The phrase "gross sin" is correct and usable in written English
It refers to a grave or serious wrongdoing, often in a moral or religious context. Example: "The priest warned his congregation about the dangers of committing gross sins, such as murder and adultery."
Dreams – freed from the gross, sin-stained body and potentially emanating from the divine – might be more real than waking reality.
Officials should only be punished if gross sins of commission can be demonstrated.
The second is whether dying people, no matter how gross their sins, deserve compassion, and should be allowed to die at home.
And the villain of the piece was Tarantino's Oscar-winning 1994 movie Pulp Fiction, which changed the shape of independent cinema by committing the sin of grossing over $100 million.
That's the gap between the first film, which opened top in April 2005 on $29.1m, and went on to gross $74.1m, and new release Sin City: A Dame to Kill for.
But the certainty that Jesus would return did not, spurring me to keep "recommitting my life," seeking atonement for sins and working in very gross ways to convert friends.
Its prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, was accused of many sins, from corruption and nepotism to gross incompetence in his prosecution of the fight against Muslim insurgents.
Anybody calling it "s**t" would be guilty of a sweeping generalisation and gross ignorance, but to ask questions is not a sin.
Although David Edelstein (the film critic for New York Magazine) titled his review "Grand Theft Streetcar," what audiences are actually witnessing is a gross act of artistic nonfeasance (in layman's terms: a sin of omission).
Spiegeltent, SE1, to 11 Jan MC It was during the 1895 run of his play about the forgiveness of past sins and the hypocrisy of society that Oscar Wilde was arrested for gross indecency.
