Sentence examples for not so grievous from inspiring English sources

Future generations might be spared the insult of knowing that medical experimentation on enslaved women is not so grievous an offense as to preclude the person who performed it being honored with a public memorial.

In "The Anatomy of Melancholy," a famous 1621 chronicle of ills bodily and mental, Robert Burton refers to "hypochondriacal melancholy" as "a disease so grievous, so common, I know not wherein to do a more general service…than to prescribe means how to prevent and cure so universal a malady".

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

The wounds of one were so grievous that he died in the cell in front of him.

To be unfairly blamed for killing people is an insult so grievous as to seriously disturb the mind.

For a society so preoccupied with quality-of-life issues, isn't it ironic and an indictment that the only people guaranteed a swift and painless death are those who have committed a crime so grievous that their punishment is to die ("McVeigh Dies for Oklahoma City Blast," front page, June 12)?

So grievous had been his injuries that, at the family's request, the usual cosmetic preparations were abandoned and the coffin lid stayed shut.

Mr. Deane said: "There was a genuine error on my part, but it wasn't as grievous as people said.

So AutoSlash's sin is not a grievous one.

But not a grievous word out of Ashcroft.

While Mr. Browder did not suffer grievous financial losses, his work in Russia has been ruined.