In a fantasy world much grimmer than the typical isekai universes, long-dead warriors, conquerors, and strategists clash in a violent war.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/best-isekai-anime-fans-forgot-about/

There could be no grimmer irony if this wasteful scheme is greenlit.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/19/mass-felling-trees-england-cities-countryside

The sun always shines brighter on those days when it finally breaks through the layer of dark clouds which made everything seem so much grimmer and melancholy.

Source: https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/cartoonist%25E2%2580%2599s-view-%25E2%2580%2594-yeo-114

We are globally in such an intensely negative period that we have, almost everywhere, succumbed to the tendency that to assume that the future will likely be grimmer than not.

Source: https://time.com/6279063/pakistans-economic-investment-potential/