But to the big London tabloids, it is a grimly serious business, journalistically and financially.

"I don't like any of this," he was saying, his voice low and intense, his face grimly serious.

Ellison now put a question which brought into this grimly serious trial the only touch of humour that attended it.

She took it all in, grimly serious.

Annie looked from one grimly serious face to the other, then down at the rain-filled tub, and she felt her cheeks go pale.

"But the analogy is most apt," and op Owen was grimly serious.

"I was grimly serious in my teen and college years," he says.

Now she could see just how elated he was, and how grimly serious in his delight.

Osteoporosis, the most common bone disease, is grimly serious, afflicting 10 million Americans over age 50 annually.

Not some little entertainment, mind you, but a sweeping and grimly serious work.