Sentence examples for grievous fall from inspiring English sources

Following the characters so beautifully realised as headstrong youths in Gawain into sombre, tactical middle age, it tells the bloodstained tale of Arthur's annexation of swaths of mainland Europe, and his final, grievous fall.

When Marion reflecting on Genet's grievous fall from grace at last feels compassion and forgives her infidelity: "Marion, I said to myself, she found her greatness, at last, found it in her suffering.

SHIFTING FRONTS AT HOME -- The official death toll from the World Trade Center attacks, while still grievous, continues to fall as duplication and errors are resolved.

Serious wounds would also fall under grievous bodily harm, but some qualifying wounds (a pin prick, for example) are very minor.

This has not precluded investing in large-scale urban regeneration schemes, such as Cleadon Park in South Shields, a 1920s estate which fell into grievous disrepair after the Thatcher-era closure of the local shipyard and colliery.

A first-fence fall inflicted a grievous injury on McNamara, who fractured the C3 and C4 vertebrae in his neck, and his road from here will be long and hard.

But underdoing it would have been a grievous fault.

"He made a grievous error of judgment in the fall of 2000 when he tried to face off with Hamas in an arena where Hamas has a significant advantage – terrorism and violence.

An iron curtain of fundamentalism risks falling over Iraq, with particularly grievous implications for girls and women.

The number of assaults causing grievous bodily harm or actual bodily harm fell by 11%, from 14,660 to 12,998.

Williams succinctly distils the essence of the story, maintaining its most memorable elements – Oliver's "greed", his grievous ill-usage, the charismatic bad'uns he falls among, and his eventual salvation.