grievousness

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• Depictions of Indigenous communities in American pop culture have, historically, often added insult to grievous injury.

• The jihadist military had suffered a grievous blow, but the extremist theology lived on.

• It had suffered grievous casualties but its infrastructure and industrial capacity were untouched, and its relative power had never—and has never—been greater.

• When his first wife died from tuberculosis, despite his zealous efforts to save her, a grievous Metchnikoff took an overdose of opium, but lived.

• Prosecutors alleged that in June 2011 and April 2012, he unlawfully struck, choked, kicked and pulled the hair of his wife and struck her young son “with a force likely to produce death or grievous bodily harm.”

• Hildebrand was keenly aware of the grievous failures of Christians under Nazism.

• The cop lay open-eyed with a grievous head wound as Johnson again checked for a pulse.

• No longer will we have to endure the grievous injury of that flag popping up as a museum shop chotchke.

• Some horror will be too great, some attack too grievous for us to ignore.

• The tactics almost certainly have saved untold thousands of innocents from grievous injury, even death.

• A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth.

• But his record shows grievous instability, and Robert probably had sound reasons for putting a period to his dubieties.

• And then the old woman found that she had made a grievous mistake, and hastened to repair it.

• At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.