1.   Dickens painted a grim picture of Victorian life.

2.   Individuals painted a pretty grim picture of the pressures within social security offices.

3.   Repeated commissions and zemstvo investigations drew a grim picture of peasant destitution and growing frustration.

4.   The latest survey paints a grim picture.

5.   They let us know the grim picture you are being given, of our situation here.

6.   They painted a grim picture of what life used to be like there.

7.   The report paints a grim picture of life there.

8.   They painted a grim picture of growing crime.

9.   He paints a grim picture of the prospects for peace.

10.   A grim picture painted by the Council for the Protection of Rural England... with poetic assistance from Philip Larkin.