Chalice Veronica, the intellectual pusher-king, lived in a five-story converted warehouse, a grim and ancient monument behind the old rocket-mail pits of Renfield Street.

This grim monument looks out on eroded mountains, now being reclaimed by the lush forests of the days when Christopher Columbus viewed them.

The wanton poaching of the African elephant must rank among the grimmer monuments to human greed.

"That grim monument also recalls the many brave Romanians who did not live to see this day."

Its iconic bee's nest building became an empty, grim monument to the effects of corporate restructuring.

The great lumbering vehicle loomed out of the wan grey light like some grim, spectral monument.

Why is his life a grim monument to everything plastic, de-sexed and non-sexual?

In the midst of the rubble, a single spire of rock rose sharply like a grim dark monument.

The destruction of the African elephant is one of the 20th century's grimmer monuments to human stupidity and greed.

With the intense glare of the bursting flames, the grey image reflected a lurid light, and glowed - (that grim and solemn monument!)