Christmas decorations hung from the ceilings and gave the grim building a festive air.

The driver passed the security checkpoint and pulled through the gates to the massive gray building, vast and grim and foreboding.

By 1970 the population had grown to 1,500 and the physical conditions in this grim and vast Victorian building were increasingly unacceptable by modern standards.

To one side of the track stood a grim building, the colour of mud, its walls rising silent and stark.

The glow itself came from the far side of the city so that many buildings, grim and great, stood up blackly against it.

Outside a grim municipal building on the west side of this city, scores of men, women and children line up every evening.

Kate studied the grim Stalinist buildings, each with its complement of empty shops on the ground floor, while the priest studied the map.

It sits amid the grim old buildings on an ancient rust-streaked pontoon.

Darkness sheltered the near side of the house, for the moon had passed beyond the grim building.

She didn't mention the other, grimmer buildings farther up the side of the mountain.