Sentence examples for grievous faults from inspiring English sources

South African wines are not the only ones she has detected with grievous faults.

And the grievous faults of their predecessors who between them contributed to the fine mess we find ourselves in.

Well, wouldn't this be a kinder world if our most grievous faults were indeed mirrored only in "a few kinds of insect"?

Rosenberg, A, Grievous Faults in "Vaulting Ambition"?, Ethics, vol. 98 (1988), pp. 827-838.

But underdoing it would have been a grievous fault.

All we can see is their grievous fault.

Since I've now heard many people find grievous fault in "Estancia" and declare their love for "Namouna," I want to redress the balance a little.

The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.

A more serious objection is that, like its unpopular predecessors, it confronts the taxpayer as a single bill and it crucially lacks what is known in the jargon as the revenue "buoyancy" of taxes, such as VAT and income tax, that rake in more as the economy does better.By far its most grievous fault, however, is its vulnerability to the so-called "gearing effect".

(It has never been clear to me, incidentally, which was deemed by the masses to be Allen's more grievous fault: running off with his longterm partner Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, or going off the boil and making dross like The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. These, shall we say, missteps seemed, in the eyes of the media, to be interchangeable, probably with some mutual causation).

Ackroyd also correctly identifies Hitchcock's weakness as a director, which is that plots mattered more to him than the people caught up in them – for a novelist, the most grievous of faults.