If we reach such a point, then this generation of Scots will have been complicit in a grievous act of folly.

With the unwitting collusion of alien co-conspirators, the Pattern Jugglers, the Captain had committed a grievous act against another member of his crew.

Mr. Clyman is willing to say it is about "what becomes of a person who discovers his capacity to commit a grievous act for a specious reason," and he will call it "a darkly comic, disturbing, politically incorrect, psychological mystery."

In the play, as in those songs, Mr. Earle isn't out to excuse grievous acts, which in Tucker's case were especially horrific.

It seems obvious to me that as long as the boy's "grievous act" didn't take place on the Little League field, the consequence shouldn't take place there, either.

People expect such a grievous act to be punished.

I published the name of the man who wrote to Nagourney for the same reason that newspapers publish the names of people who commit other grievous acts.

When one of the better players in my son's Little League committed some grievous act (hitting his little sister, or some such), his parents grounded him for the weekend, which meant missing a game.

Yet Churchill knew at once-as history has confirmed-that the Munich Agreement was one of the most grievous acts of self-delusion in history.

It became another grievous act of self-destruction for the Knicks.