Better still if those same sullen Slavs, be they Serb or Russian, hand over those of their brethren who have the gravest questions to answer.
Which is to say: the national post-Vietnam psychological complex enforced a certain triviality inappropriate to the gravest questions a nation can face.
There was to be no more work from a writer who had rapidly established himself as one of the most deeply serious and ambitious contemporary authors, whose fraught intelligence had reckoned, and self-reckoned, with the gravest questions of European history, and who had fearlessly founded a new literary form — combining essay, fiction, and photography — in order to probe those questions in new ways.
"Grave question marks hang over this killing..
That poses a grave question, he said: Can work based on those older lines continue?
The Supreme Court, however, ruled that Mr. Padilla's suit had been brought in the wrong place, thus avoiding the graver question of whether the president could declare a citizen in the United States an enemy combatant.
But the new chairman, Ernest Istook, Republican of Oklahoma, said at the hearing where Mr. Jackson spoke, "There is a grave question whether Amtrak can continue to operate without dragging down the transportation system of the rest of the country".
More to the point, if Fifa were to remove the competition from either country, it would have to run a competition to find a new host, and there would be grave question marks over whether it would be in a fit state to do so.
But to a degree that neither side may yet fully realize, the Moscow-Washington sniping raises the grave question of whether the two partners really do have enough in common, beyond a hatred and fear of terror, to sustain their romance.
