Word: graver
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...COMMUNISM: Thanks to Pope John's new opening toward the East, Roman Catholicism "may succeed in reaching a sensible accord with Communist countries before Protestants do." Unchanged are Earth's often-argued views that "the subtle forms of materialist atheism in the West are a much graver threat to Christianity than the overtly trumpeted atheism of the Communists. I don't take this Communist atheism too dramatically. At least we know where we stand with them...
...affords even a place in his trinity for the great German idealist. Nothing could attest more profoundly to the extraordinary eclectic potentialities of the Jamesian scheme or to its capacity to effect cultural rapprochement. But in a society where not knowing what to do or believe seems a much graver problem than not knowing how to do it, the triadic model has further importance. For James the test of a belief is its consequences for action and the test of an action, its consequences for pure experience. He starts with pure, experienced values and proceeds from there...
...excited headlines. S.A.O. terrorism was hardly Charles de Gaulle's main concern last week. Far graver was the challenge to his authority posed by France's economy. It took the form of a spreading labor strike led by 188,000 stubborn miners concentrated in the grim coal districts of northern France. Three rival unions (Roman Catholic, Socialist, Communist) were out of the pits in a joint demand for a 12% pay boost to compensate for the creeping inflation that has wiped out much of their purchasing power in the past three years...
...next Byrd. William III, committed sins far graver, in the family's view, than the mere stealing of kisses. He blew the family fortune through gambling and wild spending, lost Westover, committed suicide on New Year's Day, 1777. As a French and Indian War colonel, however, he had fought so gallantly that his portrait hangs today in the restored Colonial Capitol in Williamsburg. Most tourists are happily unaware that in the Revolutionary War his sympathies were with George...
Earlier, to a divided but demonstrative audience of 400 at M.I.T., Professor H. Stuart Hughes, independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, and Arthur L. Waskow of the Peace Research Institute, had estimated that the dangers of a self-perpetuating arms build-up were far graver than those which independent action for disarmament would entail...