Sentence examples for grievous experience from inspiring English sources

The grievous experience of two centuries of financial busts is that when the banking system is in difficulties the mess spreads.

The collapse of the rising had been a grievous experience for Pushkin, whose heart was wholly with the "guilty" Decembrists, five of whom had been executed, while others were exiled to forced labour in Siberia.

These questions are complicated, say psychiatrists, clergy and those who have experienced grievous losses themselves.

Mr. Bustamante finished with an apology, saying he had somehow experienced a grievous slip of the tongue.

Writing to Erasmus in 1533, More expressed his wish to be grievous to heretics, "my increasing experience with these men frightens me with the thought of what the world will suffer at their hands" (SL: p.180).

Malala was writing about the ordinary experiences of a 12-year-old, but she was living in extraordinarily turbulent times, which meant that even her mundane experiences assumed a grievous tone.

The West has learned through bitter experience to avoid the grievous mistakes it made from the outset of that venture.

Under such circumstances, should a hazard of greater magnitude than currently experienced occur, its effects could be grievous socially and economically.

This is a work about the force of memory, the scars of experience and, of course, the timeless horror of grievous error, especially in the manifestation of desire.

Rowlandson had never written anything before she was kidnapped, but her book vividly dramatizes the psychological stages of the abduction experience, from the violent and disorienting "taking" to the "grievous" captivity, which Rowlandson divided into "removes," because the Indians moved camp 20 times.

Losing a child or experiencing a terminated pregnancy is a major and grievous event, which may lead to a lot of emotions.