The others did not speak of it, but he knew from their increasingly grim faces that they felt it too.

The figures were somewhat worse than expected and reflected an increasingly grim labor market.

Finally, the increasingly grim mood of consumers can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The reality beneath the survival of these babies is increasingly grim.

America became a circle of suburbs surrounding an increasingly grim urban core.

Even the increasingly grim situation in Kosovo did not hold back investors yesterday.

He managed to sound slightly amused, even under these increasingly grim circumstances.

Both banks said they were reacting in the face of an increasingly grim economic climate.

Over the coming months, conditions grew increasingly grim.

It was a moment that workers described as a surprising show of union solidarity and an initial victory in what became an increasingly grim week.