The gekiga style of drawing — emotionally dark, often starkly realistic, sometimes very violent — focuses on the day-in, day-out grim realities of life, often drawn in gritty and unpretty fashions.

Trend-setting songs such as The Clash's " Career Opportunities " and Chelsea's " Right to Work " deal with unemployment and the grim realities of urban life.

" The Washington Post compared Zero Patience unfavorably to Hollywood's big-budget, big-star AIDS-themed film, Philadelphia, claiming that the latter's protagonist, Andrew Beckett, " looked sick, dealt with his illness and allowed the audience to sympathize ," unlike the " healthy hoofers " of the musical who, because they didn't look sick enough, " to deny some of the grim realities " of the disease.

Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.

Some modern popular writers have suggested this was a grim fate for the young queen, to be married off to a " grizzled old warrior " who had twice been married before.

" To modern eyes ," noted Donald E. Stanford, the editor of Taylor's major writings, " Calvinism is a grim theology, and partly because of its grimness, partly because of its internal inconsistencies ( man cannot save himself yet should exert every effort to lead a good life and achieve saving faith ), the kind of Calvinism in which Taylor believed gradually broke down.

In a story meant to embody and comment on the darker " grim and gritty " trend of modern comics, the original Escapist is said to have been killed in action, leaving a young locksmith as his successor.

Unlike his grim friend Orion, Lightray is cheerful and optimistic and prefers to solve problems through compromise rather than combat.

The halftracks were initially extremely unpopular and dubbed " Purple Heart Boxes " ( a grim reference to the US Army's decoration for combat wounds ) by American troops.

During combat operations his head has a grim human like face but after he was decommissioned this was replaced with ' civilian ' head that features a single square ' eye '.

A top box office star was sought for the male lead, to offset the grim nature of the story.

Despite the villainous nature of the title character and the grim storyline, Shakespeare infuses the action with comic material, as he does with most of his tragedies.

Sheridan and Ivanova note that Clark will soon go after them next, and they can simply contemplate on the grim nature of this future.

Others, such as Ray Green, praised the tactful nature of the film stating that, " despite the potential for lurid sensationalism, Marshall manages to keep his and the film's dignity by steering an effectively downbeat course through some grim goings on thanks in no small manner to the almost allegorical ring of Shanley's stylized dialogue.

" As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its

Each week Freddy's Nightmares told a different story, or stories, of a dark rooted and / or grim nature that took place in the fictitious town of Springwood, Ohio, and in particular, on Elm Street ; the same setting as the A Nightmare on Elm Street films.

In the Pern series, McCaffrey attempts to portray a society caught between its attempt to build a utopian dream and a grim and inescapable reality, which from the start forced exceptionally hard choices.

The narrative then switches over to the Macquart side of the family, whose grim working-class struggles to survive are juxtaposed keenly with the Rougons ' seemingly trivial quest for greater wealth and influence in genteel drawing-room society.

Hardcore hip hop reflective lyrical themes include partying, braggadocio, crime, violence, sex, nudity, wrath, poverty, shootings, menacing, omen, rebellion, profanity, racism, substance, drugs, guns, firearms, hostility, street life, ghettos, rivalries, gangs, violent crime, killings, social issues, consciousness, struggling, social issues or extreme menace to the whole society, nihilism, uncompromising behaviors, distrusting ( of others ), life, death, beatings, hedonism, street violence, police brutality, wars, gang rivalries, sexual intercourses, the harsh and grim experiences of the rapper's urban surroundings.

" He has complicated plans for the future of society that the rest of the small radical cell aren't much interested in, but in a grim foreshadowing of the development of Russian history, he notes casually that millions will need to be murdered to realize the future society whose essence he believes he has logically deduced.

Limes inferior, one of Zajdel's best known works, is a dystopia showing a grim vision of a future society resulting from a merger of the two systems competing at the time-communism and capitalism.

It has been suggested that with their emphasis on the younger, attractive and charismatic characters, Neighbours and Home and Away have found success in the middle ground between glamorous, fantastic US soaps with their wealthy but tragic heroes and the more grim, naturalistic UK soap operas populated by older, unglamorous characters.

