We also take it for granted that none but the most grievous wounds are life-threatening, though in every war before the middle of the 20th century, any wound could lead to death, and disease itself was more likely to kill than enemy fire.
Though grievous, those excesses paled in comparison with the reprisals.Mr Merriman's tale grows tangled at times, leaving readers to find their path through the thickets.
Though grievous inequities remain -- one-fifth of the farmers get four-fifths of the money -- the Senate version would limit the maximum annual subsidy to $275,000 per farmer, half the amount the biggest farmers would receive in the House bill.
The beneficiaries were people doing everything right, who needed help in overcoming temporary (though grievous) misfortune.
Encouraged perhaps by President Bush's designation of Sept. 11 as Patriot Day, some communities orchestrated creepily festive observances, as though this grievous anniversary were a holiday.
After all, other comparable incidents of fraud inflicted grievous personal damage as well--though the news media makes no serious or consistent attempt to measure or take account of this trauma.
Ultimately, though, Liverpool had inflicted a grievous result in the first leg when they scored three times in a 19-minute blitz and, importantly, did not concede an away goal.
It is significant that the two Doncaster boys who were facing charges of attempted murder have had their lesser guilty plea of grievous bodily harm accepted even though it can carry the same sentence.
It has got in the way of proper attention to America's profound economic inequities, even though the latter are grievous and feed so obviously into its racial and gender inequities.
But, assuming they do go down, he will certainly have to deal with budget cuts - though perhaps not as grievous as the ones at Clyde - and a truer picture of his managerial acumen can then be drawn.
