The risk of publication is the grave fact of the life, and, even among writers less inclined than Hemingway to construe words as the manifest expression of personal honor, the notion that words one has not risked publishing should be open to "continuing investigation" by "serious students of literature" could not be calculated to kindle enthusiasm.
It is a mass grave, in fact: the uneasy resting place for dozens of Irish immigrants who died during a cholera epidemic, just weeks after coming to America, as an old song says, to work upon the railway.
He doesn't even seem much closer to the grave — which fact, in the case of most of our most influential politicians, fills a great many people, all over the world, with despair.
It's his first exhibition with the mega-dealer, and although the polished cement floors have not been supplanted by an open grave, the fact that a doorway and two steps have been built to join the north and south galleries (which ordinarily serve as discrete exhibition spaces) signifies an architectural commitment on the part of Fischer's newest dealer.
The threat is so grave, in fact, Citibank has estimated that "in their current form" utilities in developed economies could see the size of their market shrink by more than 50%.
Nixon is turning over in his grave (in fact, on this point, so is Reagan).
The situation has become so grave, in fact, that UNICEF has temporarily stopped reuniting children with their families in villages where there is ongoing fighting and active child recruitment.
Calling it a "ghoulish practice" -- "grave robbing," in fact -- he pointed a finger at a someone easily identified as Agent Marx, a forensics expert who has been with the bureau since 1997.
Still, it gives the reader an intimate view of a man so few knew about.Balenciaga may be turning in his grave over the fact that his fashion house lives on more than four decades after his death (he had wanted "his name to die with him").
Wissam Tarif of the rights group Insan said: "Nobody knows who is behind the grave but the fact that there were people with hands tied behind their back and we have seen an operation across the country by the army … makes us believe the state is behind this".
