Sentence examples for how grievous from inspiring English sources

How grievous were the sins of a past life!

I hold my position because I hate war, and I know very well and very personally how grievous its wages are.

"The Known World" begins with Henry Townsend's death, circles back into his varied and confounding life, and returns periodically to his death again, all the while touching on the lives of a dozen or so other characters, past and future, free and enslaved — every one of them painted with exquisite care, no matter how grievous their deeds or bankrupt their souls.

Nevertheless, when asked to classify samples of plagiarized texts, both students and professors (including lecturers) express diverse opinions especially about how grievous each case is or, sometimes, about whether a specific text even contains plagiarism at all (Pincus and Schmelkin 2003, p. 198).

The truth, no matter how grievous, is the only way to prevent similar things in the future.

What's striking is how absent his grievous opinions are from his great novels where one can occasionally glimpse a gentle humanist buried beneath a bitterly stung idealism.

In answering voter outrage about executive pay, Congress should recall the words of Marcus Aurelius: "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it".

It strikes me that the unequal representation at the top of classical music by women is even more grievous, given how many girls take part in music further down the food chain.

Graeber's claim is that the past 400 years of Western history represent a grievous departure from how human societies have traditionally thought about our obligations to one another.

The question isn't what will happen, but how on earth did something so grievous ever come to pass?

In 1996, more than 20 years after Murphy moved away, the archbishop of Milwaukee, Rembert Weakland, wrote to Ratzinger, saying he had just learned that the priest had solicited sex in the confessional while at the school, a particularly grievous offense, and asked how he should proceed.