Sentence examples for grievous as from inspiring English sources

To be unfairly blamed for killing people is an insult so grievous as to seriously disturb the mind.

Mr. Deane said: "There was a genuine error on my part, but it wasn't as grievous as people said.

(In our post-meaning world, being called a racist is nearly as grievous as being a racist).

And if not? Look at it this way: whatever happens to Enron, the play can't be half as grievous as the tale of Enron itself.

Good short films don't get the attention that they deserve, which is all the more grievous as there are some terrific short films being made — and Defa is making many of them.

Dash hasn't made another theatrical feature; the loss to history in artistic vistas, personal influence, and career opportunities is as grievous as the near-oblivion into which the film itself nearly sank.

The Australian authorities eventually charged him with three counts of manslaughter and two counts of inflicting grievous bodily harm as well as fraud, but by that time he had returned to the United States.

Janoušek, who has long faced allegations that he laundered millions of dollars through a Swiss bank alongside other extensive allegations of corruption including rigging public tenders, was eventually charged on Sunday with causing grievous bodily harm as well as driving under the influence of an addictive substance.

It's possible he forgot, but it struck me as a grievous oversight, as this was a festival to appreciate film and, except for one slide among the 27 appearing in a montage prior to each screening, at the films I attended there was no mention about this at all.

But to make this case isn't to imply that the circumstances are in every way as grievous or destructive as the gulag, only that the very fact of these numbers startle.

OK, it might not be as grievous an infraction as, I don't know, third-degree murder, but I'd say it's up there with assault – an assault on my eyes and on the reputation of the human species.