Sentence examples for nothing grave from inspiring English sources

But there's nothing grave about the director Andrei Belgrader's lively, lucid production, which is given traction by the expert support of Alvin Epstein as Nagg, Hamm's "accursed progenitor," and by Elaine Stritch as Nagg's wife, Nell.

Édgar was one of hundreds of people in La Gloria who came down with flulike symptoms in an outbreak that federal officials say began March 9. Local residents accuse public health officials of discounting the outbreak at the time, reassuring them that it was nothing grave.

Thus in the case of Jabez Balfour in 1895, there was an element of a trick but nothing graver to incur the wrath of Argentina, where that London financier was hiding.

The drill took place in what is called the Tactics House at Rodman's Neck, the Police Department's firearms training center in the Bronx, and it ended that day with nothing graver than a few bruised egos and some pointed words from the instructors.

He's also suggested that he would risk war over the sort of naval provocations -- like Iranian ships sailing close to U.S. vessels -- that are currently met with nothing graver than warning shots.   .

But nothing as grave happened yesterday during the parade.

Obinze, the other main character in the book, thinks that in contemporary American novels, "nothing was grave, nothing serious, nothing urgent, and most dissolved into ironic nothingness".

After violence had run its bloody course, the country's rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but "grave disorder, damage and retrogression".