The movie has no climax, no thundercrack of redemption, and the death that rounds it off is no more grievous, or unexpected, than the rain that drops politely on the casket.
Yes, these people are dying while playing at a treacherous (and expensive, even decadent) game, but this fact makes their deaths no less grievous to those who they have left behind.
There is probably no more grievous transgression in the current culture wars than being a late adopter, missing the boat, signing on to something that the rest of the plugged-in world absorbed, analyzed, digitized and deleted last year, last month, five minutes ago.
No less grievous to the dynasty and of more concern to Austria–Hungary was the suicide of the crown prince Rudolf in 1889, though his fitness for the imperial and royal succession was questionable; and the scandalous misconduct of certain archdukes and archduchesses, in the imperial and in the Tuscan lines alike, further impaired the Habsburgs' personal prestige.
There is no doubt that grievous human rights abuses are being committed by the Chinese government.
"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.
The truth, no matter how grievous, is the only way to prevent similar things in the future.
Petri is often asked why rugby players, with minimum padding and no helmets, do not sustain grievous head and body injuries, the way American football players do.
FRANKFURT — No other region suffered more grievous economic damage from the financial crisis last year than Eastern Europe, and a main cause was extensive borrowing in euros and other foreign currencies.
There is no public remedy for a grievous harm committed in private; the megaphone of social media can't be used to ask the many for the forgiveness that only one person can give.
