Are there exceptions to the gloomy outlook?

Libya, of course, can survive the gloomy prospect of post authoritarian civil war.

Indeed, the last two decades have proved dismal for the practice of the dismal science.

Yet the economic outlook still looks grim.

Indeed, the record of Internet companies in authoritarian countries is both consistent and grim.

The EU, originally conceived as an instrument of solidarity, is today held together by grim necessity.

But statistical studies of death rates before and after the invasion tell some of the grim reality.

This is not to say that Israel should be consoled by the macabre arithmetic of bloodshed.

At first, your music had a darker content, and now has become more positive.

Not surprisingly, the atmosphere at this year s World Economic Forum was grim.

In the murky atmosphere surrounding Khodorkovsky's case, it is impossible to discover which theory is true.

But the alternative rule not by law but by dictatorship is a far nastier prospect.

Moreover, it is more than strange that a company with so dismal a safety record has continued to operate.

But Europe should avoid the kind of dismal realpolitik that would betray its core values elsewhere.

St o op!' said Vronsky, his brow still knit, but holding her back by the hand. 'What is the matter?

Two days after making that gloomy assessment, the French chief of the defense staff, General Jean Louis Georgelin, followed suit.

Indeed, it was this dynamic against which John Maynard Keynes fought that made the Great Depression of the 1930 s so grim.

As supply sources are drying up fast and existing productions are being scaled down, the power situation in Kerala looks pretty grim.

Absent a dramatic improvement in the Middle East s grim political landscape, the failure of deterrence would bring the sum of all the fears of our nuclear age upon us.

True, journalists are permitted to watch executions in America and because there are often more applications than seats available, a macabre lottery takes place to decide who will be chosen.

The assassination December 19 of Russia's ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov as captured in photographs from inside Ankara's contemporary art museum had a haunting aesthetic.

Exposed to South Korean movies, music, and other products, they recognize the yawning gap between their government s propaganda and the country s grim reality.

Finally, opposition to reasonable gun control laws in America is cultural, which is reflected in the many news reports following mass shootings that, refusing to admit that America could be wrong, downplay the striking contrast between US gun laws and those elsewhere. So, for example, journalists stress the rather pathetic high note of a grim reality at least there are not more massacres and murders, and the numbers are stable.

Worse yet, unless financial systems spring back, growth could disappoint for years to come, especially in ground zero countries such as the United States, Britain, Ireland and Spain. US long term growth could be particularly dismal, as the Obama administration steers the country toward more European levels of welfare assistance and income redistribution,

So, for example, journalists stress the rather pathetic high note of a grim reality at least there are not more massacres and murders, and the numbers are stable.

To return to the analogy, urban street gangs cannot seize political power, but they can certainly keep their neighborhoods dangerous, backward, and grim.

Each of the three tales is also a reflection on the cruelty of humans towards both animals and other humans, showing how humans may live dark or even hideous lives.

Moreover, in the current grim economic conditions across Europe, voters who do turn out are all too likely to take the opportunity to punish the major parties and vote for fringe and even extremist politicians.

Amid bitter election year debates over Iraq and Iran, and a souring economic outlook, Americans may be in no mood for the triumphalist pageantry of a new rising power on display in Beijing.

I really hope that this will be the last year that pollution of this magnitude is measured in Macedonia, but unless we all take immediate action, a clean future will remain just a grim hope for us all.

But perhaps learning of Margaret Thatcher s death in this place is grimly appropriate, because it made me remember the imprisoned society of my youth that Thatcher did so much to set free.

The advanced countries face a dismal budgetary situation, with deficits averaging 9 of GDP in 2009 and the prospect of public debt ratios rising from roughly 70 of GDP prior to the crisis to more than 100 of GDP in 2015.