The episode highlights a grave and growing tendency in the United States media: going where the drama is rather than the substance around which the drama occurs.
In a recent, short but important article in the New Yorker, the novelist Hari Kunzru interviewed a number of writers, musicians and intellectuals who expressed grave anxieties about the tendencies and policies of the country's rightwing government.
The Government here has been perturbed not only by denunciations of its human rights policies but also by perhaps the gravest snub of all: the tendency for the rest of the world, as indignation faded, simply to ignore Beijing.
"These trains and their tendency to derail are grave threats to the Yakama People".
Although the findings confirm some familiar national stereotypes, it would be a grave mistake to assume that group tendencies reliably predict any one individual's behavior.
Although the findings confirm some familiar national stereotypes, it would be a grave mistake to assume that group tendencies reliably predict any one individual's behavior (see also, International Negotiations and Cognitive Bias in Negotiations).
For someone who displays amoral, narcissist tendencies like Trump, our grave societal fissure is an irresistible opportunity ― and a tool of survival.
Needless to say, the book would be a minor scandal in most other countries; in Germany, it has caused grave soul-searching about the revival of certain national "tendencies".
Yet another grave shortcoming of cable news programming in the U.S. is the networks' tendency to focus on domestic news to the detriment of international coverage.
Finding timber graves of this age is extremely rare, due to wood's tendency to leave little more than a decayed smudge in the earth.
As has become painfully clear, the gravest error was to assume that Brown was somehow divorced from this tendency, as opposed to echoing it in his own furtive way with his borrowing habit.
