Sentence examples similar to grievous ill from inspiring English sources
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.
With bluntness rare for a pope, Francis wasted no time on his first full day in Mexico on Saturday, taking to task both the political elite here and the often-ineffective church leadership for failing to confront the grievous ills facing this troubled country.
To the cynics today who say that can't be done, I urge you to revisit the history of Progressivism, when social activists a century ago changed the course of America in the face of similarly grievous ills and corrupted politics.
"We focus on grievous illness," Perlmutter says.
Of course, one could say as much about, oh, love and death and other experiences of the greatest gravity, and the banalization of violence through endless and numbingly ordinary cinematic depictions is a more grievous and endemic societal ill.
It's fine to remind us that this country has ills and sins that are equally grievous, and that Singapore's ethos of "soft" repression and self-censorship are "realities" that won't bend to mere moralism.
Less visible is the grievous effect this shift is having on psychiatric care and on the mentally ill.
In "The Anatomy of Melancholy," a famous 1621 chronicle of ills bodily and mental, Robert Burton refers to "hypochondriacal melancholy" as "a disease so grievous, so common, I know not wherein to do a more general service…than to prescribe means how to prevent and cure so universal a malady".
None involved grievous violence.
