"Clearly, five suicide attempts in a few weeks ought to give grave cause for alarm," an Amnesty spokesman, Alistair Hodgett, said yesterday.
For to presume a strategy when Trump toys with potentially lethal nations — threatening to tear apart the nuclear agreement with Iran or putting North Korea on notice that doom may befall it any moment — is to imagine that a toddler has given grave consideration to the gravitational aspects of toppling his brother's Lego edifice.
When The Fellowship of the Ring came out last year I gave grave and unrecallable offence to the Tolkie fanbase with disobliging remarks about how the whole middlebrow mythology was dull and overrated, and how this admittedly beautifully designed children's movie was treated with baffling reverence by adults showing a misplaced, sentimental loyalty to their earlier, 12-year-old selves.
Instead it gave grave owners two months to remove any non-authorised items they wished to keep.
A prominent tradition is that of the ship burial, where the deceased was laid in a boat, or a stone ship, and given grave offerings in accordance with his earthly status and profession, sometimes including sacrificed slaves.
I do think that E. E. Cummings gives Graves a serious challenge, though I know that many sound people dismiss Cummings's love poetry outright, as self-congratulatory and goopy.
LONDON — In financial and Stock Exchange circles here the Mexican situation is giving such grave concern that any solution the United States may find, either with or without the help of Europe, will be welcome.
Some economists have warned that the package may be too small, given the grave condition of the economy.
If they have returned to New Orleans at all, that is, given the grave wounds to the health care system.
