But probably the most common attitude is that shaving is one more grim necessity.

To such travel was a mania or a grim necessity.

For cities, it is an annual, but grim, statistical necessity: tallying up the year's murders.

He accepted the grim necessity of the war that faced them.

The boss had always impressed upon them the grim necessity of remaining sober whatever happened.

Efficiency is actually a grim necessity in New York.

"Try to understand the grim necessity of the reality that confronts you," continued Ironjoy.

There was no possible way to avoid the grim necessity of the destruction of the black ship.

But in my wounded condition, the healing power of my native earth had become a grim necessity.

He was a Deathstalker-a warrior by choice, and an outlaw through grim necessity.