɡrɪm/
extremely bad, worrying, or ...
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reality
noun
uk /riˈæl.ə.ti/ us /riˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined ...
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Examples of grim reality


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The phenomenon of the weavers running away from their looms and villages was, therefore, increasingly becoming a grimreality.
That is the grimreality of the situation.
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To the poor, food taxes are a grimreality, and not a dream.
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Those words hide the grimreality of managers making decisions which put people on the dole.
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This may seem a rather hypothetical and gloomy picture, but it could be the picture of grimreality if the unemployment trend continues.
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However, the grimreality is that we again have an upward trend in long-term unemployment.
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Despite this grimreality, the penalty for trafficking in women is exceedingly small compared with that for serious drug smuggling.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
There is a wide chasm between the rhetoric of community care and the grimreality.
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Nobody can plead ignorance of the grimreality of deprivation and poverty.
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Their policies are fundamentally realistic, although it is a pretty grimreality.
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This grimreality underlines the importance of my second question.
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Today, confronted with the grimreality, they are naturally trying to place the blame not on themselves but on the government.
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That is the grimreality of our foreign policy.
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Once again, looking back over a series of government statements, we are confronted with optimistic forecasts and grimreality.
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There may be a gap between the airy reassurances that we have received and what appears to be the grimreality on the ground.
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And that, unfortunately, is the grimreality of compulsory full pay maternity leave in this report.
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This matter has now become a matter not of academic philosophy, but of urgent and grimreality.
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It is not a fanciful picture but one that may, sooner than we think, prove to be a grimreality.
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It is a grimreality, but only by facing it can we hope to arrive at real solutions and achieve real results.
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