Sentence examples for not terribly grave from inspiring English sources

To the British, it was a necessary but not terribly grave imperial move, putting a decaying power in its place ("Albert is so amused at my having got the island of Hong Kong, Queen Victoriaa blithely wrote).

1. Technical defaults are not terribly serious.

Taken separately, each one of these arguments doesn't appear terribly grave but in an atmosphere of mutual distrust, the situation has escalated.

This, anyway, is the sincere if not terribly original perspective of Mr. Sherman, who offers it here with grave and intrusive sentimentality.

Not terribly.

Not terribly, it seems.

They're not terribly impressed.

Not terribly fashionable.

Not terribly much".

Well, not terribly much.

— are not terribly satisfying.