Sentence examples for Less grievous from inspiring English sources

"No matter what sad disaster may follow," he wrote, "I shall regard it as a less grievous affliction than the continuance of that party in power".

Butterwick's study didn't track the riders' less grievous accidents — the breaks, tears, gashes, dislocations, concussions, and contusions that can occur on almost any ride.

"If it's a less grievous crime and there is, for example, a younger defendant involved, then in that case maybe it is disproportionate".

Yes, these people are dying while playing at a treacherous (and expensive, even decadent) game, but this fact makes their deaths no less grievous to those who they have left behind.

No less grievous to the dynasty and of more concern to Austria–Hungary was the suicide of the crown prince Rudolf in 1889, though his fitness for the imperial and royal succession was questionable; and the scandalous misconduct of certain archdukes and archduchesses, in the imperial and in the Tuscan lines alike, further impaired the Habsburgs' personal prestige.

Or, with so little time remaining before eternity, does this old wound matter?" "Estrangement between people often follows offenses far less grievous than those Jack suffered.

But her concerns are less about grievous bodily injury and more about, "What would the fashion implications be?" Which elicits an, "Oh my God, she'll never be able to wear gloves with her evening gown again," response from the girls.

But the main lesson learned – and now, apparently, ignored – from the Clinton years was that focusing on frivolous issues is perceived by the American people as nothing less than a grievous waste of time.

Less visible is the grievous effect this shift is having on psychiatric care and on the mentally ill.

In a novel of slightly less than 250 pages, this is a grievous narrative misappropriation.

This suggests the film will be going less down the multi lightsaber-wielding General Grievous (above) or back-flipping Darth Maul route, instead trying to capture that wonderful atmosphere that comes with two lightsabers slowly wavering in the dark - more of a ballet than a martial arts-fest.