Jonathan Spence writes " there is no obvious explanation for this grim event, nor can one be found.

Debate exists over the conditions found within historical leper colonies ; while they are currently thought to have been grim and neglected places, there are some indications that life within a leper colony or house was no worse than the life of other, non-quarantined individuals.

Before the war, Amherst had dismissed the possibility that the Native Americans would offer any effective resistance to British rule, but that summer he found the military situation becoming increasingly grim.

Since no ship has ever been found once becoming lost in hyperspace, the prognosis for the Cortez is grim.

She found a story that is “ as moral as the classic fairy tale ” and that functions as a “ realistic social criticism .” The moral concepts, as described by Ammons, come out as cold and as grim as her Starkfield setting.

Its mood was so grim that I just found it difficult to join in.

With Force Majeure nowhere to be found, things look grim, but fortunately the Russian Federal Security Service was able to detect the presence of the terrorist group.

In its pages, the adolescent Marcus Langston found a grim and brutal future for himself, and decided to change it by rewriting the future with the book.

The gloomy sound of this era ( post-punk guitars, grim lyrics ) found little support in mainstream media.

In her grim pursuit of tranquillity, Pamela focused her thoughts on her husband.

However, when there's a job to be done, I'm a monstrosity of grim determination, I like to think.

They comprise a great variety of scene and interest: grim episodes of war, idyllic interludes, superb canvases of world-shaking events, and delightfully humorous sketches of odd characters.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

For them, in the grim words of a once-popular song, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage.

In doing so Marshall and Byrnes were `` asking for the ratification of a grim lesson in the facts of international life ''.

Whatever the unhappy inmates of such camps are like today, Dostoevsky's companions were about as grim a lot as can be imagined.

Again, as Boris feels himself nearing death, a procession files into the hall singing a hymn, its modal harmonies adding a churchly touch to the grim atmosphere: The words are hardly calculated to put the Tsar's mind at ease.

I felt lonely and depressed as I stared out the bus window at Chicago's grim, dirty West Side.

Massacres attending the partition of India and the establishment of the State of Israel are simply recent grim evidences of the hostility such divisions can engender.

it had a look of grim stark realism, resembling other cities whose habitual climate was cold, instead of the sprawling bumptious open-handed greedy Western city basking in eternal sunshine at the foot of mountains stored with endless riches and resources.

She sat down and played two slots at once, looking grim, as if bested by mechanical devices, and Owen felt sorry for the lay-sisters depending on her support.

Naval procedure, he thought, had its moments of grim humor.

Confronted by a grim future, Freddy lost his nerve and plumped for a drastic liquidation.

During the course of 2009, the grim forecasts for the effects of the global crisis on the Bulgarian economy largely materialized.

Vicious – grim enforcer of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate, a former friend of Spike and now his sworn nemesis.

" In 2 Maccabees, a deuterocanonical book of the Bible, the grim martyrdom of a mother and her seven sons is described, and was a well-known mediaeval subject.

Montag is shocked that Mildred didn't tell him the grim news sooner and more disturbed over Mildred's apathy over the death of someone Montag had genuinely liked.

Drake's men saw weathered and bleached skeletons on the grim Spanish gibbets.

They began to muster new armies, and the Germans settled down to a grim siege of Paris.

He argued that when eating, one should not eat too richly, for it could lead to dissatisfaction later, such as the grim realization that one could not afford such delicacies in the future.

Some of the characters from the latter reappear, and the same sort of shape-shifting magic is much in evidence, side by side with a grim, almost callous realism.

All of grim predictions had been decisively overturned by events.

As Joachim Fest notes, Goebbels seemed to take a grim pleasure in the destruction of Germany ’ s cities by the Allied bombing offensive: " It was, as one of his colleagues confirmed, almost a happy day for him when famous buildings were destroyed, because at such time he put into his speeches that ecstatic hatred which aroused the fanaticism of the tiring workers and spurred them to fresh efforts.