grim reality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrimandreality
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grim
adjective
uk/ɡrɪm/us/ɡrɪm/
worrying, ...
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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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(Definition ofgrimandrealityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The phenomenon of the weavers running away from their looms and villages was, therefore, increasingly becoming agrimreality.
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That is thegrimrealityof the situation.
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To the poor, food taxes are agrimreality, and not a dream.
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Those words hide thegrimrealityof 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 ofgrimrealityif the unemployment trend continues.
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However, thegrimrealityis that we again have an upward trend in long-term unemployment.
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Despite thisgrimreality, the penalty for trafficking in women is exceedingly small compared with that for serious drug smuggling.
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There is a wide chasm between the rhetoric of community care and thegrimreality.
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Nobody can plead ignorance of thegrimrealityof deprivation and poverty.
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Their policies are fundamentally realistic, although it is a prettygrimreality.
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Thisgrimrealityunderlines the importance of my second question.
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Today, confronted with thegrimreality, they are naturally trying to place the blame not on themselves but on the government.
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That is thegrimrealityof our foreign policy.
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Once again, looking back over a series of government statements, we are confronted with optimistic forecasts andgrimreality.
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There may be a gap between the airy reassurances that we have received and what appears to be thegrimrealityon the ground.
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And that, unfortunately, is thegrimrealityof 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 andgrimreality.
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It is not a fanciful picture but one that may, sooner than we think, prove to be agrimreality.
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It is agrimreality, but only by facing it can we hope to arrive at real solutions and achieve real results.
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