This perfect storm is mounting a grim reality, increasingly grim reality, and we are facing that reality with the full belief that we can solve our problems with technology, and that's very understandable.

That is not a platitude it is a grim reality.

These are grim economic times, fellow TEDsters, grim economic times indeed.

Their grim plans were evident.

So, wonderful things and grim things.

Ms. Juul (Norway) said that the report by the Special Representative on human rights defenders (A 60 339) revealed a grim reality of threats, harassment and attacks targeting human rights defenders and their relatives worldwide.

So, this is a pretty grim picture.

But after four years the grim truth seeps out.

We dread from our Lord a frowning grim Day.

We dread from our Lord a frowning grim Day.

Truly, we fear from our Lord a woefully grim Day.

Truly, we fear from our Lord a woefully grim Day.

The grim reality is that, with financial markets becoming increasingly interconnected, monetary policy measures taken by any of the major economies have international spillover effects. An effective governance mechanism or reliable institution is needed to help emerging markets cope with these effects.

This is as visible in Egypt and Tunisia as it is in Turkey. But the grim reality for the Islamic world is that, in times of widespread uncertainty, the forces of tradition tend to speak more loudly and clearly than those of change.

Families of the Paniai victims greeted such claims with grim incredulity.

Verily we dread from our Lord a Day grim and distressful.

Verily we dread from our Lord a Day grim and distressful.

Indeed, the uncertainty about whether two of APEC s key leaders will even speak to each other highlights the grim reality of Asian international relations today. The supposed Asian century is being thwarted by a paradox deep economic interdependence has done nothing to alleviate strategic mistrust.

But if Ukraine s government and the West remain united, the Kremlin might see that its enclaves in Donbas represent a threat mainly to Russia itself. After all, the grim reality is that the separatist enclaves are in economic free fall, with their societies becoming increasingly criminalized.

The sense in which I can be uplifting and inspiring I mean, there's always been a kind of a certain grim dimension to the way I try to uplift, so if grim inspiration if grim inspiration is not a contradiction in terms, that is, I'm afraid, the most you can hope for. OK, today that's if I succeed.

I think we've all read the Grimms' fairy tales, which are, indeed, very grim.

So it's like the animal has the grim reaper inside of itself, speeding up aging.

It's not just reality it's feeling and reality.

And the grim picture in Africa I love Africa, and what do we see in Africa?

It is a grim but inescapable fact that our world lives under the shadow of global terrorism.

But the objective of facing reality is to change reality.

In 1899, Joseph Conrad released The Heart of Darkness, a tale of grim horror along the Congo River.

The Reality.

The Reality.

The Reality!

The Reality!

They're cross country skiing up the mountain with these grim expressions that make Dick Cheney look like Jerry Lewis.

And then you change the photograph he's shooting at, and it suddenly becomes rather grim and maybe less accessible. .

Remember I said feeling, model, reality I said reality doesn't change. It actually does.

And now that I'd returned, that dream had become reality, though a fragile reality.

Here's the reality.

Boy Reality, man.

Marcus Whose reality?

Iran Confronts Reality

Perception is reality.

THE CONCRETE REALITY.

THE CONCRETE REALITY.

The Inevitable Reality

The Inevitable Reality

The Sure Reality!