The homeless - many of them mentally ill - became grimly familiar features of city streets.

Killings of politicians have become grimly familiar, but the one on Monday stood out.

The horrendous, incomprehensible news brought a visceral, grimly familiar jolt of shock and outrage.

But there seems little will to curb the violence either by the The story seems grimly familiar.

The bombing at the Baghdad restaurant, though grimly familiar, stood out in the gruesomeness of its details.

The bombing in Baghdad followed a grimly familiar pattern.

Nuseirat and the neighboring Bureij camp held a ritual on Sunday that is grimly familiar to the residents.

A suicide attack in Baghdad followed a grimly familiar pattern.

It wasn't so much the grimly familiar warning.

He had become grimly familiar with death, he had forgotten the social reserve which most of us apply to the subject.