By greatly boosting women's membership of India's legislatures, the proposed amendment, its supporters say, will also begin to make a dent in their more grievous suffering in a country where female fetuses are often aborted, where wives are battered and women earn on average $1,200 a year, less than a third of the male average.
"The loss of a child is the worst thing that can happen, made even more grievous by such a senseless crime.
It is a breed that has all but disappeared from cinema, and the loss could hardly be more grievous; movies are a hothouse, and the temptation to stay inside and breathe the rot is forbiddingly strong.
As to which betrayal inflicts more grievous wounds to a relationship, generalities are easy to accept; but virtually impossible to prove.
More often than not, a vandal will claim he took up graffiti as a means of escaping a more grievous criminal life and its inevitable consequences.
This was a constitutional coup against a majority government, and in the legend of Labor partisans it was a coup made more grievous by being carried out by a man in the notional employ of a queen half a world away.
Modern criticism labors under an aphoristic misconception or, rather, the misconception of an aphorism even more grievous than the fixation of mise en scène: a phrase by Martin Scorsese, "Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out".
That's why the closing of ReRun Gastropub was a more grievous blow to New York's movie landscape than was the closing of the Ziegfeld earlier this year.
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.
On the scalp, the rash spans the spectrum from mild dandruff to a more grievous oozy rash.
