Word: grievously
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...this regard, Mr. Gore's campaign is guilty of the most grievous sins thus far, with their feckless insistence, in the absence of any real evidence, that the "will of the people" grants Florida's electors to Gore--and with their reckless promises to forge ahead with lawsuits on behalf of the befuddled voters of Palm Beach County...
ASYMMETRY A league with basically equivalent teams--the "on any given Sunday" ethos--is all fine and good, but surely will not result in as much grievous mayhem as will matching a team of hardened professionals against a team of hapless amateurs. Pepper some of your rosters with nonpros--defrocked priests, cashiered New Jersey State Troopers, tubercular sculptors and the like. I'd watch that...
...would laugh at such a grievous state...
...think it was political dynamite, in an election season, when a federal judge accuses the executive branch of deliberately misleading his court and authoring a grievous wrong against one of its citizens. The party in opposition might be expected to howl to the heavens about politically motivated government malfeasance, and to be cheered on by a national media that ought, after all, to be shocked - shocked - by a Kafka-esque tale (replete with a law enforcement officer who lied shamelessly to the court) of a man held in solitary confinement for nine months to force him to confess a crime...
...Louisiana's newlyweds who have opted for the state's two-year-old covenant marriage--an idea considered last year by 19 other states, all of which, except Arizona, voted it down. Louisiana's covenant union differs from the standard one by requiring premarital counseling and, for divorce (absent grievous fault), two years of living apart plus mandated marital counseling. "The desire was to make marriage more committed," says Louisiana State University law professor Katherine Spaht, who wrote the legislation...