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Grimm

[grim]

noun

  1. Jakob Ludwig Karl 1785–1863, and his brother Wilhelm Karl 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists.



Grimm

/ ɡɪ /

noun

  1. Jakob Ludwig Karl (ˈjaːkɔp ˈluːtvɪç karl), 1785–1863, and his brother, Wilhelm Karl (ˈvɪlhɛlm karl), 1786–1859, German philologists and folklorists, who collaborated on Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812–22) and began a German dictionary. Jakob is noted also for his philological work Deutsche Grammatik (1819–37), in which he formulated the law named after him

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Paul Grimm, a retired federal judge and Duke Law School professor, told the BBC he was not surprised to see AI used in the Horcasitas sentencing.

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Watching it play out is like reading a Brothers Grimm fairytale with all of the pages slightly out of order; a disorienting, riveting way of making the show feel as romantic as it does evil.

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But rereading Grimm as an adult, particularly the scene where one stepsister cuts off her toes to fit the glass slipper, changed my view.

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Sue’s brother, Johnny, who can engulf himself in flames, is known as the Human Torch, and Richards’ best friend, Grimm, has been transformed into the Thing — a being made of rocks.

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“Nosferatu” often looks like the pages of a macabre children’s story come alive, with winding roads and endless forests that put the Brothers Grimm to shame.

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