Sentence examples for grievous in from inspiring English sources

Figes's distortion of the fate of Dina Ioelson-Grodzianskaia (pp. 361-62), who survived eight years in the Gulag, is grievous in a different respect.

The film is a reminder of why absurdism flourishes under oppression: because, as we're reminded daily, autocrats even when their actions are grievous in their results—nonetheless render themselves ridiculous.

England's one-day defeats at The Oval and Lord's, grievous in their different ways, have cost them a whole position in the ICC's one-day table: now in sixth, they may yet come to regard mid-table mediocrity as a small triumph.

But instead of peace, Sudan is now mired in a grievous conflict in Darfur.

Images created to show solidarity sped across (http://en.mehrnews.com/news/107555/Return-of-175-martyr-divers-agitates-grievous-memories-in-Iran), many of them variations of clenched fists, tied together, in the air.

Ampijoroa suffered a grievous loss in 1996, when thieves broke in and stole seventy-four tortoises.

Mr. Altman's most subversive message, he added, "is not that it's possible to get away with murder in Hollywood, but that the most grievous sin, in Hollywood terms anyway, is to make a film that flops".

Many in the West have been making some grievous miscalculations in framing these events.

Besides, the king in his counting house has not made a grievous error in a very long time, although the Yankees do practice attrition.

If Greece votes no, it's hard to see how it can stay in the euro, which will represent the most grievous blow in the 16-year history of a currency whose momentum was always meant to be irreversible.

And NASA, Scott and Jurek argue, made a grievous mistake in scheduling later Apollo milestones for the prime-time hours, in a bid to pull in viewers.