Word: graving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature . . . a grave...
39th Generation. The little man with the grave manner and impish smile, courtly graces and arrogant attitudes, had waited long to become cock of the Arab walk. He was not likely to risk losing that position...
...Wrath is, to be sure, the kind of classical work in which scrupulous care is taken never to exploit a sensation or an emotion. Thus, beautiful as it is, it leaves one relatively cold. Dreyer seems to be more interested in creating motion portraits than drama, but he makes grave and noble drama of his portraits...
...statement which they signed demanded that the film be withdrawn as "a violation of the United Nations declaration against war propaganda and as a grave threat to our won security...
...nation is in a grave situation with respect to its petroleum. The national defense is in a precarious position." So keened the House's Armed Services Committee last week. Oilmen did not think things were quite that bad. But they were worried...