gravitas

How To Use gravitas In A Sentence

• He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
• It will look superb in the hands of an old bearded fellow, and if you can get him to read from its pages in a tremulant voice it should add some much needed gravitas to the proceedings. Archive 2005-09-01
• With all their profundity and gravitas, they have striven hard to sanitize all abusage in application yet, pitiably, they seemed to have been overwhelmed by the brutality of the crisis Undefined
• A little later came the proconsuls, men of imperial gravitas, stately courtesy and crisp, regulation haircuts.
• Nothing can match the authority, the augustness, the gravitas of real champagne from France's Champagne region.
• The lack of pictures lends gravitas to the endeavour. Times, Sunday Times
• It gives them a gravitas and a warmth and bond. Times, Sunday Times
• He is pale, dark, and authoritative, with the gravitas you might expect of a Booker prize winner.
• We think that as leaders we are supposed to show gravitas: depth, profundity.
• Medicine and research science are seen as having gravitas, but the skills that support them are not. Times, Sunday Times