"One hundred and thirty-five years ago," writes Alinsky, "Toqueville gravely warned that unless individual citizens were regularly involved in the action of governing themselves, self-government would pass from the scene".
Sarah Fielding, for instance, Henry's sister, wrote penetratingly and gravely about friendship in The Adventures of David Simple (1744, with a sequel in 1753).
In the conservative monthly The American Spectator, David Catron, a health care consultant, describes Rosser as "one of NICE's many victims" and writes that NICE "regularly hands down death sentences to gravely ill patients".
During the Second World War, Hubbard served in the U.S. Navy, and he later wrote that he was gravely injured in battle: "Blinded with injured optic nerves and lame with physical injuries to hip and back at the end of World War II, I faced an almost nonexistent future.
But the problem with presenting Beale as a seer, one who gets the cultural diagnosis right, is that Beale, as Chayevsky wrote him, gets the solution gravely wrong.
"As H.I.V. ravaged the gay community in the 1980s, people with AIDS wasted away and frequently looked gravely ill," he wrote in a 2001 essay for The Gay and Lesbian Review called "Steroids and the Pursuit of Bigness".
He must confront, too, the costs of using irony as a coping mechanism: of being able "to parrot the jargon of Power, to read out meaningless speeches written in your name, to gravely lament the absence of Stalin's portrait in your study while behind a half-open door your wife is holding herself in against forbidden laughter".
"According to observations of other detainees who were with Ms. Hernández Rodriguez, the diarrhea and vomiting episodes persisted over multiple days with no medical evaluation or treatment, until she was gravely ill," Sperry wrote in the report, according to The Washington Post. .
"If we comply, as the law requires, we will be helping our students do things that we teach them, in our classes and in our sacraments, are sinful — sometimes gravely so," he wrote.
Variation No. 31, a bereft, soulful arioso, is as gravely profound as anything Beethoven wrote.
