Sentence examples for so grievous from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

Trapped in his cave, the Caliban-like Lester Ballard is seen as "so inculpate in the fastness of his hollow stone you might have said he was half right who thought himself so grievous a case against the gods".

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.

Because Elpis was so heavy and grievous, when Pandora opened the lid, all of the other evils quickly flew out into the world and Elpis lay stuck at the bottom.

Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton would both help restore America's global image, to which President Bush has done so much grievous harm.

If it worked, it did so while doing grievous damage to the credibility of Wall Street and Washington alike.

And yet if the violation, if there was one, was so obvious and grievous, it seems odd that the city waited until last week -- nearly six years after the case was filed a month following that hearing (in which a city attorney participated) -- to find fault with it.

'Tis most grievous, to so besmirch their arte with such savagery and discourtesy.