In that case, in granting a pre-publication defamation injunction, the Judge held that there was no evidence to support allegations of the "most grave and serious kind".
"It is absolutely indefensible from either a legal or humanitarian standpoint to grant clemency to this American citizen who had done the gravest kind of damage to the United States".
But then she starts to fall in love with Sylvia, there's this lesbianic, beyond-the-grave kind of affair transpiring, followed by suicide, which doubles as what we might think of as a ghost's version of simultaneous orgasm.
This is folly of the gravest kind.
In the "Pimp's Ballad" and the "Ballad of Living in Style," Mr. Raabe is all coy charm, but he adopts a less flip tone for the "Call From the Grave," a kind of ghoulish patter song.
Her occasional attempts to encounter the past directly, usually by finding a grave of some kind, rarely yield many epiphanies.
"It's interesting that Ellington's grave is so kind of refined and Miles's stone, partly because it's new, is so assertive," Ms. Borck said.
In a major departure from the film, Mr. Rabe's book has the dead daughter speaking to her father from beyond the grave in a kind of inner dream voice.
In his most recent work, however, Simpson has largely abandoned the lecture podium and settled fully into a late style that is rueful, plain, funny and grave -- the kind of poetry that only a few older poets can write, and even fewer with the consistent quality Simpson demonstrates here.
However, if Islamophobes really believe Muslims are a grave threat, the kind of post-9/11 violent backlash against them will grow.